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Get your learners thinking! Our PRINT AND DIGITAL ESPERANZA RISING Novel Study Unit Plan has the activities and quizzes you need to teach a 7-week novel study — prereading questions, characters, vocabulary, writing, and more. You’ll love the “print-and-go” activities in slideshow and .pdf, AND the same fun activities converted and optimized for digital learning (600+ pages, slides, and forms for all your print and digital teaching needs).
⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ And don’t forget the easy-grade Google Forms!
Your learners will have fun with the rigor and creativity of our engaging activities built from best teaching practices. We want to make your lesson plan journey easy, so you can focus on your expertise. This literature guide includes a curriculum map pacing guide that offers our day-by-day suggestion for how to plan out your weeks of fun activities.
Our pedagogy section explains the instructive idea behind the activity, gives ideas for implementation, and aligns the lesson plan to the standards. We’ve filmed some training videos on (1) how to assemble a Novel Analysis Packet that is unique to the academic needs of your learners and (2) how to effectively use our Quickwrite writing prompts.
To make your digital experience smooth, we include instructions (w/ screenshots!) of how to download and organize your activities in Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive. We’ve added easy-grade Google Forms versions of each activity that auto-corrects their responses using a suggested answer key (which you can adjust afterward or modify your answer key) and compiles grades into a spreadsheet with learners’ names and class periods to make things easier for you to grade all in one place (some types of questions aren’t able to auto-grade, though, because of the short-answer format).
TEXT: ESPERANZA RISING by Pam Munoz Ryan
LEVEL: 5th – 7th
TOTAL: 600+ combined slides/pages/forms in lesson plan unit → Based off the 2000 Scholastic Edition [ISBN: 0439576172].
→ Our activities easily integrate w/ Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Canvas, Schoology, Edmodo, Blackboard, Moodle, Brightspace, Sakai, Showbie, Remind, & more.
→ Pacing Guide and Suggested Answer Keys included
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ESPERANZA RISING – NOVEL STUDY CONTENTS
→ Suggested timeline of how a teacher could plan out the unit book study
→ Detailed explanations of the goals of each activity and how to conduct the activities
→ Meets Common Core Standards (CCSS novel unit). Easy TEKS conversion.
→ Easy to differentiate for different learning levels: Honors, 2nd language learners, and Sped
➡️ ➡️ ➡️ BEFORE READING
★ Pre-reading Bias Intro Activity
– answer thematic questions to get learners thinking about the novel and their unique point of view or bias on given statements
– 24 pages & Google slides
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.1
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.1
★ Google Earth Introduction Tour (19 Locations)
– Aguascalientes, El Centro, Arvin, San Joaquin Valley, the Sierra Madre, Highway 99, and even Pam Munoz Ryan’s grandparents’ home in California…they even get to see some of it in 3D zoomed in to the street view. It’s rockin awesome.
– 19-location 3D tour across Mexico and California
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9
➡️ ➡️ ➡️ DURING READING
★ Plot Chart Analyzer Diagram Arc
– analyze the 6 parts of the plot
– 10 pages & Google slides
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2
★ Conflict Graphic Analyzer – 6 Types of Conflict
– analyze the 6 different types of conflict in stories
– 8 pages & Google slides
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2
★ Characters Analyzer
– analyze the main characters using novel quotes
– 20 pages & Google slides
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3
★ Journal – Quickwrite Writing Prompts
– 1/2 writing assignments to spur much deeper conversational thinking
– 86 pages & Google slides
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1,2
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.1
★ 13 Reading Comprehension Chapter Pop Quizzes
– 99 pages, Google slides, & Google forms
– The purpose of these is so learners who read the chapters recently would ace the quiz and learners who didn’t read recently would not do well.
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2,10
★ Figurative Language Instructional Slideshow
– We set out to make the most helpful, most compelling, most graphically attractive teaching resource for you to introduce your learners to all the various figurative language. This 70+ slide slideshow will help you introduce how every many you need to teach your level of learners.
– 140 slides & Google slides
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7
★ Figurative Language Activity
– analyze and complete 49 figures of speech specific to the novel
– 26 pages, Google slides, & Google forms (3 parts)
– Similes vs. Metaphors
– Figurative Language Analysis
– Similes, Metaphors, Idioms, Hyperboles, Analogies, Alliteration, Onomatopoeia, Puns, Allusion
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7
★ Grammar – Commas in a Series
– Using examples from the novel, learners will study commas used in a series (list). They will learn to locate the lists in the sentences and use appropriate commas.
– 4 slides & Google slides practicing the commas in a series using examples
– suggested answer key included
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.2
★ Grammar – Commas w/ Introductory Elements
– Using examples from the novel, learners will study commas used with introductory elements at the beginnings of sentences. They will learn to locate the introductory elements in the sentences and use appropriate commas.
– 4 slides & Google slides practicing the commas w/ introductory elements using examples
– suggested answer key included
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.2
★ Grammar – Commas w/ Direct Address
– Using examples from the novel, learners will study commas used with direct address. They will learn to locate direct address in the sentences and use appropriate commas.
– 4 slides & Google slides practicing the commas w/ introductory elements using examples
– suggested answer key included
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.2
★ Grammar – Prepositions
– Using examples from the novel, learners will locate prepositions and prepositional phrases in the sentences, and they will practice using the appropriate preposition for the meaning of the sentence.
– 4 slides & Google slides practicing prepositions
– suggested answer key included
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.1
★ Grammar – Conjunctions and Interjections
– Using examples from the novel, learners will study conjunctions (coordinating, subordinating, and correlative) and interjections. They will learn to locate the various conjunctions and interjections in the sentences.
– 4 slides & Google slides practicing conjunctions (coordinating, subordinating, and correlative) and interjections
– suggested answer key included
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.1
★ Vocabulary List and Quiz Assessment
– 80 vocabulary words from the novel
– four 20-question lists & quizzes
– 42 pages, Google slides, & Google forms, along w/ suggested answer keys
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4
★ Epic Taste Test Competition
– Learners will enjoy blind taste tests of the various produce from the chapter titles from the novel.
– 1-page instructional page
– 1 page of taste tester labels
– 1-page voting page
– 6 pages, slides & Google slides
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.5
★ Harvest Competition
– Your learners (and you!) are going to love this competition that tests the learners’ knowledge about the fruits and vegetables that are the titles of each of the chapters.
– 26-slide slideshow with produce photos
– both English and Spanish versions
– suggested answer key included
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.5
★ Non-Fiction Valley Fever Research and Videos
– Learners will read some information about Valley Fever, watch some videos from the news, watch first-hand accounts of people who have had the sickness, and answer questions.
– 1 link to research website
– 3 video links with information and interviews of victims
– 10 pages, slides, & Google slides
– suggested answer key included
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.2,4,6,7
★ Farm Labor Strikes Nonfiction Research and Videos
– Learners will read some information about the farm labor strikes and Cesar Chavez, watch some videos on the topics, and answer questions of various Bloom’s Taxonomy levels to think about the farm labor strikes.
– 3 video links with information and stories
– 8 pages, slides, & Google slides
– suggested answer key included
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.2,3,6,7
★ Our Lady of Guadalupe Analysis
– This activity will lead learners to analyze the meaning of this art piece in history and religion, in the story for Esperanza, and in the overall meaning of the novel’s theme.
– 2 versions of the public domain image (one without the edges and one with them)
– a 1-page non-fiction historical background of the image
– a 1-page analysis activity of the history and image
– 16 pages, slides, & Google slides
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7
➡️ ➡️ ➡️ AFTER READING
★ Essay and Speech
– 3 response to literature essay options for learners to choose from; optional delivery of essay as a speech
– Includes essay topics and speech grading rubrics
– 10 pages, Google slides, & rubrics
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1,2,3
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.1,9
– CCSS.ELA-SpeakingListening.SL4,6
★ Movie vs. Novel Comparison (The movie is “In-development.” This was made preemptively)
– 4 pages & Google slides
– compare & contrast the movie and novel
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7
Enjoy! And let’s rise again, with new life ahead of us!
