This one-year subscription gives you access to all student materials for Junior Great Books® Inspire Series 4 and Junior Great Books Nonfiction Inquiry 4 through Junior Great Books Digital Classroom.
Junior Great Books Inspire Series 4 features all new selections in one anthology, including:
- Eight fiction selections
- Three narrative nonfiction texts
- Two poems
- One drama
This series 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 outstanding texts by diverse authors from around the world.
Junior Great Books Nonfiction Inquiry 4 features nine thought-provoking informational nonfiction texts that yield rich questions.
Students using Junior Great Books Digital Classroom can:
- Listen to professionally recorded audio versions of the readings (Junior Great Books Inspire 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
- Track their thinking through each unit using free-response activities
If you are interested in purchasing Junior Great Books Digital Classroom for multiple grade levels, please contact your Great Books K–12 partnership manager.
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
POETRY & DRAMA
- The Child
- The Lake Isle of Innisfree
- The Lost Unicycle
Nonfiction Inquiry 4
UNITS
- Economics: Wants vs. Needs
- Life Science: Animal Intelligence
- STEM: Engineering to Solve a Problem
- Social Studies: The Oral Tradition
- American History: Westward Expansion
- Social Studies: Social Responsibility
- Social Studies: Justice and Fairness
- Physical Science: Weather and Climate
- Social Studies: Personal Growth and Identity