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 resource provides a lesson designed to utilze letter and wordplay as students create a poem as a class. Afterwards, students will work independently to draft a word poem of their own.
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 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.
This poem guide from the Poetry Foundation allows students to gain a deeper understanding of an ancient Arabic form, re-envisioned by a contemporary poet.
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 contains discussion questions for Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank.
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.
In this lesson, students will recognize and create alliterative language in both literary and commercial use.
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 on Emily Dickinson's poem, "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain," students will examine the poet's use of structural choice and the use of capitalization, rhyme, and rhythm.
After gaining skill through anazlying a historic and contemporary speech as a class, students will select a famous speech from a list (included) and write an essay that identifies and explains the rhetorical strategies that the author chose while crafting an effective speech. The analysis will consider questions such as: What makes a good argument? How did the author's rhetoric evoke a response from the audience? Why are the words still famous today?
In this lesson, students will explore the Sophoclean dramatic structure by working with the first two monologues of Oedipus the King.
In this resource based on Animal Farm, students will review and answer questions about the text.
In this reader's guide to Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, students will learn the background of the book as well as the author, and deepen their understanding of the text through indepth discussion questions.
A teachers guide for Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid, including questions for each chapter to increase understanding, topics for class discussion, and assignment ideas to deepen understanding of themes and context