Name: Tommy Arabian

Period: 6
Date:8-30-16

SEAO:Only Daughter

Title
MLA
Citation

Meaning of
Title

Cisneros,Sandra. Only DaughterThe

Language of Literature. Ed. Applebee,
Arthur, et al. Evanston, Il.: McDougal
Littell, 2002. 695-697. Print.

Meaning of title

Literal: The main character is the only daughter in her family

Symbolic:Sandra feels like she is supposed to be stereotype
woman.

(Literal &
symbolic
meanings)

To make her father proud

Purpose
ELA standard(s)

POV

Narrator

The narrator is the daughter and is told in first person. The style is limited
because we only know what the narrator is doing.

Who? How do
you know?

Reliability

The narrator is reliable because she does not lie to us or try to mislead us,
she is telling us her story.

How do you
know?

Setting

Where
When

Chicago, Mexico city

Late to mid 1900s

Infer as
accurately as
possible

Duration

10 years

How long for

action to
happen?

Characters

Protagonist
Name
static/dynamic?
round/flat?
3+ details about
char. (not plot)

Antagonist
Name
static/dynamic?
round/flat?
3+ details about
char. (not plot)

Main or
Supporting

Daughter
Dynamic
Round
1)Likes to write
2)Wants to go to college
3)Has 6 brothers

Her father
Dynamic
Round
1) Loves his daughter and sons
2) Thinks his daughter needs to marry first
3) Follows older Spanish religion

Sandra Cisneros-1)Wants to learn. 2) Wants to be different. 3) Is

her own person

Sandra Cisneros's dad-1) Is old fashioned. 2)loves his 7 kids. 3)
Hes not in the best condition

Names
3+ details about
ea. (not plot)
Function

Minor
Names
Brief who are
they
Function

Sandra Cisneroses six brothers. The brothers wife's. They function

to show how the brothers all did what there father wanted them to
do and show how Sandra Cisneros was strong and did what she
wanted.

Conflict
Internal
External

What her father wants her to do vs what she wants to do

Sandra Cisneros wants to go find a job

Main

Sandra Cisneros trying to become her own person vs her

trying to become the person her father wants her to
become.

Plot
Exposition

The daughter wants to be a writer

Status quo
before conflict

Rising
Action
Climax

The daughter goes to college to become a writer

Her father reads her book

A MOMENT
when conflict is
definitively
resolved

Denoument
/ Catharsis/
Falling
Action

Theme

Her father tells her that he likes the book

Her father wants to see where else he can but it

Topic

Follow your own dreams

Not same as
plot

Theme

Do what you want to do and not what others want

Lesson we
learn about the
topic

How do
you know?

In the beginning the daughter is doing what her father doesn't want her to
do but at the end of the story her father reads her book and loves what she
does.

Symbols
5+
symbol=????

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Book- Everything the daughter has worked towards

Collage- The daughter becoming her own person
Brothers- Obstacles
Moving-A new start
Father- to be told what to do.

Self assess. Fill out the chart prior to submitting your work for feedback:
Comments: Student
Concerns
(Evidence criteria/standards (Improve or
met)
Remediate)
1-2

Criteria
(Proficient)
CCSS standard &
Description of mastery

I did not make a lot of

2
inferences but i was able to
infer the year of the story.

CCSS ELA R1
Read closely to determine
what the text says
explicitly and to make
logical inferences from it;
cite specific textual
evidence when writing or
speaking to support
conclusions drawn from
the text

I analyzed the text and

gave off themes with
supporting details. EX) The
POV

CCSS ELA R2
Determine central ideas or
themes of a text and
analyze their development;
summarize the key
supporting details and ideas

Advanced
Exceeded
Standard
3-4

Comments: Teacher

I believe I had a lot of well

structured sentences about
the topics.

CCSS ELA R5
Analyze the structure of
texts, including how
specific sentences,
paragraphs, and larger
portions of the text (e.g., a
section, chapter, scene, or
stanza) relate to each
other and the whole

A student who earns a 4 goes beyond what was taught. A student who earns a 3 demonstrates a strong knowledge
of what is explicitly taught. A student who earns a 2 shows a grasp of the simpler concepts and may have errors or
omissions when it comes to the more complex concepts taught. A student who earns a 1 only demonstrates a partial
understanding of simpler concepts taught (Marzano 2006).