This resource is a 90 slide PPT full scheme of work on Tom Becker’s novel ‘Darkside’, updated Jan 2022. It is suitable for middle to high ability learners in years 8-10. The novel contains some excellent descriptive language which forms great preparation for studying GCSE literary texts.
The PPT is approx 15-18 lessons, not including the reading of the novel! and all resources are included. It approaches the novel as an analytical reader but also provides opportunities to produce writing, both fiction and non-fiction, in cross-over tasks. The novel provides excellent opportunities for under-pinning context and cultural capital for Victorian novel study at GCSE.
The PPT covers the following:
-inference and predictions from cover
-diary entry writing
-language techniques/ descriptive writing strategies
-discussion of language effect plus exemplar
-presentation of key characters
-comparing characters
-creating suspense
-guided annotation
-peer assessment opportunities
-gothic conventions
- links to Frankenstein
- built in optional HW tasks
- character analysis
- PEEZL method of analysing language
- finding and locating evidence
- descriptive writing
- settings
- tension tracking
- spoken language opportunity - news reports
- Victorian Britain
- Emotive language
- tracing plot developments
- Pathetic fallacy
- text transformations - travel writing cross-over task
- endings
Updated January 2022
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