Esperanza Rising S5L2

Multiple Choice

Which of the following best describes how details in a text can help you understand its theme?

• By showing how characters respond to challenges

• By listing the main events only

• By focusing only on the setting

• By ignoring character actions

Open Ended

Why do you think authors use character actions to develop themes such as kindness in their stories?

Open Ended

How do the people at the school treat the migrant family?

Open Ended

How do the people at the school treat the migrant family? Be sure to provide details from the text to support your answer.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an example of a theme statement?

• Growing up

• Growing up often involves challenges and difficulties.

• Esperanza grows up because of the challenges and difficulties she faces.

• Home and friendship

Open Ended

What thoughts, words, and actions develop a possible theme in the text?

Open Ended

Think about the characters’ thoughts, words, and actions in Chapter 12 of Esperanza Rising and “Family School” from Out of the Dust. Compare the narrative techniques used to develop a similar theme across each text.

Open Ended

How does the writer use appropriate transitions to link and clarify relationships among words, phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs, and sections?

Fill in the Blanks

Esperanza gives Isabel a

to show kindness in Esperanza Rising.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following transitions is used in both Esperanza Rising and Out of the Dust to show a relationship between ideas?

• Similarly

• However

• Therefore

• Meanwhile

Open Ended

What are the relationships among the ideas presented in the sample response?

Open Ended

After learning about how character actions develop themes in a text, what questions do you still have or what would you like to know more about?

Open Ended

How do character actions in 'Esperanza Rising' help develop the theme of kindness?