• Discussion groups for Woman Hollering Creek
• 1--My Lucy Friend
• 2--Eleven
• 3--Salvador Early and Late
• 4--Mexican Movies
• 5--Mericans
• 6--Tepeyac
• 7--One Holy Night
• 8--My
Tocaya
• Topics
• Plot
  • story line: beginning, middle and end; turning point
  • significance of ending
  • relation to other stories in the section
  • Subsections and transitions between them
• Character
  • Naming and describing the characters–types and individuals
  • Changes in character
  • Relationships and changes in relationships
  • Characterization of the narrator through her voice
• Setting
  • Describe and explore locations and changes in locations
    • Time
    • space
  • Cultural settings: food, TV, advertisements, media
• Theme
  • Personal and social issues, e.g. money, class, gender, ethnicity, religion and witchcraft, sex and romance, friendship, child abuse
  • Oppositions: e.g. truth vs. lies; innocence and experience
  • Stereotypes and beyond
• Striking language
  • Pick poetic passage or phrase, striking for use of dialect, figure of speech [metaphor, simile, personification], and/or for sound, visual, touch, or olfactory imagery
  • One place that makes you sad and one that makes you laugh
  • Cultural references--words in Spanish, places, references--that you dont understand or that you can explain
• Personal connection--experiences described that resemble your own