Esperanza Rising Spanish to English 1-8

¡Una tormenta de polvo!

• A tormented place

• A dust storm

• A bad storm

• A terrible storm

La migra

• The immigrant

• The migration

• The immigrant authorities

Agua de jamaica

• Hibiscus Flower Water

• Water from Jamaica

¿de veras?

• what color?

• for realness

• really?

Claro

• the cart

• Clare

• clear

• clarity

entiendes

• enter

• entrance

• understand

• to know

Huegla

• Help

• Ugly

• Strike

• Worker

Un cuento de hadas

• a lot of hats

• a fairy tale

“Estas son las mañanitas que cantaba el Rey David a las muchachas bonitas; se las cantamos aquí.”

“These are the ________ songs which King David used to sing to all the pretty girls; we sing them here to you.”

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