Marven of the Great North Woods |
Publication Information
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Author: Lasky, Kathryn |
Illustrator: Hawkes, Kevin |
Title: Marven of the Great North Woods |
Date: 1997 |
Publisher: Harcourt Brace |
City: San Diego |
ISBN, paperback: 0-15-200104-2 |
ISBN, hardback: |
Recommended audience:
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ABE/ABLE:
Yes |
ESOL:
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Family:
Yes |
Young Adult:
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Picture:
Yes |
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General Information:
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Book Type(s):
easy reading, biography and autobiography, true story
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HSE Descriptor(s):
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Summary: |
Marven's immigrant Russian Jewish family sends him alone by train and by ski to a logging camp in Minnesota to escape the diphtheria epidemic in the city of Duluth. He finds a niche for himself in very different cultural surroundings through the friendship of a French Canadian logger. The author includes a note about the biographical origins of the story. |
Teaching Ideas: |
As an introduction to telling and writing family stories, the book makes a good read aloud with prediction strategies like DR-TA. Students interested in learning more about the diphtheria epidemic can do research in What the Doctor Ordered. Students could also compare and contrast Marven's experiences of personal relocation with the children of the Holocaust in The Lily Cupboard and in impoverished Appalachia in the story "Family Planning" in Choices. How do parents feel? How do children feel? Using the information in the author's note, students may want to speculate about how this experience affected Marven later in life. |
Teaching Strategies: |
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DR-TA: Directed Reading Thinking Activity
http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/dr_ta.pdf
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Fluency Activities
http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/fluency_activities.pdf
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