Help middle and high school students improve critical thinking skills and explore literary elements with this close reading analysis worksheet covering vignette 44 of The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (“Mango Says Goodbye Sometimes”). 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 am going to tell you a story about a girl who didn’t want to belong”)
- Discern the intended effect of the author’s syntax (“the house I belong but do not belong to”)
- Discern the intended effect of figurative language (“I put it down on paper and then the ghost does not ache so much”)
- Explore how complex characters think, behave, develop, and interact
- Discern the tone of the vignette
- Apply knowledge of literary devices including personification, anaphora, metaphor, dramatic irony, and more
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