For grades 10-12, this unit explores changes resulting from the choices that people ma
OpenSciEd High School addresses all high school NGSS standards. This comprehensive science curriculum empowers students to question, design, investigate, and solve the world around them.
During the summer of her thirteenth birthday, Arie McGinnis discovers three things that change her world and the way she sees herself; her long-missing mom isn't human; Dad has a girlfriend and wants to move to Indiana, taking Arie away from the ocean, her friends, and everything she loves; and childhood friend, Billy Hernandez, wants to be more than friends. Angry at her parents' deception and confused by her changing emotions for Billy, Arie must make a difficult choice: embrace her non-human side and live wi
Mark Twain created one of America s best-loved fictional characters when he wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Using realistic language, Twain tells the story of two runaways Huck Finn and the slave Jim and their adventures down the Mississippi River on a raft. Though the story focuses on the humorous exploits of an imaginative adolescent, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), told from the point of view of Huck, ultimately is concerned with deeper themes man s inhumanity to man and the hypocrisy of conventional values.<