Becoming Myself

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Web Resources

• When the Going Gets Rough - Students reflect on what strategies they have used--and with what degree of success--when confronted with frustration or difficulty in an assignment, project, or activity.
• Finding Common Ground - Students will work in groups to find "win-win" solutions to common middle school problems.
• A Letter to Myself - Students set goals for the future and think about how they will achieve them

Web Quests

• When I Grow Up - This is a career exploration WebQuest that asks students to research a career.
  

Related Novel Sets Available from the Curriculum Materials Centre

• Nothing But the Truth by Avi - A ninth-grader's suspension for singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" during homeroom becomes a national news story.
• Ramona Quimby Age 8 by Beverly Cleary - The further adventures of the Quimby family as Ramona enters the third grade.
• That Was Then, This Is Now by S. E. Hinton - Sixteen-year-old Mark and Bryon have been like brothers since childhood, but now, as their involvement with girls, gangs, and drugs increases, their relationship seems to gradually disintegrate.
• The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton - Three brothers struggle to stay together after their parents' death, as they search for an identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society in which they find themselves "outsiders."

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