In this Penguin Classics guide to George Orwell's dystopian novel, 1984, students will learn the background of the book as well as the author, and deepen their understanding of the text through indepth discussion questions.

In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.

This recurring lesson encourages students to comprehend their reading through inquiry and collaboration. They work independently to choose quotations that exemplify the main idea of the text, come to a consensus about those quotations in collaborative groups, then formulate "quiz" questions about their reading that other groups will answer.

In this guide to John Steinbeck's The Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights, students will learn the background of the book as well as the author, and deepen their understanding of the text through indepth discussion questions.

In this lesson based on St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, students will discuss the extent to which the main character of the story has adapted to human society. Students will make a claim and support that claim with textual evidence.

In this guide to Saul Bellow's post war novel, The Adventures of Augie March, students will learn the background of the book as well as the author, and deepen their understanding of the text through indepth discussion questions.

In this reader's guide to Edith Wharton's novel, The Age of Innocence, students will deepen their understanding of the text through indepth discussion questions.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an author interview and discussion questions designed to enhance student reading of Karen Thompson Walker's book, The Age of Miracles, the haunting and beautiful story of Julia and her family as they struggle to live in a time of extraordinary change.

In this guide to Anne Bronte's first novel, Agnes Grey, students will learn the background of the book as well as the author, and deepen their understanding of the text through indepth discussion questions. Themes discussed include the plight of the English governess, the materialism and lack of empathy at the heart of Victorian values, and a love story in which kindness and compassion are rewarded and vanity and heartlessness are punished.

This page has 8 in-depth discussion prompts for The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.

Through this Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide that includes questions, discussion topics, and an author biography designed to aid students in exploring Margaret Atwood's book, Alias Grace, students will go back in time and into the life of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the nineteenth century.

In this reader's guide to Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, 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 an introduction, discussion questions, and author biography designed to enhance student reading of Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses, a novel that won both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1992.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction, discussion questions, and author biography designed to enhance student reading of Philip Roth's American Pastoral.

In this lesson based on St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, students will work in small groups to analyze a specific stage of culture shock and then share that work with the class via group presentations.

In this lesson focused on St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, students will analyze character interaction and participate in small group discussions.

In this lesson, students use a circular chart to analyze the plot structure of John Steinbeck's novella Of Mice and Men. Students consider the similar structures of each chapter and how the novel ends where it began, leading into a literary analysis essay about the novel.

In this lesson, students examine several speeches from William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar. Students track the occurrence of speeches, monitor what kind of speeches are made, and write about what the speeches reveal about their speaker.

This resource includes a lesson designed to provide instruction to learners in drawing conclusions about what they see. Students will view media prior to responding through writing. Students will form conclusions based upon what they could conclude through their viewing.