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Teachers’ Guides

Beacon Press has developed a selection of teachers’ guides with discussion questions and suggested classroom activities. Titles are organized by fiction/nonfiction and alphabetized by author's last name within those categories. Please note that we also have a number of reading guides available for our titles which can be found on the book page, under the ‘Reading Group Guides’ tab.

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We also offer discussion guides for Unitarian Universalist congregations.

Fiction
Nonfiction

Fiction

Octavia Butler
Teacher's Guide: Kindred

Judith Ortiz Cofer
Teacher's Guide: The Meaning of Consuelo

Ruthanne Lum McCunn
Teacher's Guide: The Moon Pearl
Also available - Reading Guide: Thousand Pieces of Gold

Nonfiction

William Ayers
Teachers' Guide: A Kind and Just Parent

Geoffrey Canada
Teachers' Guide: Fist Stick Knife Gun

Viktor E. Frankl
Teachers' Guide: Man's Search for Meaning

Rena Kornreich Gelissen and Heather Dune Macadam
Teachers' Guide: Rena's Promise

Kevin Jennings
Teachers' Guide: Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son

Martin Luther King, Jr.
NEW! Teacher's Guide: A Time to Break Silence (aligned with Common Core)
Teachers' Guide: Stride Toward Freedom
Teachers' Guide: Why We Can't Wait (PDF or HTML)

Michael Patrick MacDonald
Teachers' Guide: All Souls (PDF or HTML)

Danielle Ofri
Teachers' Guide: Singular Intimacies: Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue
Teachers' Guide: Incidental Findings: Lessons from My Patients in the Art of Medicine

Henry David Thoreau
Teachers' Guide: Walden

Linda K. Wertheimer
Teacher’s Guide: Faith Ed

Robin DiAngelo
Teacher’s Professional Development Guide: White Fragility

Paul Ortiz
Teacher’s Guide: An African American and Latinx History of the United States

Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, adapters Debbie Reese and Jean Mendoza
Lesson Plan for Indigenous Peoples’s Day: An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People
Teacher’s Guide: An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People
Lesson Plan for Thanksgiving: An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People
Lesson Plan for the 400th Anniversary of the Mayflower: An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People

Michael Bronski, adapter Richie Chevat
Teacher’s Guide: A Queer History of the United States for Young People

Jarvis R. Givens
Teacher’s Guide: School Clothes