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 the Amistad Incident story, review the documents and other primary sources. What is this story about? What happened to the Africans, what they di...

Read the story and determine the theme or central idea of the story. Describe the development of this theme, noting its development chapter by chapter...

Summarize the text, describing how the story plot unfolds as well as how characters respond as the plot advances. Complete this activity in ...

Describe how the story plot unfolds as well as how characters respond as the plot advances. Complete this Online Plot Graph Organizer. http://www...

CCSS ELA Literacy RL.4.2

Read the Amistad Incident story, look at the images, watch the videos. What is this story about? Write a short report to summarize what happened to th...

What is the theme of this story? Write 3-5 sentences explaining the theme of the story.

With a classmate/partner/shoulder buddy, summarize the text by retelling the most important parts. Make notes as your partner retells the story.

List 7 important events in the story, and list the details that support with the events in writing.

Read the Awesome Story titled Shadowlands and follow all the provided links within the story. This is a story about the famous author Clive Staples (C...

Read the Awesome Story titled C.S. Lewis and follow all the provided links within the story. This is a story about the famous author Clive Staples (C....

Read the first four Chapters on the First Emperor 300-500 words.

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