This Virginia Commonwealth University site contains study notes that explain the text to each chapter of Thoreau's "Walden."

This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a structure for an author study. Students will work in a jigsaw activity during a 9-week author study. Downloadable graphic organizers accompany this author's study.

This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides an exemplar of the expectations for an independent class project. Each student must study an author and meet the criteria listed on the page.

This essay will take its readers on a journey through the development and subsequent closing of a National Youth Administration (NYA) resident youth center in Lima, New York. Author Gordon Halstead, director of the center, provides a...

A teaching resource with free downloadable graphic organizers including Time Organizers, Learning Maps, Project Internet, Concepts and Characteristics, Vocabulary Charts, Project Author Study, Decisions and Goals, and more.

A teaching resource with free downloadable graphic organizers including Time Organizers, Learning Maps, Project Internet, Concepts and Characteristics, Vocabulary Charts, Project Author Study, Decisions and Goals, and more.

A teaching resource with free downloadable graphic organizers including Time Organizers, Learning Maps, Project Internet, Concepts and Characteristics, Vocabulary Charts, Project Author Study, Decisions and Goals, and more.

This is a complete online study guide/notes for the play Waiting For Godot by Samuel Beckett including author information, literary elements, act summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.

This is an online study guide for the young adult novel Holes by Louis Sachar including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.

This is an online study guide/notes for the novel For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.

This is an online study guide/notes for the play Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis. The play is a...

This is a complete online study guide/notes for the Russian novel Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.

This article discusses teaching vocational work ethics using various methods. Author includes notes on key concepts, the background, design, setting, subjects, findings, reflections, and conclusions of the study.

This site provides a link to the full text of the short story "Koosje: A Study of Dutch Life" by John Strange Winter.

John F. Kennedy's inaugural speech is one of the most famous speeches in American history. Teachers can use this instructional activity to teach Language Arts standards, as well as Social Studies standards. This lesson plan includes...

Learn the background of both the book and the author, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll; then click on the Readers Guide link to use the detailed study questions to spark discussion.

This site, from publisher Houghton Mifflin's online syllabus assistance for college instructors, provides helpful information for the study of Jen's works, including commentary on themes and style and questions for analyzing the works.

The objective of this site is to guide students through a self-directed exploration of pioneer life in reference to the book, "My Antonio." Students will have an opportunity to work on combining the study of history and literature...

Teaching students to read well in areas other than language arts requires teaching and reinforcing the kinds of reading strategies taught here. There are 27 strategies, ranging from brainstorming to word mapping. The site includes PDF...

A description and guide to Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, with historical information, author biography, discussion questions, and a ten-lesson unit of study with activities, homework assignments, project ideas, and essay topics. A radio...

Guide to Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, with historical information, author biography, discussion questions, and a ten-lesson unit of study with activities, assignments, project ideas, and essay topics. A radio show, with...

Guide to Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, with historical information, author biography, discussion questions, and a ten-lesson unit of study including activities, homework assignments, project ideas, and essay topics....

Use this lesson to study the lives of Mark Twain and Will Rogers. Analyze the writing styles of both authors, and identify the men as humorists who reflected and changed American culture.

Guide to F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, with historical information about the novel's Jazz Age setting, an author biography, and access to a radio program (audio plus transcript) of excerpts from the novel and analysis of its...