<p>Union Township Public Schools Summer Reading, Grade 6</p><p>SUMMER READING ENGLISH GRADE 6</p><p>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.</p><p>Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan</p><p>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</p><p>Study Guide Questions</p><p>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? ______</p><p>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</p><p>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? ______</p><p>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</p><p>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? ______</p>