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Key Stage 3 · Year 9 - Mastery · Term 1
Year 9 opens with Stevenson's *Jekyll and Hyde* - a GCSE set text in its own right. Students write full literature essays by the end of Term 1: thesis-driven, embedded fluent quotations, methods analysis (language + structure + form), conceptual interpretations, evaluation. The novella's themes (duality, repression, Darwinism, urban Gothic) feed every Y9 reading skill simultaneously.
Set text
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)
Big skill jump
Students arrive writing analytical paragraphs; they exit writing full thesis-driven literature essays with sustained conceptual readings - the core GCSE Literature skill, embedded a year early.
End-of-half-term assessment
Analytical essay 35-40 mins: "Starting with this extract, explore how Stevenson presents the duality of human nature in *Jekyll and Hyde*." Full essay structure: thesis-driven intro, 2-3 conceptual body paragraphs, brief conclusion.
Week 2
Pre-reading context pack + "Story of the Door" pp. 1-3
Gothic conventions and Victorian zeitgeist.
gothiczeitgeistduality
Week 3
"Story of the Door" - Enfield's account of Hyde trampling the girl (pp. 4-8)
atavisticjuggernauttrampled
Week 4
"Search for Mr Hyde" - Utterson's nightmare (pp. 9-17)
premonitionrepressionforeshadowing
Week 5
"The Carew Murder Case" (pp. 21-25)
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Week 6
Cross-referenced extracts from Chapters 1-4
Comparative skills - half-term consolidation.
parallelcontrastmotif
Week 7
"Incident of the Letter" + "Remarkable Incident of Dr Lanyon" (pp. 26-34)
forgeryostracisedhypocrisy
End-of-half-term assessment
Term 1.2 formal essay - full multi-paragraph response.
Week 8
"Incident at the Window" + opening of "The Last Night" (pp. 35-47)
transgressionclimaxtension
Week 9
"Dr Lanyon's Narrative" (pp. 48-55)
epistolarypolyphonictestimony
Week 10
"Henry Jekyll's Full Statement" (pp. 56-70)
confessionhubrisdichotomy
Week 11
Cross-text revisiting; thematic synthesis
Whole-text synthesis.
allegorymicrocosmparadigm
Week 12
Whole novella; assessment-focused revisiting
thesiscohesionjudicious
Week 13
Unseen extract from *Jekyll and Hyde* with whole-text reach
Term 1.2 assessment week.
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