Our classroom bundles include everything you need to successfully use Junior Great Books® through Junior Great Books Digital Classroom. You will have access to materials for one teacher and 30 students, as well as online training to prepare you to begin using the Great Books Foundation's Shared Inquiry™ method of learning.
Junior Great Books Series 5 contains two books, each with nine outstanding fiction selections grouped into three themes. Junior Great Books Nonfiction Inquiry 5 features nine thought-provoking nonfiction texts that yield rich questions.
Each digital classroom bundle includes access to:
- All Series 5 Teacher Materials for one teacher
- All Series 5 Student Materials for 30 students
- One Shared Inquiry Essentials online or on-demand training course
Note: Digital materials cannot be printed. The digital products in this bundle come with a one-year subscription. Purchasers will be emailed a coupon code to register for a Shared Inquiry Essentials on-demand or online training course in our store, valid within a year of purchase.
In Junior Great Books Digital Classroom, teachers can:
- Take advantage of handy classroom management tools
- Track student progress by viewing course reports, time spent on assignments, and achievement of standards
- Respond to student work within the platform, by viewing and grading work, responding to student notes, and giving individual feedback
Students using the platform can:
- Complete all assignments online
- Listen to professionally-recorded audio versions of the fiction readings
- Annotate texts in several different ways
- Prepare for discussion by writing ideas and citing evidence
- Record their thinking over the course of a unit
- Access content through any device connected to the Internet
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