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KS3 · Year 9 - Mastery · Term 1 - Autumn · Week 10
Pages: "Henry Jekyll's Full Statement" (pp. 56-70)
Lesson 1
What students do
Identify Jekyll's evasions, justifications, contradictions.
Task
Highlight Jekyll's deflective language; label rhetorical moves.
Success criteria
Identifies *unreliable narrator*; explains self-deception.
Lesson 2
What students do
Whole-class debate with structured turn-taking.
Task
Take and defend a conceptual position with textual evidence.
Success criteria
Develops AND challenges ideas; sustains analytical register.
Lesson 3
What students do
Replace weak verbs with precise critical verbs: *exposes, undermines, complicates*.
Task
Verb-replacement drill on a paragraph; quality not quantity.
Success criteria
Deliberate, varied verbs of interpretation throughout writing.
Lesson 4
What students do
Plan a 3-paragraph response on Jekyll's culpability.
Task
Plan + open paragraph: "Jekyll is a self-deceiver, not a victim".
Success criteria
Plan governs argument; opening paragraph holds a clear line.
Lesson 5
What students do
40-minute full 3-paragraph response.
Task
How far does Stevenson present Jekyll as responsible for his own downfall?
Success criteria
Sustained line of argument; 3 paragraphs; conceptual throughout.
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