Collect Going West Translated By Jean Van Leeuwen Textbook

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s journey East to Kansas, Describes one family's journey west and the hardships they face in their new home Such a great story to bring early pioneer experience to life! Perfect as we construct our mini covered wagon models.
Heading West to settle the prairies is not as simple or easy as it seems!

Pioneer Prairie West Travel adventure Van Leeuwen, J,. Going West. New York: Puffin, Penguin,

Summary:
A young girl narrates her family as they move out West, through their trials and changes as they try to adjust to frontier life on the plains.


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Curriculum Connection:
Social Studies history:rd graders use chronology to organize historical events.
Students can begin by putting the events in this book in order, then matching the events to a map such as: sitelink historyglobe. com/ot/otmap or sitelink casperwyoming. info/downloa
Good ideas: sitelink isu. edu/digitalatlas/teac

Grades:main character isyrs old
Nice illustrations and wonderful westward ho story, Personal Reaction: I thought of Laura Ingalls Wilder right away, This book is relatable to the Little House books, I thought this book was full of information and is a good way for younger students to learn about the history of migrating to the west,

Purpose: Read aloud tostth grade, This is a great introduction to a history unit on migrating to the west, This book follows a pioneer family as they face challenges while traveling in a covered wagon, The illustrations in this book are very faint watercolors and I think this is important because it shows that is set in the olden days, This book includes everything an elementary student would need to know about "Going West", It explains how not everyone went and it was hard to leave their family and friends, and then moves on to what all they packed and how it was hard to fit everything in their one wagon.
It teaches the students that it was not an easy journey for pioneers to migrate west, At the end of this story it shows that it was beneficial in the end for these pioneers to move in order to survive with fresh crops and better living conditions.
This book is a must read to students when learning about history of pioneers, even Kansas history lesson would work with this book, good book to educate and intrigue younger people on the history of migrating west in america and the troubles that faced those people, A wonderful book that expresses the life of people moving west and the hardships they faced, Could definitely be used along with a social studies lesson on moving west and the historical events that happened and teaching children what it was exactly like, I have read this before! Its called “Little House on the Prairie, ” Shocking how similar the two are, This book reminded me of the script to Oregon Trail, Everything that happened in the video gamethat I could remember happened in the bookexcept no one died of dysentery, The pictures were nice and colorful and the story about finding a home in the

West was really beautiful, I would recommend it for anyone who wants to read more about pioneers in the Western United States, A good story with many facts about westward expansion woven in, River fording, planting, building a home The pictures are unique and very nice, a bit blurry, Teaches the importance of friends, family, and tradition, In this simple and beautifully written text, with its beautifully evocative illustrations, the story of a little family of young American pioneers unfolds, Young readers will be enthralled by this moving account of the awesome challenges faced by a pioneer family during their first hard year in the American West, Fullcolor illustrations. When I was growing up in the small town of Rutherford, New Jersey, I was always called a tomboy, That was because I loved riding bikes, climbing trees, and playing baseball with the boys in the neighborhood, When I finally came inside, I had another name: bookworm, I was seldom seen without a book in my hand, In the summertime, I would go to the library and come back with as many books as I could carry, I read by flashlight under the blankets when I was supposed to be sleeping, And I read in the car, even though it made me carsick,

I was especially fond of reading about certain subjects, For a long time, I wished very hard for a dog, so I read all the dog stories I could find, After I finally got a dog, I moved on to horse stories and mystery stories, By the time I was in sixth grade, I felt as if I'd read every single book in our small town library, That was when I decided to write my own book, It seemed like an easy thing to do, I got myself a notebook, sharpened some pencils, and went to work, At that point I was enthralled with Anna Sewell's Black Beauty, So I decided to write a book just like it,

Well, it turned out that writing a book wasn't quite as easy as I thought, By the time I got to the third chapter, I had run out of ideas for my story, And it didn't help that I didn't know anything at all about horses, I had never taken riding lessons or even been on a horse! So I put away my notebook and gave up my writing career at the age of eleven.


Later on, after studying journalism at Syracuse University, I moved to New York City and got a job in the children's book department of a publisher.
For my job I read lots of children's books and manuscripts, After awhile I decided that maybe I could try again to write a book, This time I was a little bit smarter, I wrote about things I knew about, and also took a writing class, Eventually, my first book, Timothy's Flower, was published,

Since then I have written more than fifty books, Many of them have been inspired by my own two children, David and Elizabeth, When they were very small, I didn't have much time for writing, The only free time in my day was when they were taking their naps, So I began to write little stories about what they were doing and saying, These stories grew into a book, Tales of Oliver Pig, Over the years, that first book has grown into a whole series of EasytoRead books about Oliver and Amanda Pig, Even though my children are now grownup, I still write from my memories of the fun we had together when they were young,

In recent years I have become very interested in American history, and especially how our country was settled, This interest has led me to begin writing historical fiction, I like writing different kinds of stories: funny ones and serious ones, fantasy and reallife, stories about animals and people, children today and children who lived a long time ago.
I enjoy writing for different age groups, from preschool to middle school,

Now I live in an old house in Chappaqua, New York, not far from New York City, When I am not writing, I teach a Writers' Workshop for adults and visit schools to talk about books, I also volunteer in a firstgrade classroom, where I help children with their writing, I enjoy working in my garden, playing tennis, and listening to music, And when I am not doing any of that, I like to read,

The truth is, I am still a bookworm,
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