In this lesson on St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, students will learn annotation skills and work in small groups to explore how the author develops the pack as a character in itself.
This resource provides review of important elements of the tragedy, Antigone.
In this reader's guide to John O'Hara's Appointment in Samarra, students will learn the background of the book as well as the author, and deepen their understanding of the text through indepth discussion questions.
Students will evaulate a nonfiction or realistic text for its cultural relevance to themselves and as a group. Then they analyze the cultural relevance of a selected text using an online tool. After, students search for additional relevant texts; each chooses one and writes a review of the text that they choose.
This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction, discussion questions, suggestions for further reading, and author biography designed to enhance student discussion of Ian McEwan’s international bestseller Atonement.
This guide to The Birthmark by Nathaniel Hawthorne includes analysis of the story, an extensive selection of study and discussion questions, key vocabulary terms, and a follow-up assignment.
This resource contains discussion topics and postreading activities for Barefoot Heart by Elva Treviño Hart.
This page discusses two works by William Faulkner: Barn Burning and A Rose for Emily. This resource includes teaching strategies, an overview of themes and connections, and discussion questions.
In this lesson based on Emily Dickinson's famous poem, students will explore how a poem can infer tone and analyze connotative, allegorical, and metaphoric meaning.
A teachers guide for Before My Eyes by Caroline Bock, including in-depth insight to the setting, characters, and author's inspiration, questions for class discussion, and activities to provoke deeper understanding of issues
This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes questions intended to enrich student discussion of Imbolo Mbue's novel, Behold the Dreamers-- a novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American Dream.
Noh, the oldest surviving Japanese dramatic form, combines elements of dance, drama, music, and poetry into a highly stylized, aesthetic retelling of a well-known story from Japanese literature, such as The Tale of Genji or The Tale of the Heike. This lesson provides an introduction to the elements of Noh plays and to the text of two plays, and provides opportunities for students to compare the conventions of the Noh play with other dramatic forms with which they may already be familiar, such as the ancient Greek dramas of Sophocles. By reading classic examples of Noh plays, such as Atsumori, students will learn to identify the structure, characters, style, and stories typical to this form of drama. Students will expand their grasp of these conventions by using them to write the introduction to a Noh play of their own.
In this reader's guide to Iris Murdoch's novel The Bell, students will learn the background of the book as well as the author, and deepen their understanding of the text through indepth discussion questions. Suggested further reading included.
Students will read and analyze the poem "The Bells", by Edgar Allan Poe. Students will collaborate with their peers to identify and share examples of literary techniques used by the author.
This resource serves as a review of major Edgar Allen Poe works.
This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes discussion questions to further student comprehension and analysis of Black Swan Green by award-winning writer David Mitchell, a meditative novel of boyhood on the cusp of adulthood and the old on the cusp of the new.
In this Random House for High School Teacher's Guide for Black Swan Green, David Mitchell's coming of age novel, students will explore vocabulary, author background, discussion questions, writing prompts, and extension ideas designed to enhance student understanding of character, theme, and structure.
This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes questions, discussion topics, and an author biography designed to aid students in exploring Margaret Atwood's book, The Blind Assassin, winner of the Booker Prize and the International Association of Crime Writers Dashiell Hammett Award.
This Random House for High School Teachers teacher's guide includes questions, discussion topics, comparison to other texts, and an author biography designed to aid students in exploring Bombingham by Anthony Grooms. Through the compelling narration of Walter Burke, a troubled young soldier caught in the crossfire in Vietnam, Grooms examines the complex intersection of segregation, civil rights, and racism in one city’s past.
This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes discussion questions to enhance student understanding of Amy Tan's book, The Bonesetter's Daughter.