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.

Stieg Larsson sets his novels in his native Sweden. Describe the setting, drawing on specific details in the text. Cite Lisbeth Salanders thoughts, wo...

Think about the story. Construct a function to model a linear relationship between two quantities. Determine the rate of change and initial value of t...

Read your selected story with partners and each of you should choose a chapter from the story. For each media asset in the story, search the internet ...

With a partner, select a historical story from AwesomeStories and read the full text.In your group of three, discuss the story. Next, independently wr...

With two partners, select a historical story from AwesomeStories and read the full text.In your group of three, discuss the story. Next, independently...

With two partners, select a historical story from AwesomeStories and read the full text.In your group of three, discuss the story. Next, independently...

Make a list of sentences using signal words (if, then, because, since, so) in the text to help identify cause and effect relationships.

Look at these two texts (comparable texts chosen by teacher). Write a list of important ideas from both texts that are similar, using the hyperlinks t...

Read the story. Explore the images, videos, and documents associated with the story. Think about it. What do you think of the story? Now it is yo...

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