GCSE English Language Paper 1 Whispers in the Graveyard Gothic Text KS4 / KS3

This extract gives weaker students a simplified and broken down way of accessing a fiction text.

The extract is from the Carnegie Prize winning Children’s novel ‘Whispers in the Graveyard’. The first part poses comprehension and language activities to ensure the text is carefully read. Students will be able to bring lots of contextual knowledge to discussions about this text. 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, or any other exam board.

This extract considers supernatural themes, and is a suitable resource for a scheme with introduces the Gothic theme to students.

This lesson is suitable for KS4 students, but it can easily be adapted to suit KS3 students as an introduction to GCSE English Language Paper 1

The lesson comes with a writing activity which allows students to imaginatively develop the ideas from the extract.