FREE Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) - Ch. 9-2 - Minor Characters - ACTIVITIES + ANSWERS

This FREE teaching and exam practice unit focuses on Volume 1, Chapters 9-12 of the classic novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.

The novel is also on the IGCSE English Literature syllabus for exams 2026 and 2027 as well as the A/AS-Level English Literature syllabus for exams 2024-2026.

The bundle includes:

1. Comprehension: Quick Quiz Activities: Two fun, quick quiz activities to test your students’ reading, and to enable an engaging introduction to the main topics and learning objectives of the unit. I’ve also included a link for an interactive Kahoot!-version of this quick quiz that you can alternatively do with your students!

2. Close Reading: Find the Quote Quiz: This is another fun activity that facilitates an engaging close reading of the most pertinent quotes or statements from the chapters. The quotes have been carefully selected so that you can also use them to segway to the main digging deeper activity.

3. Digging Deeper: Austen’s Minor Characters: This activity introduces / revisits concepts of characterisation, with a particular focus on minor characters and which function they can fulfil or serve in Austen’s storytelling.

4. Exam Practice: Passage-Based Response: This activity enables exam practice for IGCSE & AS/A-Levels in a structured, scaffolded manner that focuses on the exam assessment criteria. It is also directly linked to the concepts of minor character and characterisation taught in the previous activity. Additionally, the question addresses concepts of characterisation as foreshadowing.

5. Teacher’s Guide & Model Answers for all activities. The teacher’s guide includes detailed model answers for all activities as well as the link to the alternative digital Kahoot! activities.

***Happy teaching, studying, revising, and reading!

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