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Commonwealth Club Address Paragraphs 1-5

MONDAY
1A. Why does the author start his speech with a story?
To hook the audience and cause sympathy among them
To hook the audience and blame the farm workers for riding in an unsafe truck

1B. What evidence helped you answer 1A?

2A. In 1984, the car accident happened 21 years ago.  Now how long has it been since the car accident happened?
51 years ago		61 years ago		71 years ago

2B. What math procedure helped you answer 2A?

3A. What does paralleling mean as used in the following passage? “ on a lonely stretch of railroad track paralleling U.S. Highway 101 near Salinas,” (Chavez 2-3)
	Moving away from the road in the opposite direction
	Moving alongside the road in the same direction

3B. What evidence helped you answer 3A?

4A. What is the relationship between the phrase, “The Braceros had been imported from Mexico,” (Chaves 4) and migrant workers?
Both refer to people who move from place to place to find work
Both refer to people who earn a lot of money at their one steady job

4B. What evidence helped you answer 4A?

Tuesday

5A. What is the mood (my feeling) toward the story about the bus accident when the 32 Bracero farm workers were killed?
	I feel sadness, sympathy and empathy toward the victims and their family.
	I feel calm, relaxed and at peace toward the victims and their family.	
	
5B. What evidence helped you answer 5A?

6A. What is the tone, author’s attitude or feeling, in the following passage? “Conversion of the bus had not been approved by any government,” (Chavez 7-8)
	
	Cesar Chavez is calm because he is not bothered by the treatment of the workers.
Cesar Chavez is angry because the migrant workers were not treated as humans.

6B. What evidence helped you answer 6A?

7A. What literary technique is used in the following passage?
 “farm workers live under savage conditions, beneath trees and amid garbage
 and human excrement near tomato )elds in San Diego County; tomato fields,
which use the most modern farm technology. Vicious rats gnaw at them as they
 sleep. They walk miles to buy food at inflated prices and they carry in water
 from irrigation ditches.” (Chavez 9-13) 

Imagery-the author paints an imagine in my mind that I can imagine via my 5 senses
Hyperbole-the author uses exaggerations to make a point

7B. What evidence helped you answer 7A?

8A. What is the cause and effect relationship between the two events in the following passage? “ Kids as young as six years old have voted in states, conducted union elections, since they qualified as workers.” (Chavez 15-16)
	Because children work, they can vote.
	Because children work, child labor laws were created.

8B. What evidence helped you answer 8A?

Wednesday

9A. In lines 16-20, Chavez lists statistics about the mortality rate of children. What is the author’s purpose for including data such as 800,000, 25% higher and 10 times higher?
	To emphasize his claim about poor conditions using scientific evidence 
	To emphasize his claim that the government makes up their own evidence 

9B. What evidence helped you determine your answer for 9A?

10A. In 1984, what was the age difference for the death rate of  farm workers (49 years) compared to average American (73 years)? 

		44 years difference		34 years difference		24 years difference

10B. What math equation helped you solve 10A?

11A. What literary technique is used in the passage, “they are not beasts of burden to be used and discarded,” (Chavez 24-25)?

	Alliteration-the beginning sound repeats
	Irony-the opposite event happens then what I expected to happen

11B. What evidence helped you answer 11A?

12A. Which sentence below uses the word driven in the same way as the following passage? “All my life, I have been driven by one dream,” (Chavez 22)
		We have driven to the farm many times.
		We are motivated to complete the job.

12B. What evidence helped you answer 12A?

Thursday

13A. Based on the text, what was the result of racism that Cesar Chavez experienced in
 the 1940’s?
	He could not go to the movies or eat at a restaurant.
	He could not go to schools with Anglo children.

13B. What evidence helped you answer 13B?

14A. Which sentence below uses the word vision the same way as the following passage? “that vision grew from my own experience with racism,” (Chavez 30)
	Cesar Chavez had 20/20 vision so he could see well.
	Cesar Chavez had a goal to see the Hispanics treated well.

14B. What evidence helped you answer 14A?

15A. What is the correct evidence to support Chavez claim: Child labor is still common in many farm areas.
	“This dream was born in my youth, it was nurtured in my early days
 of organizing.” (Chavez 25-26)
“Some 800,000 underage children work with their families harvesting
 crops across America.” (Chaves16-17)

15B. What evidence helped you answer 15A?

16A. What is the correct format for citing evidence from the text, “Commonwealth Club Address?”

	(chavez Line 13-15)	OR	(Chavez line 13-15)    OR	 (Chavez 13-15)

16B. What evidence helped you answer 16A?

Friday

17A.  What does Chavez mean when he shares the following passage? “Farm workers are not agricultural implements; they are not beasts of burden to be used and discarded.” (Chavez 24-25)

	Chavez means farm workers are humans, not tools or animals, that can be used and 
then thrown out when the harvest is finished.
Chavez means that farm workers need a lot of tools to keep the vicious rats away and
when dead animals are found, they should be thrown away.

17B. What evidence helped you answer 17A? 

18A. What is the author’s tone (his feelings) in the following passage? “Farm workers are not agricultural implements; they are not beasts of burden to be used and discarded.” (Chavez 24-25)

		Chavez is accepting toward the treatment of migrant farm workers.
		Chavez is humiliated by the treatment of migrant farm workers.

18B. What evidence helped you answer 18A?

19A. When Cesar Chavez speaks about his personal life as a migrant farm worker, is he considered a Primary Source or a Secondary Source?

		Primary Source    OR    Secondary Source

19B. What evidence helped you answer 19A?

20A. When Cesar Chavez speaks about the Bracero car accident, is he considered a Primary Source or a Secondary Source?

20B. What evidence helped you answer 20A?