<p>The opening lesson of a unit of extracts from The Hobbit. Students are introduced to genre and convention through film posters then they apply this to the fantasy genre.</p>

<p>A journey through the life of JRR Tolkien to prepare students for contextual reference in literature study</p>

<p>This bundle of 14 lessons uses rich and interesting resources and key extracts from The Hobbit to explore, identify, evaluate, practise and apply a wide range of fiction analysis and writing skills as well as giving students an early grounding in genre and context.</p>

<p>This lesson focuses techniques for effective openings and introduces the concepts of:</p> <ul> <li>Setting exposition</li> <li>Character introduction</li> <li>Plot clues or revelations</li> <li>Effective hooks</li> </ul> <p>Carefully resourced and scaffolded tasks guide students to an understanding of how writers create effective openings</p>

<p>This lesson introduces deus ex machina and encourages students to critically evaluate the climatic moment in the novel.</p>

<p>This lesson uses Bilbo’s meeting with Gollum to explore summary skills and to reflect on how to effectively structure extended fiction writing.</p>

<p>This lesson uses Bilbo’s encounter with trolls to explore the features of language and structure that Tolkien often used in his writing to gain an overview of his style.</p>

<p>This lesson asks students to compare two extracts - one from the opening and one from an encounter with giant spiders - which both describe Bilbo’s character in action. Students are asked to identify examples from each to map his change and growth as a character through the story.</p>

<p>This lesson takes a deep dive into how authors create compelling characters using Gandalf and Bilbo as examples.</p>

<p>This lesson focuses on sentence types and how they are used for effect in The Hobbit</p>

<p>Using an extract from The Hobbit, students apply skimming, scanning and inference techniques to answer a range of questions.</p>