This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes questions to help students explore Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks, a historical fiction that revolves around a young Scottish woman's war-time odyssey as she becomes involved with an RAF pilot whose plane is lost over France during World War II.

This lesson helps students understand the complexities of The Wife of Bath's character and the rhetoric of her argument by exploring the various ways in which Chaucer crafts a persona for her. After familiarizing themselves with the framing narrative of the Canterbury Tales and its language, students study the Wife of Bath as a character. Finally, students examine several primary source documents written about women and marraige in order to understand the context in which the Wife presents her argument.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes discussion questions to aid students in analyzing and interpreting the Complete Poems and Selected Letters of John Keats, one of England's great Romantic poets.

In this lesson, students gain an understanding of the oral language tradition of Anglo-Saxon poetry and identify how existing lines were affected by this tradition.

This teacher's guide for Counting Backwards by Laura Lascarso includes questions that cover key ideas and details as well as craft and structure, and postreading activities.

This page contains a set of discussion questions for Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

A basic student led info search to use as an introduction to The Crucible.

This page contains discussion questions for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction, discussion questions, suggested reading list, and author biography designed to enhance student understanding of Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.

Students will perform a close reading of Mark Antony's from Shakespeare's Julis Caesar 3.1 monologue by cutting the text by 50%. Students will evaluate use of tone within the speech and choose appropriate tone words for the monologue. Students will then perform the monologue for the class.

In this activity, students can create a storyboard capturing the narrative arc in a story with a six-cell storyboard containing the major parts of the plot diagram. For each cell, have students create a scene that follows the story in the sequence using: Exposition, Conflict, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Resolution.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes questions to help students explore Charles Dickens' novel, David Copperfield. The book most closely resembling Dickens' own life, its hero, orphaned as a boy, grows up to discover love and happiness, heartbreak and sorrow amid a cast of eccentrics, innocents, and villains.

This page contains discussion questions for Death Be Not Proud by John Gunther.

Students will study poems about death, including A.E. Houseman's "To an Athlete Dying Young" and Dylan Thomas' "Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night." Students will be able to read, analyze and interpret the poems from both the thematic level of death and the detailed level of poetic form. This lesson also includes a guided analysis of a Shakespearean sonnet.

Students will analyze one of Poe’s richest and most challenging works, The Fall of the House of Usher. They will gain an understanding of the construction of the work through focusing on the information revealed through the point of view of the narrator. After discussing the first five paragraphs of the work as a group, students can work independently to find other evidence to support the task. After the student(s) have had the opportunity to search the text for support, students can respond to a question that captures the goal of the lesson. 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.

This lesson plan introduces students to the poetry of Rafael Campo and helps students to find their own voice while gaining confidence writing their own original poetry.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction, discussion questions, and author biography designed to enhance student reading of The Dive from Clausen’s Pier, Ann Packer’s critically acclaimed and bestselling debut novel.

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 Peter Heller’s novel about a pilot and his dog trying to survive in a world filled with loss, The Dog Stars.

In this lesson, students examine imagery in T.S. Eliot's poem, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," by first reading the poem and then creating illustrations of the imagery he uses in it.