Good news! Principal Clarkson says Grape is ready for junior high. He doesn't have to go to Riverwash, the school for troubled kids! But there's also bad news. Grape's best friend, Lou, has moved to New York, leaving Grape alone to ride his Evel Knievel bike, sail with his family, and start his bar mitzvah training--all this while navigating a new school with new teachers, and, of course, the "spiders" in his brain. To make matters worse, Clair, Grape's crush, has eyes on Maxwell, the new kid with feathered hair. Sherman and Bully Jim provide some company, but it's his bond with Heidi--a wheelie-popping, cigarette-smoking foster kid--that teaches him what matters most in life. Full of hilarity and sadness, confusion and love, Grape, Again! is an unforgettable coming-of-age story.
Curriculum guide to teaching about the world's more prominent religions to help students achieve a greater tolerance of different cultures for grade 6 but coudl be used in grades 5-8.
Curriculum guide to teaching about the world's more prominent religions to help students achieve a greater tolerance of different cultures for grade 6 but coudl be used in grades 5-8.
This friendly, and sometimes humorous, book addresses four areas of writing: composition, fiction, poetry, and writing in action. Composition lessons focus on skills such as word economy, transitions, sentence variety, and organization. Fiction lessons guide students through the writing of a story. Poetry explores forms such as haiku, sonnets, and free verse. Writing in Action includes business letters, news reports, technical writing, and more. Grade 6 and up.
This book will help you teach your middle years students how to take the pain out of writing an essay by turning the process into a series of easy steps. There are lots of opportunities to work with classmates. You will find pages to introduce the basic concepts of essay writing. Included are pre-writing activities such as brainstorming and research. This book will help students write a clear, well-structured, interesting essay, a piece that you and they will be proud.
This book is a guide for your middle years students to become familiar with the basic units of grammar. The book provides an introduction, which includes the definitions, key words, and examples. Then, each part of speech is defined, with tips for identification and practice activities. Next, different usage rules and exercises are provided for practice with these concepts. There are review pages at the back of the book.
This book contains two main sections, beginning with Semitic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and followed by the Indian religions of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Shikism. These are supplemented by a chapter on Taoism. The final chapter is activity based, dedicated to comparison and reflection. The book includes bibliography of relevant resource material. The themes are connected to the curriculum with activities in reading, writing, oral language, science, SOSE, maths, art and life skills.
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