This page contains discussion questions for Peace Like a River by Leif Enger.

This lesson asks students to make an informed decision about whether the suffering of the titular character in Edith Wharton's novel is a result of his personal actions and relationships or the society around him. Students perform close reading of several passages to aid in making their decision.

This resource is a series of discussion questions to accompany the Jane Austen novel Persuasion.

In this lesson, students are introduced to Peter Keating, a main antagonist of Howard Roark in The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. Students receive background information from a powerpoint presentation before reading and paying attention to the relationships Keating develops in the novel.

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 reading of Kent Haruf's Plainsong, a powerful tale of seven lonely lives set on the stark but beautiful High Plains of Colorado.

This resource provides a lesson whereupon students will use their knowledge of the character Holden from the novel Catcher in the Rye to create a fictitous playlist. Students must defend their choices for songs using evidence from the text.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction, discussion questions, and author biography designed to enhance student reading of Pulitzer Prize winner Philip Roth’s novel, The Plot Against America. Set in Newark, New Jersey, in the early 1940s, The Plot Against America tells the story of the Roth family and Jews across the country when the isolationist aviation hero Charles Lindbergh is elected president of the United States.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes discussion questions to enhance student understanding of Curtis Sittenfeld's debut novel, Prep, an insightful, achingly funny coming-of-age story as well as a brilliant dissection of class, race, and gender in a hothouse of adolescent angst and ambition.

In this Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, students will explore discussion questions designed to enhance understanding of theme, setting, and character analysis.

This Random House for High School Teachers teacher's guide includes an introduction, discussion questions, suggestions for further reading, and author biography intended to enliven your student discussion of David Anthony Durham's evocative epic, Pride of Carthage.

Raphael Holinshed published his Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande in 1577. The second edition, published in 1587, was Shakespeare's primary reference work for most of his histories and many of his other plays, including Macbeth. The woodcut image appears only in the 1577 edition—it is the only image in the edition that is not repeated elsewhere in the book. The other excerpts are taken from the 1587 edition.

Students will examine primary source materials on history and the supernatural which relate to Julius Caesar. By acting out the scene based on different historical understandings, they will identify facts, theories and similarities in the sources which help explain characters' motivations, decisions, and reactions.

Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun provides a compelling and honest look into one family's aspirations to move to another Chicago neighborhood and the thunderous crash of a reality that raises questions about for whom the "American Dream" is accessible.

In this lesson, students read and discuss the novel Invisible Man. They will then examine their own communities to bring to light groups that might be considered "invisible." After connecting personal experience to an understanding of larger societal structures students will write an essay on the theme of personal experience of invisibility.

This resource contains the text of Rappaccini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne as well as accompanying reading and discussion questions.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes questions, discussion topics, and an author biography designed to aid students in exploring The Rathbones, Janice Clark's remarkably engrossing and distinctive debut novel.

Reading Guides help students navigate reading material, especially difficult textbook chapters or technical reading. Students respond to a teacher-created written guide of prompts as they read an assigned text. Reading Guides help students to comprehend the main points of the reading and understand the organizational structure of a text.

This page contains discussion questions for Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, as well as a summary of the book and background information on the author.