AQA GCSE English Literature - Paper 1 (8702) - Introductory PowerPoint - Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde

Total number of slides: 74; teaching time: 2 hours approx.

Introductory PowerPoint on Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (AQA 8702, Paper 1)

Teacher’s notes for every slide make it easy to take a class through the Presentation.

Bring Stevenson’s classic to life with a ready-to-teach introduction presentation designed to hook students from the very first lesson and build confident GCSE analysis.

This resource walks learners through the essentials they need for success on AQA GCSE English Literature Paper 1 (19th-century novel), combining clear explanations with purposeful discussion and retrieval activities.

Teachers get a structured sequence covering: what the novel is and why it matters, Stevenson’s background and the text’s Victorian context, a concise plot overview with key turning points, and accessible profiles of the main characters (Jekyll, Hyde, Utterson, Lanyon, Enfield).

The presentation then develops the big ideas students need for higher grades - duality, respectability, repression, secrecy and revelation - alongside the importance of setting and atmosphere in Victorian London, and key literary methods such as symbolism (fog, doors, the house/lab) and foreshadowing.

Built-in activities make it classroom-friendly and low-prep: starter questions, image-based inference tasks, structured prompts, a character-and-theme table activity, a quiz with answers, and clear revision tips that support exam-focused writing (including a practical one-sentence planning strategy).

It’s ideal as a launchpad at the start of the unit, a recap tool before assessment, or a revision session that keeps students focused on what examiners reward.

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