In this lesson on Oedipus the King, students will consider the effects created by Sophocles' unique plot structure.
This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction, questions, and suggestions for further reading designed to enhance discussion of Edwidge Danticat's novel, The Dew Breaker, a powerful exploration of the way history, both personal and political, affects those who are swept up in its sometimes violent path.
In this lesson, students read The Diary of Anne Frank and determine whether or not this book should be a classic based on the criteria given.
In this lesson, students will trace the development of central ideas in both "Hangman" and "Solarium" from Black Swan Green and "Letter One" from Letters to a Young Poet. Then, students will compare and contrast the different texts and how they address similar ideas.
Students will read and analyze sonnets to discover their traditonal forms. Students will chart the poems' characteristics, including the poetic features and their emtional responses to the poems. Then they review the details for similarities, deducing traditional sonnet forms that the poems have in common. After this introduction, students write original sonnets, using one of the poems they have analyzed as a model.
This resource contains a set of discussion questions for The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
This resource contains a set of discussion questions for The Stranger by Albert Camus.
This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction, discussion questions, author biography, and suggested reading list designed to enhance student reading of Jane Hamilton's Disobedience, a novel that offers a fresh look at the age-old problems of love and betrayal, the hard lessons of history, and the fragility and strength of family life.
This lesson provides students an opportunity to read a selection about extended family feuds. It details a boundary dispute that has been longstanding for three generations. Students will discover how two families solve this longstanding dispute.
This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction, discussion questions, and author biography designed to enhance student reading of The Dive from Clausen’s Pier, Ann Packer’s critically acclaimed and bestselling debut novel.
This resource helps students explore the major aspects of the book, Divergent.
In this Penguin Classics guide to Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy, students will learn the background of the book as well as the author, and deepen their understanding of the text through indepth discussion questions. Supplemental readings are suggested.
This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction, questions, and suggestions for further reading designed to enhance student discussion of Peter Heller’s novel about a pilot and his dog trying to survive in a world filled with loss, The Dog Stars.
This resource serves as a review for Ibsen's "A Doll's House."
This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes questions to explore Dracula, Bram Stoker’s hypnotic tale of the bloodthirsty Count Dracula, the quintessential story of suspense and horror.
By closely reading historical documents and attempting to interpret them, students consider how Arthur Miller interpreted the facts of the Salem witch trials and how he successfully dramatized them in his play, "The Crucible." As they explore historical materials, such as the biographies of key players (the accused and the accusers) and transcripts of the Salem Witch trials themselves, students will be guided by aesthetic and dramatic concerns: In what ways do historical events lend themselves (or not) to dramatization? What makes a particular dramatization of history effective and memorable?
This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction, discussion questions, author biography, and suggested reading list designed to enhance student discussion of Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina GarcÃa, a book that presents a unique vision and a haunting lamentation for a past that might have been.
In this Penguin Classics guide to James Joyce's Dubliners, students will learn the background of the book as well as the author, and deepen their understanding of the text through indepth discussion questions. Supplemental readings are suggested.
In this extensive, downloadable resource, students will complete a unit utilizing instructional strategies designed to support understanding of literary texts.
In this Penguin Classics guide to John Steinbeck's East of Eden, students will learn the background of the book as well as the author, and deepen their understanding of the text through indepth discussion questions. Students will explore themes of perseverance, enduring love, and the yearning to better oneself and determine one's own fate.