Oscar Wilde: 'Earnest' and 'Dorian Gray' - 20 lessons

These 20 lessons cover the entirety of Oscar Wilde’s play The Importance of Being Earnest and the first 10 chapters of his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. They are designed for use with an A Level class who are comparing these texts as part of their coursework for Edexcel’s English Literature course. The lessons would however be suitable to adapt for a different exam board covering these texts, though please bear in mind that only the first 10 chapters (half) of Dorian Gray is covered here.

The lessons are structured to alternate between the play and the novel, teaching them concurrently rather than one at a time. The final 3 lessons contain some activities for general comparison between the texts.