Looking for the perfect picture book to kick off your school year? Whether you are teaching lap-sitters or reacquainting high school students with the principles of literary analysis, Patricia Polacco’s The Bee Tree is a wonderful reminder that the treasures of a book are worth the persistence it takes to find them! And now you can download Missy’s new teacher guide on Polacco’s classic as an aid for your discussion:

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Where can true contentment and happiness be found? Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy are intent on finding the answer as they come of age in 19th century New England. A new teacher guide is now available inside membership for Louisa May Alcott’s beloved novel.

In our most expansive teacher guide to date, Missy Andrews leads an exemplary Socratic discussion of the great Christian and Italian epic – Dante’s Divine Comedy. Covering all three books (Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso), she suggests divine love as the lens by which to guide students into this important work. Whether you are preparing to teach this title, or simply want to explore it for yourself, you will find this Teacher’s Guide an enthralling read!

We released Megan’s wonderful teacher guide on The Red Badge of Courage almost 2 years ago and have just discovered that it never made its way into our permanent archives here! We’ve remedied that error, and now this teacher guide is available once again!