Lamb to the Slaughter

5 lessons exploring crime fiction through Roald Dahl’s Lamb to the Slaughter.

The unit includes:
Crime Fiction - Exploring the key features and conventions of the genre before students create their own crime fiction plot
Unexpected Villainy - Exploring Mary Maloney’s character in the opening of the story
Victim or Villain? - Evaluating Mary’s character and developing an analytical response
Irony and Narrative Voice - Exploring how Dahl uses irony and narrative voice to shape the reader’s response
Crime Fiction Assessment - Preparing students to write their own crime story, with extensive planning and writing support followed by the assessment task

What’s Included?
Contextual information on crime fiction
Retrieval and recap activities
A range of analytical and discussion tasks
Comprehension and inference questions
Close Examination of language
Model responses
Worksheets and supporting activities
Creative writing and plot development tasks
Detailed planning activities for the crime fiction assessment
Assessment slides and a complete assessment task
Reflection and plenary activities
Opportunities to develop analytical and evaluative responses

This unit is also available as part of a 20 lesson crime fiction SOW, found here for only £12.00: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/crime-fiction-sow-13497039