In this lesson on Romeo and Juliet, students will read Act 5.3, lines 291-310, in which the Montagues and Capulets reconcile. Students will analyze how Romeo and Juliet is an example of tragedy.

In this guide to Stendahl's The Red and the Black, 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, students use visual and literary tools to identify, analyze, and explain how elements in Botticelli's painting The Birth of Venus and examples from the play illustrate the philosophy of Renaissance Humanism. Students analyze Botticelli's painting by sketching it and then taking notes in relation to specific elements in the painting. Next, students explore how literary elements in Hamlet reflect Renaissance Humanism. Finally, students explain in writing how the elements in The Birth of Venus and Hamlet establish them as examples of Renaissance Humanism.

In this lesson, students will discuss what myths are, identify how modern-day writers reinterpret myths to reflect contemporary themes and points of view, and rewrite a myth in a modern version from the point of view of another character in the story.

In this lesson on Oedipus the King, students will find textual evidence to support the central idea of the role of fate in Oedipus's guilt.

In this lesson on Oedipus the King, students will explore the effects created by using riddles to reveal key details of Laius's murderer. Students will also refine their understanding of the central idea of the role of fate.

In this lesson plan, students will explore Edgar Allen Poe's poem, "Annabel Lee" and identify the elements of rhyme and repetition in the poem.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction, discussion questions, and author biography designed to enhance student reading of Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic novel, The Road, the story of a man and his son's journey toward the sea and an uncertain salvation.

In this lesson plan, students discuss and analyze Robert Frost's poem Acquainted With The Night. Students read the poem together before analyzing its use of repetition, personification, and metaphor, and examining its potential themes.

This lesson has students carefully read and analyze "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost. It allows for adaptation to cover any of several literary devices used in the poem. Also provided are three different ways for students to respond the poem.

Studying Robert Frost's "Mending Wall," students explore the intricate relationship between a poem's form and its content.

A teachers guide for an anthology of poems by Robert Frost including background information, questions pertaining to analysis of individual poems, exercises for the class to deepen understanding, and suggestions for supplemental resources.

In this lesson on Oedipus the King, students will analyze how the Messenger's revelation of details develops the central idea of fate.

In this guide to E. M. Forster's A Room With a View, 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, questions, and suggestions for further reading designed to enhance discussion of The Rope Walk, Carrie Brown’s powerfully evocative coming-of-age story that unfolds over a crucial summer in the life of a young New England girl.

In this five lesson pack from Read Write Think, students will be comparing the text version of Jane Eyre to the 2007 Masterpiece adaptation of Jane Eyre, focusing on character development and theme.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes questions, discussion topics, and suggestions for further reading intended to enrich student discussion of Colson Whitehead's coming of age novel, Sag Harbor.

This resource provides a lesson designed to guide a reading of The Scarlet Ibis. Students will complete a guided reading initially before rereading the text independently. The lesson provides guiding questions, vocabulary, as well as a culminating writing task.

This lesson is designed to apply Common Core State Standards and facilitate a comparison of informational texts and primary source material from the Scottsboro Boys trials of the 1931 and 1933, and the fictional trial in Harper Lee's novel, To Kill A Mockingbird (1960).