My Lucy Friend Who Smells Like Corn

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My Lucy Friend Who Smells Like Corn

• Sandra Cisneros

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Author

• Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago but spent
  most of her childhood and youth moving back and
  forth between Chicago and Mexico. By addressing
  themes of identity, poverty, and gender in
  lyrical and sensual language, she has become one
  of the nations most well known and respected
  Chicana authors.

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Talk to the Text

• Asking questions
• Predicting
• Visualizing
• Making connections
• Summarizing

• Reflecting and relating
• Evaluating
• Revising meaning
• Forming interpretations
• clarifying

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Character Analysis

• Write a 2 chunk paragraph for each character,
  analyzing their appearances, behaviors, and
  personalities.

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Character Analysis

• Consider how the author discloses the character
• ? By what the character ways or thinks.
• ? By what the character does.
• ? By what other characters say about him/her.
• ? By what the author ways about him/her.
• ? The short form for this is STAR (says, thinks,
  acts, reacts).

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• How would you describe Cisneros's style in "My
  Lucy Friend Who Smells Like Corn"? Why do you
  think Cisneros makes some of the linguistic and
  stylistic choices that she makes in that story?