Curriculum & Instruction
Middle School Textbooks
6th Science:
Holt Science and Technology Earth Science 2001
Holt Science and Technology Weather and Climate change 2007
Holt Science and Technology Electricity and Magnetism 2007
Holt Science and Technology Astronomy 2007
Holt Science and Technology Intro to Science 2007
Holt Science and Technology Intro to Matter 2007
Foss Chemical Interactions 2019
Foss Populations and Ecosystems 2019
Foss Gravity and Kinetic Energy 2018
7th Science:
Foss Electromagnetic Force 2018
8th Science:
Holt Science and Technology Cells, Heredity and Classifications 2007
Holt Science and Technology Interactions of Matter 2007
6th History:
Prentice Hall History of our World 2005
7th History:
McDougal Littell American History 2008
8th history:
McDougal Littell American History 2008
Whole Child Wellness
SEL Gifted Middle School: The Gifted Kids Survival Guide: A Teen Handbook by Judy Galbraith (1996-10-04)
Grief and Loss (ACT Class)
Helping adolescents heal from loss: Death, trauma, moving & transition.
A grief and loss group dealing specifically with death.
A support group for young people healing from abuse and learning, "it's not your fault."
Helping children heal & cope with parental addiction.
Anger Management Support Group
Anger-the energy of transformation and positive change.
Helping students make positive connections to school & friends.
Helping students impacted by attention deficit disorder.
Supporting Junior & Senior high school students moving through change.
Self-image and building a healthy relationship with food.
For young people wanting to maintain a sober & drug-free life.
Breaking the bully cycle.
Coping with stress, and academic and personal pressures.
Making and keeping friends.
For students with loved ones in prison.
Helping students develop positive self-esteem.
Helping young people care about their lives & future.
Additional supplementary group activities for loss, living with addiction, anger, divorce & more.
For students wanting more information on how alcohol & other drugs may be affecting their lives.
"Spanish" Personal Growth: Double manual K-12
Elementary & Secondary Foundation Personal Growth Activities
Supplementary Reading Materials
Title | Author |
A Day No Pigs Would Die | Robert Newton Peck |
A Long Way from Chicago | Richard Peck |
A Wrinkle in Time | Madeleine L’Engle |
Amelia Lost | Candace Fleming |
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl | Anne Frank |
Blood on the River: James Town, 1607 (SS) | Elisa Carbone |
Bridge to Terabithia | Katherine Paterson |
Call of the Wild | Jack London |
D-Day: The Battle for Normandy | — |
Day of the Teachers (SS) | — |
Dode Talker (SS) | Joseph Bruchac |
Esperanza Rising | Pam Muñoz Ryan |
Freedom Riders | Ann Bausum |
Great Fire | Jim Murphy |
Harriet Tubman | Ann Petry |
Hatchet | Gary Paulsen |
Healer of the Water Monster | Brian Young |
I Survived the Destruction of Pompeii, AD 79 (SS) | Lauren Tarshis |
Lord of the Flies | William Golding |
Loser | Jerry Spinelli |
Maniac Magee | Jerry Spinelli |
March Toward the Thunder (SS) | Joseph M. Bruchac |
Miracle Worker | William Gibson |
My Side of the Mountain | Jean Craighead George |
Night | Elie Wiesel |
Number the Stars | Lois Lowry |
Out of the Dust | Karen Hesse |
Outsiders | S. E. Hinton |
Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida | Victor Martinez |
Rifles for Watie | Harold Keith |
Rite of Passage | Richard Wright |
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry | Mildred D. Taylor |
Sophia’s War | Avi |
Soldier’s Heart | Gary Paulsen |
Sweetgrass | Mary Alice Monroe |
The Giver | Lois Lowry |
The Nargun and the Stars | Patricia Wrightson |
The Pearl | John Steinbeck |
The Pinballs | Betsy Byars |
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle | Avi |
The Winter People | Jennifer McMahon |
Touching Spirit Bear | Ben Mikaelsen |
Tuck Everlasting | Natalie Babbitt |
We’ve Got a Job: 1963 Birmingham Children’s March | Cynthia Levinson |
Where the Red Fern Grows | Wilson Rawls |
Woods Runner | Gary Paulsen |
Woodsong | Gary Paulsen |