This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction, discussion questions, and author biography designed to enhance student reading of Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic novel, The Road, the story of a man and his son's journey toward the sea and an uncertain salvation.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes questions, discussion topics, and suggestions for further reading intended to enrich student discussion of Colson Whitehead's coming of age novel, Sag Harbor.

With this digital collection, students will examine documents that develop the context for Shakespeare’s Roman plays. They include excerpts from his primary source on classical Rome, representations of Rome by other Renaissance writers, and, finally, interpretations of Shakespeare’s characters by artists from later centuries. Students will consider the following questions as they review the documents: 1. How did Shakespeare’s contemporaries represent classical Rome? What relationships do they suggest between ancient Rome and Renaissance England? Which issues does Rome seem to raise for Renaissance writers or allow them to explore? 2. In what ways do Shakespeare’s plays reinforce or differ from other Renaissance representations of Rome? Which issues does he call attention to, revise, or adapt in his retelling of Roman history? 3. How did artists portray Shakespeare’s characters in the centuries that followed the original staging of Julius Caesar and Coriolanus? What about these plays seems to have mattered most to subsequent audiences?

In this lesson, students construct their own carousel to go along with the one in Something Wicked This Way Comes. Students work in groups of four or five to create their carousel, including features designed to represent the fears and desires of the students creating it.

In this extensive, 20 class period unit from the Academy of American Poets, students will explore three different themes: "What is Poetry?", "Poems of Chidhood," and "Self and Society."

In this lesson, students will analyze paragraphs 4-7 of Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart," focusing on how the narrative point of view develops the central ideas of madness and obsession. Additionally, students will explore how Poe's manipulation of time builds tension in the text.

In this Penguin Reader's guide to The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories by Bruno Schulz, 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 lesson focuses on world literature, specifically "Sanemori" The Tales of the Heike.

Students will be able to classify the aristocratic society of the Heian Period of Japan and justify the Heike and Genji samurai's motivations to change the government of Japan.

Students will be able to identify the traits of a quality samurai based on the story of Sanemori.

In this video resource from PBS Learning Media, students will be introduced to Samuel Clemens, the man with two identities who, as Mark Twain, was considered to be a master storyteller.

In this video resource from PBS Learning Media, students will explore the darker side of Mark Twain, the man who once wrote, "The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no laughter in heaven."

In this lesson from the Academy of American Poets, students will examine the Vietnam War through two photographs and the perspective of the speaker in the poem, "Facing It."

In this lesson, students will compare and contrast two poems--one audio and one written.

In this lesson, students will explore an artwork of laughing babies and compare it to the poem, "The Laughing Child" by W.S. Merwin.

A teacher's guide to Agatha Christie's, And Then There Were None. Included are chapter-by-chapter discussion questions, writing prompts, and activities.

A teacher's guide to Harper Lee's, Go Set A Watchman. Included are chapter-by-chapter discussion questions, writing prompts, and activities.

In this lesson, students get their first taste of analyzing poetry, focusing on the works of Emily Dickinson. Students look at three of Dickinson's poems through activities going along with them.

In this Bright Hub Education lesson plan designed for teaching J.K. Rowling's famous book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, students will focus on theme and the development of character. A power point is included.

Students will use The New York Times and George Orwell's Animal Farm and/or 1984 to explore the relevance of the novel in today's contemporary society and discern how many of the book"™s warnings are relevant today.

This resource provides stems that align with all the RI and RL standards for grades 9 and 10.

This resource provides a lesson designed to assist learners with essentially developing a backstory for many of the minor characters in the text David Copperfield.