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.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes questions to help students explore Charles Dickens' novel, Oliver Twist--a classic morality tale of a starving orphan caught between opposing forces of good and evil and a powerful indictment of Victorian England's Poor Laws.

This introductory lesson asks students to evaluate the use of magical realism in the first chapter of One Hundred Years of Solitude.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes questions, discussion topics, and an author biography designed to help students in exploring Margaret Atwood's post-apocalyptic book, Oryx and Crake.

Students will analyze ambiguity in Shakespeare's meter using imperfect iambic pentameter lines from Julius Caesar 1.2.1-71. Students will evaluate how the lines reveal character motivation.

This page contains discussion questions for Peace Like a River by Leif Enger.

In this lesson, students are introduced to Peter Keating, a main antagonist of Howard Roark in The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. Students receive background information from a powerpoint presentation before reading and paying attention to the relationships Keating develops in the novel.

In the TED Ed lesson focused on poetry, students will explore repetition in poetry such as assonance, consonance, alliteration, and rhyme. Discussion questions and additional resources are available in the sidebar.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction, discussion questions, and author biography designed to enhance student reading of Pulitzer Prize winner Philip Roth’s novel, The Plot Against America. Set in Newark, New Jersey, in the early 1940s, The Plot Against America tells the story of the Roth family and Jews across the country when the isolationist aviation hero Charles Lindbergh is elected president of the United States.

This poem guide provides a framework for understanding and analyzing Gwendolyn Brooks poem, "kitchenette building."

In this TED Ed lesson focused on poetry, students will explore early 20th century great poet Guillaume Apollinaire. Geneviève Emy shows how during Apollinaire’s short lifetime he created poetry that combined text and image in a way that seemingly predicted a artistic revolution to come. Discussion questions and additional resources available in the sidebar.

In this lesson plan unit, students will complete four different lessons to delve deeply into the poem and its meaning and structure.

Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun provides a compelling and honest look into one family's aspirations to move to another Chicago neighborhood and the thunderous crash of a reality that raises questions about for whom the "American Dream" is accessible.

This resource contains the text of Rappaccini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne as well as accompanying reading and discussion questions.

Through various poems, students will consider the elements involved in reading poetry aloud.

This page contains discussion questions for Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, as well as a summary of the book and background information on the author.