This lesson is designed to accompany a reading of a text that has a film version. Students will create visions of a given text and compare them to the film version.
This Random House for High School Teachers teacher's guide includes an introduction and overview; discussion questions; suggested activities; vocabulary; author biography; and suggestions for further reading designed to enhance student discussion of Alan Drew's novel, Gardens of Water, a novel that calls into question how religious faith, sacrifice, and family loyalty come into play in the aftermath of a catastrophe.
Among the ash heaps and millionaires, explore the geographic and demographic context of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes questions to help students explore Charles Dickens' novel, Great Expectations, a tale of intrigue, unattainable love, and all of the happiness money can't buy.
This page contains a guide with strategies for teaching the life and works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, touching on style, themes, and comparisons with other authors.
This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes questions to help students explore Charles Dickens' novel, Hard Times, a satirical account of the Industrial Revolution.
In this lesson, students compare the novel Something Wicked This Way Comes to an episode of the TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer entitled "Hush." Both texts feature mysterious, silent men who come into a town and create literal and figurative nightmares for its residents. Students complete a chart and take notes from a powerpoint on the similarities and differences between the two.
This resource provides a lesson and accompanying activities that provide students with an opportunity to better understand the differences between Nathaniel Hawthorne's lived experiences and those he chose to write about. Students will use information obtained from The Scarlet Letter to help them begin their investigation. Afterwards, students will research Hawthorne's contemporaries to investigate further into what influences may be evidenced in his writings.
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 A Hologram for the King, Dave Eggers' wry and moving novel about the human costs of our new information economy.
This teachers guide includes summaries of each part of the book I, Robot, by Isaac Asimov, as well as discussion questions for students and suggested activities.
A teachers guide for Robert Fitzgerald's translation of The Iliad by Homer, including background information, advice for approach, questions for basic comprehension for each book, questions for further study for each book, and ideas for activities to deepen understanding.
In this 2-3 day lesson with 4 activities, students will delve into the elements of making evidence based claims.
In this lesson on Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart," students will analyze paragraphs 8-13 by responding to questions, discussing in pairs, and focusing on how Poe's structural choices help refine the central ideas.
Students will learn about the impact of enjambment in Gwendolyn Brooks' short but far-reaching poem "We Real Cool." One element of this lesson plan that is bound to draw students in is a compelling video of working-class Bostonian John Ulrich reciting the poem.
In this lesson, students read the poem "An Incident in the Rose Garden" by Donald Justice, then go through a series of activities to examine the use of figurative language in the text.
A teachers guide for Inferno by Dante Alighieri, specifically the translation by Robert Pinsky, including background information, a brief interview with Robert Pinsky, questions for class discussion, and suggestions for further reading.
In this introductory lesson, students discuss and share the role of authority figures in life by considering the perspective of their parents.
Students are introduced to the elements of a plot diagram through the story of Cinderella.
This introductory lesson gives students some of the background information they'll need to be successful in a unit based on William Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night. Students write mini-scripts about love, then go through an early speech from the play to acclimate themselves to Shakespeare's language.
In this lesson, students will take a trip back in time and look at the lifestyles and classes of people in the late 1800s. Using a WedQuest, text, and graphic organizers, students will learn about the class systems in the 1800s and how the use of symbolism increased the point of interest within the story.