We Fed Them Cactus by Fabiola Cabeza de Baca

Choose ONE of the questions below. Answer the question using evidence from the book. Use specific details from at least three different parts of the book to make your case. Try to organize your essay around two or three major points.

What was ranching like in the region where Cabeza de Vaca lived?
Look for passages about herd animals and the people who did the work.

What role did the land and environment play in the lives of the people?
Consider the landforms, as well as weather and even the animals

How did people spend their leisure time?
Look for passages where people are not working

How did men’s and women’s lives differ?
Consider work, community roles, and life expectations

Requirements:

Your papers should be at least 600-hundred words long but no more than 1500.
Have an argument in the introduction that answers the question.
Use correct spelling and grammar. (10 percent of grade).

Tips:

Put quoted material in quotations marks.

Put the page number of the quote in parenthesis.

EX: “Gabriel prayed for mercy, but Silva had none” (p. 101).

Do not use quotes longer than two sentences.

Use specific language and details.

“That one time it snowed a lot.”

VS.

“The blizzard of 1916 dropped a foot of snow and trapped the kids in the schoolhouse.”

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Your introduction should answer the question as well as provide basic information about the time and place. Your other paragraphs should be focused around one idea that supports your answer to the question. If you argue that the weather is one thing that impacts their lives, you should have a supporting paragraph focused on the weather.