k*12 NCVA memoir Barrio Boy
Put the events of Barrio Boy in order.
Ernesto leaves his small Mexican Village and enters an American School (Lincoln School) in first grade not knowing any English.
Ms. Ryan helps them feel safe and a classmate conquers a sentence.
Ernesto receives private lessons from Miss Ryan and starts to enjoy learning English.
Ernesto makes friends and learns to be proud of his ethnicity.
Ernesto graduates with honors from first grade.
Ernesto and his mother meet the principal and he is taken to his first class feeling nervous.
Draw a line from the part of the plot pyramid to the events in Barrio Boy that match. (Use the sequencing activity above to help you if you are struggling.)