This lesson is designed to provide students with the opporunity to enhance their understanding of allusion by examining artwork by Kehinde Wiley and comparing it to various works by the Old Masters. Students will use graphic organizers to identify qualities in two works to attempt to identify allusions that are made. As a culminating activity, students will use their skills to make a comparison of Pieter Bruegel's "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus," W.H. Auden's "Musée des Beaux Arts" and the myth of Icarus. Students will focus on the work's differences in tone and emphasis of human suffering.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes questions, discussion topics, and an author biography designed to aid students in exploring Raymond Carver's hardboiled fiction, The Long Goodbye. Author background, book overview, and discussion questions are included.

In this Random House for High School Teachers Guide to J.R.R. Tolkien's epic trilogy, The Lord of the Rings, students will explore plot summaries and discussion questions for each of the three books. This guide is designed to direct and enhance student reading as well as supply a number of research and interdisciplinary options.

In this Penguin Reader's guide to The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes) by Henri Alban Fournier, students will learn the background of the book and deepen their understanding of the text through indepth discussion questions.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction, discussion questions, and author biography designed to enhance student reading of The Lowland, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri. Set in India and America, it is a beautifully crafted and heartbreaking portrait of three generations bound and fractured by the demands of love and loyalty.

In this Common Core aligned pdf teacher's guide to Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie, students will explore the themes of love, life, and death through this whimsical novel. The guide includes discussion questions and activities, as well as extension ideas.

In this Penguin Classics guide to Gustave Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary, 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 series of worksheets with answer keys to help students of differing levels identify main ideas from selcted texts.

This lesson pairs a magazine article about the Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck in 1975 with the Gordon Lightfoot song, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." After comparing and contrasting the elements of each text, students will choose a historical event and, using the song as a model, create a narrative poem about their chosen event. In addition, more contemporary songs and current events will also work for this activity.

In this lesson, students learn about the differences between inference and prediction, then review some strategies for making both. Students then create a chart to help them make inferences and predictions as they read.

This Random House for High School Teachers teacher's guide includes an introduction, discussion questions, suggestions for further reading, and author biography designed to enhance student discussion of Gloria Naylor's book, Mama Day, a work that is at once a contemporary love story, a timeless generational saga, a chillingly believable tale of the supernatural, and a homage to the redemptive power of African-American tradition.

In this activity, students will be divided into different roles--bracket makers, seeding committee, or class logo/bracket namers. The activity will span 3 weeks and take about 10 minutes each day, as students debate, support, and choose their picks for the "March Madness" of books, poetry, or short stories (or favorite characters, etc.). Students must discern, defend, and support their picks, offering the opportunity for assessing understanding of the texts.

This webpage offers text, audio, and commentary for "Marriage is a Short Affair," a short story by Chinua Achebe that is set in colonial Nigeria in the decade before independence, and highlights how the old ways in the countryside, represented by a remote village, clash with the modern ways in the large city of Lagos, specifically as related to arranged versus love-match marriages.

In this Penguin Classics guide to Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, 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 read The Open Window, a short story by Saki that features a twist ending not unlike a horror movie. Students also read The Possibility of Evil, by Shirley Jackson, then compare the texts and examine the different ways they feel about both authors' characters.

In this video from American Masters | Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise, students will learn about the lasting impact of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and why it’s such an important piece of American literature. Students will answer discussion questions, analyze text from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and write a short essay to gain a deeper understanding of Angelou’s work.

This resource is a side-by-side paraphrase of the prologue and a selection of portraits from Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.

A teachers guide for The Memory of Things by Gae Polisner, including questions for comprehension while reading, prompts for class discussion, and suggested assignments post-read.

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 Toni Morrison's novel, A Mercy, a novel about the trauma of living in colonial America during the birth of the slave trade.

In this mid unit assessment for Oedipus the King, students will write a three point claim essay in response to the prompt: "What relationship does Sophocles establish between prophecy and Oedipus's actions?"