This sourcebook presents reading guides for 27 literary works frequently used by secondary school English teachers. The guides contain an overview of the work, a pool of instructional objectives for each work, a variety of activities, a series of discussion options, suggestions for evaluation, and annotated lists of related works. Included are: "Foreword" (T. C. Ley); "A Summary of Critical Approaches" (A. Dunlop and D. Clark); "Sherwood Anderson's 'I'm a Fool'" (A. Stanley); "Truman Capote's 'A Christmas Memory'" (V. M. Stallings); "Willa Cather's 'My Antonia'" (L. Dewey); "Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Canterbury Tales'" (K. Jeane and others); "Stephen Crane's 'The Open Boat'" (K. K. Brown); "F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby'" (J. Fletcher); "Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper'" (R. F. Gray); "Ernest Hemingway's 'A Farewell To Arms'" (E. Nash and others); "Homer's 'The Odyssey'" (V. W. Cranford); "W. W. Jacobs's 'The Monkey's Paw'" (V. V. Johnson); "Sarah Orne Jewett's 'A White Heron'" (J. M. Knipp); "James Joyce's 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man'" (P. Gatlin and C. G. Smith); "Franz Kafka's 'The Metamorphosis'" (D. Yarbrough); "Jack London's 'The Call of the Wild'" (S. Banasiak); "Arthur Miller's 'Death of a Salesman'" (E. Cannon and L. Richardson); "Flannery O'Connor's 'Good Country People'" (J. B. Cross); "George Orwell's 'Animal Farm'" (L. M. Davis); "W. H. D. Rouse's 'Gods, Heroes, and Men of Ancient Greece'" (G. W. Crabb and R. A. Hendon); "William Shakespeare's 'Julius Caesar'" (O. King and C. Oten); "William Shakespeare's'Romeo and Juliet'" (G. Watford and C. Smith); "Percy Bysshe Shelley's 'Ozymandias' and Morris Bishop's 'Ozymandias Revisited'" (R. Thompson); "Eudora Welty's 'A Worn Path'" (R. Foster); "T. H. White's 'The Sword in the Stone'" (C. Hannah); "Tennessee Williams's 'The Glass Menagerie'" (L. K. Benson); "Paul Zindel's 'The Pigman'" (B. Lang and L. Brooks); and "Beowulf" (S. N. Haas and others). (HB)