Cruella De Vil Characterisation Through Language

This resource uses an extract from The Great Dog Robbery and explores how the character of Cruella De Vil is developed through a writer’s language choices. The lesson explores ideas about how a writer develops a villainous character and how a writer’s choice of language helps to form certain ideas for a reader. The lesson includes example language analysis to go through as a model with the class; challenge questions and tasks; support thoughts and sentence starters for scaffolding and key word definitions. This lesson was aimed at a top set Year 7, who were studying heroes and villains within Literature. This lesson was designed for a double lesson.