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Union Township Public Schools Summer Reading, Grade 6

SUMMER READING ENGLISH GRADE 6

Directions: o Please read Esperanza Rising. o You may purchase your book from Here’s the Story Book Store, located in Union Center. o You may also borrow your book from the Union Public Library. o A Summer Reading Essay Assessment will be administered on Wednesday, September 9, 2015. o To prepare for the summer reading essay assessment, complete the attached study guide.

Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan

Esperanza believed her life would be wonderful forever. She would always love her family’s ranch in Mexico. She would always have fancy dresses and a beautiful home filled with servants. Papa and Abuelita would always be with her. A sudden tragedy shatters her world and forces Esperanza to find a way to rise above her difficult circumstances…because Mama’s life and her own depend on it. Union Township Public Schools Summer Reading, Grade 6

Study Guide Questions

1. What year does the story open and how old is Esperanza? ______2. What will keep Esperanza from marrying Miguel someday? ______3. How does Papa arrive home at the end of the second chapter? ______4. Who takes over Papa’s study? ______5. Who inherits the land? ______

6. What does Esperanza save from the fire? ______7. Why does Mama agree to marry Tio Luis? ______8. Where had Esperanza hidden when the bandits entered the house? ______9. What does Miguel need in order to get a job on a train in Mexico? ______10.Where in the United States does the train take them? ______Union Township Public Schools Summer Reading, Grade 6

11.At the picnic, what does Esperanza try to hear? ______12.What does Esperanza say when asked what it was like to be rich? ______13.What does Miguel call Esperanza? ______14.What does Marta want the workers to do ______15.What did Esperanza give to the babies that made them ill? ______16.What medicine did she give them to make them better? ______17.What disease does Mama have? ______

18.What does Esperanza teach Isabel to make? ______19.What does Esperanza buy every other week? ______20.What is Isabel praying for? ______21.What does Esperanza give Isabel on the day she is not chosen queen? ______22. Who/what does Miguel bring to prove that things will get better? ______Union Township Public Schools Summer Reading, Grade 6

23.What does Esperanza weave into the blanket? ______24.Instead of seasons, what does Esperanza use as time dividers when telling Abuelita all that has happened to them? ______25.When she is unraveling the stitches (in the final chapter), what does Esperanza tell Isabel? ______