Author: Sarah Warren
Illustrator: Robert Casilla
Genre: non-fiction
Grade level: 1-4
Reading age: 6-9 yrs old
Summary:
Dolores Huerta is a woman, who advocates for the rights of underpaid farm workers. In this book, we learn about Dolores Huerta's fight for safe working environments and fair wages. We venture through a timeline of her life noting the illustrations as she goes from career to career on her journey as a social justice warrior. It begins when she is a teacher and she begins to question why her students are struggling in class. Detective Dolores Huerta finds out that the parents were getting underpaid and working conditions were harsh. Organizer Dolores Huerta was not going to stand for this injustice, so she gathered the families and many others to raise their voices. This is a story about justice, activism, immigration equality, womanhood, workers' rights and so much more.
Element 4: Social Movements and Social Change:
Dolores Huerta is a warrior of change. Her story is to be shared as a still current labor leader and civil rights activist. In her earlier days, she organized farmer workers in order to advocate for safer working conditions and better pay. In the story, she leads a strike, boycotting grapes, which ends up allowing farmers to receive better wages and conditions. A peaceful movement that included people of all ages and genders. She is an agent of change and the story captivates her life through many journeys, but also the people who contributed to the movement's success.
"While some workers argue with the bosses, others watch the children dance and keep them safe"
Mother, Father, sisters, or brothers all contributed to the movement and she is someone who can share the story.
What Would I do:
After reading I would like to discuss and reflect as a class. The idea would be to talk more about how this appears in our day-to-day and what can be done. When reading you can hear the struggle, but I would want the students to act it out in small groups. I would make groups of 2 and would ask them to act out occurrences on a day working on the farm.
(The script is from here page 107)
I would follow by asking the discussion questions about what issues were discussed in the script, what would they do, what could they do, and who could help them.
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