This page contains a set of discussion questions for Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes discussion questions designed to aid students in exploring Erin Morgenstern's historical fiction novel, The Night Circus.

This guide to A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly includes background information on the events that inspired the novel, an interview with the author, a set of discussion questions, and suggestions for further reading.

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

This page contains discussion questions for Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

In this graphic organizer, students will compare and contrast characters from John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men in order to gain a deeper understanding. The activity can be done individually, paired, or in a larger group, depending on teacher preference, and allows students to add information as they read.

In this lesson plan, Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men is chunked into six reading sections. Each section has guiding questions for class discussion, as well as student notes and short writing assignments. This lesson will encourage deeper exploration of the book, as well as ask students to provide textual evidence for their writing and discussion.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction, discussion questions, and author biography designed to enhance student reading of Tobias Wolff’s first full-length novel Old School, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

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 Tobias Wolff's Old School, a magnificent, genre-defying coming-of-age novel.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes questions to help students explore Charles Dickens' novel, Oliver Twist--a classic morality tale of a starving orphan caught between opposing forces of good and evil and a powerful indictment of Victorian England's Poor Laws.

Students will evaluate the dynamics of the scene using a basic movement game to figure out how Viola's words fail and succeed in wooing Olivia.

This introductory lesson asks students to evaluate the use of magical realism in the first chapter of One Hundred Years of Solitude.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction, discussion questions, and author biography designed to enhance student reading of On the Come Up by Hannah Weyer.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes questions, discussion topics, and an author biography designed to help students in exploring Margaret Atwood's post-apocalyptic book, Oryx and Crake.

In this lesson, students read he novel "Out of the Dust" and respond to FCAT-like questions about the novel and write a free-verse poem modeled after the author's.

In this 2-3 day lesson, students will learn the importance of making evidence-based claims in literature by finding details, connecting the details, and making a claim.

In this lesson, students will develop the ability to make evidence-based claims through a close reading of the texts, as well as by working in pairs to discuss, identify, and make evidence based claims to the class.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes questions, discussion topics, and suggestions for further reading designed to enhance student discussion of Aimee Bender's lush and moving novel, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes discussion questions designed to enhance student understanding of Nella Larson's book, Passing--an electrifying story of two women who cross the color line in 1920s New York.