Grade Level: 9-12
Interest Level: N/A
Reading Level: N/A

The Discovering Literature Series is designed to develop a student’s appreciation for good literature and to improve reading comprehension. At the Challenging Level, we focus on a variety of reading strategies that help students construct meaning from their experience with literature as well as make connections between their reading and the rest of their lives. The strategies reflect the demands of each literature selection.
In these study guides, we will focus on beginning a book, setting and mood, irony, plot structure, foreshadowing and flashback, characterization, forming hypotheses, evaluating a book, plot conflict, point of view, inferencing, rereading, theme, narration, and the genre of dystopias.
Each chapter analysis is organized into three basic elements: Journal and Discussion Topics, Chapter Vocabulary, and Chapter Summary.
Other features include Strategy Pages to increase students’ understanding of strategies to enhance their comprehension of literature; Testing at the end of each chapter grouping, and Writer’s Forum for students’ to write in a variety of genres relating to the text.
This 112-page teaching guide includes an answer key.

Table of Contents
About the Organization of This Literature Guide
• Vocabulary
• Chapter Pages
• Groupings of Literature
• Strategy Pages
• Tests
• Writer’s Forum Pages
• History of Ideas Pages
• Theme Pages
Introducing the Literature
• Sample Lesson Plan
Vocabulary
• Book Order
• Alphabetical Order
Bibliography • Strategy 1: Beginning a Book Chapter 1: The Sound of the Shell • Strategy 2: Plot—The Design of a Story
• Strategy 3: Forming a Hypotheses
• Strategy 4: Characterization
• Writer’s Forum 1: Description Chapter 2: Fire on the Mountain • Strategy 5: References and Allusions—A Story with a Past
• Strategy 6: Plot—Conflict
• Writer’s Forum 2: Journal Chapter 3: Huts on the Beach • Strategy 7: Rhetoric
• Strategy 8: Irony
• Writer’s Forum 3: List of Rules Test: Chapters 1-3
Chapter 4: Painted Faces and Long Hair • Strategy 9: Point of View
• Writer’s Forum 4: Dialogue Chapter 5: Beast from Water • Strategy 10: Setting the Mood
• Writer’s Forum 5: Persuasive Speech Chapter 6: Beast from Air • Strategy 11: Symbolism Test 2: Chapters 4-6
Chapter 7: Shadows and Tall Trees • Strategy 12: Foreshadowing and Flashback Chapter 8: Gift for the Darkness
Chapter 9: • Strategy 13: Names and Euphemisms
• Writer’s Forum 6: Compare and Contrast Essay
• Writer’s Forum 7: Poetry—An Elegy for Simon Chapter 10: The Shell and the Glasses
Chapter 11: Castle Rock • Strategy 14: Characterization Continuum
• Writer’s Forum 8: A Possible Ending Chapter 12: Cry of the Hunters • Writer’s Forum 9: A News Article
• Strategy 15: Consulting Outside References
• Strategy 16: Rereading a Book
• Strategy 17: Theme
• Strategy 18: Comparing and Contrasting a Book and a Movie Test 4: Chapters 10-12 • History of Ideas
• Introduction
• Human Nature
• Civilization/Culture
• Government
• Violence/War Theme Pages • Friendship and Loyalty
• People and Nature
• Leadership and Authority
• Maturity and Adulthood
• Status and Reputation
• Memory and Forgetting
• Reality and Responsibility
• Fear Answer Pages