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Author
Series
My weirder school volume 8
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Description
A local college professor comes to Ella Mentry School to help students learn basic history and improve their scores on a standardized test, using some very unusual techniques.
Author
Lexile measure
1380L
Language
English
Description
An edition of Shakespeare's play, including discussion of its plot, characters, themes, language, production, and author. The Cambridge School Shakespeare series arises out of the research and development work of Shakespeare and School Project. Each play in the series has been carefully edited to enable students to inhabit Shakespeare's imaginative world in accessible and creative ways.
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Robots, spaceships, futuristic megacities, planets orbiting distant stars. These icons of science fiction are now in our daily news. Science fiction, once maligned as mere pulp, has motivated cutting-edge scientific research, inspired new technologies, and changed how we view everyday life -- and its themes and questions permeate popular culture. Take an unparalleled look at the influence, history, and greatest works of science fiction with illuminating...
Series
Publisher
McDougal Littell
Pub. Date
1997.
Lexile measure
500L
Language
English
Description
The historical novel, Across five Aprils, set at the time of the Civil War, chronicles the war as well as the story of a young boy's growing up. A sourcebook of activities and related readings accompanies this coming-of-age novel.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
When her father hatches a plan to bring publicity to their small Tennessee town by arresting a local high school teacher for teaching about evolution, the resulting 1925 Scopes trial prompts fifteen-year-old Frances to rethink many of her beliefs about religion and truth, as well as her relationship with her father.
18) The wave
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Deutsch
Description
During project week, a popular and unorthodox high school teacher, in an attempt to stir up his lethargic students, devises an experiment that will explain what totalitarianism is and how it works. What begins with harmless notions about discipline and community builds into a real movement: the Wave. The teacher decides to break off the experiment. But it may be too late; the Wave has taken on a life of its own and is out of control.