In this lesson on Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart," students will analyze paragraphs 8-13 by responding to questions, discussing in pairs, and focusing on how Poe's structural choices help refine the central ideas.

In this lesson, students will analyze the impact of word choice on the tone of the main character and narrator. Students will also learn the skill of Accountable Independent Reading.

Students will learn about the impact of enjambment in Gwendolyn Brooks' short but far-reaching poem "We Real Cool." One element of this lesson plan that is bound to draw students in is a compelling video of working-class Bostonian John Ulrich reciting the poem.

A teachers guide for Inferno by Dante Alighieri, specifically the translation by Robert Pinsky, including background information, a brief interview with Robert Pinsky, questions for class discussion, and suggestions for further reading.

In this lesson plan, students will be introduced to literary theory--Feminist, Marxist, Psychological, and Mythological--and how to apply them to works they've read.

In this introductory lesson, students discuss and share the role of authority figures in life by considering the perspective of their parents.

This lesson plan helps ease students into a unit on poetry. Students answer some preliminary questions to activate their prior knowledge of the topic before delving into a poetry anthology and discussing poems they find as a group.

Literary terms, author information and activating prior knowledge will begin a unit comparing The Princess Bride to a fairy tale. Students will also be able to identify the fantasy genre after viewing a chart.

This introductory lesson gives students some of the background information they'll need to be successful in a unit based on William Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night. Students write mini-scripts about love, then go through an early speech from the play to acclimate themselves to Shakespeare's language.

In this resource from Crash Course Literature, students will learn about Ralph Ellison’s great novel about the black experience in America after World War II, Invisible Man. Narrator John Green will teach students about Ellison’s nameless narrator, and his attempts to find his way in a social order that dehumanizes him and renders him invisible at every turn. Ellison’s novel follows its hero from his childhood in the south to his many attempts to make sense of the world in New York City, and it takes him through, explosions, activism, and riots.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction, questions, and suggestions for further reading designed to enhance discussion of Ralph Ellison's classic novel, Invisible Man.

In this Penguin Classics guide to William Kennedy's book Ironweed, students will learn the background of the book as well as the author, and deepen their understanding of the text through indepth discussion questions. This indepth reading guide is divided into pre-reading discussion and the establishment of keeping a response journal; questions for understanding the story itself; discussion questions that dig deeper into the meaning; questions for written responses; and post reading discussion questions.

In this lesson on Oedipus the King, students will investigate how the punishment Oedipus chooses for himself helps develop the role of fate as a central idea.

In this lesson, students will analyze and interpret the short story "The Gift of the Magi" and write a poem (using the traditional call-and-response blues structure) that reflects their understanding of one of its themes. Then, students will act out their poems and present them to the class, as well as create a graphic organizer that synthesizes and summarizes information from varied sources. The final project will be a mural that demonstrates a multimedia, cross format understanding of the literary themes.

In this lesson, students analyze Jacob Lawrence'sThe Migration of the Negro Panel no. 57(1940-41), Helene Johnson's Harlem Renaissance poem"Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem"(1927), and Paul Laurence Dunbar's late-nineteenth-century poem"We Wear the Mask"(1896), considering how each work represents the life and changing roles of African Americans from the late nineteenth century to the Harlem Renaissance and The Great Migration.

In this Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide, the questions, discussion topics, and author biography are intended to enhance your students' reading of Charlotte Brontë’s beloved classic novel, Jane Eyre.

In this Penguin Classics guide to Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre, students will learn the background of the book as well as the author, and deepen their understanding of the text through indepth discussion questions. Suggested supplemental readings are included.

In this lesson on Oedipus the King, students will consider how Jocasta's story develops the central idea of the role of fate.

This literacy assessment includes an excerpt from "Julius Caesar," eight text-dependent questions, one constructed response writing prompt, and explanatory information for teachers regarding alignment to the CCSS.