A supplemental reading packet for a science or English teacher who wants a novel to carry real science alongside it. It is not a curriculum and not a platform. It sits beside the book you are already teaching and does the work you do not have time to do: the historical context, the scientific audit, the assessment, and a discussion session you can run cold.

You supply the novel. Everything else is here. Every title gets the same eight documents.

1. Specimen record. The catalog entry. Title, author, year, discipline codes and a plot summary, on one page.
2. Teacher introduction. What the packet holds and how to run it, including anything to know before the class meets the book.
3. Reader introduction. The page a student reads first, explaining what they are being asked to do and why.
4. Sources. The research behind the packet, in MLA style, most of it free to read.
5. Reading companion. Four sections: the author, the moment the book was written into, what the story is really about, and the science.
6. Quiz, three variants. The objective questions differ across A, B and C so answers cannot be traded.
7. Answer guide. Keys for all three variants, plus model responses and grading notes.
8. Discussion guide. A 45-minute session, built to be run by a teacher who has not read the book.

The quiz scales with the book. A short novella carries 10 objective questions per variant, a mid novel 15, a long novel 20, always across three variants that share no questions, so no two students sitting beside each other answer the same paper. The short answer questions are identical on every variant, on purpose: one rubric grades the whole class, and every student is assessed against the same thing.

The reading companion carries the two audits the packets are built around. The Lawbreaker takes the science the story bends or ignores and says so plainly, which is the part students argue about.

The Long Fuse follows the book forward into the real world, keeping what it anticipated strictly apart from what it actually inspired.

Two zip files, and the difference between them saves you a job. The complete archive holds all eight PDFs. The student archive holds only the four a student should see, the specimen record, the reader introduction, the sources and the reading companion, so you can hand that one out whole without also handing out the three quiz variants and the answer guide.

Print them, copy them, put the student archive on your class page. Your download link works five times, so save both somewhere you control on the first pass.

Nothing. There is no subscription, no account and nothing to log into. Buy a packet once and use it with every class you teach, this year and every year after. It keeps working if this website does not. One teacher, unlimited classes. If another teacher in your building wants it, they need their own copy, and school pricing is coming for exactly that.

Packets are priced by the length of the book: $3 for a short novella, $5 for a mid novel, $7 for a long one. Length is the only variable.

The packet is the part that costs money. The book does not have to. Borrow it from your public library, or through Libby with the card you already have. Public domain titles are free forever at Project Gutenberg and Open Library. Anything you would rather own links to Bookshop.org, which sends the money to independent bookstores. There are no Amazon links anywhere on this site, and there never will be.