This site contains links to lesson plans and resources for adolescent and young adult (grades 6-12) literature, including short stories, mysteries, and English literature. Since there is considerable overlap between authors and titles for children and adolescents, go to my site for children's literature if you do not find what you need on this page. All links on this page were checked and updated 8-27-09.
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Multiple Works/Movements/Genres;
Resources for Adolescent
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Short Stories;
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Lesson Plans for Multiple
Authors/Works
Doucette Index
A search engine for K-12 literature-based
teaching ideas. Just type in
the name of the book or author and click on
Begin Search.
Booktalks: Quick and Simple
Over 300 "booktalks" for introducing the works
to students.
Class Zone Mc Dougall Littell Novel
Guides
Guides including a summary,
suggested teaching activities,
and research assignments for more
than 60 popular works.
Discovery Channel School
Many lesson
plans for social studies,
science, and literature.
EDSITEment Literature and Language
Arts
Many high quality lesson plans
from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Resources for Teaching
Novels
An alphabetical index.
Personal Responses to a
Novel
A collection of ideas for a literature unit based
on fictional genre.
Novels: Lesson Plans, Resources,
and Reading Lists
Essay topics, resources, activities, and lesson
plans for a large number
of authors and works.
Decades of the 20th Century
Project
A high school lesson plan that provides an overview
of 20th Century literature.
Movements in American Literature
An 11th-grade lesson plan.
Dear Character
A lesson plan in which students write a letter
as if it were written by
a character from a book they are studying.
Dewar's Profile
A strategy to help students identify essential
elements of a character.
Woman: Her American Experience
An 18-week literature course for the 12th-grade
complete with information
and lesson plans.
Twentieth Century Latin
American Writing
A collection of units for middle school and high
school.
Crossing the Border: A
Study of Immigration Through Literature
A unit for grades 6-8.
Asian-American Writer's
Workshop
Though developed for ESL students in grades 6-9,
this unit could be adapted for
other students and grade levels.
Detective Fiction: Its
Use as History and Fiction
A secondary unit.
Course Materials for the
Study of Science Fiction
Study guides for nine works of science fiction
including The War of the Worlds
and The Martian Chronicles.
Literature Resources
Pronouncing Dictionary
of Authors' Names
An alphabetical pronunciation guide.
What to Read: An Adolescent
Literature Website
A site designed to be a resource for both teachers
and students. It is
a place to explore and find out about
a book that you might like to read
or a book to recommend to your students.
Great Books Home Page
A well-indexed site with information and links
on the "great books." See also
Malspina Great Books.
Victorian Web
Excellent resource for information about Victorian
authors and their works.
Postcolonial
and Postimperial Literature: An Overview
Another excellent
resource.
Literary Movements
Timeline, authors, Movements. See also
American
Literature: Major Movements and Terms.
American Authors on the
Web
Links to sites
about American authors.
Literature Study Guides,
Etc.
Cliff Notes, Spark Notes, and other study materials
for literature from
my
Homework Help Page.
Multiple Author Links
Pages with
lists of links to authors
from my
Homework Help Page.
Specific Author Links
Links to pages
for more than 100 specific
authors from my
Homework Help Page.
Science Fiction Resource
Guide
Short Story Lesson Plans
Interpreting a Short Story
An 8th-grade lesson plan from LearnNC.
How to Read a Short Story
Good information to share with your students before
assigning a short
story.
Short Stories and Sitcoms
A middle-grade lesson plan.
Elements of the Short Story
An extensive unit for grades 7-8.
Teaching Plot Structure throough Short Stories
A high school leson plan from ReadWriteThink.
See also
Short Story Fair: Responding to Short Stories
in Multiple Media and Genres
and
Ghosts and Fear in Language Arts
for other high school lesson plans from this
same source.
Short Story Unit
An elaborate unit for grades 11-12. See also
Short Story Unit Plan
for another high school
unit.
Short Story Writers
A WebQuest designed for 10th-graders.
The Short Story
Resources for an Internet-based unit for grades 9-12.
Specific Authors/Works (Listed
Alphabetically by Author)
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If the book or author for
which you are looking is not listed
here, please try
The Doucette Index,
Random House Teacher's Guides,
The Gateway,
Class Zone
Mc Dougall Littell
Novel Guides,
or
Web
English Teacher - Young Adult Fiction
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Rudolfo Anaya
A high school unit on
The Legend of La Llorona.
Click here
for information on Anaya.
Bless Me, Ultima
A 10th-grade unit for this
novel by Rudolfo Anaya. See also
Bless Me, Ultima.
Autobiography: Maya Angelou
A unit based on the novels of
Maya Angelou,
including her famous work
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
I Know Why the Caged Bird
Sings
An 9th-grade unit with more
than 20 lesson plans.
Amazing Grace
A unit on the lives of Maya Angelou
and
James Comer.
Jane Austen
A secondary lesson plan on
Austen's
Pride and Prejudice.
Nothing But the Truth (Avi)
A middle school lesson plan examining freedom of speech
that uses this book by
Avi.
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Natalie Babbit
Links to lesson plans and
resources for
Tuck Everlasting
from
Web English Teacher.
Ray Bradbury
Lesson plans and resources from Web English Teacher. See
also Ray Bradbury's Official Web Site and
Study Guide for Ray Bradbury's
The Martian Chronicles.
Fahrenheit 451
A teaching guide for this Bradbury novel. See
also
Spark Notes: Fahrenheit
451.
Click here
for discussion questions
to use with the movie version
of this novel.
Final Destination: Pearl
from China
An interdiscilinary high school lesson plan
using
Pearl
S. Buck's
novel,
The Good Earth.
See also
The Good Earth and China Research Paper.
C
Lewis Carroll
Click above for lesson plans and resources for
Alice in Wonderland
.
Lesson Plan for Ceremony
A lesson plan examining Ceremony in the context of
monolyth as defined by
Joseph Campbell's
The Hero with a Thousand Faces.
Willa Cather
A lesson plan titled "Pioneer
Values in Willa Cather's My Antonia.
"
Geoffrey Chaucer
Click above to go to lesson plans and resources
for Chaucer's The
Canterbury Tales .
Kate Chopin and Other Woman
Writers at the Turn of the Century
A lesson plan suitable for grades 11-12. See
also Kate
Chopin's The Awakeing: No Choice but Under? (9-12 unit) and
Kate Chopin @ Web
English Teacher (many resources and lesson plans).
Seven Daughters and Seven
Sons: the Middle East
Through Literature
A high school lesson plan using
Barbara Cohen's
retelling of this traditional
Arabic tale.
Robert Cormier
A biography and links to lesson ideas for
The Chocolate War
and other works. See also
Novel Guide: The Chocolate
War.
War Beyond Romance: The
Red Badge of Courage and Other Considerations
An extensive high school unit on this novel by
Stephen
Crane.
Courage and Fear
A lesson plan using The Red Badge of Courage
developed as an example
of confluent education. See also
Red Badge of Courage: A New
Kind of Realism.
Caring for Cambodia: Children of the River
An Internet-based high school lesson plan for
Linda Crew's
novel. See also
Children of the River
for a summary and discussion questions.
Karen Cushman
Lesson plans and other resources for teaching about
Ms. Cushman's
novels.
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A Storybook
Romance: Dante's Paolo
and Francesca
A high school lesson plan on Dante's Divine
Comedy. See also
Dante Lessons for the Web
for additional teaching
ideas. For extensive information
and resources on Dante, go to the
Digital Dante Project.
Unit
Guide: Lessons on Dante's Inferno
A ten-lesson unit, plus
related grammar lessons and writing
assignments.
For additional resources
for teaching Dante's Inferno,
see
Project Ideas for Dante
and
Study Guide: The Inferno.
Charles Dickens
Click above to go to lesson plans for Dickens.
Lois Duncan
A teachers guide from Random
House for Daughters of
Eve. Go to
Web English Teacher
for links to teachers guides
for several other books by
Lois Duncan
including
I Know What You Did Last Summer.
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Ralph Ellison
A lesson plan for grades 11-12. For further
information on
Ellison
and
The Invisible Man,
click on the preceding colored text.
See
also
Vocabulary from Invisible
Man.
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Faulkner’s
As I Lay Dying: Form of a Funeral
A lesson plan for grades 9-12 from Edsitement.
See also
Teaching Faulkner,
which provides articles
and suggestions for the teaching
of Faulkner's works in high school or college and
WebQuest:
William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury.
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott
Fitzgerald)
Suggestions for teaching activities.
Click here
for information on Fitzgerald.
See also An Index
to the Great Gatsby
and
The Great Gatsby:
A Beginner's Guide.
The "Secret Society" and Fitzgerald's The
Great Gatsby
A lesson plan for grades 9-12 from EDSITEment.
Slave Dancer
A teacher's guide
for this novel by
Paula Fox.
See also
Paula Fox @ Web English Teacher.
Diary
of Anne Frank (Anne Frank in the
World, 1929-1945: Teacher Workbook)
Lesson plans for grades 5-8 for teaching about
Anne Frank and Holocaust-related
subjects. See
also
Anne frank Intro,
a middle school lesson plan;
Anne Frank: One of Hundreds of Thousands,
a lesson plan for grades 6-8;
Anne Frank WebQuest,
an excellent Internet activity
for grades 7-9;
Trackstar: Anne Frank History,
another Internet-based
lesson;
The Truth About Anne Frank,
A 12-lesson unit; The
Anne Frank Internet
Guide,
an excellent
resource;
Anne Frank:
Her Life and Times,
photographs
and information about Anne's journal
and how it survived World War II; and
Cybrary of
the Holocaust,
a comprehensive
site with images and recollections
of survivors, a teacher's guide,
and links.
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Ernest J. Gaines
A unit outline plus study guides, activities,
and projects for A Lesson
Before Dying.
Click here
for links to biographical
information and lesson plans for
several other books by Gaines.
Lord of the Flies (William
Golding)
A CyberGuide with activities 9th grade or above.
See also
Recognizing Symbolism and
Allegory: Part I
and
Part
II
(two 12th-grade lesson plans
for this novel). Click on the colored
text for
Spark Notes
and information on
William Golding.
The Summer of My German
Soldier (Betty Greene)
A Web Quest exploring the historical backdrop for this novel by
Betty Greene. For student study
guides,
click here.
See also
Summer of My German Soldier@ Web English
Teacher.
For student
study guides
click
here.
If you are looking for
further information on
teaching about World War II through literature,
see
World War II as Seen Through
the Eyes of Children's Literature.
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A Raisin in the Sun
A "novel
guide" complete with suggested teaching activities
for this book by
Lorraine Hansberry.
See also
Quest for the American Dream in A Raisin
in the Sun.
The Endless Steppe
A 6th-grade technology-based lesson plan in which students create a
multimedia project related to this book by
Esther Hautzig.
Hawthorne: Author and Narrator
A high school lesson plan for
Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet
Letter. See also
The Scarlet Letter
for a secondary unit.
Joseph Heller's Catch
22
A lesson plan for grades 9-12 from Discovery Education.
Click here
for information on Heller.
See also
Internet
Resources: Joseph Heller Catch-22.
"Three
Shots": Earnest Hemingway's Nick Adams
A high school lesson plan from Edsitement. For Hemingway information,
go to Timeless Hemingway.
The Old Man and the Sea
A CyberGuide with activities for grades 6-8. See
Also Earnest Hemingway@Web
English Teacher.
Discovering Hemingway and
Myself
An elaborate high school unit. See also
Picturing Hemingway:
A Writer in His Time for additional lesson plans.
The Outsiders
The link above will take you to a
Score CyberGuide
for this novel by S.E Hinton.
See also
Journalism Reporting for
the Outsiders
(a high school lesson plan)
and
The Outsiders: Teens & Life Choices
(a WebQuest). Click here
for information on S.E.
Hinton .
Farewell to Manzanar for
8th-Grade English
A unit based on Jeane Wakatsuki Houston and James
D. Houston's historical
narrative. See also
Japanese-American Internet Curriculum,
Letters from the Japanese-American Internment,
and
Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself.
Les Miserables
A secondary unit on Victor Hugo's classic novel.
See also Victor
Hugo Central.
Brave New World (Huxley)
Teacher Cyber Guide
A CyberGuide for grades 7-12.
Click
here
for a comprehensive page
on this novel and its author. See
Medical Ethics and Technology: A Brave New World? for an 11th-grade lesson
plan and
Aldous Huxley @ Web English
teacher for other lesson plans and teaching
resources and
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
An elaborate lesson plan for grades 6-8 exploring
Washington Irving's
classic
novel and why it still
captures the imagination of readers
today.
J
Dubliners
by James Joyce
An elaborate teacher's guide. See also
IQ Infinity: The Unknown
James Joyce.
K
Fiction of Franz Kafka
A 12th-grade or college lesson plan using the
Synectics II Model to analyze the
themes of Kafka's writings.
Helen Keller (Famous Person)
There are many lesson plans and units about
Helen Keller
available on the Internet,
including this one for middle-grade students
titled Famous Person: Helen Keller, which
uses Keller's book, The Story of My Life
. For other lessons, see
Helen Keller
(grades 2-4),
Writing a Biography - Helen Keller (middle school), and
Helen Keller Lesson Plans (homeschool). For an interesting lesson plan
on Braille meant to be used in a unit on Helen
Keller, see
Bits of Braille
. For a secondary thematic
unit using Gibson's The Miracle Worker
and other plays, see
Inspirational Voices Unit.
Click
here
to find links to sites with
information about Keller, blindness, and
deafness.
Flowers for Algernon
A lesson plan for grades
7-9 on
Daniel Keyes'
famous novel.
What If: The Seed of a Story
A middle school lesson plan on the short stories of
Stephen King.
W. P. Kinsella
A resource page with information and links to
other sites about
Shoeless Joe
and
Kinsella.
John Knowles
A "novel guide" that includes
a summary, theme openers, teaching
activities, and research assignments
for A Separate Peace .
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To Kill a Mockingbird
A lesson plan for grades 7-12 on this classic work by
Harper Lee.
Click on the colored text for a
"Student Survival Guide,"
or go to
To Kill a Mockingbird
: Then and Now,
a new resource from Thinkquest.
Maycomb News Today
A 10th-grade lesson in which students write a
newspaper article about
people or events in To Kill a Mockingbird
. See also
Teaching
Prejudice: A Film Presentation and
Discussion of To Kill a Mockingbird.
Main Street (Sinclair Lewis)
A teacher's guide in pdf format with an overview,
discussion questions, vocabulary,
quotations for discussion, and activities
for each chapter. Also, take a
look at
Lit Plans: Sinclair Lewis
and the
Sinclair
Lewis Society.
Jack London's Call of the Wild: "Nature
Faker?
A lesson plan from EDSITEment.
See also
Jack London
Homework Help
for links to articles, study guides,
and writing guides, and
Evaluating the Call
of the Wild.
A Night to Remember (Walter
Lord)
A 9th-grade lesson plan using Walter Lord's book
about the
Titanic.
The Giver
- Teacher CyberGuide
See also
Random House Teacher's Guide for
the Giver
and
The Giver
(middle-grade lesson plan).
Number the Stars
An intermediate-grade lesson plan on this book
by
Lois Lowery.
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Walkabout (James Vance
Marshall)
An 8th-grade unit using this novel about two
children stranded in the
Australian interior and the Aborigine
who helps them survive.
Click here
for another middle
school lesson plan for this book.
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Teaching activities and discussion questions.
For further information, see
Vocabulary for Moby Dick and
The Life and Works of Herman Melville.
Arthur Miller, The
Crucible and McCarthyism
A lesson plan for grades 10-12. See also
Dramatizing History in Arthur
Miller's The Crucible ,
The Salem Witch Trials
and
Hunting for Witches.
The Bluest Eye
A lesson plan on
Tony Morrison's
book from a unit titled
"
A View of Three Cultures
through the Eyes of Three Contemporary
Women Writers."
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A
Guide to Teaching About Freedom Struggles
A teacher's guide with discussion questions, activities,
and author information for No Turning Back: A Novel of South
Africa by Beverley Naidoo and Escape from Slavery:
Five Journeys to Freedom by Doreen Rappaport.
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Decoding the Dystopian Characteristics of Macintosh's "1984" Commercial
A high school lesson planthat can be used to introduce
George Orwell's
1984.
See also
1984: How Much fact in Fiction?
Animal Farm
An teacher's guide from Penguin for this book by
George Orwell.
See also
Teacher CyberGuide,
Animal Farm: The Complete Project,
Animals Unite,
and
Looking
Into The Mirror.
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Cry, the Beloved Country
(Alan Paton)
Five Internet-based activities for this book by
Alan Paton.
Gary Paulson
The author's home page. If you are interested
in finding teaching ideas for
Woodsong, go to the
Woodsong Unit Plan
and
Woodsong
Lesson Plan.
Brian's Winter
A teacher's guide from Random House.
Fiction Elements in Hatchet
A lesson plan for grades 6-12 from Education
World. See also
Score Teacher CyberGuide: Hatchet
or go to
Paulson's Official
Site.
The Last Safe Place on Earth
(Richard Peck)
A teacher's guide from Random House for this book
dealing with censorship,
hypocrisy, and responsibility. Go to
Richard Peck @ Web English Teacher
to find lesson plans and reources for Peck's
works.
The Ghost Belonged to Me
A review and teaching activities
for this novel by
Richard Peck.
A Day No Pigs Would Die
(Robert Newton Peck)
A teacher CyberGuide for this book by
Robert Peck.
Edgar Allan Poe: An Author
Unit
A Score CyberGuide unit for high school students.
See also
Poe Lightly
for another unit. For
information on Poe, visit
A Poe Webliography.
Tales of Edgar Allen Poe
A high school lesson plan
in which students
identify
the feelings/emotions revealed in one
of Poe's works and create an original
piece that portrays these emotions. For additional
lesson plans see
The Life and Works of Edgar Allen Poe,
Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, and
the Unreliable Biographers,
Teacher's Guide to Internet Resources: Edgar Allen Poe,
and
Edgar Allan Poe:
Father of Horror.
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Daniel Quinn
A resource for teachers using Quinn's Ishmael.
R
Ayn Rand
Links to lesson
plans and other resources for
Anthem and The Fountainhead.
See also
Video Lesson Plan:
The Fountainhead
and
Ayn Rand's Anthem @ Web
English Teacher.
For
extensive information on Rand,
go to
The Ayn Rand
Institute.
The Westing
Game
A 5th-grade WebQuest for
Ellen
Raskin's
novel. See also
The Westing
Game: Student Study Guide.
Wilson Rawls
Lesson plans and resources for Where the Red Fern
Grows. See also
Where the Red Fern Grows ThinkQuest Page.
Carolyn Reeder
Teacher's notes with activities and discussion questions
for
Carolyn Reeder's
novel,
Foster's War.
S
Louis Sachar
Links to lesson plans for
Sachar's books.
Click here
for a 3-week reciprocal teaching
unit on this novel for grades 6-12.
See also
Holes Activity Guide,
Holes by Louis Sachar,
and
Holes by Louis
Sachar - Teacher Pages
The Catcher
Controversy
A high school lesson plan on this novel and the controversy
surrounding its use in schools.
See also
Catcher in the Rye Study Guide
and
Web English Teacher: J. D. Salinger
and Catcher in the Rye.
William Shakespeare
Click above to go to lesson plans and resources
for the study of Shakespeare
in the English Literature section
of this page.
Tales of the Supernatural
A 12th-grade lesson plan for
Mary Shelly's
Frankenstein.
Upton Sinclair
Information for teaching about
Sinclair and
The
Jungle.
For additional lesson ideas, see
also
Life in the Jungle,
American Writers: Upton Sinclair
Video Lesson,
and
The Power of Fiction.
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
A CyberGuide with lessons for the middle grades
on The Egypt Game.
Click here
for a another Teacher's
Guide for this book with instructional
ideas and information about the author.
Baseball In April &
Living Up The Street
A Score CyberGuide unit on these works by
Gary Soto
for grades 6-8.
Wringer
A Reader's Guide for this book by
Jerry Spinelli.
Steinbeck: Biography As A Tool In
Teaching Reading And Writing Skills
A high school literature unit featuring lessons
on The Grapes of Wrath
and Of Mice and Men.
See also
Teaching John
Steinbeck.
Penguin Teacher's Guide for
Cannery Row
See also
Cannary Row Photo Essay.
The Grapes of Wrath: Scrapbooks
and Artifacts
An excellent lesson plan from the Library of
Congress. For other lesson plans see
Woody Guthrie and
The Grapes of Wrath,
Creating Dramatic Monologues
from The Grapes of Wrath
,
The Great Depression and the Arts,
Grapes of Wrath Study Site,
and
John Steinbeck @ Web English Teacher.
Teacher CyberGuide for
Of Mice and Men
Lesson activities and links for the secondary
level. See also
Of Mice and Men: Cast
the Roles
and
Penguin Teacher's Guide for Of Mice and Men.
The Pearl
A secondary-level lesson plan that requires students
to use the Internet. See also
The Pearl Unit,
Lesson Plans for The Pearl
and
Introduction to The Pearl.
The Red Pony
A Penguin teacher's guide. See also
John Steinbeck@Web
English Teacher.
Treasure Island
A unit on Stevenson's famous novel. See also
Vocabulary from Treasure Island.
For information about
Stevenson,
click here.
T
Mildred Taylor
A teacher's study guide for Roll Of Thunder,
Hear My Cry by
Mildred D.
Taylor
complete with 4 lesson
plans and information about Taylor.
J. R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit
An extensive unit from
Yale-New Haven
Teachers Institute
for this classic work by
J. R. R. Tolkien. See also
Ideas for Teachers
from the
Tolkien Society.
Mark Twain and American
Humor
A high school lesson plan in which students consider
the significance of humor
through a study of Mark Twain's "The Notorious
Jumping Frog of Calaveras County."
Click here
to go to an excellent site
for information on Twain and his
works.
Censorship and The Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn
This unit provides resources for 11th-grade students
in American Literature
classes to explore the controversy
that continues to swirl around the
teaching and reading of The Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn.
Huck Finn - Controversy
Through the Years
A lesson plan
for grade 10. See also
Critical Ways of Seeing
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
in Context.
The Adventures
of Tom Sawyer: A Teaching Unit for 5th or
6th Grades
See also
Mark Twain's Cave,
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer:
Study Guide,
and
Tom Sawyer: Distance Learning
Lesson Plan.
Tom Sawyer Home Page
An excellent resource.
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John Updike
A teachers guide with classroom issues and stategies,
questions for discussion, and othr helpful information.
Click here
for information on Updike.
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20,000 Leagues
Under the Sea (Jules Verne)
A 6th-grade lesson plan. See also
Lesson Tutor: Introducing Jules
Verne and
Exploring
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
Homecoming
A "novel guide" that includes
a summary, theme openers, teaching
activities, and research assignments
for this book by
Cynthia Voigt.
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Alice Walker
A high school lesson plan titled What Did They Say? Dialect
in The Color Purple.
For many other lesson plans and
resources, go to
Alice Walker@ Web English Teacher.
Also , take
a look at
Alice
Walker's Garden.
H. G. Wells
A high school lesson plan on
H. G. Wells'
The War of the Worlds. See also
Study Guide for H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds.
The Time Machine (Wells)
A Learning Guide for use with the movie version
of this novel. See also
Reading Lesson:
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells - Excerpt.
Age of Innocence
A lesson plan for this novel by
Edith Wharton.
Our Town Imaginary Maps
A high school lesson plan for this classic play
by
Thornton
Wilder.
XYZ
The Pigman
An CyberGuide this book by
Paul Zindel.
See also
Paul Zindel @ Web English Teacher
and
Pigman Study Guide.
Mysteries
Teaching Mysteries
Lesson plans
and information from
MysteryNet.com.
What Is a Mystery?
A lesson plan for grade 4
and up from
MysteryNet.com.
The Game is Afoot: A Study
of Sherlock Holmes
A 5th-grade
lesson plan from
Core Knowledge
in pdf format.
Challenging Children With
Mystery Stories
A 5th-grade
unit.
The Hound of the Baskervilles Teacher's Guide
A teacher's guide for this mystery by
Arthur Conan Doyle.
Mystery Unit
Lesson Plan
A KWL lesson
plan using The Westing Game .
Gender, Race, and Milieu
in Detective Fiction
A collection of units complete with lesson plans
including
It’s A Mystery To Me
(using Poe's Murders
in the Rue Morgue and
two other classic mysteries) and
Detective Fiction: Focus
On Critical Thinking
(which uses The Hardy
Boys and
Nancy Drew mystery series).
Very Good Fare
A unit involving the reading, writing, and solving
of mysteries.
It's a Mystery!
Five lesson plans for teaching about mysteries
from Education World.
Everyone Loves a Mystery: A Genre Study
A lesson plan for grades 6-8 from Read/Write/Think.
English/Shakespearean Literature
The Luminarium
Wonderful
site for English literature.
Exploring Arthurian Legend
A web-based
lesson plan for grades
9-12.
Heroism
in English Myths
A high school lesson plan from a unit on heroism.
Beowulf
Teaching ideas from
The English Teacher.
See also
Beowulf
(12th-grade lesson plan),
The Beauty of Anglo Saxon Poetry:
A Prelude to Beowulf
(one more high school lesson
plan), and
Beowulf
Spark Notes
(an on-line study guide).
Alice
in Wonderland
This lesson plan titled "Childhood through the
Looking Glass" for grades
6-12 from
The National Endowment for the
Humanities' EDSITEment
pages explores the vision
of childhood created by
Lewis Carroll
in Alice in Wonderland
. See also
Alice in Wonderland,
a lesson plan using
The
Discovery Channel's
video;
Senses, Spaces And Structure,
an elaborate 7th-grade unit
using Alice in Wonderland
and two other works to
explore space and architecture; and
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,
a page containing the 1928
commentary on Carroll's
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
and Through the Looking
Glass .
Chaucer's
Wife of Bath
A high school lesson plan from EDSITEment this
character from Geoffrey
Chaucer's
Canterbury Tales.
For a comprehensive Chaucer
page, go to Harvard University's
Geoffrey Chaucer.
For other lesson plans, see
Playing Chaucer's Pilgrams,
a secondary lesson plan, and
Taking a Pilgrimage to Canterbury,
another high
school lesson plan.
Click here
for Canterbury Tales
Study Materials from the
Luminarium's Geoffrey Chaucer
Page.
For additional help understanding the language
used in this work, go to
A Basic Chaucer Glossary.
The Dickens
House
A web-based activity for grades 6-9.
Beyond the Story: A Dickens of a Party
A lesson plan in which students
attend a 19th Century party dressed as
a character from Dickens' A Christmas Carol.
The Dickens Project
Resources and activities from USC for reading,
studying, and teaching the novels
of Charles
and his era.
Great Expectations Study Guide
Resource materials for high school and college students.
C.S. Lewis
The above link will take
you to the definitive C.S. Lewis
site. See also
Fantasy: A Study of C.S.
Lewis' The Lion, the Witch, and
the Wardrobe
(a lesson plan for grades
7-8).
Teaching Shakespeare
New
lesson plans
each month as well as a
lesson
plan archive
from the
Folger
Shakespeare Library.
The Plays of William Shakespeare
An excellent guide to Shakespeare resources available
on the Net, including lesson
plans, teacher's guides, study
guides, Sparknotes, study questions,
literature summaries, and full text.
Lesson Plans for Shakespearean
Plays
A collection of lesson plans and resources from
Shakespeare
High.
Shakespeare's Works: Lesson
Plans and Resources
Another long list of lessons and resources, this
one from About.com.
An Introduction to Shakespeare
and the Elizabethan Era
A lesson plan adaptable to a variety of grade
levels.
Bill's Allusive Nature:
An Introduction to Shakespeare
A high school lesson/assignment that could be
used to introduce any
Shakespearean play.
Appreciating the Bard's
Art: Rewriting Shakespeare's Epitaph
Using Iambic Pentameter
A high school lesson plan from The Teacher's
reference Desk.
Reading Stories from Shakespeare
Another lesson plan from the Teacher's Reference
Desk for grades 7-8.
Hamlet and the Elizabethan Revenge
Ethic in Film and Text
A high school lesson plan from
EDSITEmnet.
See also
Hamlet Meets Chusingura: Traditions
of the Revenge Tragedy.
Julius Caesar
A 10th-grade unit.
Macbeth
A lesson plan for grades 6-12. See also
Shakespeare's MacBeth: Fear and
the "Dagger of the Mind."
Shakespeare's MacBeth: Fear
and the Motives of Evil
An Internet-based lesson plan.
Introduction to Shakespeare
A lesson plan for grades 10 -12 introducing Shakespeare's
A Mid Summer
Night's Dream , the relevance
of Shakespeare in modern society,
and Elizabethan Drama.
Shakespeare's Othello and
the Power of Language
A high school lesson plan from
the NEH's EDSITEment.
Romeo and Juliet Timeline
A 9th-grade lesson plan from the Teacher's Reference
Desk.
Friendship Cards from Romeo
and Juliet
Another 9th-grade lesson plan. See also
Romeo and Juliet - Alternative
Endings.
You Kiss by the Book: Shakespeare's
Romeo and Juliet
An Internet-based secondary lesson plan.
Integrating Shakespeare
& the Internet
A 9th-grade interdisciplinary unit on Elizabethan
England and Shakespeare's
Romeo and Juliet
for English, art, and computer
classes.
The Complete Works of William
Shakespeare
Forget your book at school? No problem. This site
has all of Shakespeare's
works online!
Tales of the Supernatural
A 12th-grade lesson plan
for
Mary
Shelly's
Frankenstein. See also
Prepare Me for the Horror: The
Feminist Way
for another 12th-grade lesson plan.