Dealing With Difficulty - Grade 7

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

Next to god of course america i by E.E. Cummings
The Deer at Providencia by Annie Dillard
Audio File Link
(Youtube link)

Writing Tasks

Title: S-4: Writing About “next to of course god america i. . .”

Session 4

PDF

Title: S-8: Writing About “The Deer at Providencia”

Session 8

PDF

Charts for Discussion

Title: S-1: Difficulty in “next to of course god america i…” What and Why?

Session 1

Title: S-2: Making Sense of “next to of course god america i. . .”

Session 2

Title: S-5: Difficulty in “The Deer at Providencia” What and Why?

Teacher Manual Instructions:

Session 5

Title: S-6: Making Sense of “The Deer at Providencia”

Session 6