Guidance

Welcome to Unity

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Imagine how crazy things may get when you put seven exchange students, including two kids from Muslim backgrounds, into a Christian home in rural America…. WELCOME TO UNITY is a story literally filmed by a group of exchange students and local American teens. These exchange students sink their teeth into rural Oregon, while becoming the stars of their high school football team, and simultaneously learn to live the “American Way.” A lighthearted, teen angst film that voyeuristically illustrates that adolescence is a universal experience.

Director:

Kathrine Mahalic

Grade Level:

High

Professional

Length:

01:34

Bugs in My Hair!

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Is something bugging you? Bestselling, award winner David Shannon shows the funny side of waging war against - oh no! - head lice. This story is guaranteed to make you laugh - and itch!

Grade Level:

Primary

Elementary

Length:

00:08

Digital Commons Network

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The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work.

When You See Bullying Happen: What a Bystander Can Do (2005)

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Shows elementary students how to take an active role in stopping a bully. Notes that a bystander who does nothing helps the bully, not the victim. Reminds students they can tell the bully how they feel, stand up together as a group, be an ally to the victim, or tell an adult. Encourages them to be part of the solution, not a passive part of the problem.

Grade Level:

Elementary

Middle

Length:

00:17

When You See Bullying Happen: What a Bystander Can Do

When Sophie Gets Angry--Really, Really Angry...

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Sophie gets mad, climbs a tree to calm down, and is soon ready to come home to her loving family. "The text is...brief, for it is Bang's double-page illustrations, vibrating with saturated colors, that reveal the drama of the child's emotions." - School Library Journal, starred review. "Bang's strong, nonproscriptive acknowledgment of a feeling most children will recognize will be welcomed." - Booklist, starred review
Caldecott Honor Book 2000

Author:

Molly Bang

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When Sophie Gets Angry--Really, Really Angry...

MISS Representation (2012)

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Writer/Director Jennifer Siebel Newson interwove stories from teenage girls with provocative interviews from the likes of Dr. Condoleezza Rice, Lisa Ling, Nancy Pelosi, Katie Couric, Rachel Maddow, Rosario Dawson, Dr. Jackson Katz, Dr. Jean Kilbourne and Gloria Steinem to give us an inside look at the media and its message.

Grade Level:

Middle

High

Length:

01:28

The Graduates/Los Graduados (2013)

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The Graduates explores pressing issues in education today through the eyes of six young Latino and Latina students from across the United States. More than a survey of contemporary policy debates, viewers gain a first-hand perspective on the different challenges facing Latino high school students and their families, educators and community leaders.

Grade Level:

High

Length:

02:00

Speak

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Speak is a documentary film about the fear of public speaking, and the Toastmasters World Championship of Public Speaking. Filmmakers Paul Galichia and Brian Weidling embarked on an almost two year journey - conducting hundreds of interviews about public speaking anxiety, and capturing every stage of the tense, highly competitive World Championship of Public Speaking. It all culminates in a week of fascinating human drama in Calgary, Alberta, after which one person is crowned "World Champion of Public Speaking".

Director:

Paul Galichia and Brian Weidling

Grade Level:

Middle

High

Length:

01:29

Thirteen Reasons Why (Unabridged) [Unabridged Fiction]

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Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a strange package with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers several cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker, his classmate and crush, who committed suicide two weeks earlier. Hannah's voice explains that there are 13 reasons she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he'll find out why.

Author:

Jay Asher

Grade Level:

High

Lexile:

550L

Length:

12:50

Thirteen Reasons Why (Unabridged) [Unabridged Fiction]

The Amazing Life of Birds: The Twenty-Day Puberty Journal of Duane Homer Leech (Unabridged)

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I should have seen it coming. A long time before it came I should have known. I was six or seven years old and there was a girl living next door named Peggy. She was a year older than me and a lot stronger and we were wrestling and she held me down....

Author:

Gary Paulsen

Grade Level:

Middle

Lexile:

780L

Length:

01:28

The Amazing Life of Birds: The Twenty-Day Puberty Journal of Duane Homer Leech (Unabridged)

Guidance

Welcome to Unity

Bugs in My Hair!

Digital Commons Network

When You See Bullying Happen: What a Bystander Can Do (2005)

When Sophie Gets Angry--Really, Really Angry...

MISS Representation (2012)

The Graduates/Los Graduados (2013)

Speak

Thirteen Reasons Why (Unabridged) [Unabridged Fiction]

The Amazing Life of Birds: The Twenty-Day Puberty Journal of Duane Homer Leech (Unabridged)

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