Looking for ways to add rigor to your students' explorations of rich, complex literature? This instructional guide for literature has everything you need. Text-dependent questions guide students in analyzing the text closely to determine meaning. Close reading is practiced throughout the units to encourage students to revisit the text and use textual evidence to respond to prompts both orally and in writing. Students will learn how to analyze the story elements in multiple ways. And various means of assessing student comprehension are provided for all classroom settings. These strategies, along with cross-curricular activities work together to rigorously guide students through their study of great works of literature.