Irena's Children (Young Readers' Edition) Chapter Questions & Answer Key

75+ PAGES OF QUESTIONS and ANSWERS!! This resource provides chapter context questions w/ answer key to aid in building a foundation for young readers in middle school utilizing Mary Cronk Farrell's adaptation of Irena's Children (originally written by Tilar J. Mazzeo). Use in class for reading comprehension or as a home school or independent book study activity. In total, 140 chapter context questions, critical thinking questions and a provided teacher answer key will help guide discussion as you read this tale of grit, perseverance, and selfless determination to help rescue children from the city of Warsaw amidst the backdrop of occupation and war in the 1940s. Following the real life story of Irena Sendler - the stories within this book capture the fight to save more than 2,500 children through cunning deception, dangerous forgery, and unfaltering bravery. A perfect resource for Women's History Month or to supplement a unit on World War II.

Included in this resource:
- Anticipation Guide
- 140 Chapter Questions & Critical Thinking Discussion Questions
- Teacher Answer Key

Irena’s Children is a story of selflessness, perseverance, grit, and determination in the face of some of life’s fiercest obstacles. Irena Sendler, amidst the backdrop of the Second World War and the Holocaust, joins a movement that is bigger than herself. With help from friends, she joins a network of dozens of Polish citizens whose goal it is to smuggle as many children from the Jewish Quarter of Warsaw to safety. In total, more than 2,500 children are stealthily taken out of occupied Warsaw and hidden in orphanages and in the households of supporters of the cause. Along the way, Irena makes sure that her children's identities are kept safe, written down and hidden from sight in hopes of reuniting families after the war.

This young readers edition of Irena’s Children shares the true harrowing tale of what historians have named “the female Oskar Schindler”. Using ingenuity, bravery, and some nerves of steel, Irena Sendler helped sneak out children in toolboxes, ambulances, coffins, sewers and secret passages. Her network of underground resistance helped ferry these children to safe houses, under new names. 

A little known story that is sure to inspire readers everywhere to stand up to injustice and advocate for those whose basic rights have been threatened or removed. Irena Sendler lived to the age of 98. Her grave is still visited in Poland by thousands each year including many of her “children”.

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