Modern Horror Lessons: Darren Shan

A set of three lessons using extracts from Darren Shan's 'The Demon Thief'. Allows younger pupils to engage with a modern horror writer which they find accessible. Uses relevant resources for three subsequent lessons and aims to teach pupils to recognise, analyse and use various creative writing skills: sentence structure, personification, effective vocabulary choices. Final lesson contains a creative writing assessment for pupils to display the skills they have learnt throughout the sessions.

Contains:
3 Powerpoints with complete lessons: starter activities, varied discussion, reading and writing tasks and plenaries
3 worksheets with relevant extracts from The Demon Thief