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How to Teach Things Fall Apart
Identify essential objectives and examine themes, motifs, and literary elements within Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart.
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How to Teach The Things They Carried
Explore deeper meanings, new perspectives, and important literary elements in Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried with this essential guide.
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How to Teach The Metamorphosis
It won’t be difficult for The Metamorphosis to capture students’ interest; after all, the main character wakes up one morning transformed into a bug.
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How to Teach The Stranger
Albert Camus's magnum opus The Stranger is sure to engage the classroom and lead to deep discussions about what it means to be human.
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How to Teach The Lovely Bones
Susie may have been killed on Earth, but her life is just beginning in her personal heaven. However, for her soul to move on, she must leave behind the living.
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How to Teach Black Boy
Richard Wright's eloquent autobiography shows how the author was shaped by the prejudice of the Jim Crow South and worked to establish his writing career.
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How to Teach The House of the Scorpion
The House of the Scorpion is an exciting science fiction novel that will keep students intrigued from start to finish.
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How to Teach Little Bee
Chris Cleave's Little Bee is a compelling story about a young Nigerian refugee and a British family whose lives have become intertwined.
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How to Teach There Are No Children Here
In Alex Kotlowitz's gripping piece of investigative journalism, two brothers must forego their childhood in order to survive in the Chicago housing projects.
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How to Teach Edith Hamilton's Mythology
Edith Hamilton's Mythology tells many ancient Greek and Roman tales and provides scholarly context that will make these myths accessible to modern readers.
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How to Teach The Chocolate War
The Chocolate War is a novel of teen angst and will challenge students to examine their own answers to the question: Do I dare disturb the universe?
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How to Teach Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
An acclaimed modern dramatic masterpiece, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is an inventive, existential retelling of Hamlet.
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How to Teach The Picture of Dorian Gray
Wilde’s philosophical Gothic horror novel critiques how society values appearance over substance and reveals underlying moral corruption.
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How to Teach The Glass Menagerie
Often hailed as one of Tennessee William’s finest works, The Glass Menagerie is a play about the illusions of memory. Learn more about teaching it here!
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How to Teach Orphan Train
Orphan Train parallels the ways in which foster children were treated in 1929 to the present while also raising questions about society’s need for assimilation.
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How to Teach Me Before You
Jojo Moyes’s quirky romantic novel will challenge students to think about life, love, and personal growth.
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How to Teach Siddhartha
Siddhartha is an inspiring tale of perseverance and spiritual enlightenment that introduces students to Eastern religion and philosophy.
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How to Teach Reading Lolita in Tehran
Nafisi’s memoir uses literature to explore life in Iran after the 1970s revolution and is a good way to teach students about history and literary analysis.
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How to Teach The Call of the Wild
Buck’s adventure in the Yukon is a fun way to teach your class about the American frontier, Darwin’s survival of the fittest, and literary naturalism.
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How to Teach The Joy Luck Club
Through a series of vignettes, Tan portrays mother-daughter relationships and the complex dual identities of Chinese Americans.
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How to Teach A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens’s novel illustrates the simultaneous hope and despair that revolutionary times bring. Learn more about teaching this classic story here!
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How to Teach King Lear
Shakespeare’s tragedy King Lear is an impressive exploration of power, family, justice, and gender. Learn more about teaching this play here!
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How to Teach One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a great novel to use to learn about different narration styles and the importance of mental health treatment.
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How to Teach Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontё’s literary techniques and Romantic elements in Wuthering Heights make for an intricate tale, perfect for the high school classroom.
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How to Teach Hiroshima
Teaching John Hersey’s journalistic book opens up conversation about both past and present warfare and violence in the world.
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How to Teach The Poisonwood Bible
Through multiple perspectives, Kingsolver follows a missionary’s family living in the Congo during a politically tumultuous time in the 1960s.
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How to Teach Tangerine
The novel Tangerine is both an introduction to the journal narrative and a great platform for discussion of social and familial issues.
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How to Teach The Other Wes Moore
Detailing the lives of two men named Wes Moore from the same neighborhood, The Other Wes Moore poses powerful questions about nature versus nurture.
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How to Teach The Lightning Thief
Students will love following and analyzing Percy Jackson in his role as a hero.
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How to Teach Our Town
Learn about the important academic components of Thornton Wilder's classic play within a play.
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How to Teach The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison's book portrays the struggles of race and beauty standards in the 1940s. Learn how to teach it here!
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How to Teach The Grapes of Wrath
The historical context of The Grapes of Wrath provides a great opportunity to learn about the devastating circumstances of the Dust Bowl.
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How to Teach Fever, 1793
Set during Philadelphia's infamous yellow fever epidemic, Fever, 1793 is the perfect novel to pair with a science or history lesson.
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How to Teach Invisible Man
Ellison's Invisible Man examines the neglectful relationship between African Americans and society in the 1930s.
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How to Teach One Hundred Years of Solitude
One Hundred Years of Solitude is the perfect introduction to magical realism and Latin American literature.
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How to Teach Tears of a Tiger
Tears of a Tiger is a powerful epistolary novel that tells the story of the aftermath of a terrible drunk driving tragedy.
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How to Teach Bless Me, Ultima
Rudolfo Anaya's classic novel tells the story of Antonio Márez y Luna, a young Chicano boy growing up in post-World War II New Mexico.
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How to Teach Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
This work of post-9/11 literature uses postmodern elements to tell a story about dealing with grief, existential dread, and alienation. Learn more about it here.
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How to Teach Angela's Ashes
Frank McCourt's poignant memoir details a family's struggles with poverty in 1930s-1940s Ireland.
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How to Teach Freakonomics
Freakonomics is an irreverent nonfiction text that will help students build critical-thinking skills while they learn about economic theory.
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How to Teach The Awakening
Kate Chopin's work is a powerful examination of gender roles and social attitudes toward them in the late-19th-century American South.
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How to Teach The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot examines the story of the woman behind the world’s first immortal cell line, which aided research in polio, cancer, AIDS, and genetics.
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How to Teach The Devil in the White City
The Devil in the White City details the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, including the fair's troubled development and the serial killer who used it to lure his victims.
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How to Teach Divergent
Divergent examines ideas about society and class, governmental control, the construction of identity, and more.
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How to Teach Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank's diary is one of the most important works of Holocaust literature. Find resources for teaching it here.
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How to Teach Death of a Salesman
This modern tragedy examines the American Dream and the pain that results from living a life in which one's dreams go unfulfilled.
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How to Teach The Fault in Our Stars
John Green's popular novel presents a compelling story and dares to tackle some serious themes.