19th Century Literature Preparing for GCSE Exam

This unit is designed for KS 3 students to get them used to reading 19th century literature. There are three stories ('The Monkey's Paw', 'The Adopted Son' and 'Tony Kytes: Arch-Deceiver') for the students to read (texts of these are included in Word format so they can be printed or projected).
There is a presentation about story openings looking at the first few sentences to see what they suggest about a story. The vocabulary exercise about 'The Monkey's Paw' encourages students to work out the meaning of words from context. The presentation about contractions revises what contractions are and then looks at ones that are used in 'Tony Kytes ...'. 'The Adopted Son' is accompanied by a vocabulary exercise and an activity about structure.
There is also a presentation about rural life in 19th century England because many students don't understand how different it was to modern urban life.
Designed to be used in years eight or nine, the resources are aimed at helping students cope with unfamiliar texts so that they don't get put off by 19th writing in the Language Paper 2 for AQA.