Woman in Black Rocking Chair AQA Edexcel Language Paper 1 Gothic Text

This extract gives weaker students a simplified and broken down way of accessing a fiction text. The first part poses comprehension and language activities to ensure the text is carefully read. The second part gives questions which follow the style of Language Paper 1 for AQA - analysing language, writing about structure and evaluating a section of the extract. This lesson can easily be edited for the Edexcel exam specification. It is also suited to an able KS3 class studying the Gothic genre.

There are writing activities to include vocabulary building, as well as the usual exam style writing activity, with appropriate writing options linked by theme.