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LitGuides.com is designed to help teachers, students, and parents be even more effective by getting the most out of their education through great curriculum kits, interesting links, mentoring help, and much more.
As an English teacher with 15 years experience, my mission is to help others get the most out of classic literature. I hope my reading guides will help teachers be even more creative and innovative — my guides lay the foundation for understanding each work of literature, allowing teachers to then tailor their lessons to students’ needs and interests.
Teachers – download the reading guides created for classic works today for only $9.99!
Each guide includes:
– Author background
– Fast facts
– Discussion questions / Writing Prompts
– A bookmark with character descriptions and when they are first introduced
– Menu ideas specific to setting, mood or time period of novel
– Warm-up suggestions / writing prompts specific to novel
– Literary terms specific to novel (with writing suggestions)
– Film information
Here are a few comments from past customers who have purchased guides:
“It inspired us to talk longer — and more deeply — about the book.”
“I am excited to have found your website. In the past, we have used reading group guides, but have found most lacking, containing a few questions and little else.”
“The group really loves it. It helps to organize the discussion, especially since we have a number of ‘talkers.’”
Check out a sample guide: To Kill A Mockingbird Sample Kit
As a high school English teacher with fifteen years experience, I am frequently asked: “Why do we have to read this?” and “How will this help me in my life?” In order to impress upon students the value of classic literature, my guides focus on the core ideas of each work.
I believe the titles I’ve chosen are not only significant with regard to our national identity, but I also chose them because they are simply great reads and some of the most alluded to novels. So far, I have finished guides on the following American classics. Click on the title to see a list of reasons you may or may not enjoy each or click on BUY NOW.
- To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- My Antonia by Willa Cather
- The Awakening by Kate Chopin
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- Barn Burning by William Faulkner
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Click on the title of each British Beauty for a list of why a reader may or may not enjoy the following classics or click BUY NOW!
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- Middlemarch by George Eliot
- Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
- Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray.
I also have a series of contemporary guides for sale to book clubs, but which could easily be adapted for classroom use. To purchase a guide on any of the following, click: contemporary hits.
- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
- The Gathering by Anne Enright
- Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
- Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
- The Faith Club by by Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, and Priscilla Warner
- The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
- The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
- To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
- Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf
Any other questions? Please email me at kgalles@msn.com.
Interested in more information about this site? Please email me at kgalles@msn.com.
A truly great book should be read in youth,
again in maturity and once more in old age,
as a fine building should be seen by morning light,
at noon and by moonlight.
~ Robertson Davies ~
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