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KS3 · Year 7 - Foundations · Term 2 - Voices Across Time · Week 10
Pages: The Red Room - H. G. Wells
Wells (1896) wrote a ghost story where the real horror is fear itself. A confident young man dares to spend the night in a haunted room.
Lesson 1
What students do
Read the opening; identify the narrator's confident tone ("I can assure you").
Task
List three quotations showing the narrator's confidence.
Success criteria
Quotes three confident statements.
Lesson 2
What students do
Compare the old custodians to the young narrator: who is more believable?
Task
Pair-talk: how does Wells make us trust the narrator at first?
Success criteria
Gives one reason we trust the narrator.
Lesson 3
What students do
Model how sentence length shortens as fear grows ("My candle flared… It was gone").
Task
Rewrite a short passage making sentences gradually shorter.
Success criteria
Sentences clearly shorten across the passage.
Lesson 4
What students do
Model a paragraph on how Wells personifies the shadows.
Task
Write a PEE paragraph on Wells's presentation of fear.
Success criteria
Paragraph identifies a language feature and explains.
Lesson 5
What students do
Plan a paragraph on the narrator's change from confident to fearful.
Task
How does Wells present fear in The Red Room?
Success criteria
Two paragraphs track the change in the narrator.
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