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fruits and vegetables sold to grocery stores. With your group, make. 3-5 observations of
what you notice about the pictures.
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weekly newspaper. This week, they decided to run a feature about the life of
a migrant farm worker. While reading, underline the clues that help you
infer the lifestyle of migrant farm workers during the 1930's, and help you
support your group's hypothesis.
Young Migrant Workers Toil in U.S. Fields
By
\@ Source: Scholastic News Online
Santos Polendo
“remembers his first day of work like it was yesterday. He was just 6 years old,
“tad blisters on my hands, My back was hurting. My head was hurtin
thought I was going to make that my life.”
Yet, for the past 10 summers, backbreaking farmwork has been part of Santos's life and that
of some 800,000 other children in the U.S, The same poveriyythat drove young Santos into
the onion fields of Texas continues to push generations of other American children into.a,
similar life of hard labor.
Migrant children travel with their families throughout the United States to workin agriculture,
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‘They joumey Wom state to state, from one farm to the next, following the crop harvests.
They toil, day in and day out, on America’s farms, to help their struggling families survive.
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Santos, however, is eager to break that cycle of unending labor. With the help of
organizations like Motivation, Education, and Training (MET), an organization that services.
more than-{ million migrants in 48 states, Santos and thousands of other migrant children
may no longer haye to drag their weary bodies out into the fields.
"We have tutors and instructors here that help migrant children with their assignments,"
says Roberto Oliveras, MET Youth Coordinator in Eagle Pass. "We provide field trips to
college campuses. We tell them through education, through studies, they will be able to do
other things, have other choices of jobs. They, don't have to be out in the fields, They. don't,