Gina D.B. Clemen - Davy Crockett. (level 1)by Gina D.B. Clemen

This is the true story of a brave, adventurous man, a real American hero, who has become a legend. Davy loved danger, justice and freedom. He was the true American free spirit of the 1800s who help to build America.

Focus: Elevating the Essentials to Radically Improve Student Learning

Bestselling author Mike Schmoker describes a plan for radically improving student learning that is built on three core elements: a focused and coherent curriculum (what we teach); clear, prioritized lessons (how we teach); and purposeful reading and writing, or authentic literacy.
With this "less is more" philosophy, educators can help students learn content at a deeper level, develop greater critical thinking skills, and discover more clearly how content-area concepts affect their lives and the world around them.

Charles Dickens - Great Expectations. (level 1)by Charles Dickens

Pip Pirrip is a poor orphan boy destined to become a blacksmith. But a chance meeting with an escaped convict and an invitation to the house of eccentric Miss Havisham mark the beginning of great changes in his life. After receiving a large amount of money from a secret benefactor Pip goes to London to be educated as a 'gentleman'. But who is his secret benefactor?

Everyday Engagement: Making Students and Parents Your Partners in Learning

Everyday Engagement offers specific strategies to try in your classroom, with your students, and with their parents that will help you
* Connect with students and parents as individuals.
* Communicate invitations to engagement (and regroup and respond if your initial invitations are rejected).
* Provide appropriate, ongoing support and encouragement that will keep students in class, behavior in check, and learning on track.
* Anticipate and handle setbacks and complications in teacher-student and teacher-parent relationships.
* Tap outside resources to extend learning beyond the walls of the classroom.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles. (level 6)

The Durbeyfield family are poor and simple people, but their ancestors wee the mighty d'Urbervilles, an ancient and noble family. When the Durbeyfields meet with misfortune, they send their eldest daughter Tess to visit her wealthy cousin and ask for help, but the wealthy cousin has a young son, Alec Stoke-d'Urverville, who finds Tess very attractive…