In the TED Ed lesson focused on mythology, students will view the myth of Icarus and Daedalus and explore the lesson conveyed by this famous tale. Additional resources, study questions, and discussion ideas are available in the sidebar.

In this lesson, students read a humorous story by Nathaniel Hawthorne and, as part of a curriculum unit on American literary humor, compare it to other American literary humorists in order to gain perspective on each writer's brand of humor and its significance within the context of American literary tradition.

A teachers guide for The Natural by Bernard Malamud including questions for reading comprehension, prompts for class discussion, exercises post-read, and suggestions for further reading.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction, discussion questions, suggested reading list, and author biography intended to enhance student conversation about author Kazuo Ishiguro's science fiction novel, Never Let Me Go, a brilliantly achieved story of nostalgia for a lost childhood.

In this lesson based on St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, students will work in pairs to read and annotate the lesson and then join in a class discussion on the theme of the meaning of beauty.

This page contains a set of discussion questions for Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes discussion questions designed to aid students in exploring Erin Morgenstern's historical fiction novel, The Night Circus.

In this Penguin Classics guide to José Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not), 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 Penguin Classics guide to Homer's The Odyssey, 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.

A teachers guide for Robert Fitzgerald's translation of The Odyssey by Homer, including background information, advice for approach, questions for basic comprehension for each book, questions for further study for each book, ideas for activities to deepen understanding, and supplemental resources post-read.

In this Penguin Classics guide to W. Somerset Maugham’s Of Human Bondage, 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.

This page contains discussion questions for Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

In this lesson plan, Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men is chunked into six reading sections. Each section has guiding questions for class discussion, as well as student notes and short writing assignments. This lesson will encourage deeper exploration of the book, as well as ask students to provide textual evidence for their writing and discussion.

In this mini document based question activity from the DBQ Project, students will examine four texts to discover the clues that foreshadow key events in author John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men.

In this Penguin Classics guide to John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, 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 lesson, students will understand, identify, and apply through writing and discussion the symbolic elements in John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men as well as distinguish between literal and figurative concepts. Downloadable handouts are included in the lesson plan.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction, discussion questions, and author biography designed to enhance student reading of Tobias Wolff’s first full-length novel Old School, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

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 Tobias Wolff's Old School, a magnificent, genre-defying coming-of-age novel.

At a New England prep school where keeping up appearances is everything, Tobias Wolff's youthful narrator learns the painful difference between truth and fiction. The Big Read Reader's Guide deepens your exploration with interviews, booklists, timelines, and historical information. We hope this guide and syllabus allow you to have fun with your students while introducing them to the work of a great American author.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes questions to help students explore Charles Dickens' novel, Oliver Twist--a classic morality tale of a starving orphan caught between opposing forces of good and evil and a powerful indictment of Victorian England's Poor Laws.