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  • Everything You Need to Ace English Language Arts in One Big Fat Notebook: The Complete Middle School Study Guide (Big Fat Notebooks)

    • ASIN: 0761160914
    • ISBN: 0761160914
    • Brand: Workman Publishing Company
    • Manufacturer: Workman Publishing Company

    It’s the revolutionary English language arts study guide just for middle school students from the brains behind Brain Quest.     Everything You Need to Ace English Language Arts . . .takes students from grammar to reading comprehension to writing with ease, including parts of speech, active and passive verbs, Greek and Latin roots and affixes;... [Read More]

  • Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing Up Latino in the United States (Spanish Edition)

    • ASIN: 1250016789
    • ISBN: 1250016789
    • Manufacturer: Square Fish

    Growing up Latino in America means speaking two languages, living two lives, learning the rules of two cultures. Cool Salsa celebrates the tones, rhythms, sounds, and experiences of that double life. Here are poems about families and parties, insults and sad memories, hot dogs and mangos, the sweet syllables of Spanish and the snag-toothed traps of... [Read More]

  • The Quickwrite Handbook: 100 Mentor Texts to Jumpstart Your Students' Thinking and Writing

    • ASIN: 0325098123
    • ISBN: 0325098123
    • Manufacturer: Heinemann

    Helping students put words on a page can be hard enough. "I don't have anything to write about!" they say. And when writing does happen, how do you help them develop these ideas into more effective pieces? A powerful tool to jumpstart writing In The Quickwrite Handbook, master teacher Linda Rief shares 100 compelling mentor texts and shows how to ... [Read More]

  • Seuss-isms! A Guide to Life for Those Just Starting Out...and Those Already on Their Way

    • ASIN: 0553508415
    • ISBN: 0553508415
    • Brand: Random House Kids
    • Manufacturer: Random House Books for Young Readers

    A New York Times bestseller, this collection of quotes from Dr. Seuss makes a perfect gift for graduation! The one and only Dr. Seuss dispenses invaluable advice about life in this collection of his most memorable quotes. With over sixty pages of cherished Seuss art and quotes from such classics as The Cat in the Hat, Horton Hatches the Egg, Green... [Read More]

  • Dramatizing Classic Poetry: For Middle and High School Students (Young Actors Series)

    • ASIN: 1575251558
    • ISBN: 1575251558
    • Brand: Brand: Smith Kraus
    • Manufacturer: Smith & Kraus

    Dramatizing Classic Poetry is an ideal way to involve students in classic literature and to integrate dramatization with the study of poems as literature. Written for teachers and recreational leaders with varying degrees of dramatic arts experience, tihs unique book contains: More than 50 classic poems scripted to dramatize in the classroom and on... [Read More]

  • Thank You for Arguing, Third Edition: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion

    • ASIN: 0804189935
    • ISBN: 0804189935
    • Brand: THREE RIVERS
    • Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press

    A master class in the art of persuasion, as taught by professors ranging from Bart Simpson to Winston Churchill, newly revised and updated. The time-tested secrets taught in this book include Cicero's three-step strategy for moving an audience to action, and Honest Abe's Shameless Trick for lowering an audience's expectations. And it's also replete... [Read More]

  • With Their Eyes: September 11th--The View from a High School at Ground Zero

    • ASIN: 0060517182
    • ISBN: 0060517182
    • Manufacturer: HarperCollins

    A collection of powerful essays in spoken word form remembering September 11, 2001, by high school students who witnessed the tragedy unfold. A New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age“Profound.” —Booklist“Moving.” —Publishers Weekly “Rings with authenticity and resonates with power.” —School Library JournalTuesday, September... [Read More]

  • The Odyssey

    • ASIN: 0140268863
    • ISBN: 9780140268867
    • Brand: Penguin Books
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

  • Poems from Homeroom

    • ASIN: 0805075968
    • ISBN: 0805075968
    • Brand: Brand: Owlet Paperbacks
    • Manufacturer: Owlet Paperbacks

    A collection of original poems and creative writing exercises that will inspire teens to write about their own lives."Since the very beginnings of the human race, we've been gathering in circles and telling stories because beyond the physical needs for food, water, clean air, and security, one of our most basic yearnings is to express ourselves, to... [Read More]

  • Funny Gift Notebook for High School Student: Best Student You Are: College Ruled Journal: Notepad for Elementary, Junior High, Middle Grade & ... Composition, Class Notes, Diary Writing, etc

    • ASIN: 1794331433
    • ISBN: 1794331433
    • Manufacturer: Independently published

    Funny Gift Notebook for High School Student: Best Student You Are: College Ruled JournalNotepad for Elementary, Junior High, Middle Grade & University Learners & in Primary or Adult Education: Lined Book for Composition, Class Notes, Diary Writing, etc 6 x 9 • Ideal design for journalling or noting: This college-ruled blank lined notebook is perf... [Read More]

  • The Poet X

    • ASIN: 0062662805
    • ISBN: 0062662805
    • Manufacturer: HarperTeen

    Winner of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, and the Pura Belpré Award!Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this astonishing New York Times-bestselling novel-in-verse by an award-winning slam poet, about an Afro-Latina heroine who tells her story with bl... [Read More]

  • Jump Ball: A Basketball Season in Poems

    • ASIN: 052567554X
    • ISBN: 052567554X
    • Manufacturer: Dutton Books for Young Readers

    The Tower High Tigers basketball team is on top of the world and bringing the crowds to their feet in this collection of free prose poems that make up the absorbing story of a championship teams season. Meet Garrett James, the star of the team; Darnell Joyce, the lovable forward with no place to live; and the rest of the players, their families, co... [Read More]

  • Sight Word Poetry Pages: 100 Fill-in-the-Blank Practice Pages That Help Kids Really Learn the Top High-Frequency Words

    • UPC: 078073554386
    • ASIN: 0439554381
    • ISBN: 0439554381
    • Brand: Scholastic
    • Manufacturer: Teaching Resources

    Children will develop word recognition skills, build automaticity, and improve reading fluency with these ready-to-go pages. Each page gives kids repeated opportunities to spell, write, and read a sight word while completing a fun poem! Poems feature predictable, rhyming text and tie in with popular themes such as weather, seasons, all about me, an... [Read More]

  • Green Eggs and Ham

    • UPC: 033500318412
    • ASIN: 0394800168
    • ISBN: 0545002850
    • Brand: Ingram Book & Distributor
    • Manufacturer: Beginner Books/Random House

  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

    • ASIN: 0345514408
    • ISBN: 0345514408
    • Brand: Maya Angelou
    • Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

    Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide.   Sent by their mother to ... [Read More]

  • Goodnight Dorm Room: All the Advice I Wish I Got Before Going to College

    • ASIN: 1612435688
    • ISBN: 1612435688
    • Brand: Ulysses Pr
    • Manufacturer: Ulysses Press

    A BITTERSWEET AND HUMOROUS GUIDE TO COLLEGE LIFE FEATURING PRACTICAL TIPS COMBINED WITH FUNNY, FULL COLOR ILLUSTRATIONSYou're off to college―it's gonna be life-changing! Follow this book's advice to make it amazing!• What to pack, what to leave behind• Which classes to pick• How TAs can save your brain• Why flip flops are a must• How of... [Read More]

  • Holt McDougal Library, High School Nextext: Individual Reader A Midsummer Night's Dream (Nextext Classic Retelling) 2002

    • ASIN: 0618116559
    • ISBN: 0618116559
    • Manufacturer: MCDOUGAL LITTEL

    Offers a retelling of Shakespeare's comedy about star-crossed lovers whose romances are complicated by the intercession of fairies.

  • Reflect and Write: 270 Poems and Photographs to Inspire Writing

    • ASIN: 1618210238
    • ISBN: 1618210238
    • Brand: Brand: Prufrock Press
    • Manufacturer: Prufrock Press

    Now more than ever, we must take advantage of students' increasing fascination with graphic images as opposed to written words. "Reflect and Write" capitalizes on this situation by marrying dynamic images to original poems that were written by students at the junior and senior high school levels, teachers, and other writers nationwide. Additionally... [Read More]

  • The Bell Jar (Modern Classics)

    • ASIN: 0060837020
    • ISBN: 0060837020
    • Brand: Harper Perennial
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics

    The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under -- maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an ... [Read More]

  • Funny Gift Dot Grid Notebook for Elementary, High School, College or University: Best Student You Are: Dotted Journal Paper: Bullet Style Notepad ... Write Down Class Notes, Log Book or Diary

    • ASIN: 1794332790
    • ISBN: 1794332790
    • Manufacturer: Independently published

    Funny Gift Dot Grid Notebook for Elementary, High School, College or University: Best Student You Are: Dotted Journal PaperBullet Style Notepad Planner To Reach Goals, Track Success & Keep a To-Do List, Write Down Class Notes, Log Book or Diary • Best of all worlds: Dot paper allows the versatility for writing as with lined paper, but also drawin... [Read More]

  • Student's viral poem asks 'Why am I not good enough?'

    Poetry Countdown 2018 | My Top 5 Poems to teach to High School students

    Poetry Countdown 2018 - My Top 5 Poems to Teach High Schoolers