Is Holden Caufield suffering from your typical teenage angst or does he have a deeper issue? This lesson plan asks students to diagnose the main character from The Catcher in the Rye, using textual evidence to support their conclusions about him.

In this lesson on Kate Chopin's The Awakening, students will consider how Chopin introduces the characters and their interactions.

The students will analyze how the poets Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman make claims about the influence of nature.  Even though the poets share similar claims, their different styles give the class much to analyze.  After the students analyze the poems, there is a modified RAFT assignment.  This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.

Shakespeare sometimes gets a bad rap in high schools for his complex plots and antiquated language. But a quick peek into the rhythm of his words reveals a poet deeply rooted in the way people spoke in his time and still speak today.

Published in 1929, The Sound and the Fury is often referred to as William Faulkner's first work of genius. Faulkner's style is characterized by frequent time shifts, narrator shifts, unconventional punctuation and sentence structure, as well as a stream-of-consciousness technique that reveals the inner thoughts of characters to the reader. This curriculum unit will examine narrative structure and time, narrative voice/point of view, and symbolism throughout The Sound and the Fury.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction, discussion questions, and author biography designed to enhance student reading of author John Pipkin's brilliant and illuminating novel, Woodsburner.

In this lesson, students will pair reading and discussion of Tim O'Brien's story "The Things they Carried" with a letter-writing activity intended to help students analyze text to identify figurative and connotative meaning as well as ultimately organize and create their own piece of prose.

This resource contains a set of discussion questions for Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, relating to structural choices, character influences, and reader interpretations.

This lesson examines Charlotte Perkin Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaer" through critcal reading and analysis of the short story. Students will also use text-dependent questions to write a reflective, thematic essay.

Short instructional video with definitions, terms and examples that explains some of the archaic uses of language in Shakespeare's work, (such as "thee" and "thou") and how that impacts the poetry in his writing.