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 Awesome Story behind the movie Jurassic Park and follow all the provided links within the story. Write/type a short essay (at least 15 senten...

Read the Awesome Story about The Perfect Storm and follow all the provided links within the story. Write/type a short essay (at least 15 sentences) ex...

Read the Awesome Story behind the movie Signs and follow all the provided links within the story. In this story behind the movie, learn about the phen...

Read the Awesome Story titled World Trade Center and follow all the provided links within the story. This Awesome Story is about the tragic events tha...

Samuel Bass tries to explain to Northup's "master," Edwin Epps, why slavery is wrong. List the points in his argument and evaluate whether Bass uses e...

Read both the AwesomeStories explanation of events and the transcript of the events in the words of Cyril Evans; how does the story differ from the tr...

This story contains many images from the flu epidemic. Examine at least three different photographs and describe a) how the details emphasized differ ...

The author of the story writes graphically about the conditions of soldiers' lives in the trenches. What is her point of view as she describes them? H...

Choosing one of the oral histories in "The Human Face of War" or "The Last Tommy Gallery," analyze how the author unfolds a series of ideas or events,...

After completing the previous tasks, re-read the quote at the beginning of the preface. Analyze how this quote fits into the context of this story. Wh...

Read both the primary source document (Kaiser Wilhelm's letter) and the chapter "Fatal Rumors." Analyze the word choice of Kaiser Wilhelm and the inte...

In this story, the author uses much material taken directly from Solomon Northup's account of his experience. At other times, she paraphrases and summ...

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