Mango Map Assignment—utilize notes from your reading guides as well as chapters
from the novel to create your map of Mango Street. Your map must include
___________________ items from below.
1. Esperanza’s house
2. Cathy’s house/ Meme’s house (he moves into Cathy’s house)/Meme jumps out of a
tree here, as well)
3. Basement/Apartment of Meme’s house where Louis, his sisters, and his cousin,
Marin, live
4. Benny and Blanca’s corner store
5. A bicycle ( that the girls rode around the neighborhood)
6. Gil’s Junk Store
7. Yellow Cadillac
8. The house that looks like Mexico
9. Esperanza, Lucy, and Rachel walking around the neighborhood in high heels and/or
the bum in front of the tavern
10.
Marin standing under a streetlight
11.
Rosa Vargas’ house
12.
Angel Vargas on Benny and Bianca’s roof
13.
Alicia (either her house or her getting on a bus to go to college)
14.
The Catholic School that Esperanza attends
15.
The Precious Blood Church
16.
The Peter Pan Photo Finishing Shop (where Esperanza gets her first job)
17.
The apartment building with Rafaela, Minerva, Elenita, and Mamacita (add
them to the windows or outside the building—I incorporated their places into one
apartment building—may not be completely accurate, but it’s a great way to add
several into the map)
18.
The four skinny trees in Esperanza’s yard
19.
Sally’s house (could be when she lived with her dad OR when she lived with
her husband)
20.
The Monkey Garden (could be the old version full of flowers, insects, and the
monkey OR the new version with overgrown flowers and weeds and abandoned
vehicles)
21.
The Earl of Tennessee’s house
ONCE YOU ARE FINISHED WITH YOUR ILLUSTRATIONS, GO BACK AND LABEL ALL OF THE
PLACES, THINGS, OR PEOPLE ON YOUR MAP.