Literature
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Niccolò Machiavelli
Lesson plans for The Prince.
A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean
Reading strategies, including an anticipation guide, a directed reading-thinking activity, a multigenre writing task, a guided imagery activity, and more.
Under her Skin: How Girls Experience Race in America by Pooja Makhijani
Discussion questions, ideas for extending the lesson, and projects.
Katherine Mansfield
Links to teaching resources, text of stories.
Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya
Teaching guide, including prereading, analysis, follow-up, and bibliography. Generous background information. This document requires Adobe Reader or compatible application for access.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Lesson plans, criticism, and teaching activities for One Hundred years of Solitude and other works.
Yann Martel
Lesson plans and teaching resources for Life of Pi.
Guy de Maupassant
Lesson plans and online texts for "The Necklace" and other stories.
Bobbie Ann Mason, "Shiloh"
Five questions for writing and/or discussion. This document requires MS-Word for access.
Kaffir Boy, autobiography by Mark Mathabane
Summary, theme openers, crosscurricular activities, and research assignments from McDougal-Littell.
The Color of Water by James McBride
A variety of reading strategies, including an anticipation guide, a guided imagery activity, and vocabulary support. Adobe Reader required for access.
The Color of Water by James McBride
Summary and 11 discussion questions.
The Color of Water by James McBride
This Sparknotes guide includes themes, motifs, symbols, key quotations, study questions, essay topics, and more.
Cormac McCarthy
Lesson plans and teaching resources for All the Pretty Horses, Blood Meridian, and The Road.
Frank McCourt
Lesson plans for Angela's Ashes, Teacher Man.
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
These resources from Oprah's Book Club include a guide with discussion questions and several links to information about the author.
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
A variety of reading strategies, including an anticipation guide, a literary mandala, and vocabulary support.
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
This 32-page study guide is designed to support the performance of the play by Rebecca Gilman. It includes an activity connecting a work of "classic" literature with students' own lives; extensive background information on disability rights, gay rights, and historical figures; an activity creating a new character; and more.
Herman Melville
Lesson plans and ideas for teaching Moby-Dick, Billy Budd, and other works by Melville.
Celebrations of Thanksgiving: Cuban Seasonings by Ana Menéndez
A narrative about the experience of exile; it briefly chronicles Menéndez' family's course of assimilation through the medium of food, as they navigate between the boundaries of their Cuban heritage and American traditions. At the end of the narrative Menéndez has included her recipe for mojo.
Notes to "Mateo Falcone" by Prosper MÉrimÉe
Commentary. Follow the link at the top for the text of the story.
A Canticle for Liebowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
This study guide includes extensive commentary and discussion questions.
N. Scott Momaday
Lesson plans and activities for teaching The Way to Rainy Mountain.
Utopian Visions
Students read Sir Thomas More's Utopia and examine the concepts behind his vision of an ideal society. Students then contrast the ideas in Utopia with those found in the Constitution of the United States. In a culminating activity, students write and perform a monologue from the perspective of an inhabitant of More's utopia. Throughout the lesson, students contemplate issues such as: What constitutes an ideal society? What is the individual's role in society?
Toni Morrison Resources
Lesson plans and activities for teaching Beloved, The Bluest Eye, and other works by Morrison.
Stonewall's Gold by Robert Mrazek
Comprehension questions organized by section, thematic questions, and related titles. This 12-page document requires Adobe Reader or compatible application for access.
Alice Munro, "The Found Boat"
Eight questions for writing or discussion. This document requires MS-Word for access.
