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Laura Ingalls WilderA modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
On the western frontier, being self-sufficient was not just a choice but a necessity for survival. How does the Ingalls family display self-sufficiency throughout the story? What skills do they have to be self-reliant? Consider these points as you reflect on the text to answer the question.
Teaching Suggestion: Before the discussion, readers might benefit from a vocabulary lesson on key terms like “self-sufficiency,” “self-reliant,” and “homesteading.” To guide the discussion, you may wish to address each family member’s self-sufficiency separately. You could also structure the examples of self-sufficiency by seasons; this would help students find specific examples from the text. After this analysis question, you may wish to relate the Ingalls family’s experiences to the broader context of the American frontier and how self-sufficiency was a cornerstone of frontier life.
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