This PDF allows students to read six nonfiction passages, identify the main idea and text structure, and come up with an appropriate title for each text.
In this lesson on Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart," students will analyze the entire text, focusing on Poe's choices concerning text structure, time, and order of events.
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.
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 mid-unit assessment, students will identify a central idea in "The Tell-Tale Heart" and discuss how point of view and structural choices contribute to the development of that idea.
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 lesson uses a chart and shows three ways to use prediction-making to supplement the reading process. Students use the chart to make predictions either before, during, or after reading.
This lesson introduces new teaching methods for a classic short story. Students and teachers have access to vocabulary terms, a quiz, a powerpoint with background information on the story, and a handout on how to compare the story to an engaging episode of the TV show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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.
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.
A teachers guide for Robert Fitzgerald's translation of The Odyssey by Homer, including background information, advice for approach, questions for basic comprehension for each book, questions for further study for each book, ideas for activities to deepen understanding, and supplemental resources post-read.
This page contains discussion questions for Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
In this mini document based question activity from the DBQ Project, students will examine four texts to discover the clues that foreshadow key events in author John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men.
This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction, discussion questions, and author biography designed to enhance student reading of Tobias Wolff’s first full-length novel Old School, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.