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.

After reading the account in chapters 3-5 and viewing the trailer of the movie, compare and contrast the portrayals of the events. Attempt to unders...

Read the entire chapter or brief. Choose one source other than text (e.g., simulations, video, or multimedia sources, or even your own experiments) an...

Read the entire chapter or brief. Choose one experiments, simulations, video, or multimedia sources and one text source to analyze. Write a paragraph ...

Watch the video, read the official report, and read the AwesomeStories text describing the torpedo attack of the Lusitania. Evaluate the methods of pr...

When you have finished the story, compare and contrast the Red Tails with the story of another flying group, the Flying Tigers. In your answer, includ...

There are many characters in Inglourious Basterds who show strong character as they choose to fight the Nazi control. Pick a character from the movie ...

Primary source texts include drawings and photographs. Analyze the three images that illustrate the sinking of the Lusitania. Compare and contrast the...

When reading the story, watch for spans of years, like "1819-1889" or words like "between 1867 and 1887". Using math, compute how many years came duri...

Think about the story. Create equations in two or more variables to represent relationships between quantities; graph equations on coordinate axes wit...

Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is valid and the evidence is relevant and sufficien...

Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is valid and the evidence is relevant and sufficien...

In a story that contains descriptions of, or links to, eyewitness accounts, compare the text and at least two accounts to identify what is fact and wh...

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