Dealing With Difficulty - Grade 11
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.
This Dealing With Difficulty study features two cycles of work. Each could be undertaken as a brief, stand-alone study of a single text that a teacher would ideally implement in coordination with her or his peers. On the other hand, there are benefits to working through the unit as written, as students will practice and reflect on certain methods in the first part of the unit that are reinforced in the second.
Table of Contents
Text Audio
Writing Tasks
Title: S-6: Writing About “Halloween Party”
Session 6
Title: S-11: Writing About Winthrop’s “Little Speech on Liberty”
Session 11
Charts for Discussion
Title: S-1: Difficulty in “Halloween Party” What and Why?
Session 1
Title: S-7: Difficulty in “Little Speech on Liberty” What and Why?
Session 7
Title: S-9: Sections 4 and 5: A Translation
Session 9
Forms and Graphic Organizers
Title: S-3: Retelling “Halloween Party” Search and Study
Session 3
Title: S-4: Retelling “Halloween Party” Making Sense of Difficult Moments
Session 4