In this activity, students use a storyboard to create a character reference log. This log will allow students to recall relevant information about important characters as the plot progresses.

Julia Alvarez's popular novel is a fictional account influenced by the real lives of the Mirabal sisters, who grew up in the Dominican Republic and were involved in the rebellion against dictator Rafael Trujillo in the 1930s. The Big Read Reader's Guide deepens your exploration with interviews, booklists, timelines, and historical information. We hope this guide and syllabus allow you to have fun with your students while introducing them to the work of a great American author.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction, questions, and suggestions for further reading designed to enhance discussion of Ralph Ellison's classic novel, Invisible Man.

This literacy assessment includes an excerpt from "Julius Caesar," eight text-dependent questions, one constructed response writing prompt, and explanatory information for teachers regarding alignment to the CCSS.

A teacher's guide for the novel Kindred by Octavia E. Butler, including journal prompts, discussion questions, and focused final project ideas.

This lesson plan encourages students to examine point of view by writing an eyewitness account. This lesson plan can be used with any novel the students might happen to be reading - students choose a character from whose perspective they'd be interested in examining things.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction and discussion questions designed to enhance student understanding of Earnest Gaines' thought-provoking novel A Lesson Before Dying, which addresses the basic predicament of what it is to be a human being, a creature striving for dignity in a universe that often denies it.

This resource provides activities pertaining to a focused reading of the Ramayana. After reading the epic, this activity provides learners with the task of identifying elements of the epic hero cycle.

In this lesson, students watch a silent movie and visually identify the elements of a story.

Students will have the opportunity to use four of the Miss Breed letters as primary source documents. As students compare the writers’ differing points of view, they might see more clearly that the history of an event or period of time is never a single story.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes questions, discussion topics, and an author biography designed to aid students in exploring Raymond Carver's hardboiled fiction, The Long Goodbye. Author background, book overview, and discussion questions are included.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction, discussion questions, and author biography designed to enhance student reading of The Lowland, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri. Set in India and America, it is a beautifully crafted and heartbreaking portrait of three generations bound and fractured by the demands of love and loyalty.

This Random House for High School Teachers teacher's guide includes an introduction, discussion questions, suggestions for further reading, and author biography designed to enhance student discussion of Gloria Naylor's book, Mama Day, a work that is at once a contemporary love story, a timeless generational saga, a chillingly believable tale of the supernatural, and a homage to the redemptive power of African-American tradition.

This webpage offers text, audio, and commentary for "Marriage is a Short Affair," a short story by Chinua Achebe that is set in colonial Nigeria in the decade before independence, and highlights how the old ways in the countryside, represented by a remote village, clash with the modern ways in the large city of Lagos, specifically as related to arranged versus love-match marriages.

In this lesson, students read The Open Window, a short story by Saki that features a twist ending not unlike a horror movie. Students also read The Possibility of Evil, by Shirley Jackson, then compare the texts and examine the different ways they feel about both authors' characters.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction, discussion questions, suggestions for further reading, and author biography designed to enhance student discussion of Toni Morrison's novel, A Mercy, a novel about the trauma of living in colonial America during the birth of the slave trade.

In this mid-unit assessment, students will identify a central idea in "The Tell-Tale Heart" and discuss how point of view and structural choices contribute to the development of that idea.

In this Bright Hub Education lesson plan for teaching Shakespeare's comedy, A Midsummer Night's Dream, questions are broken into acts in order to aid in student comprehension and class discussion. Additional ideas and resources are provided as well.

This teacher's guide for The Milk of Birds by Sylvia Whiman includes prereading research activities, discussion questions to follow the book, and postreading activities.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction, discussion questions, and author biography designed to enhance student reading of Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.