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.

Take a story and analyze how certain lines of dialogue or things that happened in the story revealed things about the characters or caused a character...

Read your story observing how various elements interact. How does the setting shape the characters, how do the characters shape the plot, and how the ...

Create a time line for the story, noting for each time entry the setting of the scene. Write a 300 word essay describing how the setting, the characte...

Stieg Larsson sets his novels in his native Sweden. Analyze how the setting shapes the main character, Lisbeth Salander, and the plot of the story. Ci...

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...

The author, Dan Brown, sets his novels in Vatican City. Analyze how the setting shapes the main character, Dr. Robert Langdon, and the plot of the sto...

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

Take a story and analyze how setting, characters, or the drama in the story interact to make the story come alive for the reader. Next, rewrite part o...

The author of Q & A, Vikas Swarup, sets his novels in his native India. Analyze how the setting shapes the main character, Jamal Malik, and the pl...

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 titled "Baseball Cards" and follow all the provided links within the story. This Awesome Story is the story behind the sport of...

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...

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