If you are studying at home and love wolves, here’s some bonus content for middle grade students who liked A Wolf Called Wander.
Here are the resources I referenced in the video. If you are looking for information about animals of the world, national geographic has a terrific website for kids. For information about Oregon animals and habitats try the Oregon Dept of Fish and Wildlife.
If you want to look at some wolves and track their behavior like a wildlife biologist does, you could follow this link to the Wolf Conservation Center in New York where they have some wolves you can watch on wildlife cameras. bit.ly/34ulJH4 will take you there.
And finally if you want to write me a letter, you can reach me at the bookstore where I work: Annie Blooms Books, 3834 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland, Oregon 97219. I promise I’ll write back and send you a signed bookplate.
Thank you so much for talking to the students in our middle school class about Wander and how Journey inspired the story. The 18 of them just left zoom to make Story Maps of important events in the lives of the other 170 adult wolves and their pups living in Oregon. It meant so much to wake up after the long weekend and find you on YouTube teaching from your treehouse. Your kind words about the president who taught himself by reading spoke to their hearts, too. Thanks for understanding and supporting teachers like me and these amazing young people who through sheer will and choice are teaching themselves and others the most important lessons ever learned. Thanks for doing what you love, and meeting young people where they are at. One student shared, “I am reading that book right now and I am halfway through.” I hope one day the book will be required reading for every 6th grade Outdoor School student in Oregon! It is such a great book though they will likely read it anyway. Thank you very much!
Thank you Susan for getting in touch. I’m a Beaverton school district grad and all my kids graduated from the BSD too. We are so grateful for the excellent teachers and librarians who helped us along the way. I love the idea of WOLF being a book connected with Outdoor School. It was a new program when i was a 6th grader but it definitely shaped my thinking as an adult about the planet and my place on it.