English teacher for upper schools with a passion for literature. My resources eschew flashy, clip-art-infested layouts for clean, focused, and advanced worksheets and activities for students and teachers.
English teacher for upper schools with a passion for literature. My resources eschew flashy, clip-art-infested layouts for clean, focused, and advanced worksheets and activities for students and teachers.
This teaching unit focuses on Volume 2, Chapters 12-19 (or Chapters 35-42 overall) of the classic novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen with a particular focus on Austen’s revolutionary use of irony in the novel (verbal irony, situational irony, dramatic irony).
The novel is also on the IGCSE English Literature syllabus for exams 2026 and 2027 as well as the A/AS-Level English Literature syllabus for exams 2024-2026.
The unit includes:
1. Comprehension: Quick Quiz Activities: Two fun, quick quiz activities to test your students’ reading, and to enable an engaging introduction to the main topics and learning objectives of the unit. I’ve also included a link for an interactive Kahoot!-version of this quick quiz that you can alternatively do with your students!
2. Digging Deeper - The Role of Letters in Pride and Prejudice: This activity goes into considerable depth, exploring the role of letters in Pride and Prejudice, as a way to move forward plot, develop character, or revisit central themes.
3. Exam Practice: Passage-Based Response: This activity enables exam practice for IGCSE & AS/A-Levels in a structured, scaffolded manner that focuses on the exam assessment criteria.
4. Teacher’s Guide & Model Answers for all activities. The teacher’s guide includes detailed model answers for all activities as well as the link to the alternative digital Kahoot! activities.
***Happy teaching, studying, revising, and reading!
Feedback is always welcome!***
This teaching unit focuses on Volume 3, Chapters 11-19 (or Chapters 53-61) overall) of the classic novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen with a particular focus on Austen’s ending to the novel, and another in depth look at her language, style, and characterisation.
The novel is also on the IGCSE English Literature syllabus for exams 2026 and 2027 as well as the A/AS-Level English Literature syllabus for exams 2024-2026.
The unit includes:
1. Comprehension: Quick Quiz Activities: Two fun, quick quiz activities to test your students’ reading, and to enable an engaging introduction to the main topics and learning objectives of the unit. I’ve also included a link for an interactive Kahoot!-version of this quick quiz that you can alternatively do with your students!
2. Digging Deeper: Analysing Language & Style in Pride and Prejudice: This activity goes into considerable depth, exploring Austen’s use of various rhetorical devices, including abstract nouns, the rhetorical balance of three, balanced sentences throughout her novel. The various activities are carefully scaffolded to build upon each other and to simultaneously test students’ understanding of the novel as a whole.
3. Teacher’s Guide & Model Answers for all activities. The teacher’s guide includes detailed model answers for all activities as well as the link to the alternative digital Kahoot! activities.
Happy teaching!
Feedback is always welcome!
This teaching unit focuses on Volume 3, Chapters 1-10 (or Chapters 43-52) overall) of the classic novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen with a particular focus on Pemberley, Lydia and Wickham’s elopement, and the attendant analysis of themes throughout the novel so far.
The novel is also on the IGCSE English Literature syllabus for exams 2026 and 2027 as well as the A/AS-Level English Literature syllabus for exams 2024-2026.
The unit includes:
1. Comprehension: Quick Quiz Activities: Four fun, quick quiz activities to test your students’ reading, and to enable an engaging introduction to the main topics and learning objectives of the unit. I’ve also included a link for an interactive Kahoot!-version of this quick quiz that you can alternatively do with your students!
2. Digging Deeper: Analysing Themes in Pride and Prejudice: This activity goes into considerable depth, exploring the role of themes in Pride and Prejudice. In addition to a preliminary exploration of the most prevalent themes, a follow-up activity looks at Austen’s variations on the theme of pride throughout the novel.
3. Teacher’s Guide & Model Answers for all activities. The teacher’s guide includes detailed model answers for all activities as well as the link to the alternative digital Kahoot! activities.
This is an after-reading, whole book assessment for Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. The assessment includes questions that focus on the following topics / learning objectives central to the novel:
Contexts
Settings
Themes
Characters
Assessment duration: 45 minutes - 60 minutes.
The novel is also on the IGCSE English Literature syllabus for exams 2026 and 2027 as well as the A/AS-Level English Literature syllabus for exams 2024-2026.
Naturally, I’ve included Teacher’s Guide & Answers for all assessment questions.
I haven’t included a preview of this product for obvious reasons…
**Feedback is always welcome!
Happy teaching!**
This teaching unit focuses on Volume 1, Chapters 18-23 of the classic novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen with a particular focus on Austen’s humour as a vehicle for social criticism.
The novel is also on the IGCSE English Literature syllabus for exams 2026 and 2027 as well as the A/AS-Level English Literature syllabus for exams 2024-2026.
The unit includes:
1. Comprehension: Quick Quiz Activities: Two fun, quick quiz activities to test your students’ reading, and to enable an engaging introduction to the main topics and learning objectives of the unit. I’ve also included a link for an interactive Kahoot!-version of this quick quiz that you can alternatively do with your students!
2. Austen’s Wicked Wit: TED-Ed: Satire and Social Criticism: This activity uses the TED-Ed video “The Wicked Wit of Jane Austen” as an engaging and informative way to show how Austen’s humour works and how it is used by the author in various ways that add complexity to her novel. Scaffolded activities that test comprehension and introduce key concepts but also require higher-order critical thinking skills accompany the activity and provide a lens to let students re-focus what they’ve learned to Pride and Prejudice, and Volume 1 in particular
4. Teacher’s Guide & Model Answers for all activities. The teacher’s guide includes detailed model answers for all activities as well as the link to the alternative digital Kahoot! activities.
**Happy teaching, studying, revising, and reading!
Feedback is always welcome!**
This teaching unit focuses on Volume 1, Chapters 3-8 of the classic novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
The novel is also on the IGCSE English Literature syllabus for exams 2026 and 2027 as well as the A/AS-Level English Literature syllabus for exams 2024-2026.
Thes comprehensive unit includes:
1. Comprehension: Quick Quiz: A fun quick, quiz activity to test your students’ reading, and to enable an engaging introduction to the main topics and learning objectives of the unit.
2. Close Reading: Find the Quote Quiz: This is another fun activity that facilitates an engaging close reading of the most pertinent quotes or statements from the chapters. The quotes have been carefully selected so that you can also use them to segway to the main digging deeper activity.
3. Digital Kahoot!-Activities: I’ve created and included a link for an interactive Kahoot!-version of the first two activities that you can alternatively do with your students!
4. Uncovering Context: Jane Austen’s Life and Times: This is a structured, scaffolded and guided passage-based close reading and analysis activity that uses a letter by Jane Austen to her sister Cassandra Austen (August 1805) to bring Regency England and the context of Pride and Prejudice to life. The learning objectives include:
*Students will be able to identify key social customs and expectations of the Regency era, as depicted in Jane Austen’s letter.
Students will be able to recognize the significance of social obligations and expectations in the context of the novel.
Students will be able to understand the role of women in Regency society, based on Austen’s observations.*
5. Teacher’s Guide & Model Answers for all activities. The teacher’s guide includes the learning objectives, detailed model answers as well as the link to the alternative Kahoot! activities.
***Happy teaching, studying, revising, and reading!
Feedback is always welcome!*
This teaching unit focuses on Volume 1, Chapters 13-17 of the classic novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen with a particular focus on Austen’s humour - be it her use of comic relief characters or her introduction of Mr Collins as a caricature and a character of social commentary and satire.
The novel is also on the IGCSE English Literature syllabus for exams 2026 and 2027 as well as the A/AS-Level English Literature syllabus for exams 2024-2026.
The unit includes:
1. Comprehension: Quick Quiz Activities: Two fun, quick quiz activities to test your students’ reading, and to enable an engaging introduction to the main topics and learning objectives of the unit. I’ve also included a link for an interactive Kahoot!-version of this quick quiz that you can alternatively do with your students!
2. Austen’s Humour: Comic Relief in Pride and Prejudice: This activity introduces the concept of comic relief in dramatic stories and provides a guided analysis of Austen’s use of comic relief in the novel. The focus is on characters such as Mr Bennet, Mrs Bennet and Mary Bennet as minor characters that provide plenty of comic relief in the first part of the novel.
3. Austen’s Humour: Mr Collins as Caricature: This activity takes a closer look at Mr Collins, and how Jane Austen introduces him as a caricature of the Regency clergyman as well as a ridiculously humorous vehicle for social criticism.
4. Teacher’s Guide & Model Answers for all activities. The teacher’s guide includes detailed model answers for all activities as well as the link to the alternative digital Kahoot! activities.
**Happy teaching, studying, revising, and reading!
Feedback is always welcome!**