Labor Day
Vocabulary
Cesar & Dolores
Parts of Speech
100

A group of workers who join together to advocate for acceptable wages, appropriate behavior, and safety in the workplace.

What is a union?

100

This word rhymes with hustle and means to move with a purpose.

What is "to bustle?"
100

Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta's ancestral country.

What is Mexico?

100

Successful people do not procrastinate.

What is a verb?

200

Most countries in the world celebrate the workers in this month.

What is May?

200

To move something around, to bother or make worse. 

agitate

200

Dolores co-founded this organization with Cesar Chavez.

What is the National Farm Workers Association?

200

My parents wanted me to receive an excellent education.

What is a noun?

300

When workers refuse to go to work and rally with signs to improve working conditions or salaries.

What is a strike?

300
This is another word for vengeance.

What is revenge?

300

Dolores' father had this job before he became a migrant worker.

What is a coal minor?

300
I made minimum wage when I got my first job.

What is an adjective?

400

This is the president who signed the Labor Day bill into a law in 1894. 

Who is Grover Cleveland?

400

A fable teaches a lesson. This lesson is called a _.

What is moral?

400

Cesar Chavez followed this person's lessons on non-violent protests.

Who is Mahatma Gandhi?  (or Martin Luther King)

400

You don't have to go to college to work in the community doing a job you love.

What is a noun?

500

$15 per hour in the state of Massachusetts.

What is the minimum wage?

500

To refuse to buy a product as a protest or punishment for a company's unethical policy.

What is to boycott?

500

This was Dolores Huerta's slogan as she fought for human rights.

What is, "Yes we can?"

500

If you work diligently, you will reach your goals. 

What is an adverb?