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title: Assignment Types Overview
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# Assignment Types Overview

## Every assignment is built to reinforce comprehension or train students to think critically

NP courses use a variety of assignment types to build historical literacy, support writing development, and reinforce comprehension and retention. Each assignment is intentionally designed to help students think like historians.

The best way to view the different assignment types across all NP courses is to skim the handbook for the course(s) in question:

- [American History handbook](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1KpOHsZCQUCvYi7z-lq1WBUiF0DwlBkEe&usp=drive_fs)
- [World History handbook](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1mvdeMrHJ2X7xYaSkRfu0_hzFnAkvGX2i&usp=drive_fs)
- [Media Literacy handbook](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1EsaRtpjshTk9jb6zSI2qU-2DsTKEvh2c&usp=drive_fs)
- [Pirates handbook](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1LdGmAuN1mBmir6oQumEDn6TzRv8ukzmy&usp=drive_fs)
- [History of Alaska handbook](https://drive.google.com/open?id=12PWBkz52oICsgRmguUR_K5qLuaTk4lxL&usp=drive_fs)
- [History of Free Speech handbook](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1n_QtC_T9lZFvULlXglwOvys0nFfJsdot&usp=drive_fs)

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