Dolores Huerta has worked hard most of her life to help other people. She has helped change things so that farm workers can have a better life. Dolores grew up in California. She was a good student and liked school. After she finished high school, she went to college and studied to be a teacher. After she became a teacher, Dolores noticed that many of her students were not getting enough food to eat. Some of them wore very old clothes. Dolores wondered how she could help them. Dolores decided to stop teaching so that she could spend more time helping the farm workers and their families. One thing she wanted to do was to get more pay for farm workers so they could buy their children the things they needed. Dolores knew that many farm workers moved often from one place to another to help pick different kinds of fruits and vegetables. She began talking and writing about these workers. Even people who lived far from California read what Dolores wrote. Getting higher pay for the farm workers was not easy. Dolores worked hard to make sure that farm workers got good pay for their work. She knew that nothing would change unless people made new laws to help the workers. Through all her hard work, new laws were made that gave farm workers good pay. Dolores Huerta has worked for more than 30 years in many different ways to make life better for working people. She has shown how much one person can change things.

Answer this series of questions:

1. Was getting higher wages for the workers easy?
2. But did someone make it happen?
3. Who?
4. She thought nothing would change unless what new things were made?
5. Were new laws made?
6. How many years did Dolores invest in helping the workers?
7. Where was she raised?
8. Did she do good in school?
9. Did she enjoy going?
10. Did she finish high school?
11. Where did she go after that?
12. What did she study to be?
13. What were many of her students not getting enough of?
14. What were their clothes like?
15. Did Dolores quit her job?
16. Why?
17. Why did she want the workers to make more money?
18. Do farm workers travel from place to place?
19. So they can do what?
20. Did she write about the farm workers?
1. No
2. Yes
3. Dolores Huerta
4. New laws to help the workers.
5. Yes
6. More than 30 years
7. California
8. Yes
9. Yes
10. Yes
11. College
12. A teacher
13. Food
14. Very old
15. Yes
16. So she could spend more time helping the farm workers
17. So they could buy their children the things they needed
18. Yes
19. To pick fruits and vegetables
20. Yes