Asked by bill

Read this excerpt about activist Dolores Huerta.

When Dolores Huerta became an activist, she had already been married and divorced, had children, and had begun a new career as a schoolteacher.

Her students were the children of farm workers. They came to school barefoot and hungry. She wanted to do more to help them. So she quit her teaching job to help their parents fight for better working conditions.

How does this excerpt help seventh graders make a personal connection to Huerta’s story?

by connecting readers to her family
by connecting readers to her students
by connecting readers to her teaching career
by connecting readers to her farm work

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by connecting readers to her students

The excerpt describes Huerta’s students—children of farm workers who came to school barefoot and hungry—so seventh graders can relate to being students and empathize with those children, which makes her motivation personal and understandable.