This site is a study guide for "The Jungle." It includes chapter summaries, context, characters, study questions, and essay topics.

Exhaustive 19-page "The Jungle" teacher's guide includes items such as chapter summaries, pre-reading discussion questions, chapter-by-chapter study questions, significant quotations, vocabulary, and post-reading discussion questions.

In this lesson, students will read and discuss story events and then write an informative sentence about one of the events.

In this project, students write tributes to teachers who have made a profound difference in their lives then publish their work in a class collection.

This site provides the complete etext to Henry James's The Beast in the Jungle.

After viewing PBS Kids' episode "Jungle Mission" of Plum Landing, students will learn about sloths and camouflage. Then students will draw and describe their pictures of sloths in their habitats. Students will develop content vocabulary...

This site, which is provided for by the Houghton Mifflin Company, presents various ways to examine one of the most powerful books of the century.

Muckraker Upton Sinclair is featured in this brief biography drawing particular attention to his novel, "The Jungle," written to alert people to the inhumane treatment of immigrant workers. See "Upton Sinclair Activities" for related...

Check out this National Archives and Records Administration site for a short explanation of the term "muckraker," and for a quote by Sinclair, whose writings influenced the passage of the Meat Inspection Act in 1907.