Quiz: Esperanza's Story — Grade 5 Unit Overview

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of the novel students study in this unit?
A) The Grapes of Wrath
B) Esperanza Rising
C) The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
D) Aguascalientes, Mexico

2. Who wrote the central text for this unit?
A) Pam Muñoz Ryan
B) The United Nations
C) An Expeditionary Learning author
D) A 5th grade teacher

3. Where does Esperanza's story begin?
A) California, 1930s
B) Aguascalientes, Mexico, 1924
C) New York, 2012
D) A work camp in Texas

4. What must Esperanza do after leaving her comfortable life in Mexico?
A) Attend a new school in Mexico City
B) Flee to California and rise above difficult circumstances
C) Write a formal essay about her family
D) Travel to the United Nations

5. Almost daily, what do students do in their reading journals?
A) Draw pictures of characters
B) Write short informational pieces recording interpretations of details and quotations
C) Write letters to the author
D) Take multiple-choice quizzes

6. What is the focus of the Mid-Unit Assessment?
A) Writing a two-voice poem
B) Independently reading and analyzing a new chapter, focusing on challenges Esperanza faces and how she responds
C) Comparing the novel to informational texts
D) Creating an anchor chart

7. In the second half of the unit, what do students compare and contrast?
A) Esperanza to other characters, focusing on responses to challenges in the work camp
B) Two different novels
C) Mexico and California geography
D) Human rights in different countries

8. What does the End of Unit Assessment ask students to do?
A) Take a multiple-choice test on vocabulary
B) Write an on-demand analytical essay about how Esperanza changes over time
C) Present a poem to the class
D) Summarize the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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Short Answer Questions

9. Name one of the "Guiding Questions" or "Big Ideas" listed in the unit overview.

10. What is a two-voice poem used for in this unit, according to the overview?

11. According to the unit overview, what secondary text do students read alongside the novel, and who published it?

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Answer Key

1. B) Esperanza Rising
2. A) Pam Muñoz Ryan
3. B) Aguascalientes, Mexico, 1924
4. B) Flee to California and rise above difficult circumstances
5. B) Write short informational pieces recording interpretations of details and quotations
6. B) Independently reading and analyzing a new chapter, focusing on challenges Esperanza faces and how she responds
7. A) Esperanza to other characters, focusing on responses to challenges in the work camp
8. B) Write an on-demand analytical essay about how Esperanza changes over time

1. Any one of: "What are human rights?"; "What lessons can we learn about human rights through literature and life?"; "We learn lessons about human rights from the experiences of real people and fictional characters"; "Characters change over time in response to challenges (to their human rights)"; "People respond differently to similar events in their lives"; "Authors conduct research and use specific language in order to impact their readers."

1. Students create a two-voice poem to contrast the ways two different characters respond to a similar challenge.

1. The secondary text is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Plain Language Version, published by the United Nations.