3 Creative Writing Lessons using Jack the Ripper

These three lessons aim to build students’ creative writing skills, using the idea of Jack the Ripper as a running theme. I made this to use after my class had been studying poetry, so the first lesson builds on existing knowledge of poetic devices and asks them to write a poem. The classes I have used this with have thoroughly enjoyed it and wrote some chilling masterpieces. The three lessons also embed AfL throughout.

Slide 7 is a task based on an article about Jack the Ripper that I can’t reproduce here. I got it from BBC Bitesize, but the task is not specific to this article.