The House on Mango Street

General Description: This plan, designed for high school students (grades 9 and 10), is intended to be one part of a larger unit on Sandra Cisneros’s story, The House on Mango Street. An assumption of the plan is that students have read the text at least once. The unit provides students with the opportunity to study character development and motivation through a look at significant decision situations. With minor adjustments teachers can use the material either as an introduction to eight basic lessons in good decision making, or as a review once students have explored the individual topics in greater depth.