Characters
Vocabulary
Setting
History
Wild Style!
100
Papaya salad on her birthday
What is Esperanza's birthday tradition?
100
Overly tame, spiritless, gentle
What is meek?
100
The STATE (not town) where Esperanza is originally born?
What is Zacatecas/Jalisco?
100
the name if the state in the midwest were people traveled from in the 1930's because of the "Dust Bowl"
What is Oklahoma?
100
like meek kittens
what is, how does Marta compare fieldworkers?
200
A train conductor
What is Miguel's dream job?
200
To repeat something from memory
What is recite?
200
the place where Miguel and Alfonso brought rose plants from.
What is El Rancho De Las Rosas?
200
The name of the Island (on the east coast, by New York) where millions of immigrants came through to the United states.
What is Ellis Island?
200
cramped rooms, newspaper ceilings, and no running water.
What are the camp cabins?
300
to bathe Esperanza as a child.
What was one of Hortensia's job when Esperanza was a child?
300
to get or separate with difficulty
What is pry?
300
the type of people Esperanza an Mama sat on the train with.
What is peasants/poor people?
300
a war in the 1920's in Mexico where the working class took up arms versus dictator Porfirio Diaz.
What is The Mexican Revolution?
300
The enemy of Esperanza
Who is Marta?
400
people that killed papa.
Who are the banditos?
400
to face or deal with responsibilities, struggles or difficulties in a calm manner.
What is cope?
400
a specific requirement for families to move in to a cabin at the migrant camp.
What is one man per family?
400
schools whose curricula was dedicated to teach industrial and domestic skills.
What are "mexican" schools?
400
the Protagonist of the Story "Esperanza Rising"
Who is Esperanza?
500
she sprained her ankle.
What is, How did abuelita get hurt?
500
sharing feelings of another in time sorrow or trouble.
What is sympathy?
500
The place where Esperanza's migrant camp is located.
What is San Joaquin valley?
500
the era in 1930 in the United States where: the stock market was down,a multitude of companies/factories were shut down and thousands lost their jobs.
What is The Great Depression?
500
What Isabel taught Esperanza
What is how to wash diapers and sweep?
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