'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.
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.
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
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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