In this mid-unit assessment, students will identify a central idea in "The Tell-Tale Heart" and discuss how point of view and structural choices contribute to the development of that idea.
In this Bright Hub Education lesson plan for teaching Shakespeare's comedy, A Midsummer Night's Dream, questions are broken into acts in order to aid in student comprehension and class discussion. Additional ideas and resources are provided as well.
The activities in this lesson invite students to focus on the characters from A Midsummer Night's Dream, to describe and analyze their conflicts, and then to watch how those conflicts get resolved.
This teacher's guide for The Milk of Birds by Sylvia Whiman includes prereading research activities, discussion questions to follow the book, and postreading activities.
This lesson provides examples of how to incorporate a discussion of setting into other parts of short story analysis. Students consider the setting in addition to the characters and themes in an attempt to tie all of the elements of a story together.
This resource includes a lesson that tasks learners with reading a short selection before answering a set of accompanying questions. This resource may be used as a quick quiz to test a learners understanding of the aligned standards.
Four-minute video on how to read and write more critically with an emphasis on analysis, big ideas, and deeper meanings.
In this Penguin Classics guide to Herman Melville's Moby Dick, students will learn the background of the book as well as the author, and deepen their understanding of the text through indepth discussion questions. Supplemental reading suggestions are included.
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 discussion of Monkey Hunting by Cristina GarcÃa.
In this Penguin Classics guide to Wilkie Collins' novel The Moonstone, students will learn the background of the book as well as the author, and deepen their understanding of the text through indepth discussion questions.
This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction and discussion questions designed to enhance student reading of Koren Zailckas's darkly suspenseful novel, Mother, Mother.
This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction, discussion questions, and author biography designed to enhance student reading of Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.
In this lesson, students show the relevance of literary terms to a movie of their choice.
In this lesson on Romeo and Juliet, students will read Act 3.1, lines 111-138, analyzing how the act develops a central theme of fate.
In this project-based learning assessment, students create music playlists to go along with the novella The Pearl by John Steinbeck. Students choose six songs that align with various aspects of the book, and create a poster with images that go along with each song.
In this Penguin Classics guide to Willa Cather's My Antonia, students will learn the background of the book as well as the author, and deepen their understanding of the text through indepth discussion questions. Suggested supplemental readings included.
In this Penguin Classics guide to William Trevor's My House in Umbria, students will learn the background of the book as well as the author, and deepen their understanding of the text through indepth discussion questions. Students will explore two of Trevor's recurring subjects: events and circumstances that cause people to seek refuge in fictions they create themselves and the limitations that women face in a world still dominated by men. Suggested supplemental readings included.
This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction, discussion questions, and author biography designed to enhance student reading of author Nancy Rawles’s powerful, eloquent novel, My Jim.
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 Nancy Rawles' My Jim, one woman’s story of surviving slavery and Reconstruction.
A teachers guide for My Sisters' Voices: Teenage Girls of Color Speak Out by Iris Jacob including questions for deeper comprehension, exercises for the class, and suggestions for further reading.