Welcome to Secondary Solutions! Literature Guides for High School and Middle School Novels

Welcome to Secondary Solutions!

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As a busy teacher, you don’t have time to waste reinventing the wheel. You want to get down to the business of teaching. Finally, you can address the content standards while you teach the required core literature! Our professionally developed, teacher-written, reproducible Literature Guides place the emphasis on the content standards, while providing you with the activities and materials you need to help your students understand and evaluate the novels and other literature that you are required to teach. Through the creation of our Literature Guides, Secondary Solutions^® has provided you with the answer to your time management problems. No more researching, creating, writing, and editing your own materials. Everything you need has been done for you!

Our Guides allow you to focus on the most important aspects of teaching—the personal, one-on-one, hands-on instruction you enjoy most—the reason you became a teacher in the first place! Each Guide is designed to address the unique learning styles and comprehension levels of every student in your classroom. All materials are presented at the grade level of the learner.

Every Literature Guide from Secondary Solutions^® provides:

author biographies

pre-reading activities

vocabulary lists and activities

comprehension activities

study-guide questions

graphic organizers

literary analysis and critical thinking activities

essay and writing ideas

sample rubrics

extension activities

quizzes

unit tests

alternative assessment

online teacher assistance

and much, much more....

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Introducing...

The Giver
(Grades 7-9)

A Midsummer Night's Dream (Grades 9-11)

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(Grades 6-12)

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Our Literature Guides...

The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn
(Grades 8-10)

Among the Hidden
(Grades 7-9)

Animal Farm
(Grades 9-10)

Brave New World
(Grades 11-12)

Bud, Not Buddy
(Grades 5-8)

The Catcher in the Rye
(Grades 10-12)

Crucible
(Grades 10-12)

Fahrenheit 451
(Grades 10-12)

Freak the Mighty
(Grades 6-8)

The Great Gatsby
(Grades 11-12)

Hamlet
(Grades 11-12)