In this lesson on Poe's "The Raven," students will learn how the poet believed a poem should have one, singular effect on the reader and then analyze the poem, focusing on structure and imagery.

In this TED Ed lesson focused on poetry, students will explore early 20th century great poet Guillaume Apollinaire. Geneviève Emy shows how during Apollinaire’s short lifetime he created poetry that combined text and image in a way that seemingly predicted a artistic revolution to come. Discussion questions and additional resources available in the sidebar.

In this extensive unit, students will work together to research and explore translated poems and their authors.

In this Penguin Reader's guide to Poet's Pub by Eric Linklater, students will learn the background of the book as well as the author, and deepen their understanding of the text through indepth discussion questions.

Power Notes is a strategy that teaches students an efficient form of organizing information from assigned text. This technique provides students a systematic way to look for relationships within material they are reading. Power Notes help visually display the differences between main ideas and supportive information in outline form. Main ideas or categories are assigned a power 1 rating. Details and examples are assigned power 2s, 3s, or 4s.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes discussion questions to enhance student understanding of Curtis Sittenfeld's debut novel, Prep, an insightful, achingly funny coming-of-age story as well as a brilliant dissection of class, race, and gender in a hothouse of adolescent angst and ambition.

Students learn how to approach an initial reading of a poem. Using Shakespeare's Sonnet 130 as a starting point, students work through comprehension and analysis of structure and tone to move towards creating a thesis about the poem.

In this Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, students will explore discussion questions designed to enhance understanding of theme, setting, and character analysis.

This Random House for High School Teachers teacher's guide includes an introduction, discussion questions, suggestions for further reading, and author biography intended to enliven your student discussion of David Anthony Durham's evocative epic, Pride of Carthage.

This lesson is designed to assist students through multiple sessions with identifying relevant propaganda techniques in literature, discussing persuasive elements found in print and non-print media and composing a persuasive essay. Lesson is appropriate for use with a provided list of novels to include Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451.

Students are guided through how to use quotes and quotation marks when writing about a poem. A specific example is given using the poem "Fifteen" by William Stafford. Students are then given guided questions and directions to practice the technique using Sylvia Plath's "Mirror" as a sample text. The students are directed to use specficic textual evidence from the poem to discuss the poem's meaning and figurative language.

Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun provides a compelling and honest look into one family's aspirations to move to another Chicago neighborhood and the thunderous crash of a reality that raises questions about for whom the "American Dream" is accessible.

In this lesson, students read and discuss the novel Invisible Man. They will then examine their own communities to bring to light groups that might be considered "invisible." After connecting personal experience to an understanding of larger societal structures students will write an essay on the theme of personal experience of invisibility.

This resource contains the text of Rappaccini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne as well as accompanying reading and discussion questions.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes questions, discussion topics, and an author biography designed to aid students in exploring The Rathbones, Janice Clark's remarkably engrossing and distinctive debut novel.

In this lesson, students learn inductively and experientially that moving-image media texts such as movies and TV shows employ a visual language. Additionally, students will analyze and evaluate how "authors" of film and TV media texts construct narratives by selecting from, and combining as needed, particular techniques and conventions.

This choice board can be used at the middle and high school level as a guide for independent reading either as the basis of a unit or as an indepe

This lesson plan uses song lyrics to teach students to read and listen to poetry without letting personal bias influence their understanding of their reading. Students listen to a song as a class and analyze various details about the words, while also considering how perspective influences their understanding of it.

This page contains discussion questions for Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, as well as a summary of the book and background information on the author.