Pancho

rabbit and
the coyote
By Sarah Shurm and Jenna Winter
What is the social justice in this book
- addressing is immigration.
- How immigrants often leave their home countries due to poverty, lack of
opportunities and sometimes violence.
- They come to the United States in hopes of work and a better life.
- Immigrants pay “coyotes” or person who help smuggle people across the US-Mexico
border thousands of dollars and risk their lives to reach their destination.
- Often known as victims of gang violence because they lack protection due to
their unauthorized status.
 How can use the book as a way to talk about
hope/social justice
- a method to talk to students about perseverance. Pancho is dedicated to finding his Papa and
fights through a variety of tricky situations in order to do so.
- Pancho is dedicated to being a hard working rabbit
- effectively shows the hardships, sense of Perseverance and ongoing hope that immigrant
families face.
- Since this lesson is being taught to a kindergarten class, we hope to use this book as a tool to
teach patience and the importance of fighting/standing up for what is right.
 Lesson plan explanation Post reading:
- Pancho took five things in his
Pre-reading:
backpack when he went to look for papa
- Teacher brings up immigration rabbit. (mole, rice, beans, tortillas,
- Ask students to give reason why people leave their country and aguamiel.
- Record on a class record (sheet of paper with overhead/smart board) - What would your five items be if
you had to pick?
- Let students examine the books’ cover and identify pancho and the coyote
- Make predictions

themes to point out during reading:

- Why does papa rabbit immigrate north?

- Point out spanish words
- Have students predict continuously what happen to papa? Was giving the
coyote food the right decision?
Acknowledgment: https://311jws.weebly.com/educators-page.html
 specific social justice described in our book
- Illegal immigration and the dangers
that immigrants face when trying to
come to the United States in hope for a
better life
- The hardships for the families
(emotionally)
- The determination from
 Ela standards
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.K.1: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.K.3: With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.K.4: Ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.K.7: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the
story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts).
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.K.10: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.K.1.a: Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., listening to others and taking turns
speaking about the topics and texts under discussion).
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.K.6: Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and
responding to texts.
Social justice standards
- Students will…
- express comfort with people who are both similar to and different from them
and engage respectfully with all people.
- respectfully express curiosity about the history and lived experiences of others
and will exchange ideas and beliefs in an open-minded way.
- examine diversity in social, cultural, political and historical contexts rather
than in ways that are superficial or oversimplified.
- recognize unfairness on the individual level (e.g., biased speech) and
injustice at the institutional or systemic level (e.g., discrimination).
 How our lesson empowers students
- Students will…
- encourage themselves and others around them to be a good person
- gain empathy for others - this can be connected to helping them express hope for the
future.
- be more aware and familiar with the unfair actions taken on individuals; especially
Mexican immigrants
-- be empowered
gain to be kindabout
more knowledge andimmigration
respectful and the many
rules and regulations that it entails
- Be introduced to methods remaining hopeful about social
justice issues
acknowledgements
https://npl.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/PanchoRabbit_LessonPlan.pdf