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 about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and follow all the provided links within the story. This Awesome Story is the story ...

Read the Awesome Story about the assassination of John F. Kennedy and follow all the provided links within the story. This Awesome Story is the story ...

Find two readings on the same topic, to discern similarities and differences. List five similarities and five differences on a graphic organizer of yo...

From this story, analyze the presentation of events from two different sources provided in the text or the media assets (use the "MediaStream" on the ...

Read the story with attention to how individuals, events and ideas influence and support each other in the text. Note distinctions created between ind...

Beane and Paul DePodesta (Jonah Hill), an Oakland As scout, finds a method to pick baseball players using limited funds. Bill James creates a method t...

Read the entire story. Analyze how the ideas that the blacks carry diseases and are inferior to whites influence how blacks are treated. Also analyze ...

Read the story with attention to how individuals, events and ideas influence or support each other in the text. Write 3 to 5 paragraphs describing the...

Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot). Despite a humble beginning, Antwone Fi...

After reading and analyzing the story, write one paragrpah about each major idea or even including how they are introduced and developed, and how the ...

Read the story with attention to how individuals, events, and ideas are introduced, illustrated and elaborated. Write one paragraph on the introductio...

Most children have heard the ghoulish nursery rhyme "Lizzie Borden took an axe -Gave her mother forty whacks-When she saw what she had done-She gave h...

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