Book Trailer - The House on Mango Street

This was one of the best assignments I have ever worked on. One, it was
great to work with Brandi because we always work so well together! Our
ideas came so easily and they just flowed so well. I couldn't believe
how little time it took us to come up with our idea for the book
trailer. We picked out certain quotes that stuck in our head and we
seemed to have the same quotes!

I really liked The House on
Mango Street. It wasn't what I thought it was going to be, but I can
see how it would be a task middle and high school students could
accomplish. I would like to use this book in my teaching next year and
would even like to show the book trailer Brandi and I created to help
get them excited to read the book. I found it interesting how SandraCisneros
didn't use quotation marks. I would like to know why she didn't,
because she wrote as if different people were speaking. You would think
it would be confusing without the quotation marks, but it really
wasn't.

I am looking forward to using Movie Maker to introduce
my classes, for my students to use the application for projects and to
even use it to introduce certain grammar concepts. It will be a new way
to introduce ideas and topics.