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Author(s): Kara Van Dyke

Introduction
Hello Students! As you all know, we are now in the middle of reading the text Esperanza Rising! This webquest will allow you to dive deeper into issues involved within the story and learn more about Esperanza's culture, country and life experiences! This webquest will help you better understand the reasons for Esperanza's state of distress when she is forced to move from Mexico to the United States. Be prepared to come along on Esperanza's life changing journey!

Task
Students, your overall task is to learn more about Esperanza's country (Mexico) and her reasons for being forced to move to the United States to find work. Your main and end goal is to be able to compare and contrast Esperanza's life in Mexico versus her life in the United States. Some of you will be researching general topics about the United States and Mexico. Some of you will be researching Great Depression and the reasons for it. Some of you will be researching migrant camps and the reasons for them.

After all groups have completed and presented their product, we should all have great background knowledge about Esperanza's situation. After reading the text and researching through this webquest on your assigned topic, you will create a product showing the knowledge that you have gained. You will create a 15 slide power point presentation over your assigned topic.

The Process

Students, you are now ready to get started with your webquest. Make sure that you read your directions carefully. As you will see, you are given links to websites that you are to look at and review. These sites will be vital in the creation of your final product that you chose to complete. Get Ready, Set and GO! Good Luck!

First, you will now get into your assigned groups. The group that you are in determines which topic you will be researching. Groups will be named and assigned in class time. Plan on sitting and researching with your group for the rest of the week!

Group 1:

Students in Group 1 are assigned the topic of the Great Depression. The following websites are great references. Read and take notes for your final product that you chose to create!
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Group 2: Students who are in Group 2 are assigned the topic of researching Mexico versus the United States of America. There is obviously tons of information about major differences between these two countries. The following are some great websites to help you create your final product!
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Group 3: Students who are in Group 3 will be responsible for researching Migrant Camps. Below are websites that should guide you in note-taking to form your final product!
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The Evaluation

Your group will be given one grade based on the level of performance in the following areas shown on the rubric below.

Objectives	Beginning (1)	Developing (2)	Accomplished (3)	Exemplary (4)
Accurate knowledge and basic concepts shown in final product	Very little accurate information and lacking concepts	Some accurate information and some concepts shown	Adequate information and concepts	All very accurate with main ideas and concepts presented
Creative and well presented. (Professional, neat and original)	Unorganized and cluttered with other errors	Somewhat organized and prepared, yet still lacking neatness and appearance	Adequately professional and neat looking	Very neat, creative and put together in a way that is appealing and took time and effort from the group.
Group Presentation	Unprepared and inadequate summary for the topic that was researched	Somewhat unprepared with some summary of what you learned from your research	Adequately prepared with a basic summary of what was learned from the research	Very prepared, with clear summary of the main points you learned from research with involvement from all members of the group

The Conclusion

Students, you have now learned a great deal about Esperanza's experiences as well as extra information about Mexico and United States history, Migrant camps, and the Great Depression. These are all very important issues throughout history that obviously affected Esperanza's life a great deal. You now hold information that allows you to better connect to her journey from Mexico to the United States.

Mrs. Somech

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