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CHARACTERS
SETTING/GENRE
PLOT
VOCABULARY
100
Kenneth and Aleesa
Who are the two characters that time traveled from Berkerly Middle School?
100
California
In what state does the story happen?
100
time travel
How do Kenneth and Aleesa get from Berkeley Middle School to the Central Valley?
100
Refusing to buy a product.
What is a boycott?
200
A farmworker family that offered Kenneth and Aleesa a place to stay.
Who are Luis, Juan, Rosa, Miguel, and Jorge Lopez?
200
1960s
In what decade is the story taking place?
200
strike and boycott
What are two non-violent methods that the Union is using to get the owners to accept Union workers?
200
Refuse to work or cross a picket line until worker demands are met.
What is a strike?
300
Owens and he hires workers for the vineyard owner.
Who is the labor contractor and what does he do?
300
Pacific Ocean
What ocean does California border?
300
the growers
Who has all the power?
300
Lack of water, no bathrooms, low pay, no breaks, sprayed with pesticides.
What are several ways the farmworkers were treated with no dignity.
400
National Farm Workers Association
What is the name of the farmworkers union?
400
Sacramento
What is the capital of California?
400
violence
What does Luis think is the only way to get the growers' attention?
400
strike, boycott, march, sit-ins, civil disobedience, fasting, and jail
What are some nonviolent methods to change unfair laws or conditions?
500
Started the NFWA so farmworkers could have dignity and rights.
Who is Cesar Chavez?
500
historical fiction
What genre is "Fight in the Fields"?
500
Farmworkers won't be hired, could starve because there is no money, could be dangerous to picket fields.
What are some of the reasons why Juan Lopez is afraid to join the Union?
500
Workers from Mexico hired to break the strike because they will work for hardly any money at all.
Who are braceros?