Biography: Harvesting Hope The Story of Cesar Chavez

This book talks about a great man, Cesar Chavez who was a very important person during the civil rights movement. The book begins to speak about his childhood and how he was very shy and soft spoken in school. On his first day of school he wanted to sit beside his sister, but when the teacher moved him, he flew out the door and ran home. Soon after Cesar started to go to school, there was a drought in Arizona causing his to move to California. They didn't have much money and some nights they had to stop along the road to pick up dandelions to eat. In the story, when he went to school the teacher made him a where a sign that read "I am clown, I speak Spanish. Instead of trying to help him she made him feel even worse. He was a migrant worker, so like the other migrants they were scared when outsiders came around. Cesar knew that something had to change. This is what brought about the National Farm Workers Association. Seeing that Cesar Chavez was actually a part of the Civil Rights Movement, he would be a great person to talk about to the students. I would do a skit in front of the class and label the students so that they could feel how Cesar must have felt.