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"College Bound," "Moving In," "Initiation," and "Unexpected Turns"

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Jiménez, Francisco. Reaching Out. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers, 2009. E-book.

• The first chapter of the memoir Reaching Out is called “College Bound."

• The writer of the memoir, Francisco Jimenez, opens the work by stating, "The day I had longed for had finally arrived" (1).

• Francisco was about to set out for his first year of college at the University of Santa Clara.

• It was the ninth of September in the year 1962 and the family lived in Santa Maria, California, a small agricultural town.

• When Francisco and his older brother Roberto, whom he called Toto, were still their parents' only children and were very young, the family lived in a Mexican village called El Rancho Blanco.

• El Rancho Blanco was in the northern part of the...

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