In this Bright Hub Education lesson plan designed for teaching J.K. Rowling's famous book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, students will focus on theme and the development of character. A power point is included.

Six teaching ideas for F.Scott Fitzgerald's, The Great Gatsby including research, writing, and collaborative assignments.

Six teaching ideas for F.Scott Fitzgerald's, The Great Gatsby including research, writing, and collaborative assignments.

In this lesson, students combine history, civics, and English in an examination of the trial process from the nonfiction novel, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Students consider Jim Williams' trial process, which included four different trials.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an author interview as well as discussion questions, designed to enhance discussion of Carol Rifka Brun's Alex Award winning novel, Tell the Wolves I'm Home. Students will explore themes of love, grief, and renewal as two lonely people become the unlikeliest of friends.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes questions to help students explore Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy. Known as Hardy's “bestseller,” Tess Durbeyfield remains his most striking and tragic heroine.

Students are presented with a paired critical reading activity uses excertps from Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and a New York Times article "˜History of Lynchings in the South Documents Nearly 4,000 Names"™ to exlplore the deep and painful history of racial injustice in the south. Included are close fiction/non-fiction analysis, varied media resources, and writing assignments.

In this resource from the New York Times, a paired critical reading activity uses excertps from Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and a New York Times article ‘History of Lynchings in the South Documents Nearly 4,000 Names’ to exlplore the deep and painful history of racial injustice in the south. Included are close fiction/non-fiction analysis, varied media resources, and writing assignments.

In this resource from Crash Course Literature, students will learn about Zora Neale Hurston's life and look at how the interpretations of the book have changed over time. Narrated by John Green.

Through close readings of Zora Neale Hurston'sTheir Eyes Were Watching God, students will analyzehow Hurston creates a unique literary voice by combining folklore, folk language, and traditional literary techniques. Students will examine the role that folk groups play in both their own lives and in the novel.

Students will critique Shakespeare's Macbeth text in terms of plot, themes, character motivation, and character development through a comparative analysis with Holinshed's 1577 book, The Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande.

In this lesson, students will analyze song lyrics and then choose their own soundtrack to go along with The Catcher in the Rye. Students work in groups to come up with a tracklist for their soundtracks before writing a comparison between the novel and a song chosen by the teacher.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction, discussion questions, and author biography designed to enhance student reading of Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres, a novel that explores themes of truth, justice, love, and pride.

In this 2 day lesson plan, students will work with Matt de la Pena's novel Ball Don't Lie, re-reading a passage and focusing on how the theme is developed through the character interaction.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes questions to explore The TIme Machine by H.G. Wells. An insightful look into a distant, bleak, and disturbing future, The Time Machine goes beyond the reaches of science fiction to provide a strikingly relevant discussion of social progress, class struggle, and the human condition.

This Random House for High School Teachers teacher's guide includes questions, discussion topics, comparison to other texts, and an author biography designed to aid students in exploring John Grisham's fast paced novel, A Time to Kill, with themes of prejudice, friendship, commitment, ideals, family values, father/daughter relationships, retribution, and justice.

This list of ten provides questions and guidance to help students create character diary entries.

In this list of ten activities for exploring literature, students have the opportunity to consider different ways of analyzing character, theme, and perspective in a variety of texts.

This list of ten activities provides students with a variety of opportunities to explore how foils develop and enhance a piece of literature.

In this Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide to Doreen Baingana's novel,Tropical Fish, students will explore the coming of age of three sisters after the fall of the Idi Amin regime in Uganda. The questions that follow are meant to spark discussion about the impact of politics, faith, and culture on their progress to adulthood, as well as debate on what it truly means to be at home.