Excite and engage your students with this instructional guide for Hamilton: An American Musical. This classroom resource provides rigorous activities and questions for students studying Lin-Manuel Miranda's hit Broadway musical. Students will develop critical literacy and comprehension skills, learn how to analyze story elements, develop vocabulary, and integrate higher-order thinking skills as they practice close reading and text-dependent questions. A rubric and cross-curricular questions are included to assess student comprehension in the classroom. The questions in the comprehension assessment section are modeled after standardized tests to help students analyze what they've read, and prepare for tests they may see in their classrooms. Strengthen your students' critical literacy skills by implementing this resource in your classroom.