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 Ayana Mathis’s book, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie.
This page details two lessons centered around projects based on The Masque of the Red Death, by Edgar Allan Poe. Students create masks and discuss the symbolic significance of the seven rooms of Prospero's palace.
In this Random House for High School Teachers Guide to Un Lun Dun by author China Miéville, students will explore literary genre, plot structure and the construction of characters and protagonists. This guide is divided into eight parts, each with discussion questions and writing prompts, as well as a section of activities, vocabulary, and extension ideas.
This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes questions intended to enrich student discussion of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin.
In this Penguin Classics guide to The Underdogs, the most celebrated novel of the Mexican Revolution and the signature work of doctor, novelist, and revolutionary Mariano Azuela, 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 Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes questions designed to enhance discussion of Colson Whitehead's book, The Underground Railroad.
In this lesson, students use song lyrics and poetry to examine how an author's message can change drastically over the course of a text.
In this end of unit lesson on Oedipus the King, students will gather and prepare evidence for writing about how Oedipus's guilt emerges in the text.
In this lesson on Oedipus the King, students will write an essay exploring how Sophocles develops the central idea in the text.
In this Unit assessment, students will write an essay identifying a central idea shared by both "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain," using textual evidence to support their claims.
This resource provides a lesson designed to guide students through a reading of the short story "Lamb to the Slaughter". Students will read and analyze the text. Afterwards, students will reflect through response to guided questions and write an essay.
This extensive unit plan centered around Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Eqsuivel explores Magical Realism and different critical viewpoints. It includes an overview of the subject matter, strategies for teaching, detailed daily lesson plans with assignments and activities for each day, assessment and discussion questions for each method of criticism, notes on the cultural and historical background, and suggestions for further reading.
This unit plan centered around "Like Water for Chocolate" by explores Magical Realism and different critical viewpoints. It includes an overview of the subject matter, strategies for teaching, detailed daily lesson plans with assignments and activities for each day, assessment and discussion questions for each method of criticism, notes on the cultural and historical background, and suggestions for further reading.
This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction, discussion questions, and author biography designed to enhance student reading of Karen Russell’s book of short stories, Vampires in the Lemon Grove.
In this Penguin Classics guide to William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair, 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 Patrick White's novel, The Vivisector, 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 poetry unit consists of four lessons: Lesson 1: Spoken Word Poetry, Lesson 2: The Written Poem, Lesson 3: Poetry as Social Commentary, and Lesson 4: Voice.
In this Penguin Classics guide to Patrick White's novel, Voss, 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 study how protagonist Johann Ulrich Voss becomes the vehicle through which White explores our flawed abilities to perceive and communicate deep truths and the role of suffering in finding the path to wisdom.
Clues to Walt Whitman's effort to create a new and distinctly American form of verse may be found in his Notebooks, now available online from the American Memory Collection. In an entry to be examined in this lesson, Whitman indicated that he wanted his poetry to explore important ideas of a universal scope (as in the European tradition), but in authentic American situations and settings using specific details with direct appeal to the senses.
In this lesson, students explore the historical context of Walt Whitman's concept of "democratic poetry" by reading his poetry and prose and by examining daguerreotypes taken circa 1850. Next, students will compare the poetic concepts and techniques behind Whitman's "I Hear America Singing" and Langston Hughes' "Let America Be America Again," and have an opportunity to apply similar concepts and techniques in creating a poem from their own experience.