Unit of Work: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Mark Haddon’s popular novel about an unusual young man with a flair for Maths and a drive to know who killed his neighbour’s dog has been one of the most surprising crossover books of the last 30 years.

This 52-page unit of work has been tested successfully with a mixed-ability class:

• It divides the novel into eight substantial sections for convenient planning across a term
• Over 100 questions offer a blend of higher-order thinking skills and personal reflective tasks
• provides a contextual discussion for each section, drawing out concepts and ideas such as the brain and cognition; logic and language; individuality and disability; imagination, and alternative world.
• Extension exercises allow stronger students to stretch their knowledge and thinking with philosophical tasks
• A two-question analytical assessment task asks students to consider theme and voice in a nominated chapter

The unit can be printed for students who prefer hard copy, or presented digitally.