A Teaching Guide based on Traders in Time by Janie Lynn Panagopoulos guide by Jean Shafer, Ph.D. softcover 31 pages 1993

Linking Fact and Fiction in The Fur Trade (A Teaching Guide based on Traders In Time)

Janie Lynn Panagopoulos

River Road Publications

Chris scoffs at his younger brother's enthusiasm for collecting rocks-particularly one Nick thinks is shaped like a turtle-and generally thinks that the eight-year-old is something of a wimp. But Chris's attitude is dramatically changed as the brothers suddenly find themselves trapped at dusk in a deep forest with eighteen-century fur traders. With the help of his turtle warrior rock and his new friends, Meggie La Framboise and her assistant LeClaire, Nick saves Chris from the clutches of an evil trader named McDougal. But the boys' adventures have only begun as they flee from McDougal to an Odawa Indian camp and then on to Mackinac Island. Traders in Time vividly portrays the variety of people involved in the fur trade and brings to life the sights, smells, and drama taking place along the shores of Lake Michigan and at Fort Mackinac in the late 1700s.

Traders in Time: A Dream-Quest Adventure

Teen & Young Adult

Historical Fiction

Journey back to Lumberjack Camp (Teaching Guide)

Ph.D. Jean Shafer

River Road Publications: Spring Lake, Michigan

Journey Back to Lumberjack Camp

"This is so unfair," laments Gus McCarty. The twelve-year-old struggles at school with an obnoxious classmate named Al, then is reeled back in time to a lumberjack camp where he must work with an equally troublesome boy named Alex. Adding to Gus's misery are the rugged lumberjacks who think he has a lot to learn about being a real jack. During his misadventures Gus has hilarious encounters with a three-legged cat, an army of lice, and the intimidating lumberjacks. In spite of Gus's troubles he learns much about lumbering, and eventually earns the respect of even the meanest 'jack in camp. But just as things are looking up, Gus has to face his most frightening opponent.

Children's Books

Erie Trail West: A Dream-Quest Adventure

An eleven-year-old New York farm girl travels with her parents to the Michigan Territory in 1836 by way of the Erie Canal, encountering unknown dangers and incredible hardships.

River Road Pubns

As Robert Pacquette interviews an old iron miner for his history report, he is swept back into the life of Robert Friggens, a boy from Albany, New York who travels to Michigan's Upper Peninsula in the mid-1800s. The son of one of the first doctors in the area, Robert meets a variety of colorful characters including Michael Shane, a rough but likable ex-miner. Michael takes Robert with him by dogsled to Green Bay, Wisconsin, where they collect the mail for the mining settlement at Marquette. When Michael is injured and his replacement never arrives, Robert must travel alone on the wilderness trail back to Marquette. To add to his trouble, he is pursued by a thief. And who is that mysterious Indian? Is he a friend or an enemy?

North to Iron Country

The Runes of Isle Royale: A Great Lakes Adventure in History and Mystery

Little Ship Under Full Sail

During the Civil War Grandmother Kinzie welcomes her grandchildren to Chicago from Savannah, Georgia. To comfort the children she shares with them the true story of their great-grandmother, Nellie Lytle, who was captured by the Seneca Indians during the American Revolution. Only a child at the time, Nellie shows such strength and determination that her captors soon name her Little Ship Under Full Sail. Nellie faces many challenges beyond her traumatic and agonizing capture. With the help of a Seneca chief, Cornplanter, the chief's mother, and a young Indian friend, she learns to live in a new culture and overcome the grief of separation from her family. As time goes by Nellie bonds with her new family and becomes a "true" Seneca. But the problems are still not over as Nellie endures a serious illness and the treachery of a family member. Then, just as she celebrates her life as a beautiful you woman eligible for marriage, a visitor arrives in the village, and Nellie faces a heart-wrenching decision. In which world does she really belong if she is faced with a choice?

Geography & Cultures

River Road Publication, Inc

Makow is not yet, a man, but he is caught up in the angry crowd and the words of war against the English by the great warrior Pontiac. But Makow's mother has an unusual friendship with the English and teaches that peace is better than war. She instructs Makow's grandfather to leave their lodge near Fort Detroit and take her son for his vision-quest near their ancestral home. As Makow and his grandfather rush to escape the impending conflict. Makow is stunned by a new revelation-that he has a twin brother that was separated from the family as an infant. In the journey that follows, Makow finds out more about his past and learns the meaning of his name and its connection to his lost brother. In his confusion and rage, he interrupts his vision-quest and joins a group of young warriors who are headed to another battle with the English at Fort Michilimackinac. Packed with adventure and woven with intricate relationships, Mark of the Bear Claw is one of the best in Janie Lynn Panagopoulos' impressive list of historical novels.

Mark of the Bear Claw

River Road Pubblications

This heartfelt story begins on the streets of New York City in 1854 where thousands of homeless children, immigrants and natives are fighting to survive just one more day. Charles Loring Brace, founder of the Children's Aid Society, made a plan to rescue the children by getting them out of the city to loving rural homes in America's growing Midwest. The first location to accept these homeless children is Dowagiac, Michigan, a railroad whistle-stop on the track-line to Chicago. You will experience the hope, fear and excitment as you travel with Jack, Sarah, little George and 42 other orphans on their way to new faraway homes and better lives. Traveling by train across New York state, crossing Lake Erie by steamship and then on to Detroit to board another train, these children cling to one another for safety and survival trying hard to keep themselves together and clean in their filthy flea-ridden travel conditions.

A Faraway Home: An Orphan Train Story

History

Americas

EDCO Publishing, Inc.

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