This one-year subscription gives you access to all fiction and nonfiction student materials for Junior Great Books® Grade 5 through the new and improved Junior Great Books Digital Classroom.
Junior Great Books Series 5 Fiction consists of two books, each with nine stories by award-winning authors organized by theme. The program, focused on high-quality literature and student-centered discussion, provides a superb framework for teaching reading comprehension, critical thinking, vocabulary, and writing. The nine Junior Great Books Nonfiction Inquiry 5 selections explore historical and contemporary issues and align with national social studies and science standards. They also connect to concepts in Junior Great Books literature so that students can meaningfully compare texts across genres and curricular areas.
If you are interested in purchasing Junior Great Books Digital Classroom for multiple grade levels, please contact your Great Books K–12 partnership manager.
Students using the NEW Junior Great Books Digital Classroom can:
- Listen to professionally recorded audio versions of the readings (fiction series only) with tracked audio to help them follow along as they listen
- Highlight and annotate texts in several different ways and colors
- Type comments and questions as they read
- See glossary definitions, which appear alongside the text, of potentially unfamiliar words
- Make notes and highlights that carry over from one activity to the next throughout each unit
- Track their thinking through each unit using free-response activities
Fiction Book One
HONESTY
- Charles
- The Special Powers of Blossom Culp
- The Peddler’s Gift
SELF-RESPECT
- In the Time of the Drums
- Learning the Game
- The Invisible Child
FITTING IN
- The Coming of the Surfman
- All Summer in a Day
- A Game of Catch
Fiction Book Two
FAMILY
- Kamau’s Finish
- Ghost Cat
- The Hemulen Who Loved Silence
HUMILITY
- The Enchanted Sticks
- Kaddo’s Wall
- The Prince and the Goose Girl
COMPASSION
- A Bad Road for Cats
- Lenny’s Red-Letter Day
- Through the Mickle Woods
Nonfiction Inquiry 5
UNITS
- American History: Westward Expansion
- Economics: Wants vs. Needs
- Social Studies: The Oral Tradition
- Physical Science: Weather and Climate
- Social Studies: Individual Development and Group Dynamics
- STEM: Engineering to Solve a Problem
- Social Studies: Social Responsibility
- Social Studies: Leadership
- Life Science: Habitat Destruction