Middle School 101


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Middle School 101


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"Offers a compilation of teaching techniques that have worked for the author over the years. It can help a new middle school teacher with techniques and new ideas, and it can help a veteran middle school teacher adopt, modify or reflect on his/her current practice."--Publisher.




Middle School: Hollywood 101


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Just when school was at its suckiest, things take a turn for the better when a cool, mysterious new girl shows up. Not only that, she actually wants to be my friend! But, you guessed it, things aren’t that simple. And when HOLLYWOOD suddenly rolls into Hills Village, things get very weird very fast. Somehow, unbelievably, I, Rafe Katchadorian, am in the movie business... HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD!




Making Connections in Elementary and Middle School Social Studies


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Making Connections in Elementary and Middle School Social Studies, Second Edition is the best text for teaching primary school teachers how to integrate social studies into other content areas. This book is a comprehensive, reader-friendly text that demonstrates how personal connections can be incorporated into social studies education while meeting the National Council for the Social Studiese(tm) thematic, pedagogical, and disciplinary standards. Praised for its eoewealth of strategies that go beyond social studies teaching,e including classroom strategies, pedagogical techniques, activities and lesson plan ideas, this book examines a variety of methods both novice and experienced teachers alike can use to integrate social studies into other content areas.




Friendship List #1: 11 Before 12


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Fans of Lauren Myracle and Wendy Mass will love acclaimed author Lisa Greenwald’s new series about two best friends who kick-start middle school with a bucket list of eleven things they need to do to become AMAZING before their joint twelfth birthday party. The first day of middle school means trading in freeze tag at the pool for new schedules, fabulous outfits, and a fresh start. But for eleven-year-old Kaylan, the chaos of new locker combinations, cafeteria cliques, and potential first kisses is more than she can handle. She dreads the start of sixth grade and feels like she wants—no, needs—a winning game plan. Luckily, Kaylan and her effortlessly chill BFF, Arianna, have a fool-proof plan for tackling transitions: a list of eleven things they need to do to totally transform themselves before they both turn twelve in November. But between making guy friends, getting detention (and makeovers!), helping humanity, and having super-candid conversations with their moms about their flaws, the first 100 days of school turn out worse than Kaylan ever imagined. Kaylan and Ari forget to focus on their friendship and soon their loyalty to the list—what was meant to help them keep it together—becomes the very thing tearing their lives apart.




Chicken Soup for the Soul: Teens Talk Middle School


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With 101 stories geared just for middle schoolers, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Teens Talk Middle School offers great support and inspiration for ages eleven to fourteen. Middle school is a tough time. And this “support group in a book” is specifically geared to those younger teens -- the ones still worrying about puberty, cliques, discovering the opposite sex, and figuring out who they are. Stories cover regrets, lessons learned, love and “like,” popularity, friendship, divorce, illness and death, embarrassing moments, bullying, and finding a passion.




101 Monologues for Middle School Actors


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This book was written specifically for middle school performers about topics they can relate to in a language style they understand. A wide variety of topics allows young actors to choose from either humorous or dramatic selections.




101 No-Prep Curriculum-Aligned Research Projects for Middle School Grades 5-8


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This workbook contains 101 research projects designed to build students' critical thinking and research skills. Projects cover all core subject areas: science, math, history, geography, language arts, social studies, art and technology. Each printable project-page contains all the information students need for in-depth learning and skill development. Projects can be selected in any order that suits your requirements. An important part of research is checking the validity and credibility of your information sources. Every project in this book prompts students to list the sources they used. The book also includes a checklist for evaluating the credibility of internet sources. Encourage your students to use this checklist for all sources of information. Project-based worksheets not only build critical thinking and research skills, they also build core grammar, vocabulary and writing skills. Your students won't realize how many skills they are building while having fun! Get started right now and make learning fun! Suitable for middle school students grade 5-8.




Art Teacherin' 101


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Art Teacherin' 101 is a book for all elementary art teachers, new and seasoned, to learn all things art teacherin' from classroom management, to taming the kindergarten beast, landing that dream job, taking on a student-teacher, setting up an art room and beyond. It's author, Cassie Stephens, has been an elementary art teacher for over 22 years and shares all that she's learned as an art educator. Art teachers, home school parents and classroom teachers alike will find tried and true ways to make art and creating a magical experience for the young artists in their life.




Middle School: G'day, America


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Watch out Hills Village, the Aussies are coming! Rafe Khatchadorian is back in his home town and to be honest, things are pretty boring. But that’s before Kasey, his friend from Down Under arrives and before Sidney Harberbridge, a fully-fledged Aussie hipster sets up a coffee shop slash record store slash yoga studio. Rafe uses his Australian experience to wangle a part-time job at Sid’s exotic new joint and ten seconds later he’s the lead singer in a band. A band led by none other than Miller the Killer! What could possibly go wrong . . . Will Rafe end up a rock god, or will he hit rock bottom?