Dealing With Difficulty - Grade 10

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 unit 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

Crabs Dig Holes According to the Size of Their Shells by James Alan McPherson
Allegory of the Cave by Plato 

Writing Tasks

Title: S-6: Writing About “Crabs Dig Holes…”

Session 6

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Title: S-12: Writing About “Allegory of the Cave”

 

Session 12

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Charts for Discussion

Title: S-1: Difficulty in “Crabs Dig Holes” What and Why?

Session 1

Title: S-7: Difficulty in “Allegory of the Cave” What and Why?

Session 7

Title: S-7: Section 1: A Retelling

Session 7

Title: S-7: Retelling Strategies

Session 7

Title: S-8: Section 2: A Retelling

Session 8

Title: S-8: Section 3: A Retelling

Session 8

Title: S-9: Section 4: A Retelling

Session 9

Title: S-10: Section 5: A Retelling

Session 10

Forms and Graphic Organizers

Title: S-3: Retelling “Crabs Dig Holes” Search and Study

Session 3

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Title: S-4: Retelling “Crabs Dig Holes” Making Sense of Difficult Moments

Session 4

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