Laura Elizabeth Laura Elizabeth Ingalls WilderIngalls Wilder

Laura Elizabeth Laura Elizabeth Ingalls WilderIngalls Wilder

By: Anita LamBy: Anita Lam

Early Childhood• Born: February 7, 1867• Where: Near Pepin, Wisconsin• Traveled a lot• Age 8 went to school• Mother taught in winter

Family• 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

• Little House In The Big Woods- April 1932

• Farmer Boy- 1933• Little House on the Prairie- 1935• These Happy Golden Years – 1943

Awards She WonWon 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 BooksLittle House in the Big Woods because:• Makes me seem like I’m in thereThe First Four Years because:• FunnyLittle House on the Prairie because:• Exciting●Very tense

Literary Elements

Little House in the Big Woods

Literary Elements

Little House on the Prairie

Laura, Ma, Pa Characters Laura, Ma, Pa

The bullet was too hot to touch. But Laura could not help touching it

Indirect Characteriza-tion

Laura swallowed hard to keep from crying

Little House in the Big Woods

Cheery, and comfortable

Atmosphere

Dangerous

They learned to adapt to the

woods.

Climax The dog Jack got lost while

crossing the Mississippi.

Can’t I go out to play Ma” “May

Laura,” Said Ma.

Dialogue Pa said to Ma: “Take your time Caroline. We won’t move till we want to,”

Little House on the Prairie

Little House in the Big Woods

Little House on the Prairie

The air was cold and frosty the light was gray.

Imagery The gophers was as soft as velvet.

Motivation To settle in the west.

Third Person Point Of View Third Person

Little House in the Big Woods

The merry life in a little log cabin in the big woods.

Brief Plot Moving west in a prairie schooner. And then settling there.

Little House on the Prairie

ConclusionThe 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.

Bibliography1. Wadsworth, Ginger. Laura Ingalls Wilder

Storyteller of the Prairie. New York, NY: Library of Congress,1997.Print.

2. Anderson, William. A Biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder. New York, NY: Harper Collins Publishers, 1992. Print.