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Colorado Grade 7 Lesson Plans
English/Language Arts
- Where Did That Come From? Foreign Phrases (2005)
- Cyrano De Bergerac Nose His Terms: Studying Drama Through Literary Terms And Elements Of Fiction (2005)
- Speeches and Essays - To Talk or Not to Talk (2004)
- Grammar-Relative for Life, Part 1 (2004)
- Grammar-Relative for Life, Part 2 (2004)
- Moving With Your Roots (2004)
- The Tools of Fiction: Building a Scaffold from which to Examine “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant (2004)
- Short Stories and the Art of Storytelling (2004)
- How Big was Cyrano’s Nose? Comparing Sources on Cyrano de Bergerac (2004)
- Just the Facts: Essays, Speeches and the News (2004)
- Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl (2003)
- 7th Grade Essays: Literature Circle Guide (2003)
- It’s Time to Do Your Roots! (2003)
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Getting Started With Literature Circles (2003)
- Spelling As Easy As ABC (2003)
- Poetry Piece-by-Piece (2003)
- The Sea of Sentences: Riding The Ebb and Flow of The Human Expression (2003)
- Who's Who?: An Analysis of Main Characters in Core Knowledge Short Stories (2002)
- Better Communication Skills: Listening, Discussions, and Speaking (2002)
- A Science Biographical Researched Speech (2002)
- Elements of Poetry (2002)
- Call Of The Wild (2002)
- Cyrano de Bergerac (2002)
- "An Investigative Dissertation on Global Confrontation in the Early Nineteenth Century": A Research Paper on World War I (2002)
- Why Do We Say That? Latin / Greek Vocabulary and Foreign Phrases Commonly Used in English (2002)
- Prepositions, Anyone? (2001)
- Images and Impressions (2000)
History & Geography
- The Rise of Totalitarianism in Europe (2005)
- Seeing Red at the Winter Palace (2002)
- The Crash, the Dust, and the New Deal (2005)
- More Power to US! (2005)
- Peace, Land, Bread—A History of the Russian Revolution (2004)
- Death of a Dynasty: An Examination of Elements Contributing to the Russian Revolution (2004)
- N.I.M.S.A and World War I (2003)
- The Roar of Peace (2003)
- America the Beautiful (2002)
- A Deal for Relief (2003)
- Driven Back to War, World War II (2002)
- Teaching Persuasive Speaking and History with Documents: Declaration of War on Japan and Justice Will Be Done (2002)
- It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times...The Roaring 20's (2001)
- Passport to Europe (2001)
- The Holocaust (2000)
- Flappers: A Culture Change of the Twenties (1999)
- The Beginning of US Imperialism and the Spanish American War (1999)
- The Great Depression (1999)

