In this guide to Iris Murdoch's The Sea, the Sea, 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 Saul Bellow's Seize the Day, students will learn the background of the book as well as the author, and deepen their understanding of the text through indepth discussion questions. A list of related titles is included.
In this lesson on Oedipus the King, students will use a tool to explore Oedipus's last act of self-mutilation and explore how these details develop the central idea of fate.
In this Penguin Classics guide to Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, students will learn the background of the book as well as the author, and deepen their understanding of the text through indepth discussion questions. A list of related titles is included.
These study guides from Shakespeare in the Ruins are simplified versions of the originals and include only the most crucial text from each play, a cast of characters, anticipation guides and activities. Perfect for readers that may be below grade level. Select plays include: The Comedy of Errors, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Henry V, Romeo & Juliet, Henry IV Parts I & II, Macbeth, As You Like It, King Lear, Othello, and The Taming Of the Shrew.
This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes discussion questions designed to enhance student reading of Lisa See's novel, Shanghai Girls, a book that explores the bonds of sisterhood while powerfully evoking the often nightmarish American immigrant experience.
This resource provides a lesson designed to provide students with a guide for reading and interpreting the text, Harrison Bergeron. Students will spend time analyzing the author's use of irony. The lesson provides a set of guided reading questions as well as a culminating writing activity.
In this lesson, students complete a comprehensive project based on a short story they've read in class. Students craft a presentation, create a test, and create a puzzle or game based on the story.
Working in a group of no more than three people, create a visual representation using a video format of one of the following short stories we have read: The Cask of Amontillado, The lady or the Tiger, The Scarlet Ibis, The Most Dangerous Game, or The Necklace.
Students will consider the nature of stories and learn to write more concisely by reading and writing flash fiction.
In this Penguin Classics guide to Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha, students will learn the background of the book as well as the author, and deepen their understanding of the text through indepth discussion questions. A list of related titles is included.
Students compare an excerpt of a WPA interview with an ex-slave with a more famous statement by Frederick Douglass to arrive at their own interpretations of slave resistance. This lesson is designed to work with the film Doing As They Can, but parts of it can be completed without the film.
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 David Guterson's Snow Falling on Cedars, a novel that has been widely praised for its eloquent dramatization of themes of love, justice, racism, community, and conscience.
This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes discussion questions designed to enhance student reading of Lisa See's novel, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, which Kirkus Review describes as "a nuanced exploration of women's friendship and women's writing in a remote corner of Imperial China."
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 Lisa See's novel Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, a detailed and unforgettable narrative of female friendship set in rural China in the 19th century.
In this lesson on Romeo and Juliet, students will read Act 2.2, lines 1-61, and explore how Shakespeare uses structural choices to develop meaning in the text, as well as how he develops the theme of individual identity versus group identification.
In this lesson, students compare Ray Bradbury's novel Something Wicked This Way Comes to the movie adaptation from the 1980s. Students complete a chart comparing the two versions of the story before moving on to a sheet of questions and an assessment of the teacher's choice.
In this Penguin Classics guide to Willa Cather's The Song of the Lark, 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 collection of discussion questions to supplement Sounds of the River by Da Chen, the story of a young Bejing teenager Da Chen who takes his first train ride away from the farm he was raised on to his new university life in Beijing. He soon faces a host of ghastly challenges, including poor living conditions, lack of food, and suicidal roommates.
A teachers guide for Spare Parts by Joshua Davis, including questions for comprehension, discussion prompts, and ideas for exercises and assignments to deepen understanding.