Year 9 Scheme: And Then There Were None - Novel Study

An 8-week scheme to teach ‘And Then There Were None’ (book) to a Year 9 English class.

In this scheme I’ve included:

• a very basic SoL/SoW breakdown;
• the lesson slides (some are very simple reading questions, as many of the chapters take a fair bit of time to read through, while others have more complex activities, e.g. paragraph analysis practice);
• relevant worksheet tasks or activity sheets (embedded in the relevant lesson slides);
• extension questions for each chapter to stretch higher-ability students;
• and assessment tasks: an analysis/essay task, and an argumentative writing/speech task.
  *For the best effect in teaching this text, I’ve set out the scheme so that the reveal after the Epilogue isn’t read until AFTER the speech task; I designed the speech task to be like a detective’s presentation of evidence based on who each student thinks is the killer. Tell them not to do further research online (all the evidence they need should be in the text), as they WILL encounter spoilers. This makes the reading of the reveal that much sweeter, as the ones who got it right feel validated.

You can use these tasks if you like, or adjust to suit your department’s requirements.