Dracula – Novel Study Unit Complete Teaching Pack | Year 9 or 10 | 10-Week

A comprehensive and engaging teaching unit for Dracula by Bram Stoker, designed for senior English classrooms. This resource supports students in developing sophisticated analytical skills through structured lessons, contextual exploration, and critical interpretation of the novel.
Blending explicit instruction with interactive learning, this pack enables students to explore the text’s rich themes, complex characters, and distinctive narrative style while preparing for extended analytical writing and assessment tasks.
What’s Included
A complete 10-week teaching sequence with lesson overviews and objectives
In-depth theme analysis (fear, power, gender, religion, science vs superstition)
Detailed character analysis (Dracula, Jonathan Harker, Mina Murray, Van Helsing and more)
Language features and narrative structure analysis (epistolary form, symbolism, imagery, tone)
Contextual exploration (Victorian society, Gothic conventions, anxieties of the time)
Critical lenses (feminist, psychoanalytic, Marxist, postcolonial interpretations)
Discussion questions and extended response prompts
Analytical writing deck

You can:
Convert to PowerPoint: Upload the PDF to PowerPoint (File → Open) and it will automatically convert to slides.
Use in Google Slides: Upload the PDF to Google Drive, right-click, and open with Google Slides.
Use digitally or print: Upload the PDF to your LMS (Google Classroom, Canvas, etc.) or print it for handouts.
You could also use Canva to upload the PDF and convert and save as a PowerPoint