Read About Annie Oakley by Stephen Feinstein (24 pages; 1 book) #23
Feinstein, Stephen (2006). Read About Annie Oakley. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, Inc.
Awards: Eligible for Children’s Choice Award 2006
Feinstein, Stephen (2006). Read About Annie Oakley. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, Inc.
Awards: Eligible for Children’s Choice Award 2006
Grade Level: K-4 grades
Author Credibility: I could not find any information on Stephen Feinstein on how he prepares to write his biographies. However, I did find numerous biographies he has written along with the fact that he is a Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Wisconsin.
Summary/Response: This book is laid out in easy to read chapters with full page sepia photographs. The light green glossy pages set the tone for the time period. Annie Oakley was born Phoebe Ann Mosey in Ohio on August 13, 1860. She grew up hunting with her father where she learned to shoot. After her father’s death, Annie had to hunt for food to help feed the family. Annie entered a shooting contest and won. The person she defeated would soon become her husband. Annie and her husband Frank put together a traveling shooting act called Butler and Oakley. Later she joined Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. She traveled all over the world and became famous for her skills with a rifle. Annie later gave shooting lessons and continued to help people until her death in 1926.
National Standards: Language: Students read a wide range of print and nonprint texts to build an understanding of texts, of themselves, and of the cultures of the United States and the world; to acquire new information; to respond to the needs and demands of society and the workplace; and for personal fulfillment. Among these texts are fiction and nonfiction, classic and contemporary works.
Social Studies: Understands how the industrial revolution, increasing immigration, the rapid expansion of slavery, and the westward movement changed the lives of Americans and led toward regional tensions.
Illustrations: Sepia colored photographs, black and white photographs and drawings, primary source documents
Access Features: Words to Know, Table of Contents, Timeline, Learn More, Index
Related Texts: Read About Crazy Horse by Stephen Feinstein, Read About Abraham Lincoln by Stephen Feinstein- both of these lived in the time of Early U.S. History.
Classroom Use: This would be a wonderful addition to Social Studies. I teach Early U.S. History and this would be a great book to show how much women influenced the west.
2 comments:
The pairing of this book and the one you annotated on Calamity Jane would be perfect in a unit of influential women in history.
I would love to read this book. The first two biographies I remember reading were about Helen Keller and Annie Oakley. I was in the third grade. I've always been fascinated by both of their lives. In fact, I visited the Buffalo Bill Cody museum in Colorado last year. There was Annie Oakley memorabilia there. Sitting Bull really admired her and had a nickname for her (I can't think of it right now.)
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