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Interpret the Text using Close Reading
Learning Targets
• Draw and support inferences from a close reading of the text. PI.8.6b
• Analyze theme and how it is communicated through a close reading of dialogue,
connotative language, and events. PI.8.6a
• Apply understanding of how a speech is structured. PII.8.1
• Apply understanding of how writers and speakers use language to support ideas and arguments. PI.8.7
Read and annotate
Read the Address by Cesar Chavez, President United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO and annotate the text as you read.
■ Use the My Notes area to write questions or ideas you have about the speech. ■ Underline specific evidence that uses appeals to logos (reason).
■ Put a star next to evidence that appeals to pathos (emotion).
■ Put an exclamation mark next to the call to action.
■ Circle unknown words and phrases.
Address by Cesar Chavez, President United Farm Workers of America, AFl-Cio Pacific Lutheran University
March 1989, Tacoma, Washington
1 What is the worth of a man or a woman? What is the worth of a farm worker? How do you measure the value of a life?
2 Ask the parents of Johnnie Rodriguez.
3 Johnnie Rodriguez was not even a man; Johnnie was a five year old boy when he
died after a painful two year battle against cancer.
4 His parents, Juan and Elia, are farm workers. Like all grape workers, they are exposed to pesticides and other agricultural chemicals. Elia worked in the table grapes around Delano, California until she was eight months pregnant with Johnnie.
5 Juan and Elia cannot say for certain if pesticides caused their son’s cancer. But neuroblastoma is one of the cancers found in McFarland, a small farm town only a few miles from Delano, where the Rodriguezes live.
6 “Pesticides are always in the fields and around the towns,” Johnnie’s father told us. “The children get the chemicals when they play outside, drink the water or when they hug you after you come home from working in fields that are sprayed.
7 “Once your son has cancer, it’s pretty hard to take,” Juan Rodriguez says. “You hope it’s a mistake, you pray. He was a real nice boy. He took it strong and lived as long as he could.”
8 I keep a picture of Johnnie Rodriguez. He is sitting on his bed, hugging his Teddy bears. His sad eyes and cherubic face stare out at you. The photo was taken four days before he died.
ACTIVITY 3.3
My notes
Unit 3 • The Challenge to Make a Difference • Part 3: Address by Cesar Chavez 123
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