Hi there, welcome to today's lesson.

My name is Mr Barnsley and I'm so glad you've joined me today.

So, we are gonna be diving into chapter six today and the title of this chapter is The Remarkable Incident of Dr Lanyon.

It's a very interesting chapter and I'm really looking forward to exploring it with you all today.

So, let's dive in.

So, let's have a look at the outcome of today's lesson.

So, by the end of this lesson we will have read the whole of chapter six, you'll have also explored the theme of curiosity.

Now, you can see that word curiosity's in bold, so that must mean it's one of our keywords.

So let's have a look at our other keywords in today's lesson.

So there are four that we going to be looking today, they are recluse, reputation, curiosity, and concealment.

So, as ever, the definitions of each of these four words are about to appear on the screen.

Take some time, pause the video if you need to and jot them down if you wish.

But it's really important that you understand what these four words mean so that when we come across them in today's lesson, you will recognise them, but also be able to use them in your own discussion.

Let's have a look at those definitions now.

Right let's have a very quick look at the outline of today's lesson.

We are gonna be reading chapter six, The Remarkable Incident of Dr Lanyon, and then in the second part of today's lesson we will be discussing what we have read.

So let's get started with the reading, shall we? So, before we read, we're gonna be looking at this keyword, curiosity, the desire to learn or know more.

Now, before we start reading chapter six, I want us to put our detective hats on.

I want us to imagine that we are the detective in charge of the Carew murder case.

We're a very lucky detective, because we've spent the last five chapters following Mr Utterson around, so we know everything that he knows.

I want you to think about, to discuss, what or which events from the chapters one to five have raised your curiosity, would make you determined to learn more, might help you understand why Carew has been murdered? So, it's time for you to pause the video, if you've got a partner, someone to discuss with, that's great, you can have a discussion about this question.

If not, you're working by yourself, that's absolutely fine.

Just pause the video, think to yourself or make a few notes.

Okay, time to pause the video and press play when you are ready to continue.

Okay, welcome back.

I heard some fantastic discussions there.

Really impressed with the listening as well as the speaking.

So we had some great ideas, but it was really nice to see you listening to your partners as well.

So let's collect some of the fantastic ideas that people were saying.

Well I heard lots of you talking about the mystery of the door in chapter one, and lots of us are very curious to find out, well what's happening behind that door? Lots and lots of you were saying, how does Jekyll know Hyde? We've got Utterson's assumptions, and Enfield, they kind of assume that he might be being blackmailed, but we don't know for sure and that's something that we're really curious to find out more about.

Well done, I heard a few of you say this, I think this was really interesting.

We know that Hyde met Carew late at night because that's when he murdered him, but maybe Hyde was blackmailing Carew too, maybe it's not just Jekyll who has this strange relationship with Mr Hyde.

Well done if you posed that question.

And also, we knew that Carew was carrying a letter that was addressed to Mr Utterson, but as far as we are aware, that letter has not been discussed further and it's not been opened.

So we're very curious to find out what was inside that letter.

You may have said some other things, of course there are many things that you might be curious about in this text, we know it is entitled The Strange Case, so it very much is a case that we are curious about, so well done if you discussed other things as well.

Okay, we're gonna do some reading, but before we do some reading independently or as a class, we are, as always, gonna do some closer reading where we're gonna look at that text in detail.

Before we do that, we are gonna read through the text first just to check we understand it.

Time ran on, thousands of pounds were offered in reward, for the death of Sir Danvers was resented as a public inquiry, but Mr Hyde had disappeared out of the ken of the police as though he had never existed.

Much of his past was unearthed, indeed, and all disreputable.

Tales came out of the man's cruelty, at once so callous and violent, of his vile life, of his strange associates, of the hatred that seemed to have surrounded his career, but of his present whereabouts, not a whisper.

From the time he had left the house in Soho on the morning of the murder, he was simply blotted out and gradually, as time grew on, Mr Utterson began to recover from the hotness of his alarm and to grow more at quiet with himself.

The death of Sir Danvers was, to his way of thinking, more than paid for by the disappearance of Mr Hyde.

Okay, some fantastic listening going on there as we read.

Now, I want to do a quick check for understanding.

I want you to tell me which of the following best summarises that extract from the start of chapter six.

So let's read through them together.

A, after the murder of Sir Danvers Carew, Hyde disappeared.

More was found out about his crimes, but he could not be found anywhere.

B, many tales about Hyde's disreputable past were discovered after the murder of Carew, but Hyde himself could not be found.

Utterson began to feel relieved the longer Hyde was absent.

Okay, so both A and B are a summary of chapter six, I want you to tell me or work out which one you think is the best, the most accurate, the most detailed summary.

Pause the video and press play when you are ready to continue.

Okay, well done, I heard some really interesting discussions there and I thought I heard most of you going for B.

Well done, yes, A is a very valid summary of what happens in the beginning of chapter six, but B adds those extra little bits of details.

We know that we find out Mr Hyde's past is very disreputable, there's some terrible things that have gone on there, but we also know that Utterson begins to feel relieved, so there's a shift in Utterson's emotions as we get to the end of that first paragraph.

Okay, as always though, we are gonna ask ourselves some challenging questions to make sure we've really understood this extract.

So, as you can see on the screen now, I've highlighted some phrases.

I want you to think about how these highlighted phrases create a sense of mystery in the novella, and then I'd like you to zoom in on this final phrase that I've highlighted there.

Why do you think that phrase, blotted out, could be quite unnerving to a reader? Okay, pause the video, if you've got someone to discuss with you can work through this in a pair, if you're working by yourself, you may wish to make a few notes.

Pause the video and press play when you are ready to continue.

Well done, some fantastic discussions there.

Well done in particular to those of you who are using conjunctions to justify your ideas.

So, I just want to shine a spotlight on some of the nice things that I heard.

Well, first of all, all these phrases suggest that Hyde has disappeared without a trace, he's left no sign behind him.

Yes, people have found out things about his past, but we don't know where he's gone or where he's disappeared to and this creates a real sense of mystery, it's another thing for us to solve, the reader, the detectives, with our detective hats on, it's another thing for us to try and solve.

But out of those four phrases, the one that really stood out to me as being quite unnerving is that phrase, blotted out.

Now, blotted out can mean like if you spilled something, some water or some liquid on a bit of paper, maybe some ink, you might try and blot it out, you might try and remove it.

For me, and well done if you said this, it suggests a real deliberate act.

It's almost as if someone else has deliberately hidden him.

So, that's an interesting this for us to think about, yes, Hyde's disappeared, but has he had any help with his disappearance? Another thing for us to think about now.

I want you to re-look at this extract and I want you to think about which words from this extract could be used to illustrate just how evil Mr Hyde is.

So maybe look for some of those adjectives that Stevenson has used that really help us build this image of Hyde as an evil man.

Pause the video, give this a go, and press play when you are ready to continue.

Great work there, and I could see those of you who were using your own copies of the book, you might have been underlining some of these words when you found them, well done if you did that.

So some of the things that you might have picked out is disreputable, cruelty, callous, violent, his vile life, his strange associates, so not just Hyde himself, but the people he associated with, and the hatred that seemed to have surrounded his career.

So some adjectives, some nouns in there, so well done if you highlighted or underlined any of them.

So right at the end of this paragraph, we know that Stevenson writes that the death of Sir Danvers was, to his way of thinking, to Utterson's way of thinking, more than paid for by the disappearance of Mr Hyde.

Why is this a strange thing for Utterson to think? Again, pause the video, if you've got someone to discuss with, you might want to work this through in a pair, don't worry if you're working by yourself, you can think independently or make a couple of notes.

Press play when you are ready to continue.

Yes, well done, some really interesting discussions there and some of you even questioning Utterson here and his sense of morality.

So well done if you said there's almost a sense of relief from Utterson.

It's almost as if Carew's death is worth it if it means that Hyde disappears.

And well done if you took that a step further and said that actually Hyde's disappearance works out very well for one person in particular, and that's Dr Jekyll because we know that Utterson is really worried about Dr Jekyll's reputation being ruined because of his relationship with Mr Hyde.

But this is strange here because Utterson, as a moral man, is he glad Sir Danvers was murdered? That's a question we could ask ourselves.

In fact, that's a question we're gonna ask ourselves right now.

So, let's do a quick check for understanding.

True or false? Utterson is glad that Carew was murdered, as it led to the disappearance of Mr Hyde.

So the keyword in that question is glad, is Utterson glad? Do you think this is true or false? It's a tricky one, give it a go, have a think.

Pause the video while you're thinking and press play when you are ready to continue.

Ah I could feel we're a bit 50/50 on this one, it was a challenging one.

I could see some arguments going back and forth.

Well done if you said false.

Okay, let's think about what's the best way to justify this then.

So, two answers, we're gonna pick the best way of justifying that this is false.

So Utterson believes it is only a matter of time before Hyde reappears, so he cannot be pleased, he cannot be glad.

Or B, Utterson sees Hyde's disappearance as a positive outcome of the crime, but he is not pleased that the crime has been committed.

Which of those do you think is the most justifiable answer, the response which most justifies why this is false? Pause the video, have a guess, and press play when you're ready to continue.

Well done of course if you said B.

Hyde's disappearance is definitely a positive outcome and Utterson definitely has a sense of relief from this.

I think it's probably too far, I think it lacks nuance to say that he is glad.

I don't think Utterson would really be glad that anyone had been murdered.

However, and this is where we bring nuance in, we can say that he shows a sense of relief and he values this positive outcome.

This can allow us as readers to question Utterson's morality, but I think it'd be far too straightforward to just say, oh he's really glad, he's really happy that Carew got murdered.

I think that'd be too simplistic and we should avoid saying things as simplistic as that, we should always look for the nuance when we are making our own interpretations.

Well done if you said false and selected B.

Okay, I'm now gonna hand the baton over to you.

You are gonna read the rest of chapter six.

So you're gonna start from the line, now that the evil influence had been withdrawn, and you're gonna read all the way to the end of the chapter.

Now you may be reading independently, by yourself, or you may be reading collectively as a class.

But either way, whenever we read, we want to continually ask ourselves questions to check our understanding.

Again, you might do this through discussion or you may wish to write your responses down.

But really important that you are asking yourselves questions to check your understanding.

So I'm gonna share five questions with you.

The first is, how did Jekyll's behaviour change between the 8th January and the 12th? The second is, how is Dr Lanyon described when Utterson goes to visit him? The third is, how does Lanyon respond when Utterson mentions Jekyll? The fourth is, in a letter, Jekyll writes, if I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.

What do you think he means by this? And the fifth question, what is interesting about Dr Lanyon's final letter and Utterson's response to it? They are five questions I want you to challenge yourself to see if you can answer to see if you've understood.

Of course, you can ask yourself other questions as well to continue to check your understanding.

But you're gonna pause the video now, read the chapter, and discuss or write down your responses to these questions and press play when you are ready to continue.

Welcome back.

A really shocking end to one of our characters there.

I wonder how you felt while you were reading that chapter, the first time I read this text I felt so shocking that one of our main characters would die so early on in the novella.

So, I wonder if you felt like that too.

Okay, let's have a think about some of those questions that I challenged you to answer.

So, like I said, you might've discussed these or you might've written them down.

Let's think of some of the things that you may have said.

So, how did Jekyll's behaviour change between the 8th January and the 12th? Well, well done if you said anything like this.

So at first, following Hyde's disappearance, Jekyll came out of his seclusion.

He stopped keeping himself and hiding himself away.

He started spending more time with his friends.

However, when Utterson went to visit Jekyll and every time after he visited, the door was shut against the lawyer and Jekyll had once again become a recluse.

So remember, recluse, that keyword, shutting yourself away, locking yourself away from society.

So, quite bizarre behaviour here, he seems to be really happy after Hyde's disappearance, but what changes? Hyde definitely hasn't appeared or as far as Utterson's concerned, we haven't seen Hyde again, yet Jekyll's behaviour changes and he once again locks himself away.

Strange, questions, I'm feeling very curious about that with my detective hat on.

Okay, question two, how is Dr Lanyon described when Utterson goes to visit him? Well, well done if you said anything along these lines, that Lanyon is described as looking terribly ill.

In fact, he's so ill it was as if he had his death-warrant written legibly on his face.

So, almost his face said very clearly that he was going to die and this obviously foreshadows what happens later in this chapter.

So how does Lanyon respond when Utterson mentions Jekyll? Well, his face changes.

He tells Utterson he does not want to hear anything more of Jekyll.

He tells Utterson he regards Dr Jekyll as dead to him.

Okay, so we can see that their relationship has completely broken down.

And again, very curious as to finding out why, what's happened between the two men for their relationship to get to this point that Lanyon views Jekyll as being dead to him? Now, we know Jekyll writes a letter that Utterson reads later in the chapter and in it he writes, if I am the chief of sinners then I am the chief of sufferers also.

A really interesting quote and a super, super useful quote.

I love this quotation and we will definitely be using it again in our analysis, so let's try and remember this one.

Well what do we think Jekyll meant by it? Well, I think it implies that Jekyll knows he has done wrong.

He has committed sins, okay, he said I am a sinner, but it could be argued that he's committed really terrible crimes because he's saying he's the chief, he's the head, he's almost the worst of the sinners.

However, there's this interesting point here, he also implies that he's being punished for his sins.

He's suffering because of the sins that he's created.

Again, lots of intrigue here, very curious, what's caused Jekyll to say this and to share this information with Utterson? Okay, and the final question, well what is interesting about Dr Lanyon's final letter and Utterson's response to it? So, we know that the will was addressed to Utterson alone.

So after Dr Lanyon is dead, with him is his letter, which contains a will and it's addressed to Utterson alone and he says it should be destroyed if it ends up in the hands of anyone else.

So only Utterson should have access to this letter.

This to me is a sign that it reveals some or contains some dark secrets, there's something really interesting inside.

So within it we know that there lies another letter and this one says it should not be opened until the death or the disappearance of Jekyll.

Now this creates great curiosity in Utterson.

Why on earth has Dr Lanyon got this second letter that even he can't read until Jekyll has either died or disappeared? And Utterson is, understandably, tempted, he's tempted to open the letter, but he doesn't.

Instead his professional honour and faith of his dead friend means he locks the unopened letter in the safe.

Very strange behaviour.

Personally, I don't know if I would've been able to resist opening the letter there.

I don't know how you feel about that.

Okay, well done for reading chapter six.

As ever, when we're reading this novella, there's some really tricky content so it's great if you managed to understand everything that you've read so far in today's lesson.

Let's dive in to discussing the chapter in a little bit more detail.

So two of our Oak pupils, Lucas and Jacob, are discussing the key themes of the novella.

Let's see what they've got to say.

So Lucas says curiosity is one of the main themes of the novella, so the desire to want to know more, remember that's one of our keywords.

Stevenson's title encourages readers to be curious about solving the case, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and we follow the ever curious Mr Utterson as he tries to figure out the truth about Mr Hyde.

And we see an example of him being very curious in chapter two, for instance, when he goes on a search to find him.

So that's Lucas's summary that he thinks curiosity is a really key theme of the novella.

Jacob disagrees though.

He says, I think it's questionable whether Utterson does show curiosity.

He requests Enfield's silence in chapter one and he fails to question Jekyll about the handwriting in Hyde's letter in chapter five.

This shows us how concealment, the idea of hiding things away, and how it's used to protect the reputation of Utterson's peers, his friends, is more prominent, a more important theme than curiosity.

So, let's have a think, which pupil do you agree with and why? Lucas, on one hand, saying curiosity is the most prominent theme in the novella, and Jacob who's disagreeing and said, no, no, no, the most prominent theme is concealment.

Which student do you agree with and why? Pause the video, if you've got someone to discuss with, that's fantastic, if you're by yourself, just think to yourself or maybe a couple of notes.

Either way, pause the video and press play when you are ready to continue.

Some fantastic discussions there.

I was really intrigued to hear how many of you didn't agree, some of you agreed with Lucas, some of you agreed with Jacob.

I heard some of you sitting on the fence a little bit and trying to argue that both themes are really, really important to the novella and actually, I think I probably agree, these are both pretty important themes and we will explore them in more detail throughout this unit.

Okay, let's do a check for understanding now.

Thinking about what we've read in the chapter, we're gonna use some quotations, some extracts from the novella, to help Lucas and Jacob prove their inferences.

So what we're gonna do, we're gonna match the pupils' inferences with the quotation from chapter six which can be used to justify their idea.

So let's remind ourselves that Lucas said Utterson is a deeply curious character and Jacob said Utterson prioritises concealment to protect reputation over curiosity.

The two quotes from the text we're gonna look at is Utterson sat down and wrote to Jekyll, and asking the cause of his unhappy break with Lanyon and the packet kept in the its innermost corner of his private safe.

Pause the video, match the inference to the quotation and press play when you are ready to continue.

Yes, great job there, well done everyone.

Congratulations if you said the first quotation helps prove Lucas's interpretation.

Very curious, he writes to Jekyll, he wants to know more, he wants to know what happened between Jekyll and Lanyon.

Whereas the hiding of the letter, the keeping it secure, locking it away in the safe very much shows that Utterson prioritises concealment.

The truth is in that letter perhaps, but he doesn't want to know, he locks it away, he protects the reputation of Lanyon, the reputation of Jekyll and he chooses this over his own curiosity.

Well done if you got those two correct.

Okay, our final activity in today's lesson, really show our understanding of curiosity and how it appears and how it's an important theme in this chapter.

So I've got three sentences, they are all exactly the same, however they use a different conjunction and that conjunction is gonna change the meaning of the sentence and change what we can write after it.

So, the fragment of the sentence that we are going to be, that will stay the same, is that Utterson ignores his curiosity, placing the letter in his safe, and the conjunctions we're gonna use are because, but, and so.

So really think about how those conjunctions change the meaning of that sentence and guide us into writing certain things to follow.

Pause the video, give this a go, press play when you are ready to continue.

Really great work everybody and an extra special well done to everyone who double-checked their three sentences for spelling, punctuation, and grammar before they finished.

Well done, great job.

Okay, let's have a look at some of the things you could've said.

As ever, these are not the only right answers, but it would be really nice to compare your work against mine, and if you want to, you can steal some of my ideas and embed them into your own responses.

So, Utterson ignores his curiosity, placing the letter in the safe because he respects the dying wishes of his good friend Dr Lanyon.

So that conjunction there is asking us to justify why Utterson hides the letter away.

Two, Utterson ignores his curiosity, placing the letter in the safe, but he still worries about the contents of the letter.

Could it damage the reputation of his friend Henry Jekyll? So this conjunction here is challenging us to look at things from a slightly different perspective.

Yes, he's ignoring his curiosity, but it doesn't stop him worrying about the contents of the letter.

And finally, Utterson ignores his curiosity, placing the letter in his safe so if the letter does contain any incriminating evidence against his friend, it cannot end up in the wrong hands.

So here, what this conjunction is asking us to do is showing what the result of, what Utterson's action results in happening.

So he's saying, look, I know there's a risk here if this letter is in the wrong hands, I'm not gonna take that risk, I want to protect my peer's reputation.

Well done if you had anything similar to those and of course, if you had something different that's totally fine as long as it's all logical and it's clearly justified from the text.

Great job everybody.

Okay, that's it, we have reached the end of today's lesson.

There is a summary on the screen of all the key learning, let's quickly remind ourselves of that.

So we know that Lanyon's narrative is concealed within a sealed envelope inside his will, so he's really hiding the truth away, or his version of the truth away.

The sealed envelope in the safe is another clue within the detective plot, yet we as the reader, we're denied access to it, we don't get to see those clues, that's leaving us, as a reader, feeling more and more curious.

Utterson is able to repress his natural curiosity, he pushes his curiosity down, he hides it away and he does this by locking and concealing the envelope in the safe.

And the safely secured letter is a symbol.

We can say this is a symbol of the link between concealment and the protection of reputation.

Fantastic job today, I'm so glad you've joined me.

I hope you can join me for a future lesson in this unit.

Have a great day and see you all soon, goodbye.