'Jekyll and Hyde': refining written responses on duality
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can refine analytical responses by making them more evaluative.
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.
Teacher tip
If pupils have already written a response to the essay question in a previous lesson, you may wish to get pupils to improve their own work, rather than the work of the Oak pupils.
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
Lesson video
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Complete the quotation from 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde': "man is not truly one, but truly..."
Q2.In 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde', Jekyll describes the idea of man having a dual nature as a "dreadful shipwreck.' What language device does Stevenson use here?
Q3.In 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde', why does Hyde murder Carew?
Q4.In 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde', duality is a key theme. What does it mean?
Q5.In 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde', Stevenson uses the metaphor of the weather in Chapter 4, when Hyde kills Carew. Which words does Stevenson use to describe Hyde's attack?
Q6.In 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde', which methods are used in this quotation: “like the Babylonian finger on the wall, to be spelling out the letters of my judgment.”
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.When writing an essay about 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde', we should support your topic sentence by using...
Q2.When writing an essay about 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde', what skill should we try to use that means 'to assess or judge the quality or importance of something'?
Q3.When writing an essay about 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde', we should try to use tentative language. Which of the following is not an example of tentative language?
Q4.When writing an essay about 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde', we should try to use an when introducing a method used by the writer.
Q5.When writing an essay about 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde', the adjective bleak is useful for describing some of Stevenson's language choices. What does it mean?
Q6.When writing an essay about 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde', which adjective works best in this sentence: "Stevenson uses the __________ verb 'doomed' to illustrate Jekyll's struggle."
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