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Chapters 1-5

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Jimenez, Author Francisco. Breaking Through. Houghton Mifflin, 2001. Paperback.

• In Chapter 1, Francisco remembered being afraid from the time he was four through 14.

• He and his family entered the United States illegally when he was four in the late 1940s.

• Francisco’s father, nicknamed Papa, told Francisco and his brother Roberto to not be seen by immigration officers.

• The family dug a hole under a barbed wire fence, and crawled under to the United States.

• The family was first taken to a tent labor camp near Guadalupe.

• Then they traveled through California following the crops.

• Francisco did not like the migrant life, because he was not able to attend school consistently.

• Even if his family stayed in one place for a while, Francisco would have to help in the fields, instead of going to school...

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