Explore multiple perspectives through a jigsaw activity that will improve your pupils' understanding of the characters in Esperanza Rising as well as their understanding of strikes and human rights. Tapping into prior knowledge, and previous notes taken on these topics, class members will add to their information about their assigned character, meet in expert groups, and get together with their original group of three to cross-share information. 

Concepts

characterization, characters, esperanza rising, pam munoz ryan, point of view, making inferences, strikes, perspectives, explanatory writing

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Additional Tags

multiple perspectives, point of view, esperanza rising, pam munoz ryan, characterization, english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Incorporate into a unit about human rights, or use when reading Esperanza Rising

Pros

• Provides an exit ticket that asks learners to take a stance and use evidence to support their answers
• A great interdisciplinary activity between language arts and social studies

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.5.1 RL.5.3 W.5.2.a