This one-year subscription gives you access to all student materials for Junior Great Books® Inspire Series 5 and Junior Great Books Nonfiction Inquiry 5 through Junior Great Books Digital Classroom.
Junior Great Books Inspire Series 5 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 5 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
- First-Day Fly
- Stay True Hotel
- No Carnations for Ray Fink
- Beware Low-Flying Girls
- Choctaw Bigfoot, Midnight in the Mountains
- The Doorman
- The Well at Cascina Piana
- We Have Always Lived on Mars
NARRATIVE NONFICTION
- Lightning
- The Secret Kingdom: Nek Chand, a Changing India, and a Hidden World of Art
POETRY & DRAMA
- There Are Birds Here
- Bones
- The True Potential of Tinikling
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