This extensive study guide for Brighton Rock by Graham Greene summarizes the novel and explores characterization and themes in depth, and includes discussion questions for each part of the novel and strategies for assessment preparation.

In this writing lesson plan, students write about the events of Romeo and Juliet and try to figure out their root causes. Students can take a number of approaches, each of which includes summarizing the events of the play and finding evidence to support their interpretation of the causes of the events.

In this lesson, students work cooperatively to analyze the title characters of Romeo and Juliet. Students look for citations that help develop their characters, then write character analyses.

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.

Nigerian born Chinua Achebe is one of the world's most well-known and influential contemporary writers. His first novel, Things Fall Apart (1958), is an early narrative about the European colonization of Africa told from the point of view of the colonized people.

This lesson focuses on A Christmas Memory, a short story by Truman Capote. Students read the text independently and answer text-dependent questions before beginning work on a written assignment that accompanies the text.

In this lesson, which can be paired with any number of texts based during the Civil War, students create a five-paragraph character sketch of a character from the story they've recently read. Students outline the sketch before starting to write, then assess each others' work with a rubric.

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 based on St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, students will read and analyze the conclusion of the story, first discussing as a class and then working in small groups to identify the structure of the text.

Students will review the meanings of connotation and denotation. Students will apply knowledge of connotation and denotation to "My Papa's Waltz" by Theodore Roethke.

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.

Heavily influenced by social and scientific theories, including those of Darwin, writers of naturalism described"”usually from a detached or journalistic perspective"”the influence of society and surroundings on the development of the individual. In the following lesson plan, students will learn the key characteristics that comprise American literary naturalism as they explore London's "To Build a Fire" and Crane's "The Open Boat."

In this lesson, students create travel brochures to highlight some of the details from the novel "Lord of the Flies." Students review the setting of the text, then brainstorm a list of attractions to include in their brochure before writing and illustrating it.

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

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.

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.