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KS3 · Year 9 - Mastery · Term 1 - Autumn · Week 8
Pages: "Incident at the Window" + opening of "The Last Night" (pp. 35-47)
Lesson 1
What students do
Pacing-graph Stevenson's prose; identify withheld information.
Task
Annotate "The Last Night" opening for structural choices.
Success criteria
Identifies *climax*, *suspense*, *withholding* with effect explained.
Lesson 2
What students do
Discussion: the door as motif throughout the novella.
Task
Build a thematic argument: "Doors and what they hide".
Success criteria
Sustained analytical register; threads evidence across novella.
Lesson 3
What students do
Study and write thesis statements that govern a whole essay.
Task
Draft 3 thesis statements for different essay questions.
Success criteria
Theses are conceptual, arguable, specific.
Lesson 4
What students do
Plan a full essay on tension in "Last Night".
Task
Essay plan: thesis, 3 conceptual topic sentences, evidence map.
Success criteria
Plan demonstrates cohesion; each topic sentence supports thesis.
Lesson 5
What students do
40-minute 2-paragraph response from plan.
Task
How does Stevenson build tension in "The Last Night"?
Success criteria
Two paragraphs governed by a thesis; embedded quotations throughout.
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