![]() Victoria Walker has taught English for over 15 years in schools across the country. Lesson 12 Creating your own Gothic character Resource 14 - Extract from City of Ghosts (2018) by Victoria Schwab.Lesson 11: Understanding Gothic conventions and characters in modern texts Resource 13 - Extract from Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker.Resource 12 - Extract from The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) by R.L.Resource 11 - writing about the structure of ‘The Raven’.Resource 10 - exploring the narrative structure of ‘The Raven’.Lesson 8: Exploring structure in a Gothic text Resource 9 - storyboard for ‘The Raven’ (1845) by Edgar Allan Poe.Lesson 7: Exploring Gothic conventions in poetry Resource 7 - comparing two Gothic texts.Resource 6 - literary and language techniques in Frankenstein.Lesson 4: Analysing literary and language techniques Resource 5 - extract from Frankenstein (1818) by Mary Shelley.Resource 4 - literary and language techniques.Resource 3 - Extract from Northanger Abbey (1803) by Jane Austen.Resource 2 - extract from The Castle of Otranto (1764) by Horace Walpole.Lesson 1: An introduction to Gothic fiction There is also a detailed and comprehensive 15-page scheme of learning to integrate into your KS3 curriculum plans. The teaching pack culminates in a GCSE-style summative assessment task, which will help you to assess students' progress in reading and writing. Several lessons include a focus on writing analytically, using the PETER paragraphing framework. Main activities with embedded formative assessment tasks, learning checks and reading comprehension questionsĮach lesson is accompanied by a PowerPoint presentation, and the teaching pack also includes the lesson tasks and classroom worksheets along with answers for self or peer marking in class. There are 14 lessons and lesson plans for English teachers which include: There are differentiated activities, with stretch and challenge extension suggestions as well as more supportive ‘ladder up’ tasks, such as sentence starters and scaffolded resources. The 94-page pack is student-facing and aimed at year 7-9 students, and includes a range of engaging teaching resources, worksheets and PPTs. ![]() There are also exciting stimulus ideas for creative writing tasks for students to develop their fiction writing skills and comparative tasks looking at two texts. ![]() To develop students’ exam skills for GCSE English Language, the teaching pack also includes a range of comprehension tasks to build students’ unseen fiction and unseen poetry skills and their confidence with new texts and new vocabulary. The key stage 3 lesson activities are designed to provide an overview of Gothic genre conventions, tropes, settings and character archetypes, and anticipate the key themes in Gothic literature to prepare students for GCSE English Literature prose texts. ![]() There is also an extract from the exciting new YA series, City of Ghosts, to celebrate contemporary gothic fiction and encourage more reading for pleasure. You’ll find extracts from some of the most celebrated Gothic novels to share with students in this engaging teaching pack, as well as Gothic poems and ghostly short stories from the 18th and 19th century to the present day, including The Castle of Otranto, Northanger Abbey, Jane Eyre, Frankenstein, Dracula, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Hound of the Baskervilles, ‘The Red Room’ and ‘The Raven’ by Edgar Allan Poe. This Gothic scheme of learning will introduce KS3 students to the key elements of the Gothic genre, while building their reading, writing and comprehension skills. ![]()
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