Dealing With Difficulty - Grade 6

The Dealing With Difficulty series was conceived as part of Inquiry By Design’s efforts to ensure that secondary students have regular and supported opportunities to work with difficult texts. Each module at each grade level is an excursion into difficulty that is important in and of itself, but that is also valuable because it supplies a basis for reflection and comparison in subsequent experiences with difficult texts.

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Table of Contents

Text Audio

Joyas Voladoras by Brian Doyle

Exhilaration is the Breeze by Emily Dickinson

“Hope” is the thing with feathers by Emily Dickinson

Writing Tasks

Title: S-6: Assignment #1 Writing About “Joyas Voladoras”

Session 6

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Title: S-10: Assignment #2 Writing About “Exhilaration is the breeze”

Session 10

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Charts for Discussion

Title: S-1: Difficulty in “Joyas Voladoras” What and Why?

Session 1

 

Title: S-7: Difficulty in Dickinson What and Why?

Session 7

Forms and Graphic Organizers

Title: S-3: Retelling “Joyas Voladoras” Part 1: Search and Study

Session 3

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Title: S-4: Retelling “Joyas Voladoras” Part 2: Making Sense of Difficult Moments

Session 4

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