The Picture of Dorian Gray Full Scheme of Work for KS3

This is a FULL scheme of work on The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. This was created for a Year 9 mixed ability class. It can be adapted for your class accordingly, depending on your context and requirements.

This scheme of work includes:

1. 19 Lessons covering the full content of novella, including The Preface. Each lesson is a PowerPoint deck.
2. Any supporting resources are included in the respective slide deck or labelled accordingly as an additional resource.
3. A selection of End of Unit Test/Assessment Questions.
4. A Feedback (Marksheet) for the End of Unit Test.
5. A Revision Sheet to provide students for their preparation of the End of Unit Test.

The unit covers a wide array of themes/topics on:
Oscar Wilde’s life
Aestheticism and Decadence
Beauty
Victorian society
Victorian bias
Misogyny and sexism
Physiognomy
Opium in Victorian London
The Gothic genre
Metafiction

This was for a Literature unit, to allow students to confidently learn to analyse a text from the 19th century with higher tier vocabulary and quite ambitious ideas. Therefore, many exercises will be utilising their analytical and inference skills.

Notices:

• Students used this copy of the text: ISBN 0141199490
  All page numbers referenced on the lesson slides correspond to this copy ^.
• Each lesson has a retrieval quiz in the form of a ‘Do Now’. Some of these will be exclusively based on The Picture of Dorian Gray content, especially if a homework for reading the chapter was assigned the previous lesson. However, the first few lessons will have questions on content my class studied before. I did not delete these because A) they could be a useful model for your own replacement of questions or B) for the off-chance that you’ve covered the same content so still usable!
• There is a mnemonic included in the analytical writing exercises - MERCI. The criteria is listed on the slide. Of course this is interchangeable with any formula you would like to use with your students.
• The aforementioned mnemonic ^ is also on the side column of the End of Unit Feedback Sheet (Marksheet). The EUT test was totalled out of 30, with the breakdown identified on the sheet.
• The assessment was modelled after the GCSE Literature Paper 1 style questions, requiring evidence from the extract and evidence from elsewhere in the novella.

This would be a great unit for a class who go on to study Stevenson’s ‘Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’, given the thematic links and Wilde’s explicit inspiration.

There is a lot for your students to enjoy here and plenty of resources/scaffolding for a mixed ability class to be supported with.

I sincerely hope you enjoy teaching this!

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