A collection of resources to support the study of ‘Frankenstein’ (LA or KS3). This is part of a wider study of ‘The Gothic’ rather than the text itself.
Based on the AQA GCSE English Literature qualification, this scheme of learning explores the Power and Conflict cluster. Each lesson is based on the notion of academic reading research. All resources are fully formatted and ready to be used.
A six-week scheme for weekly reading lessons. Tasks are set by the classroom teacher and differentiated based on the needs of the class. Each week, the text is treated as the ‘beating heart’ of the lesson and develops reading skills through a close reading of famous science-fiction texts.
A single transition lesson for Year 5/Year 6 students on their taster day. The lesson introduces English at secondary level, explores what makes a successful description, evaluates character description, and then allows students to create their own.
Uses Shrek as a stimulus for fantasy writing.
A two-part lesson exploring how to make detailed and perceptive inferences on the characters of Sherlock and Dr. Roylott (The Speckled Band). Aimed at a MA set.
A two-part, fully resourced lesson introducing students to fairy tales, including conventions.
Lesson Two: What are fairy tales
Students will gain an initial understanding of the genre to support their homework research, which will include conventions and key-terms to be utilised throughout the topic. Students should be informed of their assessment task and informed of the skills they will need to develop over the course of this term.
Lesson Three: Fairy tale conventions
Students will explore and identify the conventions in fairy tales. This lesson should link, yet differentiate the conventions in Fantasy fiction (Term 5 SOL).
Week Overview: By the end of the week, students need an understanding of what makes a fairy tale, common conventions, different types of fairy tales, and the oral origins of the genre.
Lesson Four: Evaluating Fairy Tales
Students will develop an understanding and appreciation of how writers successfully use description in their writing by exploring crafting of writing in ‘The Ickabog’. To begin with, the lesson recaps and identifies important subject terminology. Teachers should set a quiz on any misconceptions.
Lesson Five: Famous Fairy Tale Subversions
As students have developed an understanding of fairy tales in week one, supported with their homework tasks, this week explores fairy tales and how famous writers have subverted them in the past. This lesson explores The Brothers Grimm and Charles Perault.
Lesson Six: Crafting Fairy Tale Descriptions
To identify early progress, students will describe a typical fairy tale setting using the knowledge developed from the previous lessons studying The Brothers Grimm and Charles Perault.
Weekly Overview: By the end of the week, students should be able to plan a description based on fairy tale conventions and begin to subvert expectations in the style of The Brothers Grimm and Charles Perault.
Lesson Seven: Freytag’s Narrative Structure
This lesson, students will develop their understanding of Freytag’s narrative structure by exploring ‘Aschenputtel’ by The Brothers Grimm. Developing on from last week’s study of famous subversions of fairy tales, students will now move onto the structure of these texts and how this will be utilised in their end of term assessment.
Lesson Eight: Fairy Tale Settings
Using Shrek as a stimulus and pastiche of the genre, students will explore typical settings in fairy tales. To assess progress, students will complete a short baseline writing task of a setting description, which can be used in their end of term writing during the exposition.
Lesson Nine: Archetypal Characters
Building on from settings, students will explore archetypal characters in fairy tales and how writers and pop-culture challenge these stereotypes. Students will debate why it is important that we have visible challenges to stereotypes in wider society. Following on from this, students will once again develop their writing by crafting a brief paragraph on a character.
Weekly Overview: This week, students will begin to craft settings and character descriptions which can be incorporated into their own assessment response at the end of term. Furthermore, we continue to explore how and why writers subvert character, setting, and plot.