In this Bright Hub Education lesson plan for teaching Shakespeare's comedy, A Midsummer Night's Dream, questions are broken into acts in order to aid in student comprehension and class discussion. Additional ideas and resources are provided as well.
In this lesson, students learn about Shakespeare's famous comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream by acting the play out, based on a heavily edited script. Students work in groups to perfect a scene from the play, which may be recorded and put together to complete the performance.
The activities in this lesson invite students to focus on the characters from A Midsummer Night's Dream, to describe and analyze their conflicts, and then to watch how those conflicts get resolved.
This teacher's guide for The Milk of Birds by Sylvia Whiman includes prereading research activities, discussion questions to follow the book, and postreading activities.
Four-minute video on how to read and write more critically with an emphasis on analysis, big ideas, and deeper meanings.
This literacy assessment includes two text excerpts and 13 text-dependent questions and explanatory information for teachers regarding alignment to the CCSS.
This ativity allows students to show their perceptive understanding of Antigone through the use of media resources. The rubric for the assignment is included.
This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction, discussion questions, author biography, and suggested reading list designed to enhance student discussion of Monkey Hunting by Cristina GarcÃa.
Using an online blog, students will learn about the pilgrims in Chaucer's The Prologue of the Canterbury Tales. Students will understand how what an author choses to include or not include reveals the author's attitude about a subject.
Inspired by the references to the 16th Street Bombing and the four little girls who perished that Sunday morning, students will study history, georgraphy, and writing through various discussions in relationship to bullying, sibling rivalry, growing up, and Civil Rights.
This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction and discussion questions designed to enhance student reading of Koren Zailckas's darkly suspenseful novel, Mother, Mother.
This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction, discussion questions, and author biography designed to enhance student reading of Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.
In this lesson, students show the relevance of literary terms to a movie of their choice.
This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction, discussion questions, and author biography designed to enhance student reading of author Nancy Rawles’s powerful, eloquent novel, My Jim.
This Random House for High School Teachers teacher's guide includes teaching ideas, chapter vocabulary and questions, discussion topics, comparison to other texts, and an author biography designed to aid students in exploring author Nancy Rawles' My Jim, one woman’s story of surviving slavery and Reconstruction.
A teachers guide for My Sisters' Voices: Teenage Girls of Color Speak Out by Iris Jacob including questions for deeper comprehension, exercises for the class, and suggestions for further reading.
The spirited daughter of a Bohemian immigrant family plans to farm the untamed Nebraska land. Willa Cather's tale comes to us through the eyes of Antonia's childhood friend, Jim Burden. The Big Read Readers Guide deepens your exploration with interviews, booklists, time lines, and historical information. We hope this guide and syllabus allow you to have fun with your students while introducing them to the work of a great American author.
A teachers guide for The Natural by Bernard Malamud including questions for reading comprehension, prompts for class discussion, exercises post-read, and suggestions for further reading.
This lesson is inspired by the references to the 16th Street Bombing and the four little girls who perished that Sunday morning in The Watsons Go to Birmingham. In this lesson, the teacher travels back and forth from poetry to fiction to music to history to food and finally to writing. It is a good study of history and geography with regard to writing.
This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction, discussion questions, suggested reading list, and author biography intended to enhance student conversation about author Kazuo Ishiguro's science fiction novel, Never Let Me Go, a brilliantly achieved story of nostalgia for a lost childhood.