Silas Marner Teaching Pack Complete Novel Unit, Lessons, Activities

Teach Silas Marner by George Eliot with this comprehensive, low-prep teaching pack designed for Years 9–12 English. This complete novel unit helps students analyse themes of isolation, redemption, identity, community, and the transformative power of love.

With structured lessons, engaging activities, and scaffolded analysis, students develop strong literary analysis and essay-writing skills while building deep understanding of character development, symbolism, and narrative structure. This resource is ideal for novel study units, senior English classrooms, literature analysis, and exam preparation.

What’s Included:
Complete teaching sequence with ready-to-use lessons and activities
Social and historical context, including Victorian society and industrialisation
Detailed analysis of themes, characters, and key ideas
Language features, narrative structure, symbolism, and stylistic devices analysis
Exemplar analytical paragraphs and essay scaffolds
5 lesson whole class challenge

Perfect for English teachers looking for a complete Silas Marner unit, novel study activities, literature teaching resources, senior English lessons, and essay-writing support. This pack helps students move from basic comprehension to confident literary analysis and extended written responses.

The files are provided as PDFs for flexibility as teachers use different formats in their classrooms.
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.