The Author's Guide to Orphan Train Rider: One Boy's True Story & We Rode the Orphan Trains, And the Common Core Standards
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Andrea Warren views her two non-fictions books about the orphan trains through the lens of the Common Core Standards, offering her insight as to how the books fulfill standards related to critical thinking, reading, speaking, and writing. She includes background history not in the books, and shares how she conducted research, interviewed the featured orphan train riders, found photos to illustrate her text, and then wrote the books. The guide includes many suggested exercises and reflective questions.
Andrea Warren
Andrea Warren says, "I'm always looking behind facts and dates in search of how extraordinary times impact ordinary people. I think the most engaging way to study history is by seeing it through the eyes of participants. Each of us wants to know, If that had been me at that time, in that place, what would I have done? What would have happened to me?" Among Warren's honors are the prestigious Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Orphan Train Rider: One Boy's True Story, which was also selected as an ALA Notable Book. She won the Midland Authors Award for Pioneer Girl. Growing Up on the Prairie. A former teacher and journalist, Warren writes from her home in the Kansas City suburb of Prairie Village, Kansas.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The orphan train riders is a fascinating part of our nation's history that I was unaware of. This shares the story of one child's experience of being an orphan and an orphan train rider. Fortunately, this specific orphan train rider eventually found a happy ending, however, this was not always the result for all orphan train riders. I was very surprised at the treatment children experienced during the 19th and early 20th century. I was aware children were treated poorly and like mini adults, but this book provided me with an insight. Also, I had no idea orphans were almost an epidemic situation as there were thousands of homeless children during this era.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book is about the life of a young boy whose mother dies and his father is too grief stricken to take care of the children. After being put in an orphanage he is sent on an orphan train with his two younger brothers to find a new family out west. Unfortunately, the boys are separated which makes the boy, Lee very unhappy. I thought this book was written quite well by switching chapters to refer to the history of the time and then back to Lee's specific story. I never even knew this was something that had happened until reading this book. It was a very sad story with a happy ending. The history in the story really makes you reflect on your own family.Classroom extension: I would the have the students do a research project to find other orphan train riders and write a short essay about the person they found.I would also have them do a writing exercise where they would write a short story describing something significant in their life.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5An amazing American event that is almost never shared in school.Aimed at children in grades 4-8, this book is brief but powerful. The story told here is gut-wrenching at times but ends on a positive note. Highly recommended for any age.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A short and informative true story about a child's experience as an Orphan Train Rider. While it was interesting, it doesn't go into much depth. I do think it's worth the read and is an important story. I'd also encourage others who want more detail to read Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline. It is a very touching piece of historical fiction that deals with the same subject matter over the span of a girl's life.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This book focuses on the life of 9 year old Lee whose father, unable to cope with his seven children after their mother's death, gave some of his children to the Children's Aid Society in NY while sending the older ones out into the world. Lee finds himself in an orphanage where he feels alone and angry at being separated from his siblings and father. Eventually Lee is picked to ride the orphan train, and after a few false starts, finds himself being placed in the care of benevolent and caring Ben and Ollie Nailling, with whom he finds a true home. And eventually reunites with his family who are still living. It portrays the lives of unwanted, abandoned, and homeless children who were supposed to get a second chance at life through the orphan trains. Many did find good homes but others were not as fortunate, finding themselves physically and sexually abused instead. I though Orphan Train Rider was a great read about a little known period in history. The book switched back and forth with each chapter from Lee's story in a narrative style to the history of the Orphan Trains. The pictures were a great addition to the story. I would definitely use this book in a middle school classroom as part of American History. Also, I could use this to talk about adoption since the Orphan Train was the beginning of adoption in the United States.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Andrea Warren has found a great way to explain the Orphan Trains to readers. She follows the story of one boy as he goes on his journey. As she points out in the books, many riders do not like to discuss this time period, so we are lucky to be reading this account. Following one person through this time period definitely makes the story more engaging and easy to follow. My only issue is that I felt like the story ended so suddenly. Lee was lucky to find a loving home and have his story wrapped up so well, but I wish readers could have been exposed to at least one depth story of a rider who did not find that happy ending. We get some brief asides about this, but nothing too thorough. The index and bibliography are useful, but brief. Warren is nice enough to point out which resources that she used are for younger readers.
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The Author's Guide to Orphan Train Rider - Andrea Warren
The Author's Guide to
Orphan Train Rider: One Boy's True Story
&
We Rode the Orphan Trains
And the Common Core Standards
by Andrea Warren
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A Word from Andrea Warren
I was a classroom teacher back when we were given a list of what to teach and an answer guide for the grammar quizzes, and then pretty much left alone. My department chair checked in with me occasionally but trusted me to do the job. I created my own lesson plans and gave my own tests. There was no district-wide testing.
Now I'm an author, writing books that you use in the classroom. Much has changed, not the least of which is the introduction of the CCSS. I see great value in them. I appreciate that students will be taking a hard look at how my books are constructed, whether I have a specific point of view toward my subject matter, and how the approaches taken by other writers to that subject matter compare to mine.
I've seen various study guides written by others about my works to help you teach my books. The problem is, the creators of those guides had no knowledge of the choices I made, how I conducted research, why I picked a certain photo to be in a book, or how I selected and interviewed the people in my books.
So I'm writing the guides for my books. This one, on my two orphan train books, lays out for you what I did, why I did it, how my books meet the Common Core State Standards, and suggested exercises. I hope you'll find it valuable.
All best to you and your students,
Andrea Warren
Andrea@AndreaWarren.com
Why I Wrote About the Orphan Trains
I grew up in tiny Newman Grove, Nebraska, where most of the townspeople (though not my family) were Scandinavian immigrants or their descendants. Orphan trains had stopped in many towns in that area, and I knew of several riders who were the ages of my parents or grandparents. Like the folks they settled in with, the riders were from someplace else and were starting over-a readily-accepted notion in that part of the country. When I became the adoptive mother of a baby orphaned by the Vietnam War, I remember thinking that my new daughter was our orphan train rider: we took her on faith, knowing literally nothing about her, and we were certain all would be well.
I had left eleven