Transcript Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Elizabeth Ingalls
Wilder
By: Anita Lam
Early Childhood
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Born: February 7, 1867
Where: Near Pepin, Wisconsin
Traveled a lot
Age 8 went to school
Mother taught in winter
Family
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Older sister Mary Amelia
Younger sisters: Caroline “Carrie” , Grace
Younger brother: Charles Fredrick
Mary blind from scarlet fever
Pa: Charles Ingalls
Ma: Caroline Quiner Ingalls
Laura: Died Febuary 10, 1957
Carrie,Mary,Laura
Life as a Writer
• Wanted to share her life
• Her daughter Rose, a writer, inspired her
to write
• Rose was a newspaper writer in San
Francisco
Some Books She Had
Written
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Little House In The Big Woods- April 1932
Farmer Boy- 1933
Little House on the Prairie- 1935
These Happy Golden Years – 1943
Awards She Won
Won Newbery Honor Award:
● On the Banks of Plum Creek-1938
• By the Shores of Silver Lake-1940
• The Long Winter-1941
• Little Town on the Prairie-1942
My Favorite Books
Little House in the Big Woods because:
• Makes me seem like I’m in there
The First Four Years because:
• Funny
Little House on the Prairie because:
• Exciting
●Very tense
Literary Elements
Little House in
the Big Woods
Laura, Ma, Pa
Literary
Elements
Characters
The bullet was Indirect
too hot to
Characterizatouch. But
tion
Laura could not
help touching it
Little House on
the Prairie
Laura, Ma, Pa
Laura
swallowed hard
to keep from
crying
Little House in
the Big Woods
Cheery, and
comfortable
They learned to
adapt to the
woods.
Can’t I go out to
play Ma” “May
Laura,”
Said Ma.
Little House
on the Prairie
Atmosphere
Dangerous
Climax
The dog Jack got
lost while
crossing the
Mississippi.
Dialogue
Pa said to Ma:
“Take your time
Caroline. We
won’t move till we
want to,”
Little House in the
Big Woods
The air was cold
and frosty the
light was gray.
Little House on
the Prairie
Imagery
Motivation
Third Person
Point Of View
The gophers was
as soft as velvet.
To settle in the
west.
Third Person
Little House in
the Big Woods
The merry life
in a little log
cabin in the big
woods.
Little House on
the Prairie
Brief Plot
Moving west in a
prairie
schooner. And
then settling
there.
Conclusion
The books she wrote taught me a lot.
Like how life was moving west, and what
tools they used such as a butter churn.
She taught me everyday is an adventure.
Her life traveling around inspired me to
travel a lot and to try new things. Laura
helped teach me things and change some
things in my life.
Bibliography
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Wadsworth, Ginger. Laura Ingalls Wilder
Storyteller of the Prairie. New York, NY:
Library of Congress,1997.Print.
Anderson, William. A Biography of Laura Ingalls
Wilder. New York, NY: Harper Collins
Publishers, 1992. Print.