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 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 Henríquez’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 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.

Reading Robert Browning's poem "My Last Duchess," students will explore the use of dramatic monologue as a poetic form, where the speaker often reveals far more than intended.

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.

After students examine primary photographs, maps, and other documents that depict Chicago at the turn of the century, they will anticipate Sandburg's description of and attitudes towards the city. After reading a short biography of the poet they will make further predictions about the poem, and identify ways Sandburg uses literary techniques to make vivid the Chicago he knew. The lesson concludes with a piece of writing in which students describe a favorite place.

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 Casebook of Victor Frankenstein by Peter Ackroyd, a brilliant re-imagination of the classic tale that has enthralled readers for nearly two centuries.

In this slide share presentation based on Chinua Achebe's book, Things Fall Apart, students will learn how to effectively set up a character analysis essay through viewing examples and tips. However, this lesson could be adapted for other novels as well.

This resource includes lessons to accompany a reading of The Crucible. Students will spend time reading closely in order to make interpretations pertaining to character development throughout the play.

This lesson has students analyze various elements of Tennessee William's classic play, A Streetcar Named Desire, to uncover the characterization of various characters in the play. Students can work in individuals or groups to create an oral presentation focused on one character from the play.

In this activity, students will divide into two teams to conduct a mock trial based on The Ransom of Redchief by O. Henry.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes questions to help students explore Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks, a historical fiction that revolves around a young Scottish woman's war-time odyssey as she becomes involved with an RAF pilot whose plane is lost over France during World War II.

Using the landmark feminist short story "The Yellow Wall-paper," students will employ close reading concepts to analyze setting, narrative style, symbol, and characterization.

This lesson helps students understand the complexities of The Wife of Bath's character and the rhetoric of her argument by exploring the various ways in which Chaucer crafts a persona for her. After familiarizing themselves with the framing narrative of the Canterbury Tales and its language, students study the Wife of Bath as a character. Finally, students examine several primary source documents written about women and marraige in order to understand the context in which the Wife presents her argument.

In this Bright Hub Education downloadable workbook for A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, students will discover questions for each part of the novel, a tie in to one of the film adaptations, a writing assignment, and an objective test that can be turned in the day before the holiday break.