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.

Analyze the interactions between individuals, events, and ideas in a text. Read the entire story. Analyze how the idea that slaves do not have the sam...

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...

In two stories of the same type (biography, disaster, history, etc.), analyze how ideas or claims in the stories are developed and refined by particul...

Analyze one survivor's story from before and after the tsunami hit. Choose one person from the story and write a short essay about how the Tsunami aff...

From this story, select a primary or secondary text provided in the media assets (use the "MediaStream" on the right). Analyze the text. Determine the...

Read the entire chapters or briefs and select two different point of views for the topic. Determine each author�s point of view or purpose and write t...

Read the entire chapter or brief and determine the author�s point of view or purpose. Write a paragraph (3-5 sentences) describing how the author dist...

From this story, select a primary or secondary text provided in the media assets (use the "MediaStream" on the right). Analyze the text. Determine the...

A primary source is a first-hand document, a recording, an artifact, or other source of information that was created during the event or the time peri...

Choose a subject or key scene in your story. Using visual or multimedia elements accompanying the story, or others you have found or developed, descri...

Locate seminal documents from U.S. History in AwesomeStories. Compare these documents in theme and concepts. How do the themes change through time, ho...

Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact. Profoundly deaf, Ludwig van Beethoven writes extraordinary classical music that is still...

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