The developmental approach to high school literature study in this guide involves an instructional model emphasizing fluency (a period of responsiveness and support by the teacher), control (that part of instruction traditionally recognized as a high school literature), and precision (that phase of instruction in which rigor and intensity in literary interpretation become the students' primary concern). The guide contains descriptions of the philosophy governing development of the literature curriculum, the concepts and skills students are expected to learn, steps for developing a secondary school curriculum, and the model for teaching literature. The major portion of this guide presents (1) lesson plans for teaching nonfiction literature; (2) unit lesson plans for teaching traditional school literature, adolescent literature, and high interest easy reading literature; and (3) a model, containing three stages, for teaching writing in the literature class. (HOD)