A teacher's guide for the novel Kindred by Octavia E. Butler, including journal prompts, discussion questions, and focused final project ideas.

"To Build a Fire" is an excellent example of American literary naturalism. In this multi-day lesson students will perfrom close-reading analyses of this classic short story as they study the use of point of view to create a narrative. Students will also debate the distinction between knowledge and instinct using textual evidence.

In this Penguin Classics guide to Sigrid Undset's novel Kristin Lavransdatter, students will learn the background of the book as well as the author, and deepen their understanding of the text through indepth discussion questions.

A teachers guide for LIE by Caroline Bock, including a lesson plan outline, discussion questions, and assignments

In this lesson on Oedipus the King, students will engage with the key details established in the crime of Laius's murder as described by Creon, focusing on how these details shape and define the central idea of fate.

This grammar unit students will explore the way speech dictates how others see you and treat you. Students will explore specific diction, word choice, vernacular and various sentence structures in order to observe how language can be both inclusive and exclusive.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes discussion questions designed to aid students in exploring Thomas Mullen's novel, The Last Town on Earth.

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 Thomas Mullen's novel, The Last Town on Earth.

This lesson introduces students to the blues, one of the most distinctive and influential elements of African-American musical tradition. Students take a virtual tour of Memphis, TN and explore the history of the blues in the work of W.C. Handy and a variety of country blues singers whose music preserves the folk origins of this unique American art form. The lesson concludes with students composing their own blues lyrics.

Lesson 2 is a study of symbols in William Golding's novel "Lord of the Flies." After reviewing the general concept of symbolism, students focus on four of the most dominant symbols that permeate the novel: the island itself; the conch; the Lord of the Flies effigy; fire.

Lesson 3 involves distinguishing between a literary topic and a literary theme. It articulates a variety of William Golding's themes implicit in the novel "Lord of the Flies" and has students recognize the dominant theme of human nature's propensity for destruction.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction and discussion questions designed to enhance student understanding of Earnest Gaines' thought-provoking novel A Lesson Before Dying, which addresses the basic predicament of what it is to be a human being, a creature striving for dignity in a universe that often denies it.

In this unit, students explore the themes of power, control, abuse, and respect among the characters in Lord of the Flies by William Golding. The resource includes several activities and discussion questions.

This lesson plan is designed to guide students through a reading of the classic short story, "The Lady or the Tiger?". The lesson provides a guide for an in depth analysis of the text by asking students to seek textual evidence to respond to the provided guided questions. A culminating activity is provided, which directs learners to draft an essay that builds upon that textual evidence to draft a response posed by the title's question.

This lesson plan has several options for ways of teaching the poem "The Road Not Taken" to students. The plan offers guiding questions, analytical information, and different ways for students to respond after completing their reading of the poem.

This resource provides a lesson and two activities focusing on study of the Ramayana. Students will examine characteristics of heroes and villians as exhibited in the text. Students will also spend time focusing on the concept of dharma, or morality. Students will exmaine concepts of morality in the text as well as within their own lives.

This resource provides activities pertaining to a focused reading of the Ramayana. After reading the epic, this activity provides learners with the task of identifying elements of the epic hero cycle.

Students will have the opportunity to use four of the Miss Breed letters as primary source documents. As students compare the writers’ differing points of view, they might see more clearly that the history of an event or period of time is never a single story.

A unit plan for Like Any Normal Day by Mark Kram, Jr., including pre-reading activities, journal prompts, vocabulary words, discussion questions, quizzes, and final project ideas.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an author interview and discussion questions designed to enhance student reading of of The Little Friend, the long-anticipated and widely praised bestseller by Donna Tartt, author of the critically acclaimed The Secret History.