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Complete List of Past Prestwick House Free Monthly Lessons

Each month, Prestwick House shares one of our customer’s favorite lessons with you for free. Every lesson is ready-to-use right from one of our most popular books for our newsletter subscribers. We’re committed to providing teachers with the highest-quality teaching materials that are both ready-to-use and educationally sound. To that end, we hope that the past lessons listed below are useful in your classroom.

Please feel free to share lessons with all your colleagues. We hope that they find these classroom-proven lessons to be as useful as you do.

January 2010 - Fact vs. Interpretation in Non-fiction Works from Reading and Analyzing Non-Fiction: Slant, Spin, and Bias

December 2009 - How to Through a Dickens of A Classroom Party from the Prestwick House Spotlight Teacher's Edition of A Christmas Carol

November 2009 — A Lesson in Goal Setting from Succeeding: Overcoming the Odds

October 2009 — "Tell Tale Heart" Lesson from The Best of Poe Teaching Unit

September 2009 — Vocabulary Lesson from Standards-Based Vocabulary Study, Book I

August 2009 — Reading for Understanding from Practice Makes Perfect: Preparation for the State Reading Assessment

July 2009 — An Introduction to Rhetorical Devices from Rhetorical Devices: A Handbook and Activities for Student Writers author, Douglas Grudzina

June 2009 — Protesting Injustice in the short story "A Jury of Her Peers" by Susan Glaspel taken from Popular Themes in American Fiction

May 2009 — Studying the Roles of Wife and Mother in Defining the Female Characters taken from the Antigone Multiple Critical Perspectives Unit

April 2009 — Inferring Meaning in Stephen Crane's "The Blue Hotel" taken from Themes and Symbols: Inferring the Meaning

March 2009 — The Prescriptive Approach versus the Descriptive Approach to Grammar taken from Grammar For Writing

February 2009 — A Lesson in Paraphrasing taken from Writing an A+ Research Paper