Literature

A Guide for Using Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH in the Classroom. This resource is directly related to its literature equivalent and filled with a variety of cross-curricular lessons to do before, during, and after reading the book. This reproducible book includes sample plans, author information, vocabulary building ideas, cross-curriculum activities, sectional activities and quizzes, unit tests, and ideas for culminating and extending the novel. Grades 3-5. 48 pages. From Teacher Created Resources. Learn More

Teacher Created Resources Literature Units. Each book in this series is a guide for using a well-known piece of literature. Included are sample plans, author information, vocabulary-building ideas, and cross-curricular activities. Also includes sectional activities, quizzes, unit tests, and ideas for culminating and extending he novel. Grades 3-5.

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Teacher Created Resources Literature Units. Out of the Dust (The Great Depression) Each book in this series is a guide for using a well-known piece of literature. Included are sample plans, author information, vocabulary-building ideas, and cross-curricular activities. Also includes sectional activities, quizzes, unit tests, and ideas for culminating and extending he novel. Grades 5-8

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The Outsiders Literature Unit from Teacher Created Resources. Each book in this series is a guide for using a well-known piece of literature. Included are sample plans, author information, vocabulary-building ideas, and cross-curricular activities. At the intermediate and Challenging levels, sectional activities and quizzes, unit tests, and ideas for culminating and extending the novel are also included. 48 pages. Learn More

This resource is directly related to its literature equivalent and filled with a variety of cross-curricular lessons to do before, during, and after reading the book. This reproducible book includes sample plans, author information, vocabulary building ideas, and cross-curriculum activities. Grades 1-3. From Teacher Created Resources. Learn More

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Literature Guide. This resource is directly related to its literature equivalent and filled with a variety of cross-curricular lessons to do before, during, and after reading the book. This reproducible book includes sample plans, author information, vocabulary building ideas, and cross-curriculum activities.Grades 1-3. 48 pages. From Teacher Created Resources. Learn More

The guide includes study questions, worksheets, and writing exercises of both a factual and philosophical nature to challenge the student's comprehension and understanding of the material. Answers are provided for the teacher. This individual guide is available only to those who have purchased the core guide due to the favorable pricing. Learn More

The guide includes study questions, worksheets, and writing exercises of both a factual and philosophical nature to challenge the student's comprehension and understanding of the material. Answers are provided for the teacher. This individual guide is available only to those who have purchased the core guide due to the favorable pricing. Learn More

The core guide comes in a 3-ring binder. It includes brief background information, summaries of the contents and main themes of various books and teaches you how to teach these timeless volumes. Descriptions of particular titles are found therein. Explanations of the design and intent of various literature types enhance understanding and appreciation. The core guide also includes a specific guide to The Iliad. Additional guides are listed below. Each one includes study questions, worksheets and writing exercises of both a factual and philosophical nature to challenge the student's comprehension and understanding of the material. Answers are provided for the teacher. Guides are 3-hole punched for easy insertion in the core guide binder. Due to the favorable pricing, individual book guides are available only to those who have purchased the core guide. These titles include, The Aeneid, Aeschylus Trilogy, The Odyssey, and Sophocles Trilogy Learn More

The core guide comes in a 3-ring binder. It includes brief background information, summaries of the contents and main themes of various books and teaches you how to teach these timeless volumes. Descriptions of particular titles are found therein. Explanations of the design and intent of various literature types enhance understanding and appreciation. The core guide also includes a specific guide to The Iliad. Additional guides are listed below. Each one includes study questions, worksheets and writing exercises of both a factual and philosophical nature to challenge the student's comprehension and understanding of the material. Answers are provided for the teacher. Guides are 3-hole punched for easy insertion in the core guide binder. Due to the favorable pricing, individual book guides are available only to those who have purchased the core guide. These titles include, The Aeneid, Aeschylus Trilogy, The Odyssey, and Sophocles Trilogy Learn More

The guide includes study questions, worksheets, and writing exercises of both a factual and philosophical nature to challenge the student's comprehension and understanding of the material. Answers are provided for the teacher. This individual guide is available only to those who have purchased the core guide due to the favorable pricing. Learn More

Growing up in California during the depression isn't easy for eleven-year-old Rinko. She desperately wants to fit in and be like everyone else, but instead she is ridiculed and made to feel different because she is Japanese. But when Aunt Waka comes to visit, and brings with her the old-fashioned wisdom of Japan, she teaches Rinko the importance of her Japanese heritage, and the value of her own strengths and dreams, in this warm and touching story. Learn More

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By Frances Hodgson Burnett, Illustrated by Tasha Tudor

Generations of children have treasured the story of Sara Crewe, the little girl who imagines shes a princess in order to survive hard times at Miss Minchins London boarding school. Now, this classic novel is available in two beautiful new collectors editions. With Tasha Tudors enchanting black-and-white illustrations, and lovely details like a satin ribbon marker and glorious full-color plates in the hardcover, these new editions of A Little Princess are must-haves for anyone who wants to rediscover the magic of this beloved story.

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Sara Crewe is a student at Miss Minchin’s fancy boarding school. She has the very best of everything. But when her rich father dies, she’s left without a penny. Now Sara lives in the school’s cold attic and works for crusts of bread. With some help from a secret friend and a touch of magic, Sara’s world is about to change in ways she never dreamed. An adaptation of the classic novel that’s just right for young readers! Gr. 1-4. 112 pages. Learn More

Demetrius and Lysander both want Hermia but she only has eyes for Lysander. Bad news is Hermia's father wants Demetrius for a son-in-law. On the outside is Helena, whose unreturned love burns hot for Demetrius. Hermia and Lysander plan to flee from the city under cover of darkness but are pursued by an enraged Demetrius (who is himself pursued by an enraptured Helena). In the forest, Oberon and Titania (King and Queen of the fairies) are having a fight over a servant boy. Then, Oberon's head mischief-maker, Puck, runs loose with a flower which causes people to fall in love with the first person they see. Learn More

Demetrius and Lysander both want Hermia but she only has eyes for Lysander. Bad news is Hermia's father wants Demetrius for a son-in-law. On the outside is Helena, whose unreturned love burns hot for Demetrius. Hermia and Lysander plan to flee from the city under cover of darkness but are pursued by an enraged Demetrius (who is himself pursued by an enraptured Helena). In the forest, Oberon and Titania (King and Queen of the fairies) are having a fight over a servant boy. Then, Oberon's head mischief-maker, Puck, runs loose with a flower which causes people to fall in love with the first person they see. From Oxford Press Learn More

A comedy written by William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a classic for the ages. One of Shakespeare’s most frequently performed plays, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is the story of the events surrounding the wedding of Theseus, Duke of Athens, and the Amazonian queen Hippolyta. Unlike many of Shakespeare’s works A Midsummer Night’s Dream does not drawn upon any historical or previous literary work, making it one of his most original compositions. The A Midsummer Night’s Dream Student Guide increases the student’s vocabulary and reading comprehension by providing in-depth vocabulary study, reading notes, comprehension questions, and more.

The A Midsummer Night’s Dream Student Guide contains vocabulary studies, reading notes, comprehension questions, Socratic discussion questions, work with quotes, and literary and rhetorical devices. The A Midsummer Night’s Dream Student Guide is designed to guide students through the grammar, logic, and rhetoric stages towards the central proposition that gives the story ultimate meaning and expression. The answers are contained in the A Midsummer Night’s Dream Teacher Guide#1096.

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Grades 9+

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A comedy written by William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a classic for the ages. One of Shakespeare’s most frequently performed plays, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is the story of the events surrounding the wedding of Theseus, Duke of Athens, and the Amazonian queen Hippolyta. Unlike many of Shakespeare’s works A Midsummer Night’s Dream does not drawn upon any historical or previous literary work, making it one of his most original compositions. To better assist students in understanding the text, the A Midsummer Night’s Dream Teacher Guide provides all answers to questions in the A Midsummer Night’s Dream Student Guide and all test and quizzes.

The A Midsummer Night’s Dream Teacher Guide is equipped with all answers to the A Midsummer Night’s Dream Student Guide #1095 as well as all tests and quizzes. The A Midsummer Night’s Dream Teacher Guide enables educators to guide students through the grammar, logic, and rhetoric stages towards the central proposition that gives the story ultimate meaning and expression.

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An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peace is timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to the second world war. Set at a boys’ boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world. A bestseller for more than thirty years, A Separate Peace is John Knowles’s crowning achievement and an undisputed American classic. 208 pages. Learn More

Fifteen-year-old Charles Wallace Murry, (whom readers were introduced to in A Wrinkle in Time) has a little task he must accomplish. In 24 hours, a mad dictator will destroy the universe by declaring nuclear war--unless Charles Wallace can go back in time to change one of the many Might-Have-Beens in history. In an intricately layered and suspenseful journey through time, this extraordinary young man psychically enters four different people from other eras. As he perceives through their eyes "what might have been," he begins to comprehend the cosmic significance and consequences of every living creature's actions. As he witnesses first-hand the transformation of civilization from peaceful to warring times, his very existence is threatened, but the alternative is far worse. Reading level ages 9-12. Paperback. Learn More

With his sublime parting words, "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done…" Sidney Carton joins that exhalted group of Dickensian characters who have earned a permanent place in the popular literary imagination. His dramatic story, set against the volcanic fury of the French Revolution and pervaded by the ominous rumble of the death carts trundling toward the guillotine, is the heart-stirring tale of a heroic soul in an age gone mad. A masterful pageant of idealism, love, and adventure — in a Paris bursting with revolutionary frenzy, and a London alive with anxious anticipation — A Tale of Two Cities is one of Dickens’s most energetic and exciting works. Paperback. 400 pages. Learn More