A teacher's guide to Aldous Huxley's, A Brave New World. Included are chapter-by-chapter discussion questions, writing prompts, and activities.

A comprehensive teacher's guide to Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express. Included are chapter-by-chapter discussion questions, writing prompts, and activities.

A teaching guide for Harper Lee's classic To Kill A Mockingbird. Includes discussion questions, vocabulary, writing and discussion prompts and activities.

In this lesson, students learn to differentiate between denotation and connotation by using associations with names.

This page contains a list of important vocabulary terms for The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe, along with suggestions about how to teach the terms in context.

In this lesson, students will be able to analyze the consequences of defining terrorism in certain ways and learn how different individuals and groups might use the term for political advantage.

This lesson from the New York Times offers suggestions for making TheTimes a low-stress part of your classroom routine, followed by literacy strategies to help address the Standards before, during, and after reading Times content with your students.

Suggestions for making TheTimes a low-stress part of your classroom routine, followed by literacy strategies to help address the Standards before, during, and after reading Times content with your students.

In this lesson, students create a skit using identified vocabulary words and perform it for the class.

This resource provides a lesson designed to guide students through a reading of the short story "Lamb to the Slaughter". Students will read and analyze the text. Afterwards, students will reflect through response to guided questions and write an essay.

This resource provides a lesson that should accompany a reading of Einstein's four short works by Albert Einstein. Included is a speech, letter, and an essay. Students will read an analyze. Afterwards, students will be responsible for completing an essay.

In this video from Shakespeare Uncovered, students explore the use of soliloquy as a device to reveal character and advance plot. They consider how using soliloquy perhaps more truthfully exposes character than other devices like dialogue. In addition, students focus particularly on the famous soliloquy in Hamlet, "To be or not to be," and discuss how and why the topics of his speech are best explored through soliloquy.

This lesson has students use context clues to figure out the meaning of nonsense words as practice for actually figuring out word meanings. Students look at replacement words in a section from The Most Dangerous Game. The Jabberwocky is available for additional practice.

Expose middle school students to a first taste of Shakespeare from the angle of the ghost story and launch into the subject of verbs. In this lesson, they learn how Shakespeare uses verbs to move the action of the play. Students then distinguish generic verbs from vivid verbs by working with selected lines in Hamlet's Ghost scene. Finally they test their knowledge of verbs through a crossword interactive puzzle.

This lesson explores the twofold concept of "arete" (virture and excellence in sports) focusing on the ways in which the concept of arete bridges the gap between philosphy and sports. Students will read and critically evaluate an academic essay arguing that through the concept of arete, the ancient Greeks created a specialized athletic culture.

A series of lessons to introduce students to writing a mutigenre paper. Students will analyze and identify literary elements present in selected novels, work in collaborative groups and sythesize various genres to publish a multigenre webpage.

Creating Facebook-like presentations via Microsoft PowerPoint will engage and motivate students to learn about famous people of the American Revolution. To gain background knowledge prior to their study of the Revolutionary War, students will research people who played an important role during this time period. While sharing their research in their PowerPoint presentations, students provide written feedback.

In this lesson students will listen to examples of several dialects and discuss what they hear about each speaker from the recordings. As a class, students will also define dialect and use Alice Walker's novel the Color Purple to continue their analysis.

In this TED Ed lesson focused on the connotations of the word "Kafkaesque," students will explore Franz Kafka himself and the key ideas in his works that have inspired the usage and meaning conveyed by labeling something as "Kafkaesque." Discussion questions and additional resources available in the sidebar.

This lesson introduces students to the epic poem form and its roots in oral tradition. Students will learn about the epic hero cycle and will learn how to recognize this pattern of events and elements. They will also be introduced to the patterns embedded in these stories that have helped generations of storytellers remember these immense poems.