This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction, discussion questions, author biography, and suggested reading list designed to enhance student reading of Cristina Henríquez’s The Book of Unknown Americans, a powerfully honest, unforgettable story of two families, brought together by love and tragedy, each struggling to find their place in a new country.

This is a collection of discussion questions and activities to supplement The Book of the Dun Cow by Walter Wangerin Jr.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes discussion questions and other material intended to enhance student conversation about Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Truman Capote’s brilliant novella about two friends living in a Manhattan apartment building during World War II, as well as the three classic short stories also included in the volume.

As part of a curriculum module focused on twentieth-century literature, this lesson (located on pages 21-25 of the PDF) looks at the short story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" by Joyce Carol Oates and discusses its thematic elements and the ways students can relate to the events within.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction, discussion questions, and suggestions for further reading designed to enhance discussion of Kevin Brockmeier’s brilliantly imagined apocalyptic novel, The Brief History of the Dead.

A teachers guide for Brighten the Corner Where You Are by Fred Chappell, including a chapter-by-chapter summary, questions for deeper comprehension while reading, and questions for class discussion post-read.

This extensive study guide for Brighton Rock by Graham Greene summarizes the novel and explores characterization and themes in depth, and includes discussion questions for each part of the novel and strategies for assessment preparation.

In this Penguin Classics guide to Voltaire's Candide, 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 page has a set of discussion questions for the General Prologue and the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.

The selection "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker explores the role heritage and culture played in an individual's understanding of his or her life and identity. In this lesson, students will understand the contributions of past and present and interpret and analyze the ideas of family and hertiage through the use of theme and metaphors.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes questions, discussion topics, and an author biography designed to aid students in exploring Sandra Cisneros' novel, Caramelo--an all-embracing epic of family history, Mexican history, the immigrant experience, and a young Mexican-American woman’s road to adulthood.

In this Penguin Classics guide to William Gaddis's experimental novel Carpenter's Gothic, students will learn the background of the book as well as the author, and deepen their understanding of the text through indepth discussion questions. Suggested supplemental readings are included.

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.

Students examine books, selected from the American Library Association Challenged/Banned Books list, and write persuasive pieces expressing their views about what should be done with the books at their school.

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.

Nigerian born Chinua Achebe is one of the world's most well-known and influential contemporary writers. His first novel, Things Fall Apart (1958), is an early narrative about the European colonization of Africa told from the point of view of the colonized people.

Students are prompted to challenge their notion of synonyms being words that "mean the same" by investigating key words in Robert Frost's poem, "Choose Something Like a Star." First, they build an understanding of connotation and register by categorizing synonyms for the title word, "choose." Then they develop lists of synonyms for words of their choice elsewhere in the poem and collaborate on a full analysis, focusing on the relationship between word choice and the elements of speaker, subject, and tone.

In this lesson on Oedipus the King, students will explore the relationship between human and divine power and the role of fate in Oedipus's guilt.

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.