A teachers guide for Inferno by Dante Alighieri, specifically the translation by Robert Pinsky, including background information, a brief interview with Robert Pinsky, questions for class discussion, and suggestions for further reading.

In this lesson, students are given the basic critical reading skills they need to approach the novel 1984 by George Orwell. Students complete a quick think-pair-share about the novel before practicing a reading technique that uses an organizig grid to help question the text as the students read.

Students are introduced to the elements of a plot diagram through the story of Cinderella.

In this resource from Crash Course Literature, students will learn about Ralph Ellison’s great novel about the black experience in America after World War II, Invisible Man. Narrator John Green will teach students about Ellison’s nameless narrator, and his attempts to find his way in a social order that dehumanizes him and renders him invisible at every turn. Ellison’s novel follows its hero from his childhood in the south to his many attempts to make sense of the world in New York City, and it takes him through, explosions, activism, and riots.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction, questions, and suggestions for further reading designed to enhance discussion of Ralph Ellison's classic novel, Invisible Man.

In this Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide, the questions, discussion topics, and author biography are intended to enhance your students' reading of Charlotte Brontë’s beloved classic novel, Jane Eyre.

In this three-part lesson on the inner chapters of "The Grapes of Wrath" students will first determine the function of Steinbeck's opening chapter then explore the relationship between the inner chapters and the Joad narrative chapters throughout the novel. Students will view two documentaries along the way as well as read two relevant articles in order to draw their own conclusions about the purpose of this novel's inner chapters.

Students will analyze Petrarchan conventions within the three sonnets in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Students will evaluate whether Juliet adheres to or rejects these conventions.

A teacher's guide for the novel Kindred by Octavia E. Butler, including journal prompts, discussion questions, and focused final project ideas.

A teachers guide for LIE by Caroline Bock, including a lesson plan outline, discussion questions, and assignments

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes discussion questions designed to aid students in exploring Thomas Mullen's novel, The Last Town on Earth.

This Random House for High School Teachers teacher's guide includes teaching ideas, chapter vocabulary and questions, discussion topics, comparison to other texts, and an author biography designed to aid students in exploring Thomas Mullen's novel, The Last Town on Earth.

In this triumph of magical realism, One Hundred Years of Solitude chronicles a century of the remarkable Buendía family's history in the fictional Colombian town of Macondo. The three lessons presented here explore the fantastic elements of this imaginary world, the real history that lies behind them, and García Márquez's own philosophical musings on writing about Latin America.

In this lesson, students explore the use of multiple voices in narration and examine the character of Addie Bundren in Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying."

The third chapter of "The Sound and the Fury" is told from the perspective of Jason Compson, now the patriarchal head of the family, after his father's death, Quentin's suicide, and Caddy's abandonment of her own daughter (also named Quentin). His leadership does not bode well for keeping intact the remnants of the Compson family, ultimately indicating the passing of both the Old South at large and its one-time aristocratic families such as the Compsons.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction and discussion questions designed to enhance student understanding of Earnest Gaines' thought-provoking novel A Lesson Before Dying, which addresses the basic predicament of what it is to be a human being, a creature striving for dignity in a universe that often denies it.

In this unit, students explore the themes of power, control, abuse, and respect among the characters in Lord of the Flies by William Golding. The resource includes several activities and discussion questions.

In this lesson, students watch a silent movie and visually identify the elements of a story.

A unit plan for Like Any Normal Day by Mark Kram, Jr., including pre-reading activities, journal prompts, vocabulary words, discussion questions, quizzes, and final project ideas.