New
New
Year 10
Edexcel

'Jekyll and Hyde': refining written responses on duality

I can refine analytical responses by making them more evaluative.

New
New
Year 10
Edexcel

'Jekyll and Hyde': refining written responses on duality

I can refine analytical responses by making them more evaluative.

Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. Topic sentences should focus on intention, not methods.
  2. Judicious quotations from across the text can be used to create compelling arguments.
  3. Using an adjective to introduce a writer’s method allows for succinct evaluation of the effect.
  4. Tentative language should be used to evaluate different interpretations of a text.

Common misconception

Using tentative language makes you sound unsure in your analysis.

Tentative language allows pupils to be more evaluative, exploring alternative viewpoints.

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

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.
Teacher tip

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).

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6 Questions

Q1.
Complete the quotation from 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde': "man is not truly one, but truly..."
Correct Answer: two, 2
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?
Correct Answer: metaphor
Q3.
In 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde', why does Hyde murder Carew?
Carew refuses to be blackmailed by Hyde.
There is a dark secret in their past.
Correct answer: The reader does not learn why.
Q4.
In 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde', duality is a key theme. What does it mean?
state of being joined or working together
Correct answer: existence of two contrasting elements or concepts
quality of being unique or individual
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?
raining
Correct answer: hailing
Correct answer: storm
blizzard
thunder
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.”
Correct answer: simile
metaphor
semantic field of the Bible
Correct answer: biblical allusion

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...
one interesting and relevant quotation
a range of relevant quotations, from the same chapter only
Correct answer: a range of relevant quotations, from across the text if possible
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'?
Correct Answer: evaluation, evaluating, evaluate
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?
Correct answer: definitely
perhaps
may
could
arguably
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.
Correct Answer: adjective
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?
terrifying, horrific, something to be scared of
shining, full of light or hope
Correct answer: desolate, dreary, lacking hope or cheerfulness
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."
Correct answer: foreboding
terrifying
melancholy