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.

Compare to these two other stories looking for commonalities in terms of character traits that are shared. Look for what the individual saw in themsel...

In 3-5 sentences indentify what factors led to the death of the Tsar. In your answer identify the state of the world at the time, why he was disliked,...

The author ends this chapter with a hint at what is to come, a cliffhanger of sorts, and the reader must infer the meaning of her words. What is your ...

Read the entire chapter or brief. Write one paragraph (3-5 sentences) explaining how the text presents information (e.g. sequentially, comparatively, ...

Integrate information from family pictures and the text to analyze why some of the firing squad had to be replaced when the family was being murdered....

Read two informational articles about the same topic (selected by your teacher). Make a list of phrases that describe similar themes found in both art...

Read two informational articles about the same topic (selected by your teacher). Make a list of synonyms (closely related words) found in both article...

Read two informational articles about the same topic (selected by your teacher). Write a 7-9 paragraph essay comparing and contrasting the ideas in th...

Read the entire chapter or brief and choose one quantitative or technical source of information (e.g., in charts, graphs, research data) and one text ...

Read the entire chapter or brief and choose one visual source of information (e.g., in a flowchart, diagram, model, graph, or table) and one text sour...

Read the entire chapter or brief and choose one visual source of information (e.g., in charts, graphs, photographs, videos, or maps) and one text sour...

Look at the media that is in the media stream from Chapter 1. There are three items that enhance Chapter 1. After reading the chapter, write a paragra...

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