Ready Readers: High School Literature Package

Each volume in the Ready Readers series provides complete discussion notes for a collection of classic stories, including questions from the Socratic List on all major structural and stylistic elements: conflict, plot, characters, setting, theme, context and literary devices. Each question is answered in full with references to the text. Ready Readers also provides completed story charts and a short author biography for each title.

Ready Readers is based on the Teaching the Classics approach to reading, which involves working with stories at or below a student’s reading level. While the volumes in this series are appropriate to the reading level of a specific age group, they can be applied to grades at their reading level and up.

The new cover design displays the beautiful artwork of J. Renee Illustration. Jessica Johnson took her inspiration from the pages of The Great Divorce,and just as the brilliant little, red tour bus stands out as something solid and real in Lewis’ ghostly world, we believe Socratic discussions such as those found in this book’s pages will bring upper level students face-to-face with ideas that will clothe them in Solid Flesh.

Celebrating CenterForLit’s new look with a brand new edition to the Ready Readers series!

Ready Readers: High School Literature, Volume I  includes 5 thought-provoking Socratic discussions from the text with comprehensive questions and answers at the high school level. Questions cover Conflict, Plot, Setting, Characters, Theme, Literary Devices, and Context.  In addition, a completed Story Chart graphically outlines the major structural and thematic elements of each story.

This resource is appropriate for use with students in grades 9 and up, depending on their needs:

READING COMPREHENSION

Ready Readers: High School Literature helps develop good reading comprehension in high school level students.  It encourages them to ponder well-designed questions about structure, style, context, and theme in every story they read.

LITERARY ANALYSIS

The books discussed here were written with an adult audience in mind. The stories discussed in this particular Ready Readers are most appropriate for students already familiar with the basics of the Teaching the Classics method.

TITLES INCLUDED:

The Ready Readers Highschool Vol. 1 Literature Guide 

The Odyssey of Homer

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis