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KS3 · Year 7 - Foundations · Term 2 - Voices Across Time · Week 11
Pages: The Necklace - Guy de Maupassant
Maupassant (1884): Mathilde borrows a necklace, loses it, and works ten years to replace it - only to learn the original was fake.
Lesson 1
What students do
Read the story in two halves; summarise the plot in six sentences.
Task
Write a six-sentence plot summary.
Success criteria
Summary covers borrowing, loss, debt and twist.
Lesson 2
What students do
Define dramatic irony; discuss the final reveal: "my necklace was paste".
Task
Pair-talk: who is to blame for Mathilde's ten lost years?
Success criteria
Reasoned answer naming Mathilde or society.
Lesson 3
What students do
Model Maupassant's lists of longing ("the silent antechambers… the perfumed little rooms").
Task
Write a list of three describing a character's longing.
Success criteria
List of three is grammatically parallel.
Lesson 4
What students do
Model a paragraph on how the twist makes us rethink Mathilde.
Task
Write a PEE paragraph on Maupassant's use of irony.
Success criteria
Paragraph quotes the reveal and explains the irony.
Lesson 5
What students do
Plan two paragraphs: one on Mathilde's pride, one on the twist.
Task
How does Maupassant present Mathilde?
Success criteria
Two paragraphs use quotations and track her change.
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