This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes questions, discussion topics, and an author biography designed to aid students in exploring The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein by Peter Ackroyd, a brilliant re-imagination of the classic tale that has enthralled readers for nearly two centuries.

This resource helps students review major elements of the book, The Catcher in the Rye.

In this lesson, students will analyze chapters XIV-XV of The Awakening, focusing on the continued development and interaction of two central ideas.

In this Penguin Classics guide to Leslie Marmon Silko's novel Ceremony, 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 to help students explore Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks, a historical fiction that revolves around a young Scottish woman's war-time odyssey as she becomes involved with an RAF pilot whose plane is lost over France during World War II.

In this Bright Hub Education downloadable workbook for A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, students will discover questions for each part of the novel, a tie in to one of the film adaptations, a writing assignment, and an objective test that can be turned in the day before the holiday break.

Thisresource, based on Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, will help students review major elements of the text.

This lesson plan, intended to help students understand how to analyze a short story. Students use a note-taking chart to help break the story down as they read, then select quotations from the story that reflect their feelings as readers.

In this lesson, students read a designated chapter of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn". In small groups, students discuss chapter summary and answer specific questions related to the chapter. Groups will present summaries, addressing answers to specific questions, thereby chunking information.

In this Penguin Classics guide to Augustine of Hippo's book City of God, students will learn the background of the book as well as the author, and deepen their understanding of the text through indepth discussion questions. Supplemental texts are suggested.

Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) is a technique that teaches students to work cooperatively on a reading assignment to promote better comprehension. CSR learning logs are used to help students keep track of learning during the collaboration process. Students think about what they are reading and write down questions/reflections about their learning. The completed logs then provide a guide for follow-up activities and evaluation methods.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes discussion questions for The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou to aid in student comprehension and understanding of the famous author and her life.

In this eight day unit, students will delve into the ways that the poetry of William Carlos Williams and Cubist and Precisionist paintings share similarities in approach. The culminating activity involves writing an essay comparing a poem to a painting inspired by that poem.

In this lesson students look critically at the story, "The Pit and the Pendulum" by Edgar Allen Poe. They use prediction strategies to form and refine thier opinions about the story line progression in each work. They read the story, screen the film, discuss reactions to both works, and plan and write a persuasive essay analyzing the validity of the film interpretation.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes discussion questions to aid students in analyzing and interpreting the Complete Poems and Selected Letters of John Keats, one of England's great Romantic poets.

A concept map help students visualize various connections between words or phrases and a main idea. There are several types of concept maps; some are hierarchical, while others connect information without categorizing ideas. Most are comprised of words or phrases surrounded by a circle or square that connect to one another and ultimately back to the main idea through graphic lines. These lines help students to "negotiate meaning" as they read and make the meaning connections between the main idea and other information.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes questions, discussion topics, and an author biography intended to enhance student reading of Louis de Bernieres's Corelli's Mandolin.

In this lesson, students use the Cornell notes tool to do close reading of informational text.

This teacher's guide for Counting Backwards by Laura Lascarso includes questions that cover key ideas and details as well as craft and structure, and postreading activities.