The following lesson plan uses Guy De Maupassant's "The Necklace" to guide students through a close annotated reading of the short story with an emphasis on insight, comprehension, analysis, characterization, structure, tone, and gathering of textual support.

In this lesson, students will focus on analyzing how the structure of Tim O'Brien's "On the Rainy River" contribute to the development of meaning in the text.

This unit is a study of the shifts in narrative voice and literary genres that Melville makes throughout Moby-Dick. It serves to introduce students to several unique features of the novel without demanding as much class time as would reading the entire text. The lessons comprise a series of close readings of passages from the novel.

A teachers guide for The Memory of Things by Gae Polisner, including questions for comprehension while reading, prompts for class discussion, and suggested assignments post-read.

In this lesson, students will use textual evidence from Tim O'Brien's "On the Rainy River" to write a paragraph on how a part of the text contributes to the structure and overall meaning of the text as a whole.

In this lesson, students learn about Shakespeare's famous comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream by acting the play out, based on a heavily edited script. Students work in groups to perfect a scene from the play, which may be recorded and put together to complete the performance.

The activities in this lesson invite students to focus on the characters from A Midsummer Night's Dream, to describe and analyze their conflicts, and then to watch how those conflicts get resolved.

This teacher's guide for The Milk of Birds by Sylvia Whiman includes prereading research activities, discussion questions to follow the book, and postreading activities.

This literacy assessment includes two text excerpts and 13 text-dependent questions and explanatory information for teachers regarding alignment to the CCSS.

This lesson encourages students to closely examine a singular aspect of a poem by writing a mirror poem: a poem that imitates another in a specific chosen way. Students read a poem, then write a mirror poem copying an element of the first one as a way of analyzing its use of a specific poetic technique.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction, discussion questions, and author biography designed to enhance student reading of author Nancy Rawles’s powerful, eloquent novel, My Jim.

A teachers guide for My Sisters' Voices: Teenage Girls of Color Speak Out by Iris Jacob including questions for deeper comprehension, exercises for the class, and suggestions for further reading.

This lesson introduces narrative poems by sharing several classic examples. Then, students take a turn at writing their own narrative poems, telling the stories they want to tell in stanzas instead of paragraphs.

In this lesson on Toni Morrison's novel Beloved, students will do the following: represent a a secton of the novel visually; present and discuss their visual intepretations; analyze three connected sections of the novel, focusing on the relationship between language and meaning; and synthesize their understanding of those sections in a brief, written response. Focus questions and rubric materials available.

In this lesson, students read a humorous story by Nathaniel Hawthorne and, as part of a curriculum unit on American literary humor, compare it to other American literary humorists in order to gain perspective on each writer's brand of humor and its significance within the context of American literary tradition.

A teachers guide for The Natural by Bernard Malamud including questions for reading comprehension, prompts for class discussion, exercises post-read, and suggestions for further reading.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction, discussion questions, suggested reading list, and author biography intended to enhance student conversation about author Kazuo Ishiguro's science fiction novel, Never Let Me Go, a brilliantly achieved story of nostalgia for a lost childhood.

This page contains a set of discussion questions for Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich.

This guide to A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly includes background information on the events that inspired the novel, an interview with the author, a set of discussion questions, and suggestions for further reading.

This four-week unit focuses on the theme of nostalgia. Students will study several genres of literature (poetry, nonfiction, fiction) and write informal and formal analytical commentaries. Students will also do writing about their own childhood memories.