This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction, discussion questions, and author biography designed to enhance student reading of author John Pipkin's brilliant and illuminating novel, Woodsburner.

This resource contains worksheets, projects, and activities for William Golding's Lord of the Flies.

In this lesson, students will pair reading and discussion of Tim O'Brien's story "The Things they Carried" with a letter-writing activity intended to help students analyze text to identify figurative and connotative meaning as well as ultimately organize and create their own piece of prose.

In this lesson based on St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, students will write an objective summary and work in small groups to analyze the way the author develops the central ideas.

This resource contains a set of discussion questions for Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, relating to structural choices, character influences, and reader interpretations.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes questions, discussion topics, and an author biography designed to help students in understanding Margaret Atwood's book, The Year of the Flood. Students will explore the theme of what could happen if we continue on the dangerous path of disrespect for the environment--and for one another.

Students write about present-day pop culture as well as learning about pop culture of the past by using Cole Porter's song "You're the Top!" (1934) to touch on many issues relevant to a language arts classroom, especially the literary technique of cataloguing. After an introduction and context information about Porter's song, students listen to the song and examine the lyrics. They look at the list of the pop culture items referenced in the song to see what they feel is still valid today, brainstorm replacements for other items, and create revised lyrics for the song. They then present their updated lyrics to the class.