Days of Terror

Daily Oral LanguageWeek 1

Sentence 1

barbara claassen smucker childrens fiction writer and librarian wrote the book days of terror after developing a keen interest in the stories of the russian mennonites escape from persecution following the communist takeover

Sentence 2

days of terror won the ruth schwartz foundation childrens book award and the canada council childrens literacy award in 1980

Sentence 3

the barbara smucker manuscript collection is housed in the kerlan collection at the university of minnesota and in the doris lewis rare book room at the university of waterloo

Sentence 4

in this story peter neufeld and his family come from russia to canada in the 1920s seeking religious freedom

Sentence 5

they are fictitious characters but the story of peter and his family did happen to many real people and their russian village of tiegen was like many villages that once existed on the steppes of the ukraine in south russia