Middle School is fun, right? Not if you're a dazed and confused 6th grader at Weedhaven Middle School, and your name happens to be Jason. Like any red-blooded 6th grader, Jason wants nothing more than to fit in, make friends, and get through the new school year without getting into trouble. But no matter how hard Jason tries, trouble goes out of its way to find Jason-starting with his favorite principal in the history of forever, Mr. Thaddeus P. Thornton. Adding insult to injury, Jason is having a hard time finding his way around his new school. Follow the wacky misadventures of Jason as he struggles to stay out of trouble and adjust to the super-charged pace of middle school.

Welcome to middle school. These few years can be full of surprises. Some of them may be awesome while others may be a bit scary, but not to worry: This book has answers to all of the questions every middle school girl wonders about. Full color.

Create a viable, meaningful program that will motivate your students and have them participating with enthusiasm with Middle School General Music: The Best Part of Your Day. A welcome guidebook for music teachers trying to navigate the sometimes turbulent waters of middle school general music, it offers strategies and lessons that have been created in the real world of general music by a practicing teacher. Revised and expanded to align with the National Core Arts Standards, each section of this second edition is full of tips and lessons to help middle schoolers develop a life-long love of music. From instructional units to composition projects, rhythm games to listening lessons, you’ll find plenty of ideas for working with young adolescents. An appendix of suggested resources steers you to materials appropriate for middle-level students. Bolster your program with the discussion about why general music is so vital in middle school. If your music classes feel like the perfect storm, let McAnally make them the best part of your day.

Middle School typically encompasses Grades 6-8 when children range in age from 10 to 14. This is a time of intense peer pressure and individuation for children – as well as a critical time for making learning either dynamic or deadly Middle school is fun, interesting, and exciting... but it can also be challenging! From first-day jitters to middle school dances, lunchtime drama to BFFs with BAPs (Big Attitude Problems), middle school has its share of dilemmas and decisions. Girls need a little guidance now and then. In The Secrets of Middle School, tweens can read about crushes and cliques, test-taking tips and locker decorating ideas. They'll learn the secrets to surviving gym class and how other girls handled their most embarrassing middle school moments. This guide gives girls real-world tips and advice so that they can face anything from drama club tryouts to co-ed parties with confidence!

Welcome! Thanks for joining me on this wild ride through middle school. As a father of two children I was untested in the changes that occur in the middle school years. I knew that if I was untested and felt the feelings of uncertainty and doubt about what my kids were about to experience then I was sure that my kids had twice as much doubt about what was going to take place on those first few days of school. This book is not my opinion, but is based on a statistical analysis including many charts on twenty-five factors that have come from EXPERTS (teachers, students and parents) that have gone down this road before in getting prepared for those first days of middle school. My hope is that in these pages you will find several of those factors that can give you comfort and that by reading each factor you will form your own opinion which can help you on your own quest to GET PREPARED FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL.

This pathology of midlife has even recently begun to be exported to all territories in the contemporary world system; people around the world are being invited to change the way they think about mature adulthood and to adopt the middle-class American version of middle age.

It’s never too early to start achieving your goals! Get started on the road to success with this unique guide to middle school and beyond—brought to you by FranklinCovey, the company behind the 7 Habits series and The Leader in Me. Middle school is full of changes—maybe it’s a new, bigger school, maybe it’s friendships starting to get more complicated, or maybe it’s a combination of a lot of things. But these changes don’t have to be bad, in fact they could be the best thing for us—because when things start to change we have the opportunity to grow. That’s why even though middle schoolers have a ton of other things going on, middle school is the perfect time for them to start altering their habits and goals for their future success. Sure it might sound a little scary, but with a little help it can also be exciting! Framed as twelve conversations to start having, rather than checklists or rules, this unique guide helps students start thinking about what they want their futures to look like and readying themselves to achieve those goals. In The Middle School Student’s Guide to Academic Success, portions of which were previously published as Beat the Middle, authors Blake and Bo Nemelka offer tried and true advice, opportunities for reflection and action that middle schoolers can tailor to their individual goals and interests, and ways for parents and guardians to help them along the way. Beginning with topics students can get started on now—like setting goals, improving your GPA, working on time management skills, and balancing extracurricular activities—and moving forward to future subjects including college applications, scholarships, and money management—this book is the ultimate guide to helping readers become not only successful middle schoolers, but successful people.