Esperanza Rising Word Search
This Esperanza Rising puzzle holds forty words from Pam Munoz Ryan's novel: Esperanza Ortega, her mother Ramona, Abuelita and her crochet, Miguel, Hortensia and Alfonso, the grapes of the ranch in Aguascalientes, and the farm camp at Arvin, California.
Ryan based the story on her grandmother, Esperanza Ortega, who left a comfortable life in Mexico for the farm labor camps of California in the 1930s. In the novel Esperanza's father is killed by bandits the day before her thirteenth birthday, her uncle Tio Luis burns the ranch house, and she and her mother escape hidden in a wagon with their servants to work in the fields of the San Joaquin Valley. The book came out in 2000 and won the Pura Belpre Award.
The chapters are named in Spanish for the crops being picked, from Las Uvas, the grapes, to Las Cebollas, the onions, and Los Esparragos, the asparagus. Esperanza starts work in the camp during the Great Depression, when strikers demanded better pay and many Mexican workers were sent back to Mexico. Her mother falls ill with valley fever, a lung infection carried in the dust, and Abuelita's crochet blanket, zigzagging like mountains and valleys, is the book's picture of how life rises and falls.
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Puzzle Vocabulary Words
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- Abuelita
- Aguascalientes
- Alfonso
- Almonds
- Arvin
- Asparagus
- Avocados
- Bandits
- Blanket
- California
- Camp
- Crochet
- Depression
- Doll
- Esperanza
- Figs
- Fire
- Grapes
- Guava
- Harvest
- Heartbeat
- Hortensia
- Isabel
- Marta
- Melons
- Miguel
- Mountains
- Onions
- Ortega
- Papaya
- Peaches
- Plums
- Potatoes
- Ramona
- Rancho
- Roses
- Strike
- Tio Luis
- Train
- Valley Fever