Teaching Esperanza Rising | Daily Lessons

Daily Lessons

This section contains 30 daily lessons. Each one has a specific objective and offers at least three (often more) ways to teach that objective. Lessons include classroom discussions, group and partner activities, in-class handouts, individual writing assignments, at least one homework assignment, class participation exercises and other ways to teach students about the text in a classroom setting. Use some or all of the suggestions provided to work with your students in the classroom and help them understand the text.

Lesson 1

Objective: Chapter 1: There is a very short preamble of sorts on Chapter 1 that is entitled "1924." This section establishes not only the loving relationship between six-year old Esperanza and her father, Papa, but the metaphor of the view that the land around them is alive. The objective of this lesson is to appreciate how the author, Pam Munoz Ryan, creates an extended metaphor.