Race and Gender Discrimination in the House on Mango Street

Soranlly Jimenez

Gregorio Luperon H.S.

Eleventh Grade

Introduction:

The House on Mango Street is filled with race and gender discrimination. In the novel strangers come into Esperanza’s neighborhood and discriminate against Esperanza and her neighbors. Also, because Esperanza is a girl, she is not treated equally as the boys and must follow the traditional gender roles for females.

Task:

You and your group are to select and research one of the various themes in the novel such as, racism, poverty, sexism or gender discrimination. You are required to use the Internet and various outside sources in your paper. Discuss and evaluate how these themes are evident in today’s New York City.

· Do you believe that these problems are a major issue in today’s times?

· State various solutions that you feel can help the theme that you have chosen.

· As you do your research, look for various scenarios that have been in the news that you can correlate with your theme.

· You are to formulate your research into a 3-4 page paper.

Social Problem:

In The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros addressed the social problems of racism, poverty, sexism and gender roles. Your task is to choose one of these problems and analyze it using the six steps of the Public Policy Analyst (PPA), including developing new policies to decrease that problem on New York City today.

Process

You will work together in small groups assigned by the teacher. First, each group will determine which problem in the story will be their focus. Before completing your paper, use the following 6-step TIPS public policy analysis work sheets using evidence from The House on Mango Street.

Step 1: Define the Problem

https://flippedtips.com/plegal/tips/select.html

https://flippedtips.com/plegal/tips/worksheet1.doc

Step 2: Gather Evidence

https://flippedtips.com/plegal/tips/gather.html

https://flippedtips.com/plegal/tips/worksheet2.doc

Step 3: Identify Cause

https://flippedtips.com/plegal/tips/identify.html

https://flippedtips.com/plegal/tips/worksheet3.doc

Step 4: Evaluate a Policy

https://flippedtips.com/plegal/tips/existing.html

https://flippedtips.com/plegal/tips/worksheet4.doc

Step 5: Develop Solutions

https://flippedtips.com/plegal/tips/solutions.html

https://flippedtips.com/plegal/tips/worksheet5.doc

Step 6: Select Best Solution

https://flippedtips.com/plegal/tips/bestsol.html

https://flippedtips.com/plegal/tips/worksheet6.doc

v Complete the 6 step public policy worksheets

v Hand in the worksheets for evaluation

v Gather and cite various sources from the Internet such as past headlines, statistics, or the media, to support your essay.

Guidelines for your research paper:

1) A cover sheet must be included (it is not counted as a page). Your cover sheet should have the title of your report name, date, class, teacher and your name. You may include computer pictures if you want to.

2) Your research paper must be based on the information from the Internet sources and from the 6-step public policy analyst format. You are to incorporate at least two possible policies that help alleviate the problem.

3) Your report must be typed and double-spaced, using the Times Roman Numeral font and the font size of 12.

4) Focus your report on the themes of the novel and how society plays a major role in them. State how these problems can be dealt with or even solved?

5) Works Cited Page

Resources- Search engines that you may find helpful

www.infoseek.com www.ask.com

www.askjeeves.com www.google.com

www.lycos.com www.yahoo.com

www.dejanews.com www.altavista.com

Specific Websites- Here are a few websites that I have found helpful. You are not limited to these websites only.

EVALUATION

GRADE:	1	2	3	4
Completion of PPA Handouts	No knowledge of the uses of PPA. Presents no data to support the proposed policy.	Little knowledge of the uses of PPA. Presents several sources of data in a logical format to support the proposed policy.	Acceptable amount of knowledge Of the uses of PPA. Presents several sources of data in a logical and organized format to support the proposed policy.	Superior knowledge of the uses of PPA. Presents an exceptional amount of data to support the proposed policy.
Research	Links are not relevant to support research the proposed policy.	Enough links but few support research and the proposed policy.	Many links that support research and the proposed policy.	All links support the proposed policy.
Written Report 3- 4 pages	-Incomplete but follows the 6 step PPA format -does not use the conventions of standard written English	-complete with too few analyses of the PPA format for this topic -exhibits a weak usage of the conventions of standard written English	-complete with sufficient analyses of the PPA format for this topic -exhibits an acceptable usage of the conventions of standard written English	complete with a superior understanding of the PPA format for this topic . -exhibits a strong use of the conventions of standard written English

Standards

Students will meet the following New York Common Core Standards through the completion of this project: (http://www.p12.nysed.gov/ciai/standards.html)

English Language Arts

Standard 1. Students will listen, speak, read, and write for information and understanding; they will collect data, facts, and ideas and use electronically produced texts.

Standard 4. Students will listen, speak, read, and write for social interaction.

Social Studies Standards

Standard 1. History of the United States and New York

Conclusion:

Based upon the research conducted racism, poverty, classism and gender discrimination, students will be able to utilize the PPA to analyze causes for the social problems affecting society, and also be able to create and analyze their own policies that might help the various issues that society are faced with today.