This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes questions, discussion topics, and suggestions for further reading intended to enrich student discussion of Jonathan Odell's novel, The Healing, a warmhearted novel about the unbreakable bonds between three generations of female healers and their power to restore the body, the spirit, and the soul.

A teachers guide for Hole in my Life by Jack Gantos, including a summary of the book, a pre-reading activity, discussion questions, and ways to relate the story to other aspects of education and deepen understanding.

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 A Hologram for the King, Dave Eggers' wry and moving novel about the human costs of our new information economy.

This Random House for High School Teachers teacher's guide includes historical background, plot summary, questions, discussion topics, comparison to other texts, and an author biography designed to aid students in exploring Louis L'Amour's novel, Hondo.

What can some of literature's most famous heroes teach us? From the epic hero (like Beowulf) to the tragic hero (like Oedipus), each has something distinctive to share. This four-minute video describes the many faces of the fictional hero -- and shows how they can inspire everyday people.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes questions designed to enhance student comprehension of Jamie Ford's Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, a tale of conflicted loyalties, devotion, as well as a vibrant portrait of Seattle's Nihonmachi district in its heyday.

When Ruth and her sister Lucille are abandoned in the isolated Idaho town of Fingerbone, their lives become intertwined with the legacy of loss that haunts the Foster family. The Big Read Reader's Guide deepens your exploration with interviews, booklists, timelines, and historical information. We hope this guide and syllabus allow you to have fun with your students while introducing them to the work of a great American author.

This webpage contains theme-based discussion prompts for each vignette in The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, as well as a selection of follow-up activities.

This guide to The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros contains an overview of the book and author, discussion and writing prompts for comprehension, language, characters, and themes, and follow-up activities to extend learning.

In this lesson, students will begin analyzing Louise Erdrich's "The Red Convertible" from The Red Convertible and focusing on how the point of view of the narrator, Marty, impacts the character development of Stephan.

In this lesson, students consider the importance of Howard Roark, an important character from Ayn Rand's seminal novel, The Fountainhead. Students discuss Roark after viewing a powerpoint presentation about him.

A teacher's guide to Thomas C. Foster's How to Read Literature Like a Professor. Includes common core aligned pre-reading promts, discussion questions, post-reading promts and writing activities.

A teachers guide for I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith, including discussion questions, deeper subject-based prompts, and ways to related themes to other aspects of education.

In this lesson, students will identify how Common's rap song "A Dream" and Walter Dean Myers's short story "Monkeyman" reinterpret Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of nonviolence. Students will delve into a text-based discussion on characterization and conflict, as well as compose an essay on the Six Principles of Nonviolence (rubric available).

A teachers guide for I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg, including questions for following along with the novel, questions for class discussion, prompts for deeper understanding, and an extensive list of vocabulary words.

This remix is specific to the Iredell-Statesville Schools to help us plan and have discussions around the openness of our district and create some language around next steps.

In this lesson, students will identify the literary elements of plot, theme, and character in a work and use indirect characterization and psychoanalytic criticism to analyze a character and explain how the character contributes to plot and theme. Final assessment inclues an analytical essay.

This resource provides a review lesson for the novel Catcher in the Rye. Students will spend time focusing on various technologies that were not available within the setting of the text. Students will create scenarios whereupon a given type of technology could have affected the story.

A teachers guide for Robert Fitzgerald's translation of The Iliad by Homer, including background information, advice for approach, questions for basic comprehension for each book, questions for further study for each book, and ideas for activities to deepen understanding.

In this activity, students use a storyboard to create a character reference log. This log will allow students to recall relevant information about important characters as the plot progresses.