In this Penguin Classics guide to Leo Tolstoy's Crime and Punishment, students will learn the background of the book as well as the author, and deepen their understanding of the text through indepth discussion questions.

In this lesson, students read and discuss poems about crossing borders before creating their own border-crossing poem.  Using a Readers'/Writers' Workshop format, students and teachers explore what it means to cross borders, either literal or figurative, and what we can learn about ourselves and others in a border-crossing experience.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction, discussion questions, and author biography designed to enhance student reading of Crow Lake, Mary Lawson's universal drama of love and misunderstanding recounts a family’s tragic and moving past.

This media gallery explores the inspiration for and reception of The Crucible during the Hollywood Blacklist with videos from the PBS American Masters film, None Without Sin. The videos and support materials are best used during or after a reading of The Crucible. Using video, text, graphic organizers and text-dependent discussion questions, students will better understand the symbolism of The Crucible and why Arthur Miller was compelled to write the play.

This page contains discussion questions for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction, discussion questions, suggested reading list, and author biography designed to enhance student understanding of Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.

In this Penguin Classics guide to Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country, students will learn the background of the book as well as the author, and deepen their understanding of the text through indepth discussion questions.

In this activity, students can create a storyboard capturing the narrative arc in a story with a six-cell storyboard containing the major parts of the plot diagram. For each cell, have students create a scene that follows the story in the sequence using: Exposition, Conflict, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Resolution.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes questions to help students explore Charles Dickens' novel, David Copperfield. The book most closely resembling Dickens' own life, its hero, orphaned as a boy, grows up to discover love and happiness, heartbreak and sorrow amid a cast of eccentrics, innocents, and villains.

In this Penguin Classics guide to Charles Dickens' novel David Copperfield, students will learn the background of the book as well as the author, and deepen their understanding of the text through indepth discussion questions.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction, discussion questions, suggestions for further reading, and author biography designed to enhance student discussion of author Alice Munro's book, Dear Life. Students will explore the quiet drama of her characters’ buried desires, their errors and regrets, and their lives’ most memorable crises and turning points.

This page contains discussion questions for Death Be Not Proud by John Gunther.

In this Penguin Classics guide to James Agee's novel A Death in the Family, students will learn the background of the book as well as the author, and deepen their understanding of the text through indepth discussion questions.

In this Penguin Reader's guide to Death of a Hero by Richard Aldington, students will learn the background of the book as well as the author, and deepen their understanding of the text through indepth discussion questions.

In this Penguin Classics guide to Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman, students will learn the background of the book as well as the author, and deepen their understanding of the text through indepth discussion questions. Suggested supplemental readings are included.

In this lesson on Romeo and Juliet, students will read Act 2.2, lines 62-141 and analyze how Shakespeare uses the dialogue between Romeo and Juliet to develop a theme.

In this Penguin Reader's guide to Herman Hesse's Demian, students will learn the background of the book as well as the author, and deepen their understanding of the text through indepth discussion questions.

This literacy assessment includes an excerpt from the book "Winesburg, Ohio," six text-dependent questions, one optional writing prompt, and explanatory information for teachers regarding alignment to the CCSS.

In this lesson from Read Write Think, students will read Angela Thomas' novel The Hate U Give and then delve into radio interviews that explain the purpose and viewpoints of Black Lives Matter. Topics of study include double consciousness/codeswitching, the Black Panther movement, Tupac Shakur as a an activist, and the complexity of gang culture. Students will explore subject material through excerpts form James Baldwin's essay "Letter from a Region in My MInd" and Ta-Nehisi Coates' "Letter to My Son."

In this lesson on Oedipus the King, students will investigate Oedipus's account of a violent past and explore central ideas in preparation for a mid-unit assessment.