E.+The+House+on+Mango+Street

//The House on Mango Street//: Online Discussion
__**Directions:**__

Between Wednesday, October 31 and the end of the day on Friday, November 2, each Period 1 & 2 9A student needs to make two meaningful, well developed posts on the discussion tab above. Each Period 5 9A student must complete posts by the beginning of the day on Monday, November 5. A "post" can be an answer to an already posted question, or it can be a question that you offer up. If you post a question, you also need to post your own answer.

//If you are interested in a motif that doesn't already have a discussion going:// Post a question yourself, and also answer it! To make a posting, click on the "Discussion" tab on THIS page. Enter a relevant subject title so your classmates will know whether or not they want to post on your discussion, and then write your post in the box below. //Note: A subject title like "Ladies at the Window" will get your discussion more action than a title like "Mango Street motif thing."//

Grading criteria:

__Each successful collection of postings:__
 * Should contain TWO posts, each of which should be about 1 __**well developed**__ paragraph. Your paragraphs might follow the same Statement, Quotation, Analysis format we've been practicing this year, or they might be more casually structured, but they should definitely include text evidence -- in other words, use at least one quote.
 * //S//hould address your classmate's ideas AND ALSO offer up your own opinion on the issues raised. Good responses will address examples from the text.
 * Should demonstrate your OWN thinking about the issues raised. "A" level postings are particularly well developed and insightful.
 * Should demonstrate good digital citizenship.

Spelling and grammar do count here, but are not a major part of the grade. You should consider that this is a school assignment -- you should put some care into avoiding vapid or asinine comments. Even if you are taciturn in class, or worse yet, truant, this is a chance for you to articulate your ideas in a casual, yet intellectual, forum. Classroom deportment is appropriate here, and you should try to maintain an amiable, cordial tone with one another. That said, a vehement defense of your ideas is perfectly acceptable, so long as you proceed with rectitude. If necessary I can always step in to arbitrate a disagreement. No worries if you are feeling tentative about the forum -- you'll get used to it, and I think in the end you'll find it pretty benign. Feel free to employ adventurous vocabulary.