English Literature
Metacognitive Reading Worksheets & Lesson Presentations — 2026–27
Monitor • Question • Clarify • ConnectSelect a text to access its reading worksheets and lesson presentations. Resources for each unit are released as we read — Tsotsi, Phædra, Black Panther, and Convenience Store Woman are available now.
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Novel • H.G. Wells
The Time Machine
A Victorian inventor ventures into the deep future and discovers that humanity's class divisions have become something monstrous.
Silent Film • Fritz Lang
Metropolis
The city of the future, divided between those who think and those who toil. Lang's silent masterpiece — a machine, a double, and a world on the verge of collapse.
Film • Ryan Coogler
Black Panther
A king returns home to defend a nation caught between tradition and the modern world — and a rival who forces him to question everything.
Novella • Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis
One morning Gregor Samsa woke to find himself transformed. His family's response is the real horror of the story.
Novel • Sayaka Murata
Convenience Store Woman
Keiko is thirty-six, single, and perfectly content stocking shelves. Society, her family, and a strange new colleague all disagree.
Film • Wim Wenders
Perfect Days
A Tokyo toilet cleaner finds beauty in routine, solitude, and the play of light through leaves — a quiet meditation on what a life can be.
Epic • R.K. Narayan
Ramayana
The prince, the exile, the demon king. One of humanity's oldest epics, tracing duty, devotion, and what it costs to be righteous.
Novel • Athol Fugard
Tsotsi
A South African gang leader. A stolen baby. The buried name that refuses to stay down. Twelve chapters of moral excavation.
Play • Jean Racine
Phædra
A queen consumed by a forbidden passion. Five acts of classical tragedy in which every attempt to conceal the truth makes catastrophe more certain.