Learning Tasks

Developed by master teachers, based on standards, tasks for students are provided for each story for quick engagement with the stories on a deeper, reflective, critical-thinking level.

Read and view the story of Theseus from Chapter 5 and read the author's description of Tributes in Hunger Games. Analyze the similarities and differen...

Find audio or video representations of the Awesome Story you are reading within or outside the AwesomeStories website. Compare and contrast a written ...

A common theme from Road to Perdition is the opposition of good and evil. Compare and contrast the fictional portrayal of one of the mobsters (Al Capo...

A common theme from Public Enemies is the opposition of good and evil. Compare and contrast the fictional portrayal of how people dealt with bank robb...

A common theme from The Musketeer is the opposition of good and evil. Compare and contrast the fictional portrayal of how people dealt with traitors a...

Complete a How and Why Characters Change Graphic Organizer: http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson858/change.pdf Provide e...

Draw your favorite scene from the storyand write a 7-9 sentence paragraph about it.

Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., how characters in...

Write 3 paragraphs explaining how the links in the text to the images helped you to understand the text, and support your answers with facts from the ...

Find at least 5 examples of cause and effect in the text. Combine the "cause" sentence with the "effect" sentence by adding signal words. Write 5 sent...

Using evidence from the text to introduce both the lore around Anna Anderson and "Heino" as well as the claim that all family members were killed. Dis...

A primary source is a first-hand document, a recording, an artifact, or other source of information that was created during the event or the time peri...

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