This was an observation lesson looking at Chapter 2 of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
Key question explored: How does Stevenson’s presentation of Hyde increase the tension within chapter 2?
There are 14 lessons based on the analysis of non-fiction texts. This module was taught as part of an introduction to Language Paper 2 (AQA) for KS3.
Includes:
A range of homework tasks and 19th cent. home reading project.
Learning objectives
Key texts:
City of the absent extract - Dickens
Description of Smithfield Market in Oliver Twist - Dickens
Letter describing the Great Exhibition - Bronte
Description of the Crystal Palace - Bronte
This lesson is designed to help students to plan for a possible exam question on the AQA specification. It allows for peer-assessment and reflective re-drafting as well as engagement with the AQA spec (not included in resource).
A revison guide for Harvest by Jim Crace.
Includes:
Mark scheme
Example response from AQA website
Text overview from AQA website
Chapter summaries
Structure activities
Key extracts with guided annotation opportunities
AQA Social and Political Protest Elements.
I used this to enlarge to A3 to put on the table each lesson so that students could continuously make links.
This was an observation lesson covering:
Setting within the novella
Gothic vocabulary
The metonymy of gloom and horror
Exam question A3 support sheet (great to laminate)
Peer assessment opportunity
A3 revision sheet to link the key themes to events within the novel. Great resource to use to talk through the themes with students prior to their exam.
Find out what happens in Act 5, Scene 1
Understand how Shakespeare uses language to present the change in Lady Macbeth
Group task with lots of chance for praise!
This was an observation lesson.
A lesson to give students a range of information regarding the novel.
This includes:
Key contextual information
Biblical references
Authorial methods
Links to capitalism
Links to the elements
Appropriate quotations
Introduction to article writing.
Learning objectives:
To know and understand the key language features of a newspaper article
To be able to analyse newspaper headlines and opening paragraphs
To achieve excellence, by evaluating the effectiveness of our own newspaper articles based on a success criteria
Two A3 extract analysis sheets to guide students to reflect upon the assessment objectives.
Extracts are based on exam questions and chapter 1 and chapter 4.
Two extract sheets including differentiated information that is removable to support the teaching of Act 3 Scene 2.
The lesson focuses on using the extract sheets to understand this scene.