A second edition of the bestselling English Language Arts Big Fat Notebook updated to meet the needs of today's students. It’s everything that was fabulous about the previous title—fun instructional doodles, key terms defined, annotated excerpts from literature, clear and accessible language— now updated with current pedological approaches and new excerpts that add diversity of authorship to the texts used for analysis. PLUS there’s an all-new media literacy chapter covering everything from disinformation and bias to deep fakes and clickbait—giving middle schoolers essential guidance on how to navigate this oversaturated world of manipulative media.
A second edition of the bestselling English Language Arts Big Fat Notebook updated to meet the needs of today's students—including important information about how to handle misinformation, deepfakes, and manipulated media.
With chapters on all the essential ELA topics—grammar, sentence structure, figurative language, textual analysis, writing essays, building arguments, and more—it covers every skill a middle schooler needs to read, write, and analyze their way through middle school English. Big Fat Notebooks break down the big topics into bite sized pieces with clear and accessible language, key vocabulary defined, annotated examples and excerpts from a diverse array of literature, and instructional diagrams and doodles.
PLUS, this second edition includes an all-new media literacy chapter covering everything from disinformation and bias to deep fakes and clickbait—giving middle schoolers essential guidance on how to navigate this oversaturated world of manipulative media.