Neh: Edsit Ement: The Sound and the Fury:narrating Quentin's Mental Breakdown

Combine literature and history with the poem "The White Man's Burden" by Rudyard Kipling. Pupils read the poem and answer four questions about the text. 

Is Gatsby great? In the second of two videos devoted to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, the narrator presents his argument for why Jay Gatsby should indeed be considered great. By backing his stance with evidence from the text,...

High schoolers complete a variety of discussion and writing activities surrounding the study of Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury.

Students analyze the novel, "The Sound and the Fury," written by iam Faulkner, tracing the changing South. Through the narrative structure, the point of view, and the relationship between change and characterization, students view the...

High schoolers analyze a character of Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury to catch a glimpse of a family and the changes they, and the Old South, undergo. The use of time as it relates to the structure of the plot is covered in this...

Excellent and detailed lesson on Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby. Discusses and includes higher-level thinking skills such as the desire to belong, with relevance to students.

Explore San Francisco's Chinatown in a lesson about the first few chapters of The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. Kids research Chinatown on the Internet and create a virtual tour of the neighborhood, including the foods, cultural events,...

Young scholars explore iam Faulkner's novel, "The Sound and the Fury" to investigate his use of time and how this quality relates to the novel's form and content. They grapple with questions of perception, history, and chronology through...

"In this unit, students explore the artistry that helped make Irving our nation's first literary master and ponder the mystery that now haunts every Halloween -- What happened to Ichabod Crane?"

A lesson plan focusing on the power of Iago's language, as shown through his crafty deception of Othello, "Shakespeare's Othello and the Power of Language" provides several links to information on Shakespeare, Othello, and rhetoric.