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.

The author opens this chapter by stating that the two masters "could not have been more different." Trace the evidence the author uses to support her ...

Read the entire chapter or brief. Choose one quantitative or technical source of information written in text form and create a table or chart represen...

What technological tools were probably used in this story?

Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text. Profoundly deaf, Ludwig van Beethoven w...

Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., a characters thoughts, words, or ...

Draw your favorite scene from the storyand write a 5-7 sentence paragraph about it.

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

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is an action fantasy film set in the late 19th century. The movie features a variety of fictional literary chara...

The author of Q & A, Vikas Swarup, sets his novels in his native India. Describe the setting, drawing on specific details in the text. Cite Jamal ...

The author, Dan Brown, sets his novels in Vatican City. Describe the setting, drawing on specific details in the text. Cite Dr. Robert Langdons though...

Not being born into royalty, Leonidas is trained as a soldier just like all other healthy boys in Sparta. Despite a normal beginning, Leonidas becomes...

Night at the Museum is a fictional story that features actual characters from history. Pick one of these five characters from the movie: Meriwether Le...

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