How to Plan Rigorous Instruction

Here, you ll learn how to
* Create a rigorous unit assessment to guide your instruction and ensure standards mastery.
* Select rigorous learning materials by examining the type of thinking you want students to engage in and the type of understanding you want them to acquire.
* Choose rigorous instructional strategies by looking at ways to help students grasp new content and acquire new skills, apply what they are learning in a meaningful way, use thinking processes to synthesize new understandings, and adapt these understandings to new contexts across disciplines.
* Create a rigorous learning unit, tailored to your standards and classroom content, and to the students you teach.

The Canterbury Tales. (level 5)

A group of pilgrims travelling to the shrine of Thomas Becket in Canterbury decide that each traveller should tell a story. The Knights tell a tale of high romance. The Pardoner tells a story of death. And the Wife of Bath tells the story of her five husbands and her fight to control the men in her life. But The Tales ends with the story of the perfect marriage and how, if we are enerous to one another, we can find the perfect society.

Dracula. (level 5)

When Jonathan Harker goes to Transylvania to visit Count Dracula on business, he discovers that his client's motives for coming to England are rather more sinister than they first appeared.

The Big Mistake and Other Stories. (level 5)

"Where did you bury him?" "I think it's better if you don't know. Don't worry, nobody will ever find him." Ian thinks he is going to spend a quiet weekend in his uncle's house by the sea - but a late-night encounter with two visitors leads to an unforgettably frightening holiday.... An old man reports a terrible crime, his own murder - before it happens! Inspector Baker has been promised promotion if he can find who stole William Cranberry's diamond necklace. Will he succeed? This collection of six original stories - all with a twist at the end.

The Last of the Mohicans. (level 5)

Set in 1757 during the Seven Years' War between the French and the British, Cora and Alice Munro are on their way to Fort Henry to join their father, the commander. But on their journey their Indian guide, Magua, betrays the group to Iroquois Indians. This is only the beginning of their many adventures.