Are you interested in serving on the Instructional Materials Committee?

The West Valley School District is currently in search of parents or community members to serve on the Instructional Materials Committee (IMC). The purpose of the IMC is to review and recommend new instructional materials to the School Board for adoption. The committee will meet in May and the meeting will be recorded and archived on the District website. We need seven (7) parents or community members to fill open spots. Committee members serve a four-year term and are expected to review thoroughly the instructional materials that are proposed for adoption. Please see Board Policy 2020 for more information.

If you are able and willing to serve the West Valley School District in this capacity, please send an email with your contact information to Stephanie Smith, at smiths@wvsd208.org by the end of the day, Friday, November 15, 2024. The new committee members will be selected by random draw at the School Board meeting on Monday, November 25, 2024.

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Subject: Comité de Materiales Instuctivos

El Distrito Escolar de West Valley está actualmente en busca de padres o miembros de la comunidad para servir en el Comité de Materiales de Instrucción (siglas IMC). El propósito del IMC es revisar y recomendar nuevos materiales de instrucción a el Comité Escolar para su adopción. El comité se reunirá en mayo y la reunión será grabada y archivada en el sitio web del distrito. Necesitamos siete (7) padres o miembros de la comunidad para llenar los espacios vacantes. Los miembros del comité tienen un mandato de cuatro años y se espera que revisen completemente los materiales educativos que se proponen para su adopción. Consulte el reglamento de la Junta Escolar 2020 para obtener más información.

Si puede y está dispuesto/a a servir al distrito escolar de West Valley en esta capacidad, envíe un correo electrónico con su información de contacto a Stephanie Smith, smiths@wvsd208.org al final del día el viernes 15 de noviembre de 2024. Los nuevos miembros del comité serán seleccionados por sorteo al azar en la reunión de la Junta Escolar el lunes 25 de noviembre de 2024.

Cycle Year 2023-2024

K-5 English Language Arts

K-5 Into Reading, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

K-1 Scholastic Children's Thesaurus

K-1 Scholastic First Dictionary

K My Word Book

K Sound Partners

Abby Takes a Stand

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night

Freedom Train

Glory Be

How to Eat Fried Worms

I Am Rosa Parks

Jake Drake, Bully Buster

Julian's Glorious Summer

Maniac Magee

Martin Luther King Jr.

Marvin Redpost #2 - Why Pick on Me

My Librarian is a Camel

Nasreen's Secret School

Poppy

Rain School

Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks: Civil Rights Pioneer

Thank You, Mr. Falker

That Book Woman

The Boy Who Loved Words

The Incredible Book-Eating Boy

The Librarian of Basra

The War With Grandpa

Waiting for the Biblioburro

Aurore of the Yukon

Because of Winn-Dixie

Castle in the Attic

Children of the Gold Rush

Dragon Slayers

Going Along with Lewis and Clark

How to Steal a Dog

Into the Land of the Unicorns

Riding Freedom

Shiloh

Shoeshine Girl

Streams to the River, River to the Sea

The Kids Book of Canada's Rail Way

The Lemonade War

The Weeping Werewolf

The World According to Humphrey

The Year of Miss Agnes

A Million Shades of Gray

American Revolution

Because of Mr. Terupt

Because of Winn-Dixie

Chains

Counting on Grace

Earthquake Terror

Escaping the Giant Wave

Forge

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

Goodbye Vietnam

Hatchet

Holes

Honus and Me

I Survived Hurricane Katrina

I Survived the San Francisco Earthquake

Iqbal

Island of Blue Dolphins

Kensuke's Kingdom

Kids at Work

Lyddie

Maniac Magee

Miracles on Maple Hill

On My Honor

Pedro's Journal

Rules

Running Out of Time

Shooting the Moon

Sign of the Beaver

Summer of Monkeys

The Accidental Hero

The Best School Year Ever

The City of Ember

The Great Gilly Hopkins

The Janitor’s Boy

The Kid Who Ran for President

The Roar

The Secret Garden

The Time Hackers

The Volcano Disaster

There’s a Boy in the Girl’s Bathroom

Tuck Everlasting

Vietnam #5: Walking Wounded

Walk Two Moons

When You Reach Me

Where the Red Fern Grows


Cycle Year 2024-2025

Grades 6-12 English Language Arts

A Boy at War

A Boy No More

A Changing America, 1865-1900

A Christmas Carol

A Wrinkle in Time

After the Dancing Days

Amos Fortune, Free Man

Anastasia

Ancient Greece, 2000-300 BC

Ancient Rome, 200 BC-AD 350

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

Anne of Green Gables

Around the World in 80 Days

Bearstone

Beethoven in Paradise

Belle Prater's Boy

Black Beauty

Blubber

Brian's Winter

Bridge to Terabithia

Bud, Not Buddy

Call it Courage

Canyons

Castle in the Attic

Catherine Called Birdy

Children of the Dust Bowl

Children of the River

City of the Beasts

Civil Rights: The African-American Struggle for Equality

Code Talker

Colibri

Crash

Criss Cross

Elements of Literature: First Course

Elements of Literature: Introductory Course

Esperanza Rising

Famous Stories for Performance

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

Guts

Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad

Holes

How I Survived Middle School

How to Eat Fried Worms

Incident at Hawk's Hill

Jaguar

Jason's Gold

Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Journey to the River Sea

Julie of the Wolves

Kidnapped

Kidnapped Prince: The Life of Olaudah Equiano

Kids on Strike

Last Book in the Universe

Lawn Boy

Letters to Mrs. Roosevelt

Lily's Crossing

Listening for Lions

Lupita Manana

Mr. Popper's Penguins

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh

My Brother Sam is Dead

My Life in Dog Years

My Side of the Mountain

No Promises in the Wind

North by Night

Novio Boy

Number the Stars

Old Yeller

Our Only May Amelia

Out of the Dust

Petey

Phantom Tollbooth

Sasquatch

Scorpions

Seedfolks

Sees Behind the Trees

Shane

Shiloh

Sing Down the Moon

Skeleton Man

Slavery in America

Snow Treasure

Soldier's Heart

Sounder

Sparrow Hawk Red

Star in the Storm

Stargirl

Stealing Freedom

Sylvia and Aki

Terror at the Zoo

The American West

The Black Stallion

The Cay

The Civil War

The Clay Marble

The Color of My Words

The Cricket in Times Square

The Devil's Arithmetic

The Face on the Milk Carton

The Fighting Ground

The Giver

The Golden Goblet

The Great Gilly Hopkins

The Holocaust

The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Immigrants

The Indian in the Cupboard

The Jungle Book

The Juvie Three

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

The Little Prince

The London Eye Mystery

The Magician's Nephew

The Missing 'Gator of Gumbo Limbo

The Moffat Museum

The Moves Make the Man

The Mysterious Matter of I.M.Fine

The Pale Assassin

The River

The Shakespeare Stealer

The Struggle for Civil Rights, 1940s-1970s

The Time Machine

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

The Watsons Go To Birmingham

The Westing Game

The Whipping Boy

The Wish Giver

The Yearling

When You Reach Me

White Fang

Winter People

Women's Voices

Woodsong

Wringer

Year of Impossible Goodbyes

Zeely

Among the Hidden

Cheaper by the Dozen

Christmas with Ida Early

Elements of Literature: First Course

Elements of Literature: Second Course

Ender's Game

Ghost Boys

Henry V

I am Fifteen and I Don't Want to Die

Jip His Story

Journey to Jo'burg

Maze Runner

Missing May

Shoebag

Tangerine

The Book Thief

The Call of the Wild

The Door in the Wall

The Hobbit

The Pigman

The Summer of the Swans

Treasure Island

Waiting for the Rain: A Novel of South Africa

Wind in the Willows

A Girl Named Disaster

All Summer in a Day

Bridge to Terabithia-Sped

Caddie Woodlawn-Sped

Coming of Age in Mississippi

Cyrano de Bergiac

Daily Language Workouts (Grade 8)

Elements of Literature: Second Course

Farewell to Manzanar

Fifty American Heroes That Every Kid Should Meet

Freak the Mighty

Harriet the Spy-Sped

House of Scorpion (Honors)

Language Program

Leaving Home

Luke Baldwin's Vow

New American Webster Handy College Dictionary (8-12)

Nothing Gold Can Stay (poem in Robert Frost's Poems)

Out of the Dust

Pheasant Hunter

Red Kyak-Sped

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (video)

Romiette and Julio

Runner

Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind

Telepathy (poem)

The Good Earth (Honors)

The Help (Honors)

The Help (video-Honors)

The Jacket (short story)

The Outsiders

Things Fall Apart-Honors

Touching Spirit Bear

Write Source 2000

Write Traits Classroom Kit

Uncharted Territory (9-12)

A Lesson Before Dying

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Anthem

Black Elk Speaks (Honors)

Breathing Underwater

Cold Sassy Tree

Creatures Fantastic: The Underworld (video)

Daily Language Workouts

Echoes from Mt. Olympus

Elements of Literature: Fourth Course (Honors)

Elements of Literature: Third Course (honors)

Elements of Literature: Third Course

Fences (Honors)

Frankenstein (Honors)

Great Expectations (Honors)

Hiroshima (Honors)

Language Program

Life of Pi (Honors)

Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Honors)

Mike

Monster

My Losing Season (Honors)

Night

Of Mice and Men

Petty Crimes

Rats Saw God

Rite of Passage

Romeo and Juliet (video, G)

Romeo and Juliet (video, PG-13)

Speak

Tears of a Tiger

The Contender

The Count of Monte Cristo (Honors)

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Honors)

The Illustrated Man

The Pearl

The Story Teller Series: Daedalus and Icarus (video)

The Story Teller Series: Orpheus and Eurydice (video)

The Story Teller Series: Perseus and the Gorgon (video)

The Story Teller Series: Theseus and the Minotaur (video)

This House of Sky (Honors)

Write Source 2000

12 Angry Men (video)

12 Angry Men in Literature and Language, Blue Level Book

A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol (video-PG)

A Day No Pigs Would Die

AGS Basic English Composition

Animal Farm

Birthmarked

Bless Me Ultima (Honors)

Catch-22 (Honors)

Compound

Daily Language Workouts

Divergent

Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451 (video)

Feed

Incarceron

Jane Eyre (Honors)

Julius Caesar in Literature and Language, Blue Level Book

Lord of the Flies

MacBeth

My Side of the Mountain

My Side of the Mountain (video-G)

My Side of the Mountain: A Teaching Guide

Of Mice and Men

Of Mice and Men (video PG-13)

Othello

Raisin in the Sun

Raisin in the Sun (video-PG-13)

Romeo and Juliet

Ship Breaker

Smoke Signals (video PG-13)

Stotan

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

The Alchemist

The Awakening (Honors)

The Bean Trees

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time

The Eleventh Plague

The House on Mango Street

The Hunger Games

The Knife of Never Letting Go

The River

Their Eyes Were Watching God

The River

Their Eyes Were Watching God

To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird (video)

Uglies

Unwind

When Legends Die

Writers INC

8 1/2 (video)

1408 (DVD PG-13)

2001: A Space Odyssey

2001: A Space Odyssey (video G)

A Christmas Story (video G)

A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (DVD-NR)

A Portrait of the Artist

A Prayer for Owen Meany

A Separate Peace

AGS American Literature

AGS Exploring Literature

AGS Exploring Literature, Teacher's Edition

All the King's Men

American Cinema: One Hundred Years of Movie Making (DVD- NR)

Antigone

As Simple as Snow

Barefoot in the Park (video-NR)

Believe in Me (video-PG)

Big Fish (movie-PG)

Billy Boy

Biography (student choice from library selection)

Brian's Song (video-G)

Camelot (video-NR)

Candide

Cannery Row

Cannery Row (video-PG)

Citizen Cane (video)

Coach Carter (video-PG-13)

Counting Coup

Cyrano de Bergiac (video-NR)

Deadline

Death of a Salesman

E.T. (video-PG)

Edge of America (video-NR)

Eight Great Comedies

Fault in Our Stars

Field of Dreams (video-PG)

Fifteen American One-Act Plays

Finding Forrestor (video-PG-13)

Friday Night Lights

Friday Night Lights (video-PG-13)

Goal! (video-PG-13)

Greatest Movie Ever Sold (video-PG-13)

Gym Candy

Hamilton's Mythology

Hamlet

Haroun and the Sea of Stories

Heart of Darkness

Heart of the Game (video-PG-13)

Hollywood: An Empire of Their Own (DVD-NR)

Home of the Braves

Hoop Dreams (video-PG-13)

Hoosiers (videos-PG-13)

How to Read Literature like a Professor

Huckleberry Finn

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

I Am the Messenger

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

I, Robot

I, Robot (video-PG-13)

In Country

Inherit the Wind

Into the Wild

Into Thin Air

Invincible (video-PG-13)

Invisible Man

King Lear

King of the Mild Frontier

Knights of the Hill Country

Learning to Die in Miami

Leaves of Grass, 1855

Life at These Speeds

Lord of the Flies

Lord of the Flies (video-NR)

Mayor of Casterbridge

Million Dollar Baby (DVD-PG-13)

Miracle (video-PG)

Nine Stories

No Exit

No Exit and three other plays

Oedipus Rex

On the Devil's Court

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Oral Interpretation: Bringing Literature to Life through Performance

Our Town

Outsiders

Outsiders (video-PG-13)

Painting the Black

Paycheck (video-PG-13)

Peaceful Warrior (video-PG-13)

Pride and Prejudice

Real Steel (DVD-PG-13)

Rear Window (video-PG-13)

Remember the Titans (video-PG-13)

Resurrecting the Champ (video-PG-13)

Rosencrantz and Guildonstern Are Dead

Roxanne (video-PG-13)

Rudy (video-PG-13)

Running Brave (video-PG)

Samurai Shortstop

Scarlet Letter

Searching for Bobby Fisher (video-PG)

Secondhand Lions (movie-PG)

Shoeless Joe

Shooter

Siddhartha

Side by Side (Documentary-video-NR)

Sold

Something Wicked This Way Comes (movie-PG)

Sound and Sense

Speed Reading for Better Grades

Star Wars (video PG)

Stranger than Fiction (video-PG-13)

Super Size Me (video- PG-13)

Sweeny Todd (video-NR)

Taming of the Shrew (video-NR)

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

The Adjustment Bureau (video-PG-13)

The Catcher in the Rye

The Comedy of Errors

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

The Crucible

The Glass Castle: A Memoir

The Glass Menagerie

The Great Gatsby

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Iliad

The Illusionist (video-PG-13)

The Importance of Being Earnest

The King Must Die

The Kite Runner

The Legend of Bagger Vance (video-PG-13)

The Minority Report (video-PG-13)

The Natural (video-PG-13)

The Notebook

The Notebook (video-PG-13)

The Odyssey

The Red Sneakers (video-NR)

The Secret Life of Bees

The Stranger

The Sun Also Rises

The Taming of the Shrew

The Things They Carried

The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University

Thirteen Reasons Why

Three Plays

To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird (video-G)

Tucker

Understanding Movies

Waiting for Godot

We Should Hangout Sometime

When I was Puerto Rican

Winterkill

Without Limits

Women and Fiction

World Mythology, 3rd edition

Writers INC

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

A River Runs Through It

A Separate Peace

Acts of Inquiry

Adventures in American Literature

AGS American Literature

AGS Exploring Literature

Anthem

Armegeddon Summer

Briar Rose

Cold Sassy Tree

Dance Hall of the Dead

Dracula

Dracula (video-unrated)

Flowers for Algernon

Focus on Literature: America

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (video-PG)

I Heard the Owl Call my Name

Into the West (video-PG)

It Happened One Night (video-PG-13)

King Solomon's Mine

Last of the Mohicans

Literature & Language

Literature and Its Writers

Much Ado About Nothing

Much Ado About Nothing (video-PG-13)

No, But I Saw the Movie

Of Mice and Men

Pearl Harbor (video-PG-13)

Phantom of the Opera

Phantom of the Opera (video-unrated)

Phantom of the Opera (video-PG-13)

Rear Window (video-PG-13)

Shadow Spinner

Six Great Sherlock Holmes Stories

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (video-G)

Sound and Sense 8th ed

StageCoach (video-UR)

Stotan

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The American Anthology

The Catcher in the Rye

The Diary of a Young Girl

The Giver

The Invisible Man

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (video-PG-13)

The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Princess Bride

The Princess Bride (video-PG)

The Red Badge of Courage

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

The View from Saturday

To Kill A Mockingbird

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Ways of Reading

When the Legends Die

Writers INC

Writers Inc



Grades 8-12 World Languages

Middle Level and High School, Realidades


Cycle Year 2025-2026

Materials will be adopted in Spring 2026

Materials will be adopted in Spring 2026

Materials will be adopted in Spring 2026

Elementary, Character Counts

Elementary, Second Step

Elementary and Middle Level, Mind Up

Elementary (Grade 5) and Middle Level, KNOW/FLASH (Growing Up Awareness)

Elementary (Grade 5) and Middle Level, Puberty Education Always Changing Boys and Girls

Middle Level, LifeSkills Training

Middle Level, Riding the Waves - Youth Suicide Prevention

Middle Level and High School, Character Strong

High School, Health: Making Life Choices

High School, Circles

High School, Bully

High School, Freedom Writers

High School, Mom at Sixteen

High School, The Pregnancy Project



Cycle Year 2026-2027

Elementary and Middle Level, Ready Math

Middle Level and High School, Holt Algebra, Holt Geometry, Holt Algebra 11 Elementary and Middle Level, STAMS: Strategies to Achieve Mathematics Success High School, Games People Play: Game Theory

High School, ABC News Primetime Special on Game Theory High School, The Joy of Mathematics

High School, Freakonomics: The Movie



Cycle Year 2027-2028

Elementary, Character Counts

Elementary, Second Step

Elementary and Middle Level, Mind Up

Elementary (Grade 5) and Middle Level, KNOW/FLASH (Growing Up Awareness)

Elementary (Grade 5) and Middle Level, Puberty Education Always Changing Boys and Girls

Middle Level, LifeSkills Training

Middle Level, Riding the Waves - Youth Suicide Prevention

Middle Level and High School, Character Strong

High School, Health: Making Life Choices

High School, Circles

High School, Bully

High School, Freedom Writers

High School, Mom at Sixteen

High School, The Pregnancy Project

Middle Level, National Middle School Cadet Corps

High School, Health, Safety, and Nutrition for the Young Child

High School, Developmentally Appropriate Practices in Early Childhood Education High School, The Art of Awareness

High School, Air Rifle Training and Competition

High School, Beyond Fair Chase: The Ethic and Tradition of Hunting High School, Mental Training in Shooting

High School, Rifle Steps to Success High School, With Winning in Mind High School, Horse Soldiers

High School, The Founders' Constitution High School, American Military History

High School, Core Plus, Aerospace Joint Apprenticeship Committee High School, Precision Machining Technology

High School, Focus on Photography


Cycle Year 2028-2029

Elementary, Building Blocks of Science

Elementary, Science for the Classroom

Mid-Level Campus Science and Technology for Children, Secondary

Mid-Level Campus Open Science Education

Mid-Level Campus Populations and Ecosystems

High School, Biology by Miller and Levine

High School, Biology for High School

High School, Campbell Biology, 12th Edition

High School, College Physics, 9th Edition

High School, Conceptual Physics

High School, Pearson Chemistry

High School, Zumdahl Chemistry, 4th Edition

High School, Chemistry: The Central Science

High School, Physical Science: Concept in Action

High School, Living in the Environment , AP Edition

High School, Forensic Science: Fundamentals and Investigations by Bertino

High School, Principles of Athletic Training: A Competency-Based Approach, 14th Edition

High School, Essentials of Human Anatomy and Physiology by Marieb

High School, Animal Science: Biology and Technology

High School, Pearson Environmental Science

High School, Introduction to Horticulture, 4th Edition


Elementary, Making Music



Cycle Year 2029-2030

Grade 4, Washington: Past and Present, Directed Media

Grade 5, History Alive! America's Past, TCI

Grade 5, We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution, Level 1, Center for Civic Education

Mid-Level, World Geography, Houghton-Mifflin-Harcourt

Mid-Level, The Washington Journey, Gibbs Smith

Mid-Level, History Alive! The United States Through Industrialism, TCI

Mid-Level, We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution, Level 2, Center for Civic Education

High School, Ancient World History: Patterns of Interaction, Holt McDougal

High School, The Americans: Reconstruction to the 21st Century, Holt McDougal

High School, The Founders' Constitution (Volumes 1-5), Liberty Fund

High School, Horse Soldiers, Simon & Schuster

High School, American Military History (Volumes 1 & 2), Center for Military History

High School, For the Common Defense: A Military History, Free Press

High School, Army JROTC: Leadership Education and Training, AdvancED

High School, The Enduring Vision, Cengage

High School, Debating the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1968, Rowman & Littlefield

High School, American Government and Politics Today, Wadsworth Cengage

High School, Civics: Government and Economics in Action, Prentice Hall

High School, Psychology: A Discovery Experience, South-Western Cengage

High School, CHS Psychology: Essentials of Psychology Concepts and Applications, Cengage

High School, Contemporary Economics, Routledge

High School, Film, Words on the Bathroom Walls, Roadside Attractions

High School, Film, Inside Out, Pixar