1. Esperanza Rising Las Uvas-Las Melones
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2. Esperanza Mexico to America Family and Friends 10 20 30 40 50
Vocabulario
Esperanza
El Rancho de las Rosas
Mexico to America
Family and Friends 10 20 30 40 50

3. Question
Las Uvas

4. Answer 1 – 10
Grapes

5. Question
Los higos

6. Answer 1 – 20
Figs

7. Question
Las Guayabas

8. Answer 1 – 30
Guavas

9. Question
Algun dia

10. Answer 1 – 40
For someday

11. Question
Los campesinos

12. Answer 1 – 50
Field-workers

13. Question
At what age will Esperanza celebrate her quinceaneara?

14. Answer 2 – 10 15

15. Question
What happens to Esperanza that foreshadows the death of her father?

16. Answer 2 – 20
She cuts her finger on a thorn.

17. Question
What activity do Esperanza and Abuelita do while waiting for Papa to return?

18. Answer 2 – 30
crotcheting

19. Question
What happens on Esperanza’s birthday every year? (give 3 things)

20. Answer 2 – 40 Porcelain doll from Papa Hand-made clothes from Mama
A fiesta
Her father serenading her in the morning

21. Question
Why does Esperanza worry that bandits will harm her father?

22. Answer 2 – 50
They do not know he is a kind and unselfish man

23. Question
What city is El Rancho de las Rosas in?

24. Answer 3 – 10
Aguascalientes

25. Question
What is Alfonos’s job title on el Rancho de las Rosas?

26. Answer 3 – 20
El jefe (the boss)

27. Question
What do Esperanza and her Papa hear coming from the earth? What does this signify?

28. Answer 3 – 30
The earth’s heartbeat, it signifies their livelihood, and their love for el Rancho de las Rosasl

29. Question
What remains from the fire?

30. Answer 3 – 40
Metal that could not burn, and Esperanza’s porcelain doll and Abuelita’s crotcheting

31. Question
“She could hear it too. The beat rushing in her ears. Shmoop, shmoop, shmoop” contains what literary technique?

32. Answer 3 – 50
Onomatopoeia

33. Question
What fruit is covering the truck bed that hides the women on the way to the train?

34. Answer 4 – 10
Guavas (Las Guyabas)

35. Question
What is the name of Alfonso’s brother?

36. Answer 4 – 20
Juan

37. Question
Why is this train ride different than what Esperanza expected?

38. Answer 4 – 30
She was used to riding in fancy cars, with a meal and nice table linens, etc.

39. Question
What does Esperanza think of the people on the train?

40. Answer 4 – 40
They are peasants, dirty, and beneath her

41. Question
What does Mama make for the peasant girl on the train?

42. Answer 4 – 50
A yarn doll

43. Question
When Esperanza tells them that “between them ran a deep river” she is using:

44. Answer 5 – 10
metaphor

45. Question
What does Papa wear that celebrates his ranch?

46. Answer 5 – 20
A belt buckle

47. Question
What do Carmen and Mama trade on the train?

48. Answer 5 – 30
They trade two red hens for hand-made crotcheted lace doilies

49. Question
What is Tio Luis’s job?

50. Answer 5 – 40
President of the local bank

51. Question
What does Tio Luis do that scares Esperanza?

52. Answer 5 – 50
He pays attention to her, acknowledges her, and touches her shoulder to console her

53. Final Jeopardy
Abuelita uses two metaphors to describe Esperanza’s life. Pick ONE and explain.