This page contains discussion questions for Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction, discussion questions, and an author biography designed to enhance student discussion of Mark Dunn's book, Ella Minnow Pea, a satirical novel of language and ideas.

This Random House for High School Teachers teacher's guide includes an introduction and overview; discussion questions; author biography; and suggestions for further reading designed to enhance student discussion of Mark Dunn's book, Ella Minnow Pea, a satirical novel of language and ideas.

This page contains a set of discussion questions for Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons.

In this Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide to Jane Austen's Emma, students will explore discussion questions designed to enhance understanding of theme, setting, and character analysis.

This page contains a summary and detailed analysis of The End of Something by Ernest Hemingway, as well as in-depth discussion questions and prompts for response.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes discussion questions designed to enhance student discussion of Michael Ondaatje's novel, The English Patient, winner of the Booker Prize. This book showcases that while events taking place in the outside world prove that history has reached a definitive turning point, the four protagonists carry on a remote, intensely personal existence as they play out their interior drama.

Students will create a visual character map examining connections between characters and developing inferences about character motivation in Shakespeare's Hamlet.

In this lesson, students will focus on how the characters help develop the plot in "On the Rainy River" from Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried.

In the TED Ed lesson focused on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, students will explore the different strands of thought about art, myth science and family that are woven together in the seminal novel. Discussion questions and additional resources available in the sidebar.

In this TED Ed lesson focused on Homer's "Odyssey," students will explore the cultural background of the work and discuss the significance of its themes. Discussion questions and additional resources available in the sidebar.

In this lesson students use art and poetry to explore and understand the major characteristics of the Romantic period. After learning about the Romantic period students deepen their understanding through an evaluation of William Wordsworth's definition of poetry. Students then complete an explication of a painting from the Romantic period. Finally, students complete a literary analysis of a Wordsworth poem followed by an essay showing their understanding of Romanticism.

This essay prompt can serve as a culmination of the study of Their Eyes Were Watching God. A thorough study of the text allows students to follow several motifs throughout the text like roads, fences and gates, horizons, and the stages of trees. This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.

This resource provides a lesson designed to help students understand the use of satire and the myriad technicques that authors may use to add it to their writing. Students use the film Shrek to examine the four techniques of exaggeration, incongruity, reversal and parody. Students prove their understanding by using satire to rewrite a fairly tale.

This follow-up assignment to the reading of Chaucer's General Prologue gives students the opportunity to work in a collaborative setting with technology while explicating text and researching historical infromation. Aditionally students will work as a team to create group wikis.

Explore banned books, population density, religion, and global literacy related to Fahrenheit 451by Ray Bradbury.

In this unit based on Walter Dean Myer's Fallen Angels, students will learn vocabulary, complete chapter based and book based writing assignments and activities, conduct a Vietnam web search, and choose a final project.

In this lesson, students study the effectiveness of the plot of "Things Fall Apart". They complete a story diagram and compete in a debate regarding the effectiveness of the plot of the novel.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction, questions, and suggestions for further reading designed to enhance discussion of J. California Cooper's book, Family.

William Faulkner's self-proclaimed masterpiece, As I Lay Dying, originally published in 1930, is a fascinating exploration of the many voices found in a Southern family and community. The following curriculum unit examines the novel's use of multiple voices in its narrative.