In this Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide to Before You Know Kindness by Chris Bohjalian, students will explore themes of family loyalty and underlying meaning. Discussion questions and author and book background provided.
This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes questions intended to enrich student discussion of Imbolo Mbue's novel, Behold the Dreamers-- a novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American Dream.
In this reader's guide to Iris Murdoch's novel The Bell, 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 further reading included.
This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes discussion questions to further student comprehension and analysis of Black Swan Green by award-winning writer David Mitchell, a meditative novel of boyhood on the cusp of adulthood and the old on the cusp of the new.
In this Random House for High School Teacher's Guide for Black Swan Green, David Mitchell's coming of age novel, students will explore vocabulary, author background, discussion questions, writing prompts, and extension ideas designed to enhance student understanding of character, theme, and structure.
This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes questions, discussion topics, and an author biography designed to aid students in exploring Margaret Atwood's book, The Blind Assassin, winner of the Booker Prize and the International Association of Crime Writers Dashiell Hammett Award.
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 Bombingham by Anthony Grooms. Through the compelling narration of Walter Burke, a troubled young soldier caught in the crossfire in Vietnam, Grooms examines the complex intersection of segregation, civil rights, and racism in one city’s past.
This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes discussion questions to enhance student understanding of Amy Tan's book, The Bonesetter's Daughter.
This resource gives students the opportunity to review The Book Thief.
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 Cristina HenrÃquez’s The Book of Unknown Americans, a powerfully honest, unforgettable story of two families, brought together by love and tragedy, each struggling to find their place in a new country.
This resource based on Brave New World allows students to review elements from Aldous Huxley's seminal text.
This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes discussion questions and other material intended to enhance student conversation about Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Truman Capote’s brilliant novella about two friends living in a Manhattan apartment building during World War II, as well as the three classic short stories also included in the volume.
As part of a curriculum module focused on twentieth-century literature, this lesson (located on pages 21-25 of the PDF) looks at the short story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" by Joyce Carol Oates and discusses its thematic elements and the ways students can relate to the events within.
This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction, discussion questions, and suggestions for further reading designed to enhance discussion of Kevin Brockmeier’s brilliantly imagined apocalyptic novel, The Brief History of the Dead.
A teachers guide for Brighten the Corner Where You Are by Fred Chappell, including a chapter-by-chapter summary, questions for deeper comprehension while reading, and questions for class discussion post-read.
This extensive study guide for Brighton Rock by Graham Greene summarizes the novel and explores characterization and themes in depth, and includes discussion questions for each part of the novel and strategies for assessment preparation.
In this Penguin Classics guide to Voltaire's Candide, 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 page has a set of discussion questions for the General Prologue and the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.
This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes questions, discussion topics, and an author biography designed to aid students in exploring Sandra Cisneros' novel, Caramelo--an all-embracing epic of family history, Mexican history, the immigrant experience, and a young Mexican-American woman’s road to adulthood.
In this Penguin Classics guide to William Gaddis's experimental novel Carpenter's Gothic, 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.