This lesson introduces the concept of cause and effect with Trinka Hakes Noble's books about Jimmy and his boa constrictor. Each lesson begins with the teacher reading a new story about Jimmy and his boa and the chaos they bring to each place they visit. Class discussions about each event and its cause are followed by tasks for the students to help illustrate understanding of the concept. Students create cause-and-effect pictures, puzzles, and flow charts as they explore the genre. As a culminating activity, students write their own book with causes and effects, which are assessed with a rubric.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction, discussion questions, suggestions for further reading, and author biography designed to enhance student discussion of author Alice Munro's book, Dear Life. Students will explore the quiet drama of her characters’ buried desires, their errors and regrets, and their lives’ most memorable crises and turning points.

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

This page contains vocabulary terms, ideas for activities, and prompts for discussion related to Death by Scrabble by Charlie Fish.

In this Penguin Classics guide to James Agee's novel A Death in the Family, students will learn the background of the book as well as the author, and deepen their understanding of the text through indepth discussion questions.

In this Penguin Reader's guide to Death of a Hero by Richard Aldington, students will learn the background of the book as well as the author, and deepen their understanding of the text through indepth discussion questions.

In this Penguin Classics guide to Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman, 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, students summarize biographies of leaders, including Abraham Lincoln, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Rosa Parks, Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, Lydia Maria Child, William Lloyd Garrison, Claudette Colvin, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Students begin by brainstorming a list of items that combine different ways of expressing ideas—such as a poster or DVD. After the lists are shared, list items are identified as texts (audio texts, video texts, etc.) Students then create an inventory of significant texts that they have engaged with over a specified period of time, and discuss why it is important to interact with a variety of different types of texts. With this start, they create a working definition of literacy that they refine and explore as they continue their investigation of the texts that they interact with at home, at school, and in other settings.

In this Penguin Reader's guide to Herman Hesse's Demian, students will learn the background of the book as well as the author, and deepen their understanding of the text through indepth discussion questions.

In this lesson, students demonstrate fluencey when reading stories or poems for audio recording.

In this lesson, students demostrate fluency when reading stories or poems for an audio recording.

This is a follow-up lesson that reviews the definitions of denotation and connotation and offers students an opportunity to choose the best word to achieve a specific tone.

This literacy assessment includes an excerpt from the book "Winesburg, Ohio," six text-dependent questions, one optional writing prompt, and explanatory information for teachers regarding alignment to the CCSS.

Students will analyze how a portrait reflects the events and trends of its time and then create a portrait of a public female figure today. Students will be able to research the effects of European expansionism and colonialism on different groups of people during the Age of Exploration; discuss the notion of "exoticism" as it relates to a 19th-century painting, the burgeoning of stereotypes, and modern-day stereotyping in the media; and create a portrait of a female public figure from a different culture.

This unit is designed to teach about the causes and effects of the Great Depression, and provide an introduction to the use of primary sources in the study of history. This historical discovery approach will emphasize the role of the historian as detective using such skills as observation, discrimination, analysis, and synthesis to research and record history. Students will explore primary sources including photographs, poems, song lyrics, documents, maps, cartoons, as well as, secondary source texts in print and online.

In this lesson, students use online sites to find primary sources from the period. They will then work collaboratively to analyze the primary sources they find and present their analysis to the class.

In this lesson, students pinpoint and list specific problems of the Great Depression using what they have learned from analyzing a variety of primary sources. They will then form research groups to learn about President Frankling Roosevelt and New Deal Legislation using internet sources.

In this lesson, students continue working in their research groups (formed in previous lesson) to learn about additional New Deal programs.

In this lesson, students summarize major programs that were created by the New Deal by presenting the information they found in their research efforts through a variety of formats including but not limited to oral presentation, picture book, written report.