In this Penguin Classics guide to Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, 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 Alice Walker's collection of short stories based on her own life, The Way Forward is With a Broken Heart.
Vocabulary and novel questions / assessment for We Beat the Streets
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A series of lessons to introduce students to writing a mutigenre paper. Students will analyze and identify literary elements present in selected novels, work in collaborative groups and sythesize various genres to publish a multigenre webpage.
This lesson focuses on integrating the modern with the classic in a unit on The Odyssey. Students compare a modern character to the epic heroes of ancient Greece with several interactives and graphic organizers.
In this lesson, students write summaries at the end of each chapter of a novel to practice reading for main idea, relevant details, and the author's purpose and point of view.
In the TED Ed lesson focused on the hero students will explore the different aspects of the hero's journey and how ordinary people can relate to literary heroes. Discussion questions and additional resources available in the sidebar.
This lesson introduces students to the epic poem form and its roots in oral tradition. Students will learn about the epic hero cycle and will learn how to recognize this pattern of events and elements. They will also be introduced to the patterns embedded in these stories that have helped generations of storytellers remember these immense poems.
These activities engage students in deep discussions and thinking about the concept of evil. Students explore the idea of evil in the works of Poe and then apply it to the world around them. This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.
This lesson pairs Ernest Hemingway's "Cat in the Rain" with Raymond Carver's "Little Things" to guide students to an understanding of the characteristics of minimalist fiction. When asked to think about the reasons behind the popularity of minimalism, students begin to appreciate how literature develops and learn to see it as a reflection of the culture. Afterwards, students are tasked with comparing both works using a Venn diagram. Next, students read additional Carver stories to develop a list of characteristics for minimalist writing. Finally, students explore the roots of minimalism and write using characteristics of the style.
This resource is a catch-all graphic organizer that students can use while reading. It provides areas for students to analyze text and it helps to train student-readers to attain skills while analyzing literary elements.
This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes questions, discussion topics, and an author biography designed to help students in understanding Zadie Smith's novel, White Teeth. Students will explore a funny, generous, big-hearted novel dealing--among many other things--with friendship, love, war, three cultures, three families over three generations, and the tricky way the past has of coming back and biting you on the ankle.
In this TED Ed lesson focused on Sherlock Holmes, students will explore how the iconic image and behavior of Sherock Holmes differs from his written persona, and discuss why his popularity continues in modern culture. Discussion questions and additional resources available in the sidebar.
In this Penguin Classics guide to the 1872 novel Who Would Have Thought It? by María Amparo Ruiz de Burton, 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 lesson on Romeo and Juliet, students will read Act. 5.3, lines 139-170, in which Juliet learns what has happened, and commits suicide with Romeo's dagger. Students will explore the central idea of fate and then discuss the question: "Who or what is responsible for Juliet's death?"
Students will learn about characters and their traits. Using graphic organizers and video clips, students will be able to determine character traits and the main idea of a text.
This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction, questions, and suggestions for further reading designed to enhance student discussion of Dave Eggers’ inventive novel, The Wild Things, based on Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s story, Where the Wild Things Are.
Published in 1929, The Sound and the Fury is often referred to as William Faulkner's first work of genius. Faulkner's style is characterized by frequent time shifts, narrator shifts, unconventional punctuation and sentence structure, as well as a stream-of-consciousness technique that reveals the inner thoughts of characters to the reader. This curriculum unit will examine narrative structure and time, narrative voice/point of view, and symbolism throughout The Sound and the Fury.
In this Penguin Classics guide to the Wilkie Collins' book, The Woman in White, 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 six week unit on Women in Poetry, students will be introduced to a broad range of women's voices in poetry. Each week is focused on a theme, and the lesson s surrounding that theme require students to research online, forming their own creative and critical responses. The guiding focus of the unit is "how does poetry by women belie and reinforce cultural stereotypes?"