A second edition of the bestselling English Language Arts Big Fat Notebook updated to meet the
needs of today' s students—including important information about how to handle
misinformation deepfakes and manipulated media. With chapters on all the essential ELA
topics—grammar sentence structure figurative language textual analysis writing essays
building arguments and more—it covers every skill a middle schooler needs to read write and
analyze their way through middle school English. Big Fat Notebooks break down the big topics
into bite sized pieces with clear and accessible language key vocabulary defined annotated
examples and excerpts from a diverse array of literature and instructional diagrams and
doodles. PLUS this second edition includes an all-new media literacy chapter covering
everything from disinformation and bias to deep fakes and clickbait—giving middle schoolers
essential guidance on how to navigate this oversaturated world of manipulative media.
