Assign this text to deeply engage your students!

Actively Learn provides free ELA, science, and social studies digital content—short stories, primary sources, textbook sections, science articles, novels, videos, and more—and embeds them with assignments aligned to standards for all 50 states that you can assign immediately or customize for your students.

Whether you’re looking for “The Tell-Tale Heart,” The Hate U Give, “The Gettysburg Address,” or current science articles and simulations, Actively Learn is the free go-to source to help you guide your students' growth in critical thinking all year.

Teaching How to Transform an Everyday, Ordinary Hoop Court into a Place of Higher Learning and You at the Podium

How to Transform an Everyday, Ordinary Hoop Court into a Place of Higher Learning and You at the Podium

An unnamed narrator spends his summer playing basketball and learning important life lessons.

Matt de la Peña
FLYING LESSONS & OTHER STORIES: How to Transform an Everyday, Ordinary Hoop Court into a Place of Higher Learning and You at the Podium. Text copyright © 2001 by Matt de la Peña. Reprinted by permission of Writers House LLC acting as agent for the author.

ESSENTIAL QUESTION:

In what ways can people show their support of others?
STANDARDS:

DEPTH OF KNOWLEDGE (DOK) LEVELS:

1,2,3
Assign this text to your students for free!