Dealing With Difficulty - Grade 12

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

Of Idleness by Michel de Montaigne

 

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Politics and the English Language by George Orwell
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Writing Tasks

Title: S-5: Writing About “Of Idleness”

Session 5
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Title: S-11: Writing About “Politics and the English Language”

Session 11

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Charts for Discussion

Title: S-1: Difficulty in “Of Idleness” What and Why?

Session 1

Title: S-1: Translating Section #1

Session 1

Title: S-1: Translation Strategies

Session 1

Title: S-2: Translating Section #2

Session 2

Title: S-4: Retelling “Of Idleness”

Session 4

 

Title: S-6: Difficulty in “Politics and the English Language” What and Why?

Session 6

Title: S-6: Orwell’s Introduction: A Translation

Session 6

Title:S-7: Chunk #2: A Translation

Session 7

Title: S-8: Chunk #3: A Translation

Session 8

 

Title: S-9: Chunk #4: A Translation

Session 9

 

Title: S-10: Key Ideas About Political Chaos and the Decay of Language

Session 10