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Activities by Curricular area: Language Arts

1. Poetic Letter Home
2. Minutes to Poems
3. Mining for Vocabulary
4. Nevada's Boomtown: A Monologue
5. Who's in Charge Here?
6. Mining Ads
7. Scavenger Hunt
8. Wanna Work Here?
9. The End of the Road
10. A Safe Mine
11. The Lay of the Land
12. Managing the Holdings
13. Being Civically Minded: Women's Volunteer Groups
14. Comical History
15. Get Your Papers Here!
16. What's Your Angle?
17. Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Boys and Girls
18. And Now for a Commercial Break

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