A teachers guide for A Girl Called Fearless by Catherine Linka, including discussion questions and writing prompts.

This page has a set of discussion questions for Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes discussion questions to enhance student understanding of The Good Thief, Hannah Tinti's richly imagined, gothically spooky, award winning novel.

In this lesson, students will indicate personal preferences by voting on a novel for class study from a teacher-provided list, and then demonstrate understanding of the elements of fiction by creating a graffiti journal to guide their discussion. Students will work both individually and in cooperative groups and participate in whole-class discussion of the character development, plot line, themes, and symbolic structure developed in the novel. Assessment includes an individual essay on a topic related to their described literary element.

In this Penguin Classics guide to John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, 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 reading suggestions are included.

This resource focuses on Great Expectations, giving students an opportunity to review major themes and elements.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes questions to help students explore Charles Dickens' novel, Great Expectations, a tale of intrigue, unattainable love, and all of the happiness money can't buy.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes questions designed to enhance student discussion of Ana Castillo's novel, The Guardians, a suspenseful, moving book about a sensuous, smart, and fiercely independent woman.

This Random House for High School Teachers teacher's guide includes questions and discussion topics to aid students in exploring The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a novel written by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. The novel is composed of letters that tell the stories of Juliet Ashton, a young English author, and an eccentric group of readers on Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands occupied by German forces during the war.

This Random House for High School Teachers teacher's guide includes questions, discussion topics, comparison to other texts, and an author biography designed to aid students in exploring The Guernsey
Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a novel written by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. The novel is
composed of letters that tell the stories of Juliet Ashton, a young English author, and an eccentric group of readers on Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands occupied by German forces during the war.

This page contains a guide with strategies for teaching the life and works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, touching on style, themes, and comparisons with other authors.

This lesson sensitizes students to the similarities and differences between cultures by comparing Shakespearean and Bunraku/Kabuki dramas. The focus of this comparison is the complex nature of revenge explored in The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark and Chushingura, or the Treasury of the Loyal Retainers.

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 seminal book, The Handmaid's Tale, a dystopian, futuristic novel.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes questions to help students explore Charles Dickens' novel, Hard Times, a satirical account of the Industrial Revolution.

In this lesson, students compare the novel Something Wicked This Way Comes to an episode of the TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer entitled "Hush." Both texts feature mysterious, silent men who come into a town and create literal and figurative nightmares for its residents. Students complete a chart and take notes from a powerpoint on the similarities and differences between the two.

This resource provides a lesson and accompanying activities that provide students with an opportunity to better understand the differences between Nathaniel Hawthorne's lived experiences and those he chose to write about. Students will use information obtained from The Scarlet Letter to help them begin their investigation. Afterwards, students will research Hawthorne's contemporaries to investigate further into what influences may be evidenced in his writings.

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.

This online digital exhibit provides pertinent information on the epic hero, Hercules. The site contains a bio, myths, other notable characters, and documentation of the twelve labors of Hercules. There are also pertinent links provided for further study of Greece and the epic hero.

In this Penguin Classics guide to Mikhail Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time, students will learn the background of the book as well as the author, and deepen their understanding of the text through indepth discussion questions.

In this Penguin Classics guide to Saul Bellow's postwar novel Herzog, 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 redemption, darkness to light, and ignorance to enlightenment.