This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes questions to help students explore Charles Dickens' novel, Hard Times, a satirical account of the Industrial Revolution.

In this lesson, students will explore controversial symbols, the historical significance behind these symbols, and the harmful effects of such when used today. Students will further explore everyday activities that are important to them and gain a comparative understanding of how Jews were restricted from these same activities based on anti-Semitic laws and regulations passed by the Nazi party. Students will examine the role of anti-Semitic propaganda in schools, as well as Hitler's use of propaganda as a means of setting the stage for mass genocide. This lesson will assist students in understanding the roots and ramifications of prejudice, racism, anti-Semitism, and stereotyping during the Holocaust.

This presentation is intended for use with the lesson plan "Hate, Anti-Semitism, and Propaganda in the Holocaust." In this lesson, students will explore controversial symbols, the historical significance behind these symbols, and the harmful effects of such when used today. Students will further explore everyday activities that are important to them and gain a comparative understanding of how Jews were restricted from these same activities based on anti-Semitic laws and regulations passed by the Nazi party. Students will examine the role of anti-Semitic propaganda in schools, as well as Hitler's use of propaganda as a means of setting the stage for mass genocide. This lesson will assist students in understanding the roots and ramifications of prejudice, racism, anti-Semitism, and stereotyping during the Holocaust.

Students will view photographs from Ana Mendieta's "Silueta Series" and consider the integration of body art, earthworks, performance art, and photography. Students will also discuss art forms that are temporary or ephemeral and how photographic and video documentation become part of the work. Students will explore the concept of body language, work in pairs to create silouhettes of their own, create imprints or molds with their hands or feet, work in groups to create a work of ephemeral art and document the process, and discuss their own personal bond with a homeland or cultural heritage.

In this lesson, students will be engaged in activities to increase their understanding of modeling as a tool for public health preparedness. In the first portion of the lesson, students will obtain simulated patient samples and perform a test to determine if these patients are positive for a simulated rapid influenza diagnostic test. By using this information, students will interpret their results, considering false-positive and false-negative test results. As the lesson progresses, the scale of the outbreak scenario will increase, and students will use mathematical models to calculate the transmissibility of the virus and countermeasures that would be needed to limit the spread of influenza. Students will examine the herd immunity threshold of a population by determining the vaccine efficacy. Final questions will challenge the students to analyze the benefits, limitations, and applications of modeling for preparing and responding to future pandemics.

This resource provides a lesson and accompanying activities that provide students with an opportunity to better understand the differences between Nathaniel Hawthorne's lived experiences and those he chose to write about. Students will use information obtained from The Scarlet Letter to help them begin their investigation. Afterwards, students will research Hawthorne's contemporaries to investigate further into what influences may be evidenced in his writings.

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 Jonathan Odell's novel, The Healing, a warmhearted novel about the unbreakable bonds between three generations of female healers and their power to restore the body, the spirit, and the soul.

This Random House for High School Teachers teacher's guide includes an introduction, discussion questions, suggestions for further reading, and author biography intended to enliven student discussion of Dave Eggers' autobiography about his life after the death of both his parents, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, a thoughtful, moving, and at times uproariously funny memoir.

In this lesson, students write a persuasive letter home defending their decision either to settle in Utah and farm the land, or to go on to California to seek gold.

In this lesson, students will learn about the various contributions and difficulties faced by African Americans during World War II. Students will study various primary source documents, participate in a PowerPoint centered discussion, and read excerpts from Uncommon Hero: The John Seagraves Story, which shares the story of John Seagraves, an African American man who served in the US Navy aboard the USS North Carolina (the most decorated battleship of WWII.) The lesson culminates with a project where students are responsible for creating a book cover about a topic for an anthology of African Americans and World War II.

This presentation is intended for use with the lesson plan "Hero Abroad, Second Class Citizen at Home: John Seagraves, African-Americans, and World War II." In this lesson, students will learn about the various contributions and difficulties faced by African Americans during World War II. Students will study various primary source documents, participate in a PowerPoint centered discussion, and read excerpts from Uncommon Hero: The John Seagraves Story, which shares the story of John Seagraves, an African American man who served in the US Navy aboard the USS North Carolina (the most decorated battleship of WWII.) The lesson culminates with a project where students are responsible for creating a book cover about a topic for an anthology of African Americans and World War II.

In this lesson, students learn about two early historians. A set of discussion questions is provided. In an associated activity, students will participate in 2 news conferences where Herodotus will answer questions from the press on the Persian Wars and Thucydides will answer questions about the Peloponnesian War.

This lesson is designed to guide students through the process of learning about the Harlem Renaissance and specific artists who contributed to this period of American history. Students are further guided to share their findings by collaborating and producing a Renaissance Fair.

In this Penguin Classics guide to Mikhail Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time, 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 postwar novel Herzog, students will learn the background of the book as well as the author, and deepen their understanding of the text through indepth discussion questions. Students will explore themes of redemption, darkness to light, and ignorance to enlightenment.

Students will be able to examine a work of art and write a descriptive analysis about it; explore the differences between objective and subjective writing about an art object; consider the context in which a work of art was created, and develop opinions about a work of art; and discuss and reflect upon the process through which their first impressions of a work of art changed, after acquiring contextual knowledge about it.

This cross-curricular lesson combines Social Studies and Language Arts to demonstrate how the study of an historical topic can be developed to make learning nonfiction more exciting, and also improve fluency and comprehension. This project about Benjamin Franklin includes a series of lessons in which the students: 1) read for information from multiple texts, 2) write a script for a Readers Theater play, 3) read for expression and fluency by using their script, 4) enhance their reading with visual arts, and 5) demonstrate dramatic interpretation through role-play. This approach engages students throughout in active participation and collaboration. Included are many supporting resources, such as a read-aloud rubric, an audition sheet, and ideas for student assessment and reflection.

In this lesson, students will use primary source materials to investigate significant events in American History of the 19th century.

In this lesson, students will use primary source materials to investigate the economy, physical geography, and cultural aspects of the Northern States and the Southern States prior to the Civil War.

In this lesson, students will use primary source materials to investigate significant historical events during the American Civil War.