Introduction to Victorian and Early 20th C Literature

This is a full unit of work suitible for KS3 and will also offer plenty of ideas for teaching the Victorian text at KS4. This unit covers a massive range of Victorian texts, largely based on the core authors from the new GCSE specification for Literature,

Unit of work includes detailed focus on the Victorian period and asks students to explore GCSE writers such as Charles Dickens (A Christmas Carol), Robert Louis Stevenson (Treasure Island), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (The Hound of the Baskervilles) as well as introducing the unit with Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and also allowing a focus on how a writer in the 20th Century creates setting (Daphne Du Maurier).

There is absolutely loads on here and this will make for a full half term’s worth of work.

This is aimed at introducing KS3 students to the authors that they will likely study later on at GCSE and helps to expose some of the contexts and typicality of writers.

Included is a PowerPoint (lesson by lesson) and the resources needed.