Adolescent and Young Adult Literature:
Lesson Plans and Resources

This site contains links to lesson plans and resources for adolescent and young adult (grades 6-12) literature, including short stories, mysteries, and English literature. I have tried to include only links to materials that are FREE! If you find that I have linked to something that isn't free, please let me know. Since there is considerable overlap between authors and titles for children and adolescents, go children's literature if you do not find what you need on this page. This page was scanned for broken links and updated on 12-17-2023.

Index: Multiple Works/Collections of Lesson Plans; Resources for Adolescent Literature; Short Stories; Specific Authors/Works (Alphabetical by Author: A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - XYZ); English/Shakespearean Lit.; Mysteries; Drama, Mythology, and Poetry; Return to Educational Resources and Lesson Plans; Go to the NCTE Home Page

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Booktalks: Quick and Simple
Over 300 "booktalks" for introducing the works to students.

The Big Read
Teacher's guides and reader's guides for more than 30 authors and their works. The Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts.    

Class Zone Mc Dougall Littell Novel Guides
Guides including a summary, suggested teaching activities, and research assignments for more than 60 popular works.

Woman: Her American Experience
An 18-week literature course for the 12th-grade complete with information and lesson plans.

Twentieth Century Latin American Writing
A collection of units for middle school and high school.

Crossing the Border: A Study of Immigration Through Literature
A unit for grades 6-8.

Detective Fiction: Its Use as History and Fiction
A secondary unit.

Latin American Short Fiction
A unit for grades 7-12.

Young Adult Literature about the Middle East: A Cultural Response Perspective
A lesson plan for grades 6-8 from Read-Write-Think.

Science Fiction Related Materials
These resources from Professor Paul Brians include 10 study guides.

Literature Resources
Pronouncing Dictionary of Authors' Names
An alphabetical pronunciation guide.

Vandergrift's Young Adult Literature Page
A site designed to be a resource for both teachers and students.

Malspina Great Books.    
A well-indexed site that allows users to browse alphabetically or by "labels." See also  Great Books Foundation.

Victorian Web
Excellent resource for information about Victorian authors and their works.

Contemporary Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature in English
Another excellent resource.

Literature (English and American)
Many resources from MIT.

Literary Movements
Timeline, authors, Movements.

Authors Index
Alphabetical list of links to sites about American authors.

Short Story Lesson Plans
Interpreting a Short Story
An 8th-grade lesson plan from LearnNC.

The Art of the Short Story: 4 Ways to Teach It Well
Lesson ideas from Much AdoAbout Teaching.

Short Stories and Sitcoms
A middle-grade lesson plan.

The Art of Short Story Writing
A lesson plan for grades 6-8 from Scholastic.

Write a Short Story in One Class!
Another middle-grade lesson plan.

Elements of the Short Story
An extensive unit for grades 7-8. 

Latin American Short Fiction
A curriculum unit for grades 7-12.

Teaching Plot Structure throough Short Stories
A high school leson plan from ReadWriteThink. See also Short Story Fair: Responding to Short Stories in Multiple Media and Genres and Ghosts and Fear in Language Arts for other high school lesson plans from this same source.

Short Story Unit Plan |
A high school unit.

5 Steps to Writing a Short Story
See also 10 Resources to Help You Write a Great Short Story and What Makes a Good Story.




Specific Authors/Works (Listed Alphabetically by Author)
A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - XYZ

If the book or author for which you are looking is not listed here, please try The Doucette Index, Random House Teacher's Guides, Class Zone Mc Dougall Littell Novel Guides, or Varsity Tutors - Young Adult Fiction

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Rudolfo Anaya
A lesson plan for Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima.

Bless Me, Ultima
A 10-day unit for this novel by Rudolfo Anaya.  See also A Sequence of Lessons for Rudolfo Anaya's Bless Me Ultima.

Autobiography: Maya Angelou
A unit based on the novels of Maya Angelou, including her famous work I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
An 11`th-grade lesson plan..

Amazing Grace
A unit on the lives of Maya Angelou and James Comer.  

Jane Austen
A secondary lesson plan on Austen's Pride and Prejudice.

Nothing But the Truth (Avi)
A middle school lesson plan examining freedom of speech that uses this book by Avi.

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Natalie Babbit
Links to lesson plans and resources for Tuck Everlasting from Varsity Tutors.

James Baldwin
A lesson plan for three of Baldwin's works.

Ray Bradbury
Lesson plans and resources from Varsity Tutors. See also Ray Bradbury's Official Web Site and Study Guide for Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles.  

Fahrenheit 451
A teaching guide for this Bradbury novel. See also Fahrenheit 451: Teacher's Guide and Spark Notes: Fahrenheit 451.

The Good Earth
A unit from Book Rags for Pearl S. Buck's novel, The Good Earth. See also The Good Earth and The China Research Paper for an 8th-grade unit using this book. For other lesson plans on Pearl Buck and her novels, see Pearl S. Buck: On Discovering America.

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Lewis Carroll
Click above for lesson plans and resources for Alice in Wonderland .

Lesson Plan for Ceremony
A lesson plan examining Ceremony in the context of monomyth as defined by  Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces.

Willa Cather
A lesson plan titled "Pioneer Values in Willa Cather's My Antonia. "

Geoffrey Chaucer
Click above to go to lesson plans and resources for Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.

Kate Chopin and Other Woman Writers at the Turn of the Century
A lesson plan suitable for grades 11-12. See also Kate Chopin's The Awakeing: No Choice but Under? (9-12 unit) and Kate Chopin at Varsity Tutors for other lesson plans.

Seven Daughters and Seven Sons: the Middle East Through Literature
A high school lesson plan using Barbara Cohen's retelling of this traditional Arabic tale.

The Hunger Games: Exploring Choice; Fear; Animalistic Instincts; Conformity
A high school unit for Suzanne Collins' hit book. See also The Hunger Games Trilogy Discussion Guide, Teaching The Hunger Games: Guide to Catching Fire, and The Odds Ever in Your Favor: Ideas and Resources for Teaching The Hunger Games.
Introducing The Hunger Games
An excellent 9th-grade lesson plan submitted by one of the students in my Educational Psychology class.

Robert Cormier
A biography and links to lesson ideas for The Chocolate War and other works. See also Fight the Good Fight: Effectively Teach the Chocolate War with This Cross-Discipline Lesson Plan and Novel Guide: The Chocolate War.  

War Beyond Romance: The Red Badge of Courage and Other Considerations
An extensive high school unit on this novel by Stephen Crane.  

Courage and Fear
A lesson plan using The Red Badge of Courage developed as an example of confluent/holistic education. See also Red Badge of Courage: A New Kind of Realism.

Karen Cushman
Lesson plans and other resources for teaching about Ms. Cushman's novels.

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A Storybook Romance: Dante's Paolo and Francesca
A high school lesson plan on Dante's Divine Comedy. For extensive information and resources on Dante, go to the Digital Dante.

3D View of Dante's Inferno
A high school lesson plan. See also Teaching the Inferno in Wisconsin: A Guide for Educators and Dante Today: Teaching Resources.

Charles Dickens
Click above to go to lesson plans for Dickens.

Lois Duncan
Teachers guides for Lois Duncan's books.            

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Ralph Ellison
A lesson plan for grades 11-12 on Ralph Ellison's The Invisible Man. See also Ralph Ellison's View of His Time.

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Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying: Form of a Funeral
A five-lesson unit 9-12 from EDSITEment. See also William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury": Narrating the Compson Family Decline and the Changing South for another five-lesson unit, A Vast and Enduring Monument: William Faulkner’s Literary Lesson Plan (grades 7-12), and Teaching Faulkner, articles and suggestions for the teaching of Faulkner's works in high school or college.

The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
A lesson plan and links to other resources and teaching activities. See also F. Scott Fitzgerald Home Page and Connotation, Character, and Color Imagery in The Great Gatsby for other lesson plans, as well as The Gatsby Index for a useful resource.

Slave Dancer
"Literature Units" for this novel by Paula Fox.  

Diary of Anne Frank (Anne Frank in the World, 1929-1945: Teacher Workbook)
Lesson plans for grades 3-12 for teaching about Anne Frank and Holocaust-related subjects. See also Anne Frank Intro, a middle school lesson plan; Anne Frank: One of Hundreds of Thousands, a lesson plan for grades 6-8; Ann Frank: Writer, another middle-grade lesson plan; Anne Frank WebQuest, an excellent Internet activity for grades 7-9;  The Truth About Anne Frank, A 12-lesson unit; Anne Frank Center U.S.A., photographs and information about Anne's journal and how it survived World War II; and Remeber.org, a comprehensive site with images and recollections of survivors, a teacher's guide, and links.

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Ernest J. Gaines
A 10-day unit complete with handouts for Ernest T. Gaines' A Lesson Before Dying. See also A Lesson Before Dying Teacher's Guide.

Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
A lesson plan for grades 6-8 from Discovery Education. See also Lesson: Lord of the Flies and Texting a Response to Lord of the Flies for other lesson plans on this novel by William Golding.  

The Summer of My German Soldier
A unit titled " World War II as Seen Through the Eyes of Children's Literature" using Betty Greene's novel as well as other books about the war. See also Litplan Teacher Pack for Summer of My German Soldier.

Theodore Boone Kid Lawyer
Lesson plans for  tis book by John Grisham. See also  A Time to Kill Teacher's Notes.

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A Raisin in the Sun A "novel guide" complete with suggested teaching activities for this book by Lorraine Hansberry. See also Quest for the American Dream in A Raisin in the Sun.

The Endless Steppe
A 6th-grade technology-based lesson plan in which students create a multimedia project related to this book by Esther Hautzig.

Hawthorne: Author and Narrator
A high school lesson plan for Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. See also The Scarlet Letter for a secondary unit and Nathaniel Hawthorne and Literary Humor for another lesson plan.

Joseph Heller's Catch 22
A lesson plan for grades 9-12 from Discovery Education. on  Joseph Heller's classic novel.

Style: Translating Stylistic Choices from Hawthorne to Hemingway and Back Again
A high school lesson plan from Read-Write-Think.

"Three Shots": Earnest Hemingway's Nick Adams
A high school lesson plan from Edsitement. For Hemingway information, go to Timeless Hemingway or the Hemingway Society.

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
A high school lesson plan.

The Old Man and the Sea
A unit for this book.

Picturing Hemingway: A Writer in His Time
Four lesson plans from the Smithsonian.

A Farewell to Arms
Overview, readers guide and a teachers guide for Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms from the National Endowment for the Arts Big Read.

Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure
Six lesson plans for grades 6-8 from PBS.

Ideas for teaching Hemingway's A Moveable Feast
Just what the title says!

The Outsiders
An 8th-grade unit for this novel by S.E Hinton. For other lesson plans, see Teaching The Outsiders.

Farewell to Manzanar
A teacher's guide for Jeane Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston's historical narrative. See also Japanese-American Internment, Fear Itself.

Les Miserables
A teaching unit from Prestwick House for Victor Hugo's classic novel. See also Moral Dilemmas: Does the End Justify the Means?, Les Miserables Connection and Victor Hugo Central.

Their Eyes Were Watching God
A Teacher's Guide with ten lesson plans for Zora Neale Hurston's book.

Aldous Huxley and Winston Churchill: Thinking about the 1930s
An interesting lesson plan from WinstonChurchill.org.  See also Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (assignment).

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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
An elaborate lesson plan for grades 6-8 exploring Washington Irving's classic novel and  why it still captures the imagination of readers today. See also Kinderhook: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

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Ulysses Summary and Analysis
A good resource for this work by James Joyce and the Consumption of Empire. 

Dubliners
A Literature Teaching Unit from Prestwick House.

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Kafka's Metamorphosis
A lesson plan from Discovery Education. See also The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka for another lesson plan and Franz Kafka for an author profile from Random House.

Helen Keller
A lesson plan for grades 2-4.

Flowers for Algernon
Lesson ideas from Prestwick House for Daniel Keyes' famous novel.

The Body by Stephen King
Background information, vocabulary, portfolio assignments, quiz and test preparation for this book by Stephen King. See also Stephen King WebQuest and Ghosts and Fear in Language Arts: Exploring the Ways Writers Scare Readers.

Thematic Literature Lesson: “Panache”
A lesson plan on this story from W.P. Kinsella’s Dance Me Outside. See also Socially-based Curriculum Unit: Heightening Our Awareness of Canada’s Native People for a unit using this same anthology.

Lesson Plans and Resources for Orphan Train
For grades 11-and 12 from the Free Library for Christina Baker Kline's book. See also How to Teach Orphan Train.

A Separate Peace
Several activities for this novel by John Knowles.

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To Kill a Mockingbird: A Historical Perspective
A lesson plan for grades 6-12 on this classic work by Harper Lee. See also To Kill A Mockingbird: Teacher's Guide - Schedule / Lesson Plans, Spend a Day in My Shoes: Exploring the Role of Perspective in Narrative, To Kill a Mockingbird Unit Plan, and Teaching Prejudice: A Film Presentation and Discussion of To Kill a Mockingbird.

Teaching 'Mockingbird,' 'Watchman' and Harper Lee with the New York Times
Six teaching ideas. See also Bring Go Set a Watchman to Your Classroom,  A Teacher's Guide to Go Set a Watchman, and Teachers' New Homework: a 'Watchman' Plan.

Jack London's Call of the Wild: "Nature Faker?
A lesson plan from EDSITEment. See also Understanding The Call of the Wild, Knowledge or Instinct? Jack London's "To Build a Fire," Investigating Jack London's White Fang: Nature and Culture Detectives, and The Jack London Online Collection.

The Giver
A lesson plan from Scholastic on Lois Lowry's famous book.. See also The Giver Lesson Plans, Memories Matter: The Giver and Descriptive Writing Memoirs, and The Giver (middle-grade lesson plan).

Number the Stars
An intermediate-grade lesson plan on this book by Lois Lowry.   

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Walkabout (James Vance Marshall)
Activities and a whole bunch of information about this book.

Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
A high school lesson plan. See also From Fact To Fiction: Moby Dick and The Life and Works of Herman Melville.

Looking for the Byronic Hero Using Twilight's Edward Cullen
A high school lesson plan for this popular book series by Stephenie Meyer. For another lesson plan, see Teaching Twilight.

Dramatizing History in Arthur Miller's The Crucible
A lesson plan for grades 9-12. See also Teaching the Crucible with the NY Times, The Salem Witch Trials and Which of You Is a Witch?  

The Bluest Eye
A lesson plan on Tony Morrison's book from a unit titled " A View of Three Cultures through the Eyes of Three Contemporary Women Writers."  See also In 1931, Toni Morrison was born and Narrative Structure and Perspectives in Toni Morrison's Beloved.

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A Guide to Teaching About Freedom Struggles
A teacher's guide with discussion questions, activities, and author information for No Turning Back: A Novel of South Africa by Beverley Naidoo and Escape from Slavery: Five Journeys to Freedom by Doreen Rappaport. 

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The Things They Carried
An Overview, Readers Guide, and Teachers Guide for this book by Tim O'Brien.

Decoding the Dystopian Characteristics of Macintosh's "1984" Commercial
A high school lesson plan that can be used to introduce George Orwell's 1984. See also Big Brother vs. Little Brother: Updating Orwell's '1984'; How Much fact in Fiction? Teaching Orwell and 1984 with the NY Times; and I Always Feel Like Somebody's Watching Me . . .  (10th-grade unit).

Animal Farm: Allegory and the Art of Persuasion
A lesson plan for grades 9-12 for this book by George Orwell. See also  Animal Farm: The Complete Project and Animals, Unite!

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Cry, the Beloved Country   (Allen Patton)
A Learning Guide from Teach Movies.

The Hatchet
A two-week lesson plan from Scholastic. See also Fiction Elements in Hatchet. If you are interested in finding teaching ideas for Woodsong, go to Woodsong Lesson Plan.

Brian's Winter
A teacher's guide. See also Brian's Winter - Gary Paulsen and Famous Authors - Gary Paulson.

A Long Way from Chicago
A lesson plan that can be used as an introduction to this book by Richard Peck. See also Long Way from Chicago Discussion Guide.

Year Down Yonder
A Teacher Guide for this book for which Richard Peck was awarded the Newberry Medal. See also Novel Study Guise for A Year Down Yonder.

The Ghost Belonged to Me
A review and teaching activities for this novel by Richard Peck.

A Day No Pigs Would Die (Robert Newton Peck)
A "literature unit" for this book by Robert Peck.  

Great Tales and Poems (Edgar Allen Poe)
Overview, Readers Resources, and lesson plans. For additional lesson plans see Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe; The Life and Works of Edgar Allen Poe; and Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, and the Unreliable Biographers.

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Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
A unit plan for teaching this book by Daniel Quinn.

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 Ayn Rand
Lesson plans and other resources for Anthem and The Fountainhead. See also Anthem by Ayn Rand and We Are One: Introducing Anthem by Ayn Rand. For extensive information on Rand, go to The Ayn Rand Institute.  

The Westing Game
A 5disussion guide for Ellen Raskin's novel.

Wilson Rawls
A discussion guide to Where the Red Fern Grows from Scholastic.

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Louis Sachar
A teacher's guide from Scholastic complete with a 4-lesson unit for Sachar's Holes.  See also  Holes Activity Guide.

Catcher in the Rye
A high school unit. See also The Catcher in the Rye: A Teaching Unit; If a Body Texts a Body: Texting in The Catcher in the Rye; and J. D. Salinger and The Catcher in the Rye.

Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All American Meal
A study guide for Eric Schlosser's book. See also Comparing the Jungle with Fast Food Nation.

William Shakespeare    
Click above to go to lesson plans and resources for the study of Shakespeare in the English Literature section of this page.

Tales of the Supernatural
A 12th-grade lesson plan for Mary Shelly's Frankenstein. 

Comparing the Jungle with Fast Food Nation
An interesting lesson plan for grades 8-10 using the books The Jungle and Fast Food Nation. For additional lesson ideas, see also Using Primary Sources to Understand the Past: Upton Sinclair's, The Jungle, and Urban Living Conditions (1906) and The Power of Fiction.

Gary Soto, poet and children's writer, was born on this date in 1952
Information and an activity from Read-Write-Think. See also ELA Unit: Author Study - Gary Soto and Jesse Discussion Guide

Wringer
A teacher's guide for this book by Jerry Spinelli.

Steinbeck: Biography As A Tool In Teaching Reading And Writing Skills
A high school literature unit featuring lessons on The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men. See also Steinbeck Institute Teacher Resources.

Steinbeck in the Schools
Many lesson plans for Steinbeck books.

The Grapes of Wrath: Scrapbooks and Artifacts
An excellent lesson plan from the Library of Congress. For other lesson plans see The Grapes of Wrath: National Endowment for the Arts, The Grapes of Wrath: Voices from the Great Depression, and Creating Dramatic Monologues from The Grapes of Wrath.

Of Mice and Men: Cast the Roles
A high school lesson plan. 

The Pearl
A middle-school unit. See also What About Steinbeck's The Pearl.     

Treasure Island
Three m8iddle school activities for Robert Louis Stevenson's famous novel.

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The Joy Luck Club
A Teacher's Guide with ten lesson plans for this novel by Amy Tan.

Mildred Taylor
A "reading guide" guide from Scholastic for Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor. See also, An Approach to Teaching Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry and Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: A Teaching Unit.

J. R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit
An extensive unit from Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute for this classic work by J. R. R. Tolkien. See also Studying Tolkien from the Tolkien Society.

Mark Twain and American Humor
A high school lesson plan in which students consider the significance of humor through a study of Mark Twain's "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County." See also An American Wit: Approaching Mark Twain’s Life and Works, Mark Twain Primary Source: "Concerning the Interview," Mark Twain and the American West, Introducing the Essay: Twain, Douglass, and American Non-Fiction, The Mark Twain Boyhood Home Museum, and Mark Twain in His Times.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
A high school lesson plan from Discovery Education. See also Teaching Twain and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ With The New York Times and  Critical Ways of Seeing The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in Context.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: A Teaching Unit for 5th or 6th Grades  
See also The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Teacher's Guide, An Adventure with Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: Study Guide, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

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John Updike
A lesson plan from the NY Times examining Updike's literary career.

Into the Beautiful North
A Teacher's Guide with Ten lesson plan for this book by Luis Alberto Urrea.

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Lesson Tutor: Introducing Jules Verne

Homecoming
A lesson plan for this book by Cynthia Voigt.

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Alice Walker
A high school lesson plan titled What Did They Say? Dialect in The Color Purple. See also Author Alice Walker was born on February 9, 1944 for a high school lesson plan. For information about Alice Walker, go to her home page.

Everyday Use
A lesson plan titled Teaching Alice Walker's "Everyday Use."

H. G. Wells
A high school lesson plan on Wells' The War of the Worlds. See also Audio Broadcasts and Podcasts: Oral Storytelling and Dramatization.

The Time Machine (Wells)
A Learning Guide for use with the movie version of this novel.  

Old School
Readers Resources a Teachers Guide for this book by Tobias Wolff.

Thornton Wilder's Our Town: The Reader as Writer
A middle-school lesson plan for this classic play by Thornton Wilder.  See also Dramatic and Theatrical Aspects in Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town”: A Common Core Exemplar and The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Our Town Readers Resources, Our Town.

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The Pigman
An "activity pack" from Prestwick House this book by Paul Zindel.

Mysteries
Teaching Mysteries
Lesson plans and information from MysteryNet.com.  

What Is a Mystery?
A lesson plan for grade 4 and up from MysteryNet.com.

What's in a Mystery? Exploring and Identifying Mystery Elements
A lesson plan for grades 3-5 from Read-Write-Think.

Exploring the Mystery Genre
A unit from Scholastic for grades 3-5 consisting of three lesson plans.

The Game is Afoot: A Study of Sherlock Holmes
A 5th-grade lesson plan from Core Knowledge in pdf format.

Challenging Children With Mystery Stories
A 5th-grade unit.

The Hound of the Baskervilles Teacher's Guide
A "teacher resource and tour guide" for this mystery by Arthur Conan Doyle. See also Investigating Genre: The Case of the Classic Detective Story.

The Westing Game
A discussion guide from Scholastic. See also The Westing Game Book Unit.

Gender, Race, and Milieu in Detective Fiction
A collection of units complete with lesson plans including It’s A Mystery To Me (using Poe's Murders in the Rue Morgue and two other classic mysteries) and Detective Fiction: Focus On Critical Thinking (which uses The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew mystery series).

It's a Mystery!
Five lesson plans for teaching about mysteries from Education World.

Everyone Loves a Mystery: A Genre Study
A lesson plan for grades 6-8 from Read/Write/Think.

English/Shakespearean Literature
The Luminarium
Wonderful site for English literature.

Exploring Arthurian Legend
A web-based lesson plan for grades 9-12.

An Introduction to Beowulf: Language and Politics
A Lesson plan for grades11-12. See also Beowulf (12th-grade lesson plan), The Beauty of Anglo Saxon Poetry: A Prelude to Beowulf (one more high school lesson plan), and Beowulf Spark Notes (an on-line study guide).

Alice in Wonderland
This lesson plan titled "Childhood through the Looking Glass" for grades 6-12 from The National Endowment for the Humanities' EDSITEment explores the vision of childhood created by Lewis Carroll in Alice in Wonderland . See also Alice in Wonderland, a lesson plan using The Discovery Channel's video; Senses, Spaces And Structure, an elaborate 7th-grade unit using Alice in Wonderland and two other works to explore space and architecture; and Lewis Carrol's Alice, a page containing the 1928 commentary on Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass .

Chaucer's Wife of Bath
High school activities and other teaching rsources from EDSITEment this character from Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. For a comprehensive Chaucer page, go to Harvard University's Geoffrey Chaucer. For other lesson plans, see Exploring The Prologue to The Canterbury Tales using Wikis and Playing Chaucer's Pilgrams. See also Canterbury Tales Study Materials from the Luminarium's Geoffrey Chaucer Page. and Teaching the Canterbury Tales in American High Schools. For additional help understanding the language used in this work, go to A Basic Chaucer Glossary.

How to Teach Charles Dickens
Not a lesson plan, but suggestions on how to teach Charles Dickens in the 21st Century.

Teaching Dickens With The New York Times
Five lesson ideas.

A Dickens of a Time: Discovering the Victorian Period
A middle-school lesson plan.

There Are No Small Parts: Minor Characters in David Copperfield
A high school lesson plan from Read-Write-Think.

Great Expectations
A high school lesson plan from Discovery Education.

Beyond the Story: A Dickens of a Party
A lesson plan in which students attend a 19th Century party dressed as a character from Dickens' A Christmas Carol.

The Dickens Project
Resources and activities from USC for reading, studying, and teaching the novels of Charles and his era.

Great Expectations Study Guide
Resource materials for high school and college students. 

C.S. Lewis 
The above link will take you to the "official" C. S. Lewis site. See also Lesson Plans for The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe; Educator's Guide: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe; and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Study Guide.

Lesson Plans and Resources for Teaching Shakespeare
Folger Classroom Resources
A huge list of teaching modules from the Folger Shakespeare Library.  

Editing as Close-Reading: Cutting and Performing Complex Texts
One lesson plan from the above site.

Surfing with the Bard
A collection of lesson plans and resources from Shakespeare High.

Shakespeare
A long list of resources from About.com.

The Bard, The Globe, The Midsummer Night's Dream
A 5th-grade lesson plan.

Hamlet and the Elizabethan Revenge Ethic in Film and Text
A high school lesson plan from EDSITEmnet.  See also Hamlet Meets Chusingura: Traditions of the Revenge Tragedy. 

Julius Caesar Lesson Plan: Analyzing Speeches
For grades 9-12. See also A Julius Caesar Unit.

Unit Plan: Shakespeare's Macbeth
For 11th grade. See also Shakespeare's MacBeth: Fear and the "Dagger of the Mind."

Shakespeare's MacBeth: Fear and the Motives of Evil
An Internet-based lesson plan.

Shakespeare's Othello and the Power of Language
A high school lesson plan from EDSITEment.

Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: You Kiss by the Book.
An Internet-based secondary lesson plan. See also Pre-Reading for Romeo and Juliet and Juliet vs. Laura: Analyzing Sonnet Structure in Romeo and Juliet.

Olivia May I?: Movement in Twelfth Night
A high school lesson plan.