100 Questions & Answers About AIDS: What You Need to Know Now
One Year Commencing
The Only Alien on the Planet
Only One Me...Only One You: Respecting Differences
Options and Consequences: Confronting Ethical Questions With Middle School Students
Our Human Body Series
Our Planet at Risk
Out of Control: A Story About Handling Anger
Out of the Blue
100 Questions & Answers About AIDS: What You Need to Know Now (Print-Non-Fiction). Ford, Michael Thomas. William Morrow & Co. (LRDC), 1993. 202 p. Order no. 8303 ($8.00 hdc.).
This resource answers 100 commonly asked questions about AIDS relating to what causes it, how it is spread, and how to avoid contracting it. It also presents interviews with four young people who are living with AIDS. Included are a table of contents, a resource guide of American support organizations, a glossary, and an index.
Suggested Use: Grade 6 - HIV/AIDS Education; Grade 7 - HIV/AIDS Education; Grade 8 - HIV/AIDS Education; Grade 9 - Teacher Reference
One Year Commencing (Print-Fiction). Stinson, Kathy. Thistledown Press Ltd. (THI), 1997. 147 p. ISBN 1-895449-65-0 ($13.95 pbk.).
(SK) Twelve-year-old Al reluctantly leaves her mother's home in Alberta to live with her father in Toronto for a year, as stipulated in her parents' divorce settlement. Although Al misses her mother and friends, she gradually adapts to life in a large city and learns to understand and love her father. This is a sensitively written account of the stresses and adjustments felt by one child of divorce.
Suggested Use: Grade 8 - Family Structures, Roles, and Responsibilities; Divorce and Separation
Other Use: English Language Arts: Grades 6 to 9
The Only Alien on the Planet (Print-Fiction). Randle, Kristen. Scholastic Canada Ltd. (SCH), 1996. 228 p. ISBN 0-590-46310-1 ($4.80 pbk.).
Smitty Tibbs is a brilliant mathematics student, but his high school classmates call him Alien because they have never seen him smile, frown, or speak. When Ginny's family moves to town, she is drawn to Smitty and attempts to enter his world. This is an emotionally moving story illustrating the terror that results from one boy's experiences in a severely dysfunctional family.
Suggested Use: Grade 8 - Family Structures, Roles, and Responsibilities; Family and Community Violence
Other Use: English Language Arts: Grades 6 to 9
Only One Me...Only One You: Respecting Differences (Video). Sunburst Communications (SUN), 1994. 25 min. Order no. 2438-03 ($169.95).
Part One of this three-part program features a young teenage boy who resists peer pressure to play football. His sister supports his resolve to join the band rather than the football team. Part Two focuses on the similarities among school friends who originate from various countries. Part Three focuses on an able-bodied boy who becomes friends with a classmate who is confined to a wheelchair. They both learn to appreciate their similarities rather than to dwell on their differences. A teacher's guide accompanies the video.
Suggested Use: Grade 6 - Self-concept
Options and Consequences: Confronting Ethical Questions With Middle School Students (Video). American Guidance Service (KIN), 1994. 60 min. Order no. 8719/0130 ($441.00).
Middle Level students confront situations daily that present ethical dilemmas. This six-part video series assists students in finding ways to make the best choices in the midst of conflicting beliefs and options. Each of the six videos presents a theme easily identified by Middle Level students. A method for determining viable options within these situations is offered. Included is a teacher's guide which outlines a four-level discussion method that helps students decide for themselves what is the best option to choose. Creative suggestions for cooperative learning and writing for portfolios are also included.
Suggested Use: Grade 6 - Personal Standards
Other Use: Students With Challenging Behaviours
Our Human Body Series (Video). Please refer to the title: Viruses.
Our Planet at Risk (Video). (Secrets of Science Series I). Sandra Carter Productions (MGR), 1993. 24 min. Dup. order no. V9753.
This video offers viewers an opportunity to become acquainted with the balance of Nature and the delicacy of our environment that is threatened by our own indiscriminate pollution.
Suggested Use: Grade 8 - Protecting the Environment and the Health of People
Out of Control: A Story About Handling Anger (Video). Disney Educational Video (MAG), 1993. 17 min. Order no. 401-31-586 ($59.00).
This video demonstrates how to deal creatively with anger as a valid emotion and stresses that anger can be a useful emotion when expressed and channelled in a constructive way.
Suggested Use: Grade 7 - Assertiveness Skills
Out of the Blue (Print-Fiction). Ellis, Sarah. Douglas & McIntyre/Groundwood (LRDC), 1994. 120 p. Order no. 13949 ($10.50 hdc.).
(CAN) Megan's life is disrupted when she learns that she has a 24-year-old step-sister who was given up for adoption as an infant. Natalie's reunion with her mother intrudes on Megan's comfortable family structure and causes emotional turmoil for all the family. Natalie's arrival challenges Megan to overcome her jealousy and form a deeper understanding of herself and the members of her family.
Suggested Use: Grade 8 - Family Structures, Roles, and Responsibilities
Other Use: English Language Arts: Grades 6 to 9