Year 9: Crime & Punishment unit

Introducing my 12 week Crime & Punishment unit!

Introduce your students to the two GCSE language papers through this fun unit, focusing on the crime and detective genre. This program of study explores the history of the detective genre, conventions, characterisation, archetypes, language, genre, textual form, and structure. Students will build their critical and creative writing skills through a close study of several key 19th century and modern crime texts, such as “The Speckled Band” and “Perfume: Story of a Murderer.” They will experiment with crafting crime stories of their own.

The unit is split between fiction and non-fiction, so as to cover the skills required for the GCSE Language Papers 1 and 2, questions 1, 2, 3 and 5.

Included:

• All power-points and lesson resources
• Worksheets and homework
• A social justice project focusing on the inquiry question: when is the law unjust? You can choose to therefore draw connections between the Crime & Punishment unit and real-world application. We personally took part in the Amnesty International “Write for Rights” Campaign, where we investigated unjust political processes around the world and unfair detainment of political prisoners.
• Practise GCSE Language Paper 1 exam
• Group projects (2-4 lessons alone)
• Model texts (non-fiction and fiction)

I’m very proud of this unit- I hope you enjoy!