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.
We also offer discussion guides for Unitarian Universalist congregations.
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