Jekyll and Hyde

Jekyll and Hyde Scheme of Work

This well-presented PowerPoint contains twenty-four engaging one-hour lessons (326 slides) to fully prepare students for their GCSE exam. The lessons focus on AQA GCSE English Literature Paper 1, Section B (The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde).

Please watch the attached YouTube video for a run through of a full lesson, as well as a demonstration of other features of the scheme.

There are a wide range of tasks (listed below) that focus on building the skills needed for AO1, AO2, and AO3 - including practice questions, original model responses, extension tasks and text extracts. The PowerPoint includes a range of questions that are modelled on the exam (including a baseline and an end of unit assessment). Every chapter, key theme, and key character is covered. Additionally, there are also weekly exam-based homework tasks, and three extra exam-based questions that could be used as cover work, or as extra revision.

To keep students engaged throughout, I have included a wide variety of methods to explore the text, its characters, and its themes, including: drama tasks, debates, creative writing, non-fiction writing, group planning, and even a lesson where they study graphology.

To scaffold for my students, we read through the novel and highlighted every word that they were unfamiliar with. I have included a copy of the entire text in Microsoft Word format with easier synonyms next to each of these unfamiliar words to make ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ easier for the students to engage with.

Areas Covered:
Lesson 1: Introduction and Big Picture
Lesson 2: Baseline Assessment
Lesson 3: Context Presentations – Students to teach each other through independent research
Lesson 4: Chapter One – Exploring quotations
Lesson 5: Chapter Two – Settings that reflect characters
Lesson 6: Chapter Three – Writing Utterson’s diary
Lesson 7: Chapter Four – Learning how to plan effectively
Lesson 8: Mr. Hyde – Response writing
Lesson 9: Chapter Five - Graphology
Lesson 10: Mr. Utterson – Exploring Utterson’s friendships
Lesson 11: Chapter Six – A focus on Dr. Lanyon
Lesson 12: Chapters Seven and Eight – Reading and discussion
Lesson 13: The Gothic – Creative writing
Lesson 14: Practice Exam Question
Lesson 15: Chapter Nine – Performing the transformation
Lesson 16: Chapter Ten – Part One – Non-fiction writing
Lesson 17: Dr. Jekyll - Duality
Lesson 18: Chapter Ten – Part Two - Repression
Lesson 19: Characters – Collective planning tasks
Lesson 20: Themes – Debating the key themes
Lesson 21: Structural Features – A focus on the structure of the novel
Lesson 22: Revision and Summary – Determining the moral
Lesson 23: End of Unit Assessment
Lesson 24: Drama – Exploring characters in more detail

Extra: Three extra exam questions for use if cover work is needed.

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