Esperanza Rising by Pam Mu帽oz Ryan
Lesson plans and teaching resources

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Biography and Background

The author's official Web site.

A series of 19 short video clips dated June 2007.

Biography, bibliography, short video clips, and a transcript.

Esperanza Rising

This extensive unit plan includes KWL chart, vocabulary, discussion questions, and more.

A variety of reading strategies, including an anticipation guide and a muligenre writing project.

This short video could serve as a prereading activity.

Esperanza Rising Learn It Guide. Adobe Reader required for these resources.

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  Author biography, background information, character list, vocabulary words.
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  Students work with cause and effect, context clues, and making predictions.
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  Students work with characterization, vocabulary, and making predictions.
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  Students work with summarizing and context clues.
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  Venn diagram to compare/contrast real events with fictional ones.
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  Students analyze the symbolic use of fruit and vegetables.
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  4 discussion questions and 5 post-reading activities.
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  10 questions.

A series of Powerpoint presentations with vocabulary and learning activities, organized by chapter.

3- week unit plan for 5th grade. Includes calendar/curriculum map, lesson plans, handouts, learning activities, assessment rubric, more. 224 pages; Adobe Reader required. Consider downloading the file and printing only those pages needed.

3- week unit plan for 6th grade. Scroll down, follow links for daily lessons.

Students will explore some of the contrasts that Esperanza experiences. The lesson will also look behind the story at the historical, social, and cultural circumstances that help to account for the great contrasts and contradictions that Esperanza discovers. And, finally, the lesson will invite students to contemplate some of the changes that Esperanza undergoes.

Words are presented in context and with definitions.

This 3-week combined ELA/Social Studies unit is designed for 6th grade. Students examine primary sources, then compare events from history with events in the novel. Includes timeline, differentiation, daily lesson plans, student handouts, graphic organizer, rubric, writing task, vocabulary words. 49 pages; Adobe Reader required.