Free English Language Arts Lessons from Prestwick House

This collection of free lessons for English Language Arts classrooms includes teaching material for literature, vocabulary, writing, reading, and more. We hope they give you a good idea of the quality of our teaching materials, all of which have been written and edited by and for high school and middle school English teachers.

Antigone, by Sophocles

Examining Antigone from a Feminist Perspective

This brief activity, taken from our Multiple Critical Perspectives unit for Antigone, examines how the heroine takes on the roles of wife and mother in this classic play.

 

Beloved, by Toni Morrison

Questions and Answers for Book I

This portion of our teaching guide for Toni Morrison's Beloved contains vocabulary words and reading comprehension / interpretation questions for the "Book I" section of the novel.

 

A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens

How to Throw a Dickensian Christmas Party

This lesson idea contains recipes, songs, and other content for throwing a Christmas Carol themed party in your English classroom.

Writing and Directing the "Christmas Carol" Movie

This classroom activity for A Christmas Carol sets students in the role of the writer and director of a new movie version of Dickens' novel.

To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee

Classroom Pre-Reading Novel Activity

This set of classroom activities, taken from Prestwick House's To Kill a Mockingbird Activity Pack, teaches students to identify allusions used in the novel and gives a bit of background information on the social and historical setting in which Harper Lee places her characters.

Poetry

Understanding the Poems of Robert Frost

This lesson, excerpted from our Discovering Genre: Poetry workbook, contains the full text, along with comprehension and interpretation questions, for the poems "After Apple-Picking" and "The Road Not Taken", by Robert Frost.