Junior Cycle First Year English: Creative Writing and Reading - Gothic Horror Unit

Creative Writing and Reading - Gothic Horror Unit
This highly engaging and enjoyable unit is designed to develop key skills in reading fiction and non-fiction as well as writing creatively. It is based on the topic of Gothic Horror with lots of activities and great texts to help students develop key reading skills such as inference and comparison as well as key writing skills such as opening a story, writing direct speech, using narrative voice and varying sentences. Texts include extracts from non-fiction and fiction including W W Jacobs’ ‘The Monkey’s Paw’ and information texts on the London Burkers (body snatchers!) All 12 student resources are included in word and pdf formats as well as a nicely presented 50 slide teaching PPT and a set of detailed teacher’s notes. I hope you enjoy teaching the unit.

Junior Cycle Learning Outcomes include:
Reading
3. Use a wide range of reading comprehension strategies appropriate to texts.
4. Use an appropriate critical vocabulary while responding to literary texts.
8. Read their texts to understand and appreciate language enrichment by examining an author’s choice of words.
Writing

1. Demonstrate their understanding that there is a clear purpose for all writing activities and be able to plan, draft, re-draft, and edit their own writing as appropriate
2. Write for a variety of purposes, for example to imagine.
3. Engage with and learn from models of oral and written language use to enrich their own written work.
4. Use and apply their knowledge of language structures, for example sentence structure, paragraphing, grammar, to make their writing a richer experience.