Our classroom bundles include everything you need to successfully use Junior Great Books® Inspire and Junior Great Books Nonfiction Inquiry, Inspire in your classroom—teacher materials, student materials for 30 students, and online professional learning to prepare you to begin using the Great Books Foundation's Shared Inquiry™ method of learning. Engage students in the power of Shared Inquiry learning across genres and disciplines. Bring evidence-based, collaborative discussions to your work with fiction, poetry, narrative nonfiction, and informational nonfiction on science and social studies topics.
Junior Great Books Inspire Series 4 develops students’ reading comprehension, fluency, critical thinking, speaking and listening, and writing skills using the Shared Inquiry method of learning. All learners are welcomed into inquiry-based exploration of 14 outstanding literary texts through a full sequence of customizable activities.
Junior Great Books Nonfiction Inquiry, Inspire Series 4 features nine informational nonfiction texts that that engage students with high-interest topics aligned to national social studies and science standards through Shared Inquiry discussion. This new, fully-updated edition includes:
- Updated information across every unit, including current statistics, new research, and technological advancements relevant to each selection
- Audio recordings for every unit
- Text-to-text connections to Junior Great Books Inspire selections
- High-interest topics that ignite students’ curiosity while aligning with national social studies and science standards
Each classroom bundle includes print materials for one teacher and 30 students:
- 1 set of JGB Inspire Series 4 Teacher Materials, which includes 1 Teacher’s Edition, 1 Student Edition, and 1 Reader’s Journal for teacher's use
- 30 JGB Inspire Series 4 Student Editions
- 30 JGB Inspire Series 4 Reader's Journals
- 1 set of JGB Nonfiction Inquiry, Inspire Series 4 Teacher Materials, which includes 1 Teacher’s Guide and 1 Student Log for teacher's use
- 30 JGB Nonfiction Inquiry, Inspire Series 4 Student Logs
- 1 enrollment in our Shared Inquiry Essentials online or on-demand professional learning course
Notes:
- Purchasers will be emailed a coupon code to register for a Shared Inquiry Essentials on-demand or online professional learning course in our store, valid within a year of purchase.
Junior Great Books Inspire
FICTION
- The Red Canoe
- The Singing Chair
- The Good Deed
- The Swallow and the Pumpkinseed
- Me, All Alone, at the End of the World
- Sometimes a Dream Needs a Push
- The Chicken that Crossed the Road
- The Promise
NARRATIVE NONFICTION
- Breaking the Waves: Winslow Homer Paints the Sea
- Seeds of Change: Planting a Path to Peace
- A Spy Called James: The True Story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War Double Agent
POETRY & DRAMA
- The Child
- The Lake Isle of Innisfree
- The Lost Unicycle
Nonfiction Inquiry, Inspire 4
UNITS
- Leave it to Beavers?
- The Age of Automation
- The Richest Man in the World
- Crows: Friend or Foe?
- The Life and Legend of Johnny Appleseed
- Wild and Wonderful Waves
- A World with Fewer Forests
- Sylvia Mendez: Equal Education for All
- Peer Solutions: Better than Punishment?
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