A teacher's guide for the novel Kindred by Octavia E. Butler, including journal prompts, discussion questions, and focused final project ideas.

A teachers guide for LIE by Caroline Bock, including a lesson plan outline, discussion questions, and assignments

This lesson introduces students to the way lines work in poems and create texture. Students will learn the difference between end-stopped lines (lines that end with punctuation) and enjambed lines (lines that break where there is no punctuation, that continue in the reader's same breath). The lesson will also guide students toward listening to the natural cadences of a poem when reading it aloud.

Students learn more about Faulkner's life and the culture of the South while exploring the use of multiple voices in narration.

Curriculum unit of three lessons explores Williams's use of expressionism to more fully comprehend the theatrical devices and themes in The Glass Menagerie. In Lesson 1, students identify and explicate Williams' expressionist techniques.

In this triumph of magical realism, One Hundred Years of Solitude chronicles a century of the remarkable Buendía family's history in the fictional Colombian town of Macondo. The three lessons presented here explore the fantastic elements of this imaginary world, the real history that lies behind them, and García Márquez's own philosophical musings on writing about Latin America.

In this unit, students explore the themes of power, control, abuse, and respect among the characters in Lord of the Flies by William Golding. The resource includes several activities and discussion questions.

In this lesson, students watch a silent movie and visually identify the elements of a story.

This lesson offers a series of activities that allow students to explore and interact with poetry by writing letters to poets.

Students will read, critically analyze and write about a series of poems dealing with light and darkness.

A unit plan for Like Any Normal Day by Mark Kram, Jr., including pre-reading activities, journal prompts, vocabulary words, discussion questions, quizzes, and final project ideas.

This lesson in poetic sound offers students the opportunity to "experiment" with the sounds of sonnets. Students read sonnets from a variety of authors, compleing a series of tasks that make them focus on different audible aspects of the poetry.

This unit contains a series a poetry lessons and poem suggestions on the poetry of war. Students will read and closely analyze several 'poems of war' and write their own poem as a culminating activity.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an author interview and discussion questions designed to enhance student reading of of The Little Friend, the long-anticipated and widely praised bestseller by Donna Tartt, author of the critically acclaimed The Secret History.

This literacy assessment is based on a literary nonfiction text and includes six text-dependent questions and explanatory information for teachers regarding alignment to the CCSS.

An eclectic range of comic and tragic voices narrate this powerful book about the enduring power of love. Erdrich leads the reader through the interwoven lives of generations of Kashpaws and Lamartines in North Dakota. The Big Read Readers Guide deepens your exploration with interviews, booklists, timelines, and historical information. We hope this guide and syllabus allow you to have fun with your students while introducing them to the work of a great American author.

In this Common Core aligned pdf teacher's guide to Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie, students will explore the themes of love, life, and death through this whimsical novel. The guide includes discussion questions and activities, as well as extension ideas.

This lesson pairs a magazine article about the Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck in 1975 with the Gordon Lightfoot song, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." After comparing and contrasting the elements of each text, students will choose a historical event and, using the song as a model, create a narrative poem about their chosen event. In addition, more contemporary songs and current events will also work for this activity.