Cesar Chavez: A Man for the Workers

What is this text mostly about?

• Grapes

• Farmworkers

• Helen

• Cesar Chavez

What did Chavez do FIRST?

• began meeting with other farmworkers and talking about bad working conditions

• moved often with his family and changed elementary schools 37 different times

• served in the United States Navy as a teenager

• worked with the United Farm Workers to change laws

Read paragraph 2.

"Cesar was born in 1927 in Arizona. He grew up in a family of migrant workers. Migrant workers traveled from farm to farm. They picked crops by hand. They worked hard all day in the hot sun. Everyone in the family worked their fingers to the bone, but they made very little money. Workers who asked for more pay risked losing their jobs. Workers who asked for a day off could lose their jobs. Sometimes they even got fired for taking a bathroom break."

Which sentence BEST tells what paragraph 2 is about?

• Life and working conditions were difficult for migrant workers.

• Migrant workers traveled from farm to farm.

• Cesar was born in 1927 in Arizona.

• They worked hard all day in the hot sun.

Which detail best supports this sentence: Chavez became one of the leaders of a big strike.

• It took a long time but the strike was a success.

• He encouraged thousands of farmworkers to stop picking grapes until they got better pay and working conditions.

• The grape farmers agreed to treat their workers better.

• Chavez and the United Farm Workers kept working to change the laws.

Read this paragraph from the article.

"When he was very young, Cesar Chavez learned it was important to work hard and treat people fairly. He would use these lessons later in life to improve the lives of farmworkers across the United States." (Paragraph 1)

What does this paragraph tell you about Chavez?

• He was very young.

• He was a farmworker.

• He wanted to help make lives better for farmworkers.

• He learned many things.

Read the sentence from the article.

"Migrant workers traveled from farm to farm."

What word could best replace migrant without changing the meaning of the sentence?

• Roaming

• Hiking

• Farming

• Hardworking