A resource that would be useful to set as work during a cover lesson. Most suitable for KS3 but could still be used by a KS4 class.
Some of the tasks assume the student has access to the internet using a tablet device but, with the exception of the final 'extension' task which is a research task, all other tasks could be completed without access to the internet.
The resource is a 6 page Microsoft Word document.
Pages 1 and 2 feature an extract from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
The next 4 pages feature a series of tasks:
Task 1 - simply to read through the extract.
Task 2 - vocabulary search - find words in the extract that match the given definitions.
Task 3 - finding specific kinds of words, e.g. an adverb beginning with 'n' in paragraph 2.
Task 4 - looking at the more challenging vocabulary used in a particular paragraph and providing definition of that vocabulary. (NOTE: the instruction for this task assumes students have access to the internet, or a dictionary, in order to look up the selected words, but the instruction could be adapted to ask students to make educated guesses.)
Task 5 - identification of alliteration, a description of the sound of the alliteration and a comment on the affect of that alliteration.
Task 6 - a closer look at how one paragraph presents the narrator and making alternative interpretations regarding the emotions of the narrator.
Task 7 - simply re-reading the end of the extract.
Task 8 - a short creative writing task that swaps the narrator's voice for the creature's.
Task 9 - a research task (that assumes students have access to the internet) asking students to research who Dante was an what Dante's Inferno was about (it is referred to in the extract).
I have used this resource with my year 8 students when setting cover work - they access the worksheet on their iPads and complete the tasks in their exercise books. It challenges them in different ways and, because of the large number of short answer questions and the variation between questions, keeps them engaged.
A document providing answers for tasks 2 to 6 is also included.
I am a qualified English teacher working in the UK state school system.
Some of the tasks assume the student has access to the internet using a tablet device but, with the exception of the final 'extension' task which is a research task, all other tasks could be completed without access to the internet.
The resource is a 6 page Microsoft Word document.
Pages 1 and 2 feature an extract from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
The next 4 pages feature a series of tasks:
Task 1 - simply to read through the extract.
Task 2 - vocabulary search - find words in the extract that match the given definitions.
Task 3 - finding specific kinds of words, e.g. an adverb beginning with 'n' in paragraph 2.
Task 4 - looking at the more challenging vocabulary used in a particular paragraph and providing definition of that vocabulary. (NOTE: the instruction for this task assumes students have access to the internet, or a dictionary, in order to look up the selected words, but the instruction could be adapted to ask students to make educated guesses.)
Task 5 - identification of alliteration, a description of the sound of the alliteration and a comment on the affect of that alliteration.
Task 6 - a closer look at how one paragraph presents the narrator and making alternative interpretations regarding the emotions of the narrator.
Task 7 - simply re-reading the end of the extract.
Task 8 - a short creative writing task that swaps the narrator's voice for the creature's.
Task 9 - a research task (that assumes students have access to the internet) asking students to research who Dante was an what Dante's Inferno was about (it is referred to in the extract).
I have used this resource with my year 8 students when setting cover work - they access the worksheet on their iPads and complete the tasks in their exercise books. It challenges them in different ways and, because of the large number of short answer questions and the variation between questions, keeps them engaged.
A document providing answers for tasks 2 to 6 is also included.
I am a qualified English teacher working in the UK state school system.
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