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Commonwealth Club Address Paragraphs 6-18

Monday

1A. What does Cesar Chavez realize in the following passage? “I began to realize what other minority people had discovered; that the only answer, the only hope was in organizing.” (Chavez 39-40)
	Hispanics had to peacefully fight for their rights just like other minority
groups were doing.
	Hispanics will not be successful as they organize.

1B. What evidence helped you answer 1A?

2A. How does Chavez organize the following passage?
 “the only answer, the only hope was in organizing. More of us had to become citizens, we had to register to vote, and people like me had to develop the skills it would take to organize, to educate,
 to help empower the Chicano people.” (Chavez 40-42)

Cause and Effect	OR	Problem and Solution

2B. What evidence helped you answer 2A?

3A. When Cesar Chavez states, “I spent many years before we founded  the union learning how to work with people,” is he considered a Primary Source or a Secondary Source?

		Primary Source    OR    Secondary Source

3B. What evidence helped you answer 3A?

4A. Why does the author included the following passage?
 “successes in an era where Black Americans were just beginning to assert 
their civil rights and when political awareness among Hispanics was almost
non-existent.” (Chavez 45-46)

Chavez realized the Black community was not asserting themselves, 
so the Hispanic community should.
Chavez realized the Black community was asserting themselves, 
so the Hispanic community should assert themselves, too.

4B. What evidence helped you answer 4A?

Tuesday

5A. What is the meaning of the word union as it is used in paragraph 9 of Commonwealth Club Address?
An organized group of workers to protect their rights
Objects, in math, that belong to one or two sets

5B. Which phrase from paragraph 9 best helps clarify the meaning of the word union? 
	“a union like any other...produces for its members on the bread-and butter issues…” (Chavez 60)
	“a social movement, a civil rights movement-its something dangerous” (Chavez 58)

6A. What is the author’s main purpose for writing paragraph 8 in Commonwealth Club Address?
	To emphasize the pride of ancestry (relatives from the past) 
To emphasize the freedom of choice by all migrant farm workers

6B. Which sentence from Commonwealth Club Address best supports your answer to 6A?
1.	“How could we progress as a people while the farm workers, who symbolized our history in this land, were denied self-respect?” (Chavez 51-53)
2.	“How could our people believe that their children could become lawyers and doctors and judges and business people while this shame, this injustice, was permitted to continue?” (Chavez 53-56)

7A. Which two statements best describe the central ideas of Commonwealth Club Address?
1.	Migrant workers let themselves be victims.
2.	Farm workers lived a life without pride because they were humiliated.
3.	Babies born to migrant workers had a higher death rate. 
4.	Growers abused and exploited migrant farm workers.

7B. Which two segments (parts) from Commonwealth Club Address best support the answers above?
1.	“...farm workers allowed ourselves to become victims…” (Chavez 66)
2.	“We shared that common humiliation.” (Chavez 51)
3.	“Babies suffer 25% higher infant mortality rate...” (Chavez 18)
4.	“thousands of farm workers...are still waiting for their checks” (Chavez 135-137)

Wednesday Refer to Commonwealth Club Address to answer 10A-11B.

8A. Which statement best reflects the main theme from Commonwealth Club Address?
1.	The governor encouraged growers to break the law.
2.	Farm workers must continue to organize to improve their working conditions.

8B. Which two details from Commonwealth Club Address best support the answer of 8A?

9A. What two facts, from paragraph 8, would you select to support the claim, “All Hispanics are connected to the far workers’ experience?”

10A. What is the author’s tone of paragraph 7?

10B. Which two details from paragraph 7 helped you determine the author’s tone?

11A. What is your mood when you read paragraph 8?

11B. Which two details from paragraph 8 helped you determine your mood?