The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde teaching pack

This six-week teaching pack addresses the 19th century text elements of the English Literature GCSE and provides students with a practical, accessible route-through the text – and plenty of exam practice to boot.

Crammed, as always, with engaging activities and resources – including comprehension, language analysis and creative tasks – plus advice for differentiation and sample exam questions, the pack contains all you need to bring Stevenson’s novel to life.

What’s included?

• assessment objective mapping
• lesson plans and ideas along with 52 tailor-made resources
• exam-style questions for all exam boards.

What’s inside?

Introduction (pages 3-9)

Route through week 1: Pre-reading and introducing Chapter 1 (pages 10-36)

• Reactions to Victorian London
• Book cover predictions
• Gothic mini saga
• Ethical issues
• Introducing Mr Utterson
• Gothic literature – style and language
• Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – research topics
• Story of the door
• Victorian times
• Stretch and challenge
• Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – Chapter summary table

Route through week 2: Finishing Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 (pages 37-60)

• Nightmares
• Design your own villain
• Introducing Mr Hyde
• Speak to the hand
• Questions on chapters one and two
• Mr Utterson’s reaction (Chapter 2)
• Villain cards
• Reputation, reputation, reputation
• Practice exam 1

Route through week 3: Chapters 3, 4 and 5 (pages 61-89)

• Carew colour coding
• An odd relationship
• Discussion questions
• Analysis of ‘Incident of the letter’ (Chapter 5)
• Bingo! (Chapters 1-3)
• The detective role?
• Silence, secrecy and style – developing themes in the novel
• Structuring analytical paragraphs
• Evaluating a PEE paragraph
• PEE Mobile

Route through week 4: Chapters 6, 7 and 8 (pages 90-104)

• Door symbolism
• Chapter 7 – focused reading
• Dr Lanyon’s change
• Questions on chapters 6 and 7
• Chapter 8 – true or false
• The self and society

Route through week 5: Chapters 9, 10 and summarising (pages 105-123)

• Narrative diamond 9
• Chapter 9 questions
• The duality of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
• Chapter 10 match up
• Questions that focus on the popularity of the story
• Evil
• Practice exam 2

Route through week 6: Revision activities (pages 124-129)

• The structure of the novel
• Who said what?
• Exploring structure
• The role of Mr Utterson
• The significance of place in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
• RAG rating