This introductory lesson asks students to evaluate the use of magical realism in the first chapter of One Hundred Years of Solitude.

This extremely active lesson plan helps illustrate to students how even students with a difficult socioeconomic background can overcome adversity. Students participate in a variety of activities that combine knowledge of the novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton and physical relay-style challenges.

Students will be able to read a grade level text,  the novel "The Outsiders". As they read they will have to cite information, make inferences and connections, summarize, compare different mediums (book and movie) and learn about the author and how her experiences shaped the novel. Students will also get to write persuasively and creatively during this unit.

After completion of the novel, students will explore the different settings in the novel and analyze what major plot event happened at each setting. They will code their Dash robot to move across the map to locate the settings. 

In this lesson, students are introduced to Peter Keating, a main antagonist of Howard Roark in The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. Students receive background information from a powerpoint presentation before reading and paying attention to the relationships Keating develops in the novel.

In this lesson, students construct their own carousel to go along with the one in Something Wicked This Way Comes. Students work in groups of four or five to create their carousel, including features designed to represent the fears and desires of the students creating it.

In this lesson, students compare Ray Bradbury's novel Something Wicked This Way Comes to the movie adaptation from the 1980s. Students complete a chart comparing the two versions of the story before moving on to a sheet of questions and an assessment of the teacher's choice.

In this lesson, students review traits of some of the major characters in Orson Scott Card's science fiction classic, Ender's Game. Students start by listing Ender's character traits, then discuss them. Students then choose another character to analyze, searching for passages in the novel that provide evidence of their character traits.

In this lesson, students explore symbolism in general before examining the specific symblols present in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness.

In this lesson, students learn about allusions before examing Mary Shelley's extensive use of allusions in her novel Frankenstein.

In this lesson, students combine history, civics, and English in an examination of the trial process from the nonfiction novel, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Students consider Jim Williams' trial process, which included four different trials.

This lesson asks students to consider how literature reflects real life in a discussion about John Steinbeck's novel, The Winter of our Discontent.

This resource provides examples for teachers about how to use graphic organizers to help teach high school level novels.

This lesson provides students with more background information on the voodoo religion that represents major ideas in the novel, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt. Students use a powerpoint presentation and explore the History Channel website to gain knowledge to help them better understand the book.

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.