Chapter 9: Extension Activity
Look at our class data collected on: At what age will you be ready to have a job and help support your family? How many students said they would be ready to have a job after they are 16 in our class?
Your Assignment:
Click on the PollEverywhere linked below and make a connection using our class data and Esperanza's experience with work in the story. In chapter 9, Esperanza goes to work cutting potato eyes while Mama is sick in the hospital and can't work. Before this, she has always had things done for her and had never had to work.
5R9: Use established criteria to categorize texts and make informed judgments about quality; make connections to other texts, ideas, cultural perspectives, eras, and personal experiences. (RI&RL)