Cesar Chavez, who co-founded the United Farm Workers (UFW) with Dolores Huerta in 1962, dedicated his life to grassroots organizing to persuade lawmakers and the public to help improve the working conditions of migrant farm workers. In October 1992, the author had been teaching a unit of study on civics to her sixth grade bilingual students in West Sacramento, California, about effects of pesticides on farm workers in the fields and on the environment. Many of her students had family members who were agricultural workers, so the topic was relevant to them. This article describes the writing activity that was part of the civics unit and the events that followed. (Contains 3 notes.)