This friendly, colorful guide will help middle schoolers ace English class with confidence and ease. 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. 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.