Help middle and high school students improve critical thinking skills and explore literary elements with this close reading analysis worksheet covering vignette 42 of The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (“Alicia and I Talking on Edna’s Steps”). An answer key is provided. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. By engaging with this close reading inference activity, students will:
- Identify what the text states explicitly and implicitly
- Discern the greater significance of a given detail (“I like Alicia because once she gave me a little leather purse with the word GUADALAJARA stitched on it”)
- Explore how complex characters think, behave, develop, and interact
- Compare two characters in the novel (Esperanza and Alicia)
- Apply knowledge of literary devices including metaphor and paradox
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