Includes definitions and parts of speech for each main entry, using modern, preferred usages and spellings. Multilevel drama series consists of five student books each with an accompanying teacher's guide. Each book contains five plays dealing with various themes from Canadian history as well as contemporary issues. Teacher's guides provide strategies, idea files, resources, student activities, and an evaluation component. Teachers must preview plays to determine suitability.
Some plays contain profanity and themes related to teenage pregnancy, premarital sex, and so on.
Topics discussed include self-government, aboriginal and commercial fisheries, First Nations education, and the UBC Study Centre. Contentious issues of self-government and aboriginal fishing rights presented with First Nations viewpoint only. L'Engle, Madeline Novel set in contempory New England features Americans encountering Druids of 3000 years ago via a time gate. The story updates the adventures of the Murray family, introduced in A Wrinkle in Time, with Polly, an adolescent girl, as the main character. Multi-level series of student books and teacher's guides addresses skills of studying, writing, reading and listening comprehension, literary concepts, vocabulary, and word analysis.