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Novel Study Guides

Over 20 years of teaching language arts and literature to students from Grades 4 through Grade 12, I developed the following support materials. You are welcome to use them. I will continue to add to the resources here as I revise the content. Click on the book title for each PDF.

  • Grades 4-5 The Sky is Falling by Kit Pearson
  • Grades 6-8 Stephen FairΒ by Tim Wynne-Jones
  • Grades 7-8 Forbidden City by William Bell
  • Grades 7-8 Shoeless JoeΒ by W.P. Kinsella
  • Grades 9-10 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
  • Grades 9-10 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Grades 9-10 Dead Cold by Louise Penny
  • Grades 9-10 Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger
  • Grades 9-10 Paper Shadows by Wayson Choy (memoir)
  • Grades 11-12 Elizabeth Rex by Timothy Findley (drama)
  • Grades 11-12 The Song Beneath the Ice by Joe Fiorito
  • Grades 11-12 Seduction by Catherine Gildiner
  • Grades 11-12 In the Place of Last Things by Michael Helm
  • Grades 11-12 Green Grass, Running Water by Thomas King
  • Grades 11-12 Glenn by David Young (drama)

Plays by William Shakespeare

  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream
  • Romeo and Juliet
  • King Lear

About Janet

Janet Somerville Janet Somerville taught literature for twenty years in Toronto. She spent the past three years wholly immersed in Martha Gellhorn’s life and words. more

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March 5, 2026

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rcbregman Rutger Bregman @rcbregman ·
March 4, 2026

Publishing this in newspapers across Europe.

This boycott is just getting started.

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mrpool_qq Mr. Pool @mrpool_qq ·
March 4, 2026

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MARK ZUCKERBERG WAS JUST SUBPOENAED.

Not for data leaks. Not for censorship.

For Epstein.

Bondi’s team found 3 wire transfers from a Meta subsidiary called β€œHorizon Bridge LLC” to the Butterfly Foundation β€” the same Epstein front company named in the Tehran files.

Total:

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March 4, 2026

I spoke with the extraordinary Christina Applegate for
@TorontoStar, a πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ exclusive.

Her remarkable #memoir YOU WITH THE SAD EYES is out now.

She remains a wonder to me. @littlebrown https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/exclusive-christina-applegate-on-becoming-an-honesty-missile-in-her-devastating-new-memoir/article_92c99c17-d018-4082-808a-8406ebcfb554.html

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March 4, 2026

I genuinely hate poverty. I hate what poverty does to people, how it destroys their dignity, enslaves them, and limits their lives.

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landlordlinks Kirby Sommers @landlordlinks ·
March 4, 2026

Notice. I am not here to be polite.

I am here to a) stay alive and share (in ways that are comfortable with me) what I learned during the 8 years I was a sex slave to one of the billionaires WAY OVER Jeffrey Epstein's head; and what I've learned since I began digging.

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jamiebonkiewicz Jamie Bonkiewicz @jamiebonkiewicz ·
March 4, 2026

Just a reminder that a Christian Nationalist is NOT a Christian, but a Nazi pretending to be one

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