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.

In this lesson on Oedipus the King, students will analyze how the order of events help create mystery and tension in the text, as well as how the news of the death of Polybus helps develop the central idea of fate.

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.

Explore the essential services in a small American town in the early 1900s and compare the services that are offered in a community today. Book: Our Town by Thornton Wilder.

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

This resource provides a lesson designed to follow lessons that ask students to write persuasive essays. After completing their essays, students will be responsible for creating a 5 slide presentation that effectively summarizes their essay. The presentation should include narrations for each slide. Students will share their completed slides with their peers.

This resource provides a lesson that is designed to assist learners with improving their ability to handle a graphic novel. Students will focus on the beginning of the work Persepolis and examine the art used to varying effects. Students will attempt to familiarize themselves with strategies pertaining to making connections to the visual elements presented.

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.

In this lesson on Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart," students will explore paragraph 3 and the narrator's detailed plan to murder the old an. Students will focus on Poe's structural choices, particularly the manipulation of time, and the effects this has on the reader.

In this lesson, students will explore Edgar Allen Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" by listening to a version of it and then analyzing the first paragraph in order to ascertain the narrator's purpose.

In this lesson on Poe's "The Raven," students will learn how the poet believed a poem should have one, singular effect on the reader and then analyze the poem, focusing on structure and imagery.

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.

Students learn how to approach an initial reading of a poem. Using Shakespeare's Sonnet 130 as a starting point, students work through comprehension and analysis of structure and tone to move towards creating a thesis about the poem.

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

Students read an excerpt from The Pit and the Pendulum and respond by attempting to prove how the author creates tension within the excerpt. Students must support their responses using evidence. This resource may be used in conjunction with constructed response writing.

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

This choice board can be used at the middle and high school level as a guide for independent reading either as the basis of a unit or as an indepe

This lesson plan uses song lyrics to teach students to read and listen to poetry without letting personal bias influence their understanding of their reading. Students listen to a song as a class and analyze various details about the words, while also considering how perspective influences their understanding of it.