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Penguin Books

An Educator’s Guide to Gayle Forman

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Sometimes a novel is the best way to tackle a tough topic. A helpful educator's guide for the novels of Gayle Forman discuss tough topics such as teenage suicide. Discussion questions and writing activities encourage readers to think...
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Digital Public Library of America

Teaching Guide: Exploring To Kill a Mockingbird

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, considered by many to be a seminal piece of American literature, contains many complex literary themes that carry through United States history. Use a series of discussion questions and classroom...
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Curated OER

Nibble, Nibble, Little Mouse

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Learners complete activities to analyze points of view in different texts. In this point of view lesson, students read Hansel and Gretel and The Magic Circle and discuss the points of view. Learners choose a character from the story and...
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Curated OER

Circle Justice—Lesson 1: The Anger Within

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers examine the emotion of anger through the poem 'A Poison Tree'. In this poetry analysis lesson, students identify and decode unfamiliar vocabulary they encounter, engage in groups discussions and complete several writing...
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Curated OER

Graphic Organizer: Venn Diagram for Briar Rose

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Compare and contrast the characters of Gemma and Becca from Briar Rose. Using a Venn diagram (not included but easy to create), readers will explore the characters. Not much direction or explanation is included here. 
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Curated OER

Storytelling: Performance and Art Learning Center

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders explore the process of telling stories without words.  In this literature lesson, 10th graders watch a music video performance made by Alaska Native students, and then examine art objects that may be used to tell a story,...
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Curated OER

Using O. Henry's the Ransom of Red Chief To Develop a Larger Vocabulary

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders expand their reading vocabulary in order to increase comprehension. They play a game using vocabulary from a novel.
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Interactive
Curated OER

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

For Students 9th - 12th
In this online interactive reading comprehension learning exercise, students respond to 15 short answer and essay questions based on Achebe's Things Fall Apart. Students may also access an online quiz on the selection using the link at...
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Interactive
Curated OER

A Doll's House Quiz

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 12 multiple choice questions about Ibsen's A Doll's House. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Interactive
Curated OER

The Handmaid's Tale Quiz

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 12 multiple choice questions about Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Interactive
Curated OER

An Enemy of the People Quiz

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 15 multiple choice questions about Ibsen's An Enemy of the People. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Interactive
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Gulliver's Travels Quiz

For Students 8th - 12th
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 10 multiple choice questions about Swift's Gulliver's Travels. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Interactive
Curated OER

Hedda Gabler Quiz

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 12 multiple choice questions about Ibsen's Hedda Gabler. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Interactive
Curated OER

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Quiz

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, learners respond to 12 multiple choice questions about Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Interactive
Curated OER

Le Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

For Students 9th - 12th
For this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 15 multiple choice questions about Le Père Goriot. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Interactive
Curated OER

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave by Frederick Douglass

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this online interactive reading comprehension activity, students respond to 13 multiple choice questions about Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Interactive
Curated OER

Our Town by Thornton Wilder

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 15 multiple choice questions about Wilder's Our Town. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Interactive
Curated OER

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

For Students 6th - 12th
In this online interactive reading comprehension instructional activity, students respond to 12 multiple choice about Hinton's The Outsiders. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Interactive
Curated OER

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this online interactive reading comprehension instructional activity, students respond to 12 multiple choice questions about Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Interactive
Curated OER

Richard III by William Shakespeare

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 15 multiple choice questions about Shakespeare's Richard III. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Interactive
Curated OER

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this online interactive reading comprehension instructional activity, students respond to 15 multiple choice questions based on Sense and Sensibility. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Curated OER

Tell About the South : The Story of Modern Southern Literature

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students, after viewing the video "Tell About the South," discuss and analyze Jean Toomer's mixed heritage and how it affected his artistic voice. They evaluate how the character Toomer was an excellent example of America's melting pot....
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Curated OER

Comparing and Contrasting Fiction and Nonfiction Using Graphic Organizers

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students compare and contrast fiction and non-fiction selections. In this writing skills lesson, students use different forms of graphic organizers to compare "The Three Little Pigs," to Wiesel's Night.
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MENSA Education & Research Foundation

Early American Novel: Exploring the Emergence of a Genre

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Need an extra challenge for your best readers? Check out a unit that uses Hannah Webster Foster’s epistolary novel, The Coquette, published in 1797, as the anchor text. The resource is packed with project ideas; each with its own...

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