Seventh Grade Lesson Plans

Titles that appear in bold represent the best of the "Share the Knowledge" units presented over the years at Core Knowledge National Conferences.

Language Arts/English

I. Writing, Grammar, and Usage

• City for Sale: Writing Research and Technology (2005)
• Moving With Your Roots (2005)

II. Poetry

• Poetic Justice: A Study of Poe's Famous Works (2000)

III. Fiction, Nonfiction, and Drama

• Exploring the Dark Heart of an Obsessive Mind (2006)
• The Tools of Fiction: Building a Scaffold from which to Examine “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant (2005)
• Voice from the Holocaust: A Message of Hope (2004)
• A Passport to WWII and the Holocaust (2004)
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Getting Started with Literature Circles (2004)
• Life's Lessons: Survival of the Fittest (2001)
• The Play's the Thing: The Drama of Cyrano de Bergerac (1999)
• Cyrano de Bergerac: Understanding Drama through Characterization and Dialogue (2003)

IV. Foreign Phrases Commonly Used in English

• Integrating Vocabulary and Latin Phrases Across the Curriculum (2008)

History and Geography

I. America Becomes a World Power

• America Becomes a World Power (2000)

II. World War I, "The Great War"

• Washington, D.C.: The Ultimate Core Knowledge Field Trip (2004)
• The Great War Wasn't Great Enough to End All Wars (2002)

III. Russian Revolution

• The Russian Revolution (2007)

VI. America from the Twenties to the New Deal

• The Crash, the Dust, and the New Deal (2007)
• The Great Depression (2001)
• Giggle Water and Struggle Buggies (2003)

V. World War II

• Washington, D.C.: The Ultimate Core Knowledge Field Trip (2004)
• World War II in the Pacific and the End of the War (2004)
• A Passport to WWII and the Holocaust (2004)
• Voice from the Holocaust: A Message of Hope (2004)
• A Fence Away from Freedom (2001)
• Anne Frank and Miep Gies (2000)
• "Brother, can you spare a dime?": The Great Depression (1998)
• Teaching Persuasive Speaking and History with Documents: Declaration of War on Japan and Justice Will Be Done (2003)

VI. Geography of the United States

• Geography of the United States (2007) large file: 4.5Mb

Visual Arts

I. Art History: Periods and Schools

• Make Monet, Monet! (2006)
• The Lamp Project: Creating for Community (2006)
• Picasso: Artist Extraordinaire (2003)
• Dreaming with Marc Chagall (2004)
• A Study of Van Gogh's "The Starry Night" (1998)

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