Until now, Jenny has held back on her intelligence and ability to work hard, but her teacher's suggestion to be the best has become her main focus, letting nothing get in her way, even her social life.

Product Description: What does the future hold for the American West? In this collection, seventeen humanities scholars from a range of fields and disciplines examine the possibilities as we enter the new millennium. The essayists explore the arbitrariness of "the millennium" as a date for change but acknowledge the millennium as a discussion point for analyzing current problems as well as the rhetoric surrounding such topics as architecture, multiculturalism, futurism, hypermedia, the literary canon, English language, urban and suburban growth, public health, and environmental themes...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Can it ever be fun to learn about grammar? IsnÕt that an oxymoron? But how about the historical traditions behind grammar? What is the purpose of grammar? How does modern grammar differ from yesterdayÕs grammar? Allowing individuals to actually think about the way they speak and the aspects which comprise their everyday language is perhaps the most basic and most effective way to begin language analysis...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The New Literacy is based on research but filled with common sense, cutting through much of the fog of current educational reform rhetoric. Using scholarship, interviews with real people, and current events, authors Morris and Tchudi weave a compelling argument and offer practical solutions to one of the most serious issues facing American education. - Leila Christenbury, editor, The English Journal

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Product Description: Several writers look at diverse technologies such as barbed wire, printing, and the railroad and their power to shape the nineteenth century West. Others argue the postmodern position that perceptions of the landscape are shaped by the values of observers, researchers, and storytellers...read more

Product Description: A collection of essays, assembled by the NCTE's Committee on alternatives to grading student writing.

Traces the development of locks from the stone and wood fasteners of ancient times, to the bolts and bars of the Middle Ages, to the invention of modern security systems, and profiles famous lock pickers and code breakers.

Examines the ways in which people have sought to explain what they do not understand, from the formation of myths and legends, to contemporary views on learning, logic, reason, and technology

Product Description: New 1989 hardcover book.

Recommends methods for improving creative writing techniques and supplies tips on how to develop skills for writing letters, fiction, plays, poems, and reports

Explores the areas of expanding knowledge, gathering data, applying information, and developing a curious mind.

When David Morgan, a junior, learns that a development group will be building a shopping mall on the site of the local marsh where he collects pollywogs, he decides to organize public opposition

Traces the history of soft drinks from the early inventors to the emergence of the newest products

Burg-O-Rama's search for five students from Crawford High to star in nationally televised commercials causes havoc at the school

This guide to writing and producing plays covers such areas as improvisations, readers' theater, media plays, stagecraft, and advertising and discusses how to organize your own theatre company