In this engaging and informative lesson enables students to make clear and insightful links between Arthur Conan Doyle’s 'The Sign of Four' and its historical context of 19th Century London. In particular, students learn about the Jack the Ripper murders and subsequent attitudes towards the police, before considering how these ideas are reflected through Athelney Jones in the novel.
The lesson follows a step-by-step learning journey, in which students learn through:
- Researching the context of 19th Century London, such as the Jack the Ripper murders and attitudes towards the police;
- Reading and understanding chapters 5 and 6, in which Athelney Jones makes his appearance;
- Identifying and analysing the language techniques used by Doyle in describing Athelney Jones;
- Analysing Doyle's intentions in presenting Athelney Jones in such a manner;
- Peer assessing each other's learning attempts.
Included is:
- Whole Lesson PowerPoint - colourful and comprehensive;
- Paper Copies of Chapters 5 and 6;
- Athelney Jones links to context worksheet;
- Researching Context worksheet
- Essay Template;
- Detailed Lesson Plan
There are also opportunities for group learning, peer assessment, and whole class discussion. These resources were originally taught to GCSE students, but with subtle adaptations they have also been used with both younger and older (up to A Level) students.
Please note that you'll need access to internet/laptops for the researching activity.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and image rights are listed on the last page of the presentation.
The lesson follows a step-by-step learning journey, in which students learn through:
- Researching the context of 19th Century London, such as the Jack the Ripper murders and attitudes towards the police;
- Reading and understanding chapters 5 and 6, in which Athelney Jones makes his appearance;
- Identifying and analysing the language techniques used by Doyle in describing Athelney Jones;
- Analysing Doyle's intentions in presenting Athelney Jones in such a manner;
- Peer assessing each other's learning attempts.
Included is:
- Whole Lesson PowerPoint - colourful and comprehensive;
- Paper Copies of Chapters 5 and 6;
- Athelney Jones links to context worksheet;
- Researching Context worksheet
- Essay Template;
- Detailed Lesson Plan
There are also opportunities for group learning, peer assessment, and whole class discussion. These resources were originally taught to GCSE students, but with subtle adaptations they have also been used with both younger and older (up to A Level) students.
Please note that you'll need access to internet/laptops for the researching activity.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and image rights are listed on the last page of the presentation.
Get this resource as part of a bundle and save up to 73%
A bundle is a package of resources grouped together to teach a particular topic, or a series of lessons, in one place.
Bundle
The Sign of Four Lesson Bundle!
This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Arthur Conan Doyle's 'The Sign of Four.' Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the text, understanding the writer's ideas within the text, analysing key characters, settings, and themes, and understanding Doyle's language devices. Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps: \- Engaging \- Defining/ Understanding \- Identifying/Remembering \- Analysing/ Creating \- Peer or self evaluating. All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.
£6.00
Bundle
The Sign of Four Huge Bundle!
THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE 'THE SIGN OF FOUR' LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO THE 30-PAGE COMPREHENSION BOOKLET, THE KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER AND THE POINTLESS GAME!<br /> <br /> This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Arthur Conan Doyle's 'The Sign of Four.' Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the text, understanding the writer's ideas within the text, analysing key characters, settings, and themes, and understanding Doyle's language devices.<br /> <br /> Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:<br /> - Engaging<br /> - Defining/ Understanding<br /> - Identifying/Remembering<br /> - Analysing/ Creating<br /> - Peer or self evaluating.<br /> <br /> All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.
£7.00
Something went wrong, please try again later.
This resource hasn't been reviewed yet
To ensure quality for our reviews, only customers who have purchased this resource can review it
Report this resourceto let us know if it violates our terms and conditions.
Our customer service team will review your report and will be in touch.
£3.00