Languages and literacy
Analytical essay planner: how reports frame a school travel trial
Plan a multi-paragraph essay that compares how two fictional reports frame the same school travel proposal for different readers.
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Explain an inference.
Read The Keeper’s Lantern. Find stated details, consider vocabulary in context and connect an inference to a quotation.
Find a clueMake an inferenceGive a reason
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Support one interpretation with words from the story, then summarise the change that matters.
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Questions about teaching in the United States
Is there one US curriculum?
No. State, district and school requirements vary. Use the framework and course expectations your school follows.
Are Common Core, NGSS and AP interchangeable?
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