KS3, Fiction, Dickens, close reading, explanation, "Oliver Twist", slum, starvation, attitude

Created for a year 8 class as part of a unit exploring some of the work of Charles Dickens, this 14 slide powerpoint takes as its focal text the scene in “Oliver Twist” where Oliver and Mr Sowerberry go into a slum to deal with the corpse of a woman who has starved to death. The aim of the lesson is for the pupils to explain how the writer’s methods help to convey his viewpoint. To lead up to this, there is some discussion and pair work which builds (after a verbal model) to the pupils writing their own explanations of how Dickens’ methods help to convey his attitudes towards his subjects.