For grades 7-12, this literature guide uses Dorothy Sayers' The Man Born to Be King along with other contextual essays to instruct students in the following habits:

• actively engaging the mind while reading

• taking notes in their books

• answering reading questions

• creating their own questions

• reading sample student writing

• keeping notes book-wide on themes and motifs

• answering discussion questions about thematic material

• memorizing important quotations

• preparing, while reading, to write

• participating in creative enrichment activities related to the books