After reading The Catcher in the Rye, this formative assessment can be applied to see how well students understand Holden's character, the theme of the text, the plot of the text, and how well students can apply figurative devices.Students will be out of the classroom exploring their school to find an object that would have piqued Holden's curiosity and wrote a descriptive poem about it while using the specified criteria listed in the assignment.

A teachers guide for Hole in my Life by Jack Gantos, including a summary of the book, a pre-reading activity, discussion questions, and ways to relate the story to other aspects of education and deepen understanding.

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 A Hologram for the King, Dave Eggers' wry and moving novel about the human costs of our new information economy.

This Random House for High School Teachers teacher's guide includes historical background, plot summary, questions, discussion topics, comparison to other texts, and an author biography designed to aid students in exploring Louis L'Amour's novel, Hondo.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes questions designed to enhance student comprehension of Jamie Ford's Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, a tale of conflicted loyalties, devotion, as well as a vibrant portrait of Seattle's Nihonmachi district in its heyday.

In this Penguin Classics guide to Edith Wharton's novel House of Mirth, 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 on one level a satire of a world devoid of moral scruples, but also discuss how the book is a stringent critique of the restrictions and limitations such a world imposes on women.

This webpage contains theme-based discussion prompts for each vignette in The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, as well as a selection of follow-up activities.

This guide to The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros contains an overview of the book and author, discussion and writing prompts for comprehension, language, characters, and themes, and follow-up activities to extend learning.

In this Penguin Classics guide to E. M. Forster's Howard's End, 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 how to maintain human connection in an increasingly depersonalized society and how to find a spiritual home in the world.

In this lesson, students learn the basics of annotating poetry as a means to analyze it. Students use a short poem of their (or your) choice and follow step-by-step instructions to break it down.

In the TED Ed lesson focused on dystopian literature, students will explore the popularity of modern dystopian fiction and discuss what it might tell us about the preoccupations of our society. Discussion questions and additional resouce links included in the sidebar.

In this lesson, students review techniques for writing strong literary analyses. Students take notes on the techniques, then practice by analyzing a passage from a literary work.

In this lesson, students use Thomas Paine's "The Crisis, No. 1" to form a human jigsaw as they find the main idea, supporting details, persuasive arguments, imagery, and emotional appeals.

A teachers guide for I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith, including discussion questions, deeper subject-based prompts, and ways to related themes to other aspects of education.

In this lesson, students will identify how Common's rap song "A Dream" and Walter Dean Myers's short story "Monkeyman" reinterpret Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of nonviolence. Students will delve into a text-based discussion on characterization and conflict, as well as compose an essay on the Six Principles of Nonviolence (rubric available).

A teachers guide for I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg, including questions for following along with the novel, questions for class discussion, prompts for deeper understanding, and an extensive list of vocabulary words.

This teachers guide includes summaries of each part of the book I, Robot, by Isaac Asimov, as well as discussion questions for students and suggested activities.

Powerpoint and worksheets with answer keys to help students identify and/or reveal theme in seleceted passages.

In this activity, students will identify themes and symbols from Dante's Inferno, and support their choices with details from the text. Dante’s Inferno is an especially rich text to examine because of its meticulously constructed allegory and its (frequently graphic) visual writing.

A teachers guide for Robert Fitzgerald's translation of The Iliad by Homer, including background information, advice for approach, questions for basic comprehension for each book, questions for further study for each book, and ideas for activities to deepen understanding.