In this lesson, students will review the central ideas from Virginia Woolf's text, "A Room of One's Own," then use the Cross-Text Evidence Collection Tool to collect evidence of the relationship of Ophelia to the ideas expressed by Woolf.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction, discussion questions, and author biography designed to enhance student reading of Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic novel, The Road, the story of a man and his son's journey toward the sea and an uncertain salvation.

A teachers guide for an anthology of poems by Robert Frost including background information, questions pertaining to analysis of individual poems, exercises for the class to deepen understanding, and suggestions for supplemental resources.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction, questions, and suggestions for further reading designed to enhance discussion of The Rope Walk, Carrie Brown’s powerfully evocative coming-of-age story that unfolds over a crucial summer in the life of a young New England girl.

In this five lesson pack from Read Write Think, students will be comparing the text version of Jane Eyre to the 2007 Masterpiece adaptation of Jane Eyre, focusing on character development and theme.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes questions, discussion topics, and suggestions for further reading intended to enrich student discussion of Colson Whitehead's coming of age novel, Sag Harbor.

In this lesson, students complete multiple readings of Jonathan Swift’s 1729 essay "A Modest Proposal": guided reading with the teacher, a collaborative reading with a peer, and an independent reading. After independent reading, pairs of students develop a mock television newscast or editorial script, like those found on Saturday Night Live’s “Weekend Update,” The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, or The Colbert Report, including appropriate visual images in PowerPoint.

Selective Highlighting/Underlining is used to help students organize what they have read by selecting what is important. This strategy teaches students to highlight/underline ONLY the key words, phrases, vocabulary, and ideas that are central to understanding the reading.

These study guides from Shakespeare in the Ruins are simplified versions of the originals and include only the most crucial text from each play, a cast of characters, anticipation guides and activities. Perfect for readers that may be below grade level. Select plays include: The Comedy of Errors, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Henry V, Romeo & Juliet, Henry IV Parts I & II, Macbeth, As You Like It, King Lear, Othello, and The Taming Of the Shrew.

Shakespeare's preeminence as a dramatist rests in part on his capacity to create vivid metaphors and images that embody simple and powerful human emotions. This lesson is designed to help students understand how Shakespeare's language dramatizes one such emotion: fear.

Students search an online version of Shakespeare's Macbeth for clues to the motives behind Macbeth's precipitous descent into evil.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes discussion questions designed to enhance student reading of Lisa See's novel, Shanghai Girls, a book that explores the bonds of sisterhood while powerfully evoking the often nightmarish American immigrant experience.

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 David Guterson's Snow Falling on Cedars, a novel that has been widely praised for its eloquent dramatization of themes of love, justice, racism, community, and conscience.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes discussion questions designed to enhance student reading of Lisa See's novel, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, which Kirkus Review describes as "a nuanced exploration of women's friendship and women's writing in a remote corner of Imperial China."

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 Lisa See's novel Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, a detailed and unforgettable narrative of female friendship set in rural China in the 19th century.

In this lesson, students will analyze chapters XVII-XVIII of The Awakening, examining the argument about societal obligations and the continuing development of central ideas.

A teachers guide for Spare Parts by Joshua Davis, including questions for comprehension, discussion prompts, and ideas for exercises and assignments to deepen understanding.

In this lesson on Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess," students will focus on lines 21-34, assessing how Browning's choice of speaker affects the development of the Duchess.

In this Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide to Emily St. John Mandel's novel, Station Eleven, students will explore themes of the relationships that sustain us, the ephemeral nature of fame, and the beauty of the world as we know it. This guide includes discussion questions and suggested supplemental readings.