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The Circuit by Francisco Jimenez Lesson Plan
The Circuit One Under the Wire “La frontera” is a word I often heard when I was a child living in El Rancho Blanco, a small village nestled on barren, dry hills several miles north of Guadalajara, Mexico. I heard it for the first time back in the late s when Papá and . Educator's Guide: The Circuit by Francisco Jiménez The Circuit by Francisco Jiménez is the selection for the LAII’s Vamos a Leer book group meeting scheduled for November 5, The following information comprises a standards-based educator’s guide that the LAII has produced to support using The Circuit (Jiménez, University of New Mexico, ) in the. About the Book. The Circuit tells the experiences of a migrant child whose family moves from Mexico to California in hopes of a better life. Francisco Jiménez uses stories from his own life to portray what it's like to be a child who must hide from truant officers if farm work must be done and who must hide from immigration officials in order to continue living in this country.
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The standards are not included here, but are included with each section of the lesson plans in the PDF. After dark in a Mexican border town, a father holds open a hole in a wire fence as his wife and two small boys crawl through.
So begins life in the United States for many people every day. These independent but intertwined stories follow the family through their circuit, from picking cotton and strawberries to topping carrots—and back again—over a number of years. As it moves from one the circuit by francisco jimenez pdf download camp to the next, the little family of four grows into ten.
Impermanence and poverty define their lives. But with faith, hope, and back-breaking work, the family endures Amazon. I worked on that first book, The Circuitevery single day.
I started very early in the morning, right after breakfast. And I would sit at the computer and then it would take me awhile to capture the emotions I felt as a child. So I would sit there and contemplate. And once I was able to capture the emotions and the feelings of what I was reflecting on and remembering, then I would start to write.
Then it would flow. Sometimes it was very painful, because I would actually get emotional as I was writing. Then I would take a break for lunch and then I would come back and start writing again. Sometimes, the emotions would be so strong that I would continue working till midnight.
So, I decided then to keep a little notepad on my dresser, and when things would come to me, I would jot notes down and they would help me the following day to continue writing.
So it was a catharsis in a sense. I interviewed my parents, my brother and some other family members. And then I looked through family documents and some family pictures that I used in the books. I also found some school records that were very helpful to me. And I visited the little towns and places where we had lived in migrant labor camps in the San Joaquin Valley in California, and that was very helpful.
All these things brought a lot of the memories to me. And I listened to the music that I listened to as a child, and all the emotions came. I also visited museums to see if I could find information about that period in which we lived in those migrant labor camps. As I reviewed all the material, I began to recall things that I experienced as a child. And as I recalled some of those experiences, I began to remember other things, and one thing led to another. In the reflection, I made a series of discoveries of who I was and what my place was in our society, the circuit by francisco jimenez pdf download.
There was a sense of clarity about why I went through that life experience. And that clarity for me was that I was to write about it. And my discovery of self and my place in society, and my responsibility now as a teacher in trying to help other younger people to become educated was all very clear to me.
I know it starts with a W, but I cheated. I looked at all the different, meaningful experiences and decided which of those experiences were the most meaningful. Then I created a story around each one of those experiences. Two of these guides provide quite in-depth lesson plans and teaching ideas for elementary, middle, and high school.
Below are short discussions and descriptions with links to these other guides. The following lesson plans include a short section of suggested pre-reading activities, guided reading questions, and reflective writing questions.
Before beginning the book, discuss what a migrant farm worker is. Begin by assessing prior knowledge and asking students if anyone knows what it means to be a migrant worker.
Based on their responses, explain that a migrant worker typically works in the farming industry harvesting crops throughout the year. As different types of crops are grown in different areas and harvested at different times throughout the year, migrant workers and their families must move a great deal. Expand the discussion into a vocabulary lesson by connecting the definition of migrant worker to those of migration and immigration.
This curriculum also includes some great activities to use throughout the book, but that you may want to introduce at the very beginning of your unit.
One such activity is the creation of a timeline for the events of the book. This may be quite helpful in teaching or reviewing sequencing, the circuit by francisco jimenez pdf download, and in helping students to keep track of what has happened in the book, since each chapter is its own individual story.
Another great activity they include has students reviewing the geography of the book—mapping the various cities and countries the family travels through. This could be especially helpful in establishing the context and setting of the book for students.
Each guide is based upon a book featured in the Vamos a Leer book group. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account.
You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Santa Clara University produced a forty-six page guide that consists of a two-week long unit plan. The guide will likely be the most useful in elementary classrooms, or middle school classes with beginning English Language Learners. The guide does an excellent job of integrating writing assignments into the novel study, supporting both reading and writing development.
The guide contains several suggestions for opening and visual activities. Also laid out are the daily reading, writing mini-lesson, key question skey paragraph, and daily prompt.
At the end of the lesson, you will find a Spanish the circuit by francisco jimenez pdf download English translations for The Circuit along with the Final Assignment. It the circuit by francisco jimenez pdf download has an excellent geography lesson and timeline activity that are relevant throughout the unit plan. It is written to accompany the Write Ahead curriculum, the circuit by francisco jimenez pdf download, but can be used without it.
The curriculum has individual lessons for each grade from 7thth. Scholastic has a short discussion guide of the book. Why is it important to the family? What does the family live in when they arrive in the U. Why do you think the conductor leaves the brown bag for the circuit by francisco jimenez pdf download boys?
How can you tell? Where is the rest of his family? What is the family picking now? Is it easy work? How do you know? Francisco is disappointed that by the end of the day his pile is only 2 feet the circuit by francisco jimenez pdf download. Find a measuring tape, and measure out 2 feet.
Do you think that is a lot of cotton? Inside Out Why was Roberto hit on the wrists in school? Do you think this was fair? Francisco is starting school for the first time in January. Do you think that would be easy? One child speaks English, but every time the two of you speak in English you are both scolded. How would that make you feel? Would you like school? Do you think you would learn very much?
Do you think it would make you feel like English was an important or good language to know? What happens over the jacket that Mr. Sims give to Francisco? Do you think Curtis really wanted the jacket? Does Curtis wear the jacket again? How do you think it made Francisco feel to be accused of stealing the coat when Mr. Sims gave it to him? What does Francisco do? What does this action say about Francisco? Would you have done the same thing? Think about where they lived and how they lived.
Could you imagine living without a refrigerator or freezer? Give examples from the story. El Perico has another unexpected friend. Who is it? Cotton Sack How do they wear the cotton sacks as they pick cotton?
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Francisco Jiménez (–) Growing Up in the Fields Francisco Jiménez was born in Mexico and came to the United States when he was four years old. At the age of six he started working in the fi elds. Because he did not know English, he not by Francisco Jiménez The Circuit n . Educator's Guide: The Circuit by Francisco Jiménez The Circuit by Francisco Jiménez is the selection for the LAII’s Vamos a Leer book group meeting scheduled for November 5, The following information comprises a standards-based educator’s guide that the LAII has produced to support using The Circuit (Jiménez, University of New Mexico, ) in the. The Circuit TAKE NOTES Francisco Jiménez Have you ever moved to a new home? Did it make you feel sad to leave your old home and your old friends behind? Panchito, a young migrant farm worker in Francisco Jiménez’s story “The Circuit” has to move often. Migrant worker families can never live too long in one place. They must go wherever.
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