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For this task, the students are to create a series of twenty journal entries based on Esperanza Rising. This will enable the students to create a more realistic picture for themselves of what life for Esperanza was like. This assignment can be modified for lower-level students and advanced students alike by altering the number of entries. The following description can be verbalized, or the Word file can be found right here and the PDF file can be found right here.
We arrived in the San Joaquin Valley today, and Mama was very happy to have found work and a home in which to stay. From what I can gather, it is not so much work as it is slave-labor, and the home is nothing more than four flimsy pieces of wood held together by a rickety roof. I cannot understand why Mama is so happy with this place, it is not half as good as the quarters that we had for our servants back in Mexico. Although the weather is nice, the smell of filth fills the air. I miss the wonderful fields of my home, and most of all, I miss my Abuelita. I keep telling Mama that I want to go home, but her only response is that we are home. I miss my friends to because everybody here seems so unclean that I think that I will never fit in. I do not think that I am going to like living here.
Although the author, Pam Munoz-Ryan, has created a very detailed account of what it must have been like living in the migrant labor camps, we will never truly know what it was like until we spend a little time there ourselves. This purpose of this activity is to make you think exactly what it must have been like to grow up in a labor camp during the early part of the twentieth century (and maybe even today). Your task is to create a journal of at least 20 entries that detail the experiences that Esperanza may have had in the camp. Be sure to use incidents from the book as guides for your journal, and make sure that each of your entries is at least half of a page long. Additionally, feel free to create an artistic cover page that may reflect Esperanza's love of her homeland.