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• Communication Standards
• Reasoning and Problem Solving Standards
• Personal Development Standards
• Civic and Social Responsibility Standards
• Arts, Language and Literature Standards
• History and Social Studies Standards
• Science, Mathmatics and Technology Standards

• Familiar stories with a new twist designed to increase reading comprehension and retention and facilitate student discussion by enabling them to more clearly recognize the relevance of the story to their own lives.
• Original stories, again designed to stimulate interest and facilitate learning by their relevance to choices students have to make on a daily basis
• Autobigraphical and biographical sketches of famous and not so famous individuals designed to empower young people with the ablity to make responsible choices by helping them recognize:
  • Choices some of these people made when they were still small children that affected the whole of their lives
  • Choices some of them made which enabled them to overcome serious handicaps and difficulties in their lives
  • Choices others have made that illlustrate the effort required for them to accomplish remarkable things and the rewards of having made the effort

• Although the lessons may be taught in any order at any time, and you may wish to address particular class or individual needs with specific lessons, the lessons in The Seven C's of Thinking Clearly are presented in sequential sections designed to build one on the other.
• Section One, Choosing to Avoid Faulty Thinking: These lessons are designed to help students recognize and avoid dysfunctional thinking habits that are so common and so awfully destructive of human happiness. Unfortunately these thinking habits seem to require no effort at all to acquire.
• Section Two, Choosing to Develop the Seven C Skills: These lessons focus on helping students develop seven thinking skills necessary for overcoming faulty thinking and are essential for accomplishing anything worth while in life. Unfortunately, these thinking skills seem to require a great deal of effort to acquire in any significant measure.
• Section Three, Choosing to Be Personally Responsible: This section focuses on individual accountability for individual choices and actions. Once students are able to recognize the thoughts and behaviors that limit their progress, and that no one else can control these thoughts and behaviors, they are ready to accept greater personal responsibility for their lives.
• Section Four, Choosing to Respect Myself: When students accept greater responsibility for their choices, they are able to take the next step in making choices they can feel good about. An important element of these lessons is helping them to recognize benefits of their own uniqueness and recognize perfection is not a pre-requisite for self-respect.
• Section Five, Choosing to Respect Others: When individuals do not respect themselves, it is more difficult for them to respect others. This section is designed to help students recognize how our individual differences add interest and variety to life and also how these differences make possible unique individual contributions to the benefit of all.
• Section Six, Choosing to Be Trustworthy: The lessons in this section focus on helping students understand that a free society is based on mutual trust and that individual and collective safety, progress and happiness is dependent on this trust.

• The Teaching Stragtegies in the Seven C's of Thinking Clearly contain mental hooks intended to create a cocklebur effect. For example:
• While The Seven C's of Thinking Clearly contains a rich literature base, there are also a wide variety of other activities designed to address varied learning styles. A number of lessons can be presented as Dynamid Duos in which the same idea is presented in both in a literature format and an activity format which improves both comprehension and retention.
• The iconic characters employed in The CT Team, The Stink'n Think'n Gang and EPT provide valuable discussion vehicles which are easily transferrable to other lesson materials you have. These characters can significantly increase reading comprehension and retention by establishing the relevance of the ideas in the minds of your students. These characters not only enable students to connect the dots between the particular lesson and their lives, they are able to transfer this knowledge to other information and events they are experiencing in their lives.
These teaching strategies are easily transferrable to other curriculum resources you are using as well.

In addition to the Online Lesson Finder* available at this site, a Character Trait Cross Reference Index along with listings of most of the stories (Great Lessons from Great Lives and Great Lessons from Great Stories) can be found at the end of each book. Combined they provide you with an unparalleled ability to find lessons specifically suited to your needs at any particular time as well as a fully developed lesson plan including a synopsis of the lesson, the primary focus of the lesson, and the core curriculum requirements addressed by the lesson.

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