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My Name by Sandra Cisnerosfrom House on Mango
Street

• What does Esperanza mean when she says her name
  is like the number nine?

2
My Name by Sandra Cisnerosfrom House on Mango
Street

• My name is like the number nine.
• Is this a simile or metaphor?

3
My Name by Sandra Cisnerosfrom House on Mango
Street

• What does Esperanza mean when she says her name
  is a muddy color?

4
My Name by Sandra Cisnerosfrom House on Mango
Street

• My name is a muddy color?
• Is this a simile or metaphor?

5
My Name by Sandra Cisnerosfrom House on Mango
Street

• What does Esperanza mean when she says her name
  is the Mexican records my father plays on Sunday
  mornings, songs like sobbing?

6
My Name by Sandra Cisnerosfrom House on Mango
Street

• My name isthe Mexican records my father plays
  on Sunday mornings, songs like sobbing?
• Is this a simile or metaphor?

7
My Name by Sandra Cisnerosfrom House on Mango
Street

• Reread paragraphs 2 and 3. In what ways is
  Esperanza like her grandmother?

8
My Name by Sandra Cisnerosfrom House on Mango
Street

• What does Esperanza mean when she says that her
  grandmother looked out the window her whole
  life, the way so many women sit their sadness on
  an elbow?

9
My Name by Sandra Cisnerosfrom House on Mango
Street

• Reread the last paragraph. How does Esperanza
  feel about her name, and how can you tell this?

10
My Name by Me

1. Similes showing my name. (my
   name is like)
2. Metaphors showing my name. (my name
   is)
3. What my name means.
4. How I got my name.
5. Other people who have my name.
6. How I feel about my name.
7. How my name sounds to me.
8. Other names Id like to have.