Esperanza renace: An ebook reader’s guide

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About the novel

In Esperanza renace, intermediate low through heritage learners can travel with Esperanza in a riches-to-rags story of immigration, family, and hope.

After Esperanza’s wealthy father dies, she and her mother must flee her tyrannical uncles and start life anew, as agricultural workers in Depression-era California. Will she rise above the ashes of her princess-style former life? Will sickness, strife, and hard labor extinguish all hope? Will she ever see her grandmother again?

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Description

Illustrated
Professionally formatted
77 pages
Detailed introduction
Spanish/English glossary of all vocabulary words and phrases
Answer key

Proficency- and vocabulary-boosting activities with every chapter:

Vocabulario

Each chapter’s section begins with a vocabulary list. Each lists emphasizes:

how frequently the word appears
application to advanced themes
importance to the plot
keys to advancing proficiency

Within the Vocabulary section, several activities get students using the words and phrases in memory-boosting ways. Translations of the words are not included so that you can determine how students interact with the meanings of the words. All words and phrases and their English translations are listed alphabetically in a dictionary at the end.

A repasar

Each chapter includes a list of important higher-frequency words or vocabulary words previously mentioned in a Vocabulario section. Sometimes these words are variations of previously used words.

Vocabulario

These questions enhance memory by causing students to relate vocabulary meaningfully to the world around them.

Relaciones

This section lists pairs or groups of words that are related somehow. Boost memory by asking students to make connections among vocabulary words. Are they all parts of the body? Things that you wear? Words related to injuries?

Diccionario Visual

Students remember more when a picture is attached to a word. Students are encouraged to look up several vocabulary words using Google Images. (Note: I have looked up every word I recommend students to view, but still remind students to use discretion and turn on Safe Search.)

Dominio

Students perform a task specifically related to improving their proficiency and/or accuracy, such as describing a scene or predicting what “would” happen.

Conversación

Students have the opportunity to practice interpersonal conversation by talking with a classmate or friend about something related to the chapter and its vocabulary.

A ver

This section invites learners to draw and label something that ties a lot of the chapter’s vocabulary together, such as parts of a house, articles of clothing on a person, or the elements of a fire.

Viejo y nuevo

In this section, learners relate some new aspect of vocabulary or grammar to something they already know, such as how the previously learned word grieta might relate to the adjective agrietada.

Imaginación con un modismo

Students practice idiomatic expressions, a key to developing advanced proficiency, in a way that uses their imagination, which increases memory.

Idioma

This section asks students to focus meaningfully on how particular words are formed or function in sentence.

Herramientas para el cuento

This section offers specific advice/practice for how students can improve their narration skills, important for students at the intermediate level.

Reflexión

This section suggests a journaling activity that will cause students to reflect on events in their own lives in order to help them preview the chapter’s main themes.

A leer

The second part of each “chapter” is a set of questions about the plot of the story, accompanied by proficiency-boosting activities.

Reading questions

These questions usually relate to major plot developments and often ask students to think critically about what they’re reading. For the first time, I’ve included an answer key (as a separate file).

Para ti

This activity asks students to relate something in Esperanza’s story to their own world. Making cultural comparisons is an important skill in improving proficiency.

El mundo de Esperanza

Students are asked to investigate cultural concepts Esperanza mentions in the chapter, like the birthday song “Las mañanitas” or how to make flan de almendra.

Los símbolos del libro

The symbols in Esperanza renace are a powerful tool the author uses to tie the story together. This segment mentions the symbols that are included in the chapter. Learners are invited to keep an ongoing record of how these symbols change throughout the story.

Para comprender más

Here I suggest comprehension-boosting activities such as making diagrams or character sketches or investigating aspects important in the chapter, such as the relationship between landowners and peasants in early 20th-century Mexico.

Diccionario

The book ends with an 11-page glossary of every word or phrase included in the vocabulary lists.