This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction, discussion questions, and author biography designed to enhance student reading of On the Come Up by Hannah Weyer.

In this Penguin Classics guide to Jack Kerouac's On the Road, 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 Jack Kerouac's On the Road: The Original Scroll, 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 on Oedipus the King, students will analyze how the order of events help create mystery and tension in the text, as well as how the news of the death of Polybus helps develop the central idea of fate.

In this Penguin Classics guide to Aeschylus' triology of plays known as The Oresteia , 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 questions, discussion topics, and an author biography designed to help students in exploring Margaret Atwood's post-apocalyptic book, Oryx and Crake.

This extremely active lesson plan helps illustrate to students how even students with a difficult socioeconomic background can overcome adversity. Students participate in a variety of activities that combine knowledge of the novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton and physical relay-style challenges.

The Paragraph Shrinking strategy allows each student to take turns reading, pausing, and summarizing the main points of each paragraph. Students provide each other with feedback as a way to monitor comprehension.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes questions, discussion topics, and suggestions for further reading designed to enhance student discussion of Aimee Bender's lush and moving novel, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes discussion questions designed to enhance student understanding of Nella Larson's book, Passing--an electrifying story of two women who cross the color line in 1920s New York.

This lesson is designed to assist students with improving their use of punctuation to include: commas, semicolons, colons, and exclamation points. The lesson is designed to encourage students to focus on emotions and their connections with given forms of punctuation. By examining emotions, students gain the ability to better understand the different uses of various punctuation marks. The lesson includes multiple student handouts and examples. There are also pertinent extension activities attached.

This page contains discussion questions for Peace Like a River by Leif Enger.

In this guide to John Steinbeck's The Pearl, 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 are included.

In this lesson, students reflect on the life of Maya Angelou and how her experiences influenced her poetry. Then they will analyze the poem "On the Pulse of the Morning," and discuss their emotional reactions to the poem.

In this guide to Jane Austen's Persuasion, 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 resource is a series of discussion questions to accompany the Jane Austen novel Persuasion.

This resource provides a lesson that is designed to assist learners with improving their ability to handle a graphic novel. Students will focus on the beginning of the work Persepolis and examine the art used to varying effects. Students will attempt to familiarize themselves with strategies pertaining to making connections to the visual elements presented.

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 Kent Haruf's Plainsong, a powerful tale of seven lonely lives set on the stark but beautiful High Plains of Colorado.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction, discussion questions, and author biography designed to enhance student reading of Pulitzer Prize winner Philip Roth’s novel, The Plot Against America. Set in Newark, New Jersey, in the early 1940s, The Plot Against America tells the story of the Roth family and Jews across the country when the isolationist aviation hero Charles Lindbergh is elected president of the United States.

In this lesson on Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart," students will explore paragraph 3 and the narrator's detailed plan to murder the old an. Students will focus on Poe's structural choices, particularly the manipulation of time, and the effects this has on the reader.