[CALIBK12] More on the HIT: Middle School "Standard" Reference/Nonfictionpurchases

[Margaret Baker]

Tom

Please excuse the late posting [I was only 8 days behind in CALIB]

 

For middle school reference, I would recommend anything published by
these companies, which meets the grade levels standards:

 

*	Marshall Cavendish
*	UXL
*	Grolier
*	Facts on File
*	Salem Press - great stuff on time frames [the old Great Events
from History nicely updated. It may be a bit higher reading level but it
is well chunked with lots of captions, heading etc.. Covers Middle Ages,
The Renaissance]
*	Omnigraphics - has great collected biographies which we keep in
reference for those wussy biography assignments they get
*	AND, have you seen the hot, cheap, new Marshall Cavendish
databases? They range from $231 to $263 and cover topics like Early Life
in Ancient Civilizations. The price is for school and home access, for
THREE YEARS.  Cannot beat this price!

 

Happy shopping [if you have money left over, send it a few miles south]

Margaret Baker

Selma USD

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Nixon [mailto:Thomas.Nixon at fresnounified.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 9:41 AM
To: calibk12 at lists.sjsu.edu
Subject: [CALIBK12] HIT: Middle School "Standard"
Reference/Nonfictionpurchases

 

The responses to my request are below:


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I try to match purchases to the most recent adoption State textbooks
adoptions. My district adopted middle school Social Studies last year so
we are focusing on that area for collection development this year.
Teacher
(some of them) revise units of study with new texts and look for new
support material. We also want our library collection to be as current
and
relevant as the new texts. The State adoption schedule is on the CDE
website.

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What a great opportunity! I would check on the population [we have a
large second language learner percentage] served by the school, and
balance that with the subject area content standards. Language Arts is
easy- there is the state list of recommended readings, and our district
has core literature activities that coordinate with the literature
units. [An example is our 7th grade study of 70s topics in preparation
for the novel, Zachary Beaver Comes to Town. I have plenty of
non-fiction related to the 70s as a result; everything from the music
and fads and fashions to the Vietnam War for mini-reports...]

For the Middle Ages, you MUST have the current Newbery winner: Good
Masters, Sweet Ladies. [I have three copies.] Additionally, there are
plenty of trade books that offer plenty of info on the Middle Ages:
Castle and Cathedral, by Macaulay to DK books and Cave Paintings to
Picasso, by Henry Sayre. You won't have a hard time findings books on
this era. 8th Grade History encompasses many "graphic" books on
historical events from the Revolution to personalities to other
significant events. [I think they are from the Graphic Library series.]
I also recommend the series, A History of 
Us, books 1 to 10. 

Science is a little more difficult-it depends on the current science
practices. We have an 8th grade project on the elements, as an example,
so I have the UXL series on Chemical Elements. For Life Science, I have
plenty of body, skeleton, and illustrated texts that all students can
enjoy.

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Life Science:  7th grade = Atlas of the Evolving Earth  (3volume set)
Macmillan Reference USA  2001  (I guess this is actually Earth Science
but the geological time scale is part of the 7th grade curriculum)

8th grade Science:Elements  (18 volume set)  Grolier Educational  2002 =
The Elements: what you really want to know by Ron Miller   Twenty-First
Century Books   2006

8th grade History = Encyclopedia of the American Civil War  (5 volumes)
ABC-CLIO  2000

7th grade history = We have a set of Medieval World encyclopedia and a
Renaissance Set by  Grolier that get quite a bit of use.

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Tom Nixon

 

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