Esperanza Rising: Los Higos and Las Guayabas

Today's Goal: 

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.1
Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.3
Describe how a particular story's or drama's plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.

Today's Agenda:

1. Entrance Question in the Chat: What is the ONE SMELL you’d smell for the rest of your life?
2. Breakout Rooms: Esperanza's abuelita says "Do not be afraid to start over" when she is teaching Esperanza how to crochet (Ryan 15). What is something you've had to stop and start over when you were learning how to do it?
3. Esperanza Rising "Los Higos"
4. Breakout Rooms: Esperanza's family has made some important decisions in "Los Higos." What decisions have they made? Why? How does Esperanza feel?
5. Break!
6. Esperanza Rising "Las Guayabas"
7. Breakout Rooms: Find one piece of evidence that demonstrates the way Esperanza is acting and how she sees herself as "different" from the people around her.

 

End of Class Checklist (Did I finish these things?):

• Daily Exit Form
• Typing.com - did you sign up? I am missing a little less than half of my students.
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  • Here is a breakdown of lessons to complete each week. Here's this week's:
    
    • J, F, and Space
    • U, R, and K Keys
    • D, E, and I Keys
    • C, G, and N Keys
• Make sure you are all caught up on Esperanza Rising by next class! There's a more-than-likely chance that I'll be giving you a short reading quiz to check for your understanding. 

 

Esperanza Rising

 

Loom Videos.

 

These are the questions we'll be discussing together as a class today:

• Esperanza's abuelita says "Do not be afraid to start over" when she is teaching Esperanza how to crochet (Ryan 15). What is something you've had to stop and start over when you were learning how to do it?
• Esperanza's family has made some important decisions in "Los Higos." What decisions have they made? Why? How does Esperanza feel?
• Find one piece of evidence that demonstrates the way Esperanza is acting and how she sees herself as "different" from the people around her.
• How do you think Esperanza's life might change in the future? What might happen next?