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KS3 · Year 9 - Mastery · Term 1 - Autumn · Week 7
Pages: "Incident of the Letter" + "Remarkable Incident of Dr Lanyon" (pp. 26-34)
Lesson 1
What students do
Teach *characterisation* as authorial choice; analyse Lanyon as foil.
Task
Foil-chart: Lanyon vs Jekyll - beliefs, language, function.
Success criteria
Frames characters as Stevenson's tools, not autonomous figures.
Lesson 2
What students do
Discussion: Lanyon's death as commentary on what?
Task
Four-corners debate: science / faith / repression / hubris.
Success criteria
Takes and defends a conceptual position; revises on evidence.
Lesson 3
What students do
Teach tentative critical voice: "perhaps, arguably, this might suggest…"
Task
Rewrite assertive sentences as critically tentative.
Success criteria
Demonstrates tentative critical register.
Lesson 4
What students do
Apply tentative critical voice to Lanyon analysis.
Task
Paragraph: how Stevenson uses Lanyon to critique scientific hubris.
Success criteria
Two methods, tentative voice, conceptual framing.
Lesson 5
What students do
30-minute timed paragraph.
Task
How does Stevenson use Lanyon to explore Victorian anxieties?
Success criteria
Character framed as authorial device throughout; 300+ words.
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