'Jekyll and Hyde': refining written responses on duality
I can refine analytical responses by making them more evaluative.
'Jekyll and Hyde': refining written responses on duality
I can refine analytical responses by making them more evaluative.
These resources will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.
Lesson details
Key learning points
- Topic sentences should focus on intention, not methods.
- Judicious quotations from across the text can be used to create compelling arguments.
- Using an adjective to introduce a writer’s method allows for succinct evaluation of the effect.
- Tentative language should be used to evaluate different interpretations of a text.
Keywords
To evaluate - to assess or judge the quality or importance of something
Ominously - in a threatening or sinister manner, suggesting future trouble
Foreboding - a feeling that something bad will happen; premonition
Bleak - desolate, grim, lacking hope or cheerfulness
Irony - a situation where the opposite of what's expected happens
Common misconception
Using tentative language makes you sound unsure in your analysis.
Tentative language allows pupils to be more evaluative, exploring alternative viewpoints.
Equipment
You will need access to a copy of 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' by Robert Louis Stevenson for this lesson.
Content guidance
- Depiction or discussion of serious crime
- Depiction or discussion of violence or suffering
Supervision
Adult supervision required
Licence
This content is © Oak National Academy Limited (2024), licensed on Open Government Licence version 3.0 except where otherwise stated. See Oak's terms & conditions (Collection 2).
Lesson video
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