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KS3 English Year 7: Gothic Fiction: Reading and Writing Description – Learn Guide

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1. What makes a story Gothic? Conventions and context 3 Topics Sample Lesson

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1.1 The Gothic genre

1.2 Why readers loved the Gothic

1.3 Practice: What makes a story Gothic? Conventions and context

2. Jane Eyre in the red-room: entrapment and fear 3 Topics

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2.1 Locked in the red-room

2.2 How Brontë creates entrapment

2.3 Practice: Jane Eyre in the red-room: entrapment and fear

3. Frankenstein’s creation: Shelley’s use of pathetic fallacy 3 Topics

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3.1 The creation scene

3.2 Pathetic fallacy

3.3 Practice: Frankenstein’s creation: Shelley’s use of pathetic fallacy

4. Dracula’s castle: tension through a first-person journal 3 Topics

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4.1 Jonathan Harker’s journal

4.2 Building tension entry by entry

4.3 Practice: Dracula’s castle: tension through a first-person journal

5. The Signal-Man: Dickens and the uncanny 3 Topics

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5.1 Down into the cutting

5.2 Suggestion and dialogue

5.3 Practice: The Signal-Man: Dickens and the uncanny

6. Crafting Gothic sentences: variety, semicolons and fronted adverbials 3 Topics

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6.1 Sentence variety and pace

6.2 Semicolons and fronted adverbials

6.3 Practice: Crafting Gothic sentences: variety, semicolons and fronted adverbials

7. Drafting a Gothic description: structural zoom and the senses 3 Topics

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7.1 Structure: the zoom

7.2 The senses and precise words

7.3 Practice: Drafting a Gothic description: structural zoom and the senses

8. Bringing it together 2 Topics

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8.1 Mixed retrieval

8.2 Unit challenge

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