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- Pre-K - 2nd
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Students respond to a story starters about a dinosaur, present, pet store, puppy or another topic of interest to primary-grade students. They dictate or write stories in response to 15 story starters designed to develop language skills.
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students improve their listening, comprehension and spelling abilities by practicing the art of dictation. After a lecture/demo, students attempt to write down what the teacher dictates without error. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students experiment with being a dictator and sorting students into "desirable" and "undesirable" groups. They discuss freedoms and contrast U.S. government to dictatorships. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten
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Students dictate letter to Santa after a fun brainstorming session. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students explore the world of Ancient Rome in this thirteen lessons unit. the rise and fall of the Roman Empire is probed. The ideals that inspired the people's sense of purpose are developed in these lessons. Full Review »
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- 11th - Higher Ed
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Students practice their conversational English Language skills, dictation skills, and explore job hunting/interview vocabulary. Students gain valuable experience and familiarity with job hunting language. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students read the article "Bush Lays Out Goals for Iraq: Self-Rule and Stability" and examine the keys points from President Bush's speech about the autonomy in Iraq. Students work in groups to research dictators who had been overthrown and the governments that came into power after them. They then apply this information and write an analysis of what they believe might happen to Iraq when it becomes a sovereign state. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 5th
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Students are explained that the most famous general of the Roman Republic was Julius Caesar. They discuss the pros and cons of living with a dictator. Students discuss what they believe to be the postive and negative aspects of a dictatorship. They select one student to seve as dictator for the day. Full Review »
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- 7th - 9th
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Students practice their writing and spelling skills by dictating an assignment in WordPerfect. Lesson can be adapted is several ways to address different learning levels as well as varying levels of computer skills. Once dictation is completed, they compare to a printed handout of the dictation for any error correction. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students, while in the computer lab, practice improving their harmonic dictation by using the computer program Auralia. They stress mastery of melodic dictation to the ear and listen the Beatles song "Let it Be," containing a basic chord progression. Full Review »

