Jekyll & Hyde: duality and evil
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Why this why now
This unit uses and builds on pupils' earlier introduction to the Gothic in 'The Twisted Tree', 'A monster within' and 'Gothic poetry'. In particular, pupils build on what they learnt about gothic characters, settings and themes in the 'Frankenstein' and 'Jane Eyre' extracts in 'A monster within'. They are now applying and extending that learning in a full novella. This unit prepares pupils for the first 'Jekyll and Hyde' deep dive unit, 'The divided city', where they look at the novella's setting in depth and extend thier thinking about the importance of windows and mirrors in the novella.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils can make clear inferences about texts.
- Pupils can comment on the language choices of an author.
- Pupils can comment on character development as part of structural analysis.
- Pupils understand that the social and historical context of texts impacts our interpretation of them.
- Pupils can write clear topic sentences.
- Pupils can select evidence from a text to support their analysis.
- Pupils can structure their arguments using Single Paragraph Outlines.
- Pupils have an understanding that power corrupts.
- Pupils can use noun appositives to give greater detail about characters.
- Pupils can use conjunctions to explain their inferences.
Threads
Why this why now
This unit uses and builds on pupils' earlier introduction to the Gothic in 'The Twisted Tree', 'A monster within' and 'Gothic poetry'. In particular, pupils build on what they learnt about gothic characters, settings and themes in the 'Frankenstein' and 'Jane Eyre' extracts in 'A monster within'. They are now applying and extending that learning in a full novella. This unit prepares pupils for the first 'Jekyll and Hyde' deep dive unit, 'The divided city', where they look at the novella's setting in depth and extend thier thinking about the importance of windows and mirrors in the novella.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils can make clear inferences about texts.
- Pupils can comment on the language choices of an author.
- Pupils can comment on character development as part of structural analysis.
- Pupils understand that the social and historical context of texts impacts our interpretation of them.
- Pupils can write clear topic sentences.
- Pupils can select evidence from a text to support their analysis.
- Pupils can structure their arguments using Single Paragraph Outlines.
- Pupils have an understanding that power corrupts.
- Pupils can use noun appositives to give greater detail about characters.
- Pupils can use conjunctions to explain their inferences.
Literature
Jekyll & Hyde: duality and evil
In this unit, pupils complete their first reading and exploration of 'Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'. They read the novella in full, before thinking about the importance of the Gothic, science and religion. They then explore key characters and essay writing before writing about duality in the novella.
26 lessons in unit
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