After half term, week commencing 30th October, the English department will be launching Gothic Literature week which links to our GCSE English scheme of work and Hallowe’en. Our focus is to encourage more students to read, to help we have produced a short worksheet (attached) to engage students in the novel ‘Dracula’.
The English team need your help to launch the week and help to bring reading alive to a lot of our students (795 studying GCSE English). As a result, I would like to encourage you to use the short worksheet in your tutorials, week commencing 30th October? The worksheet can be used in a variety of ways, including you reading or a confident student reading to the group, this will help the less confident students get a feel for the story and hopefully bring words alive. Alternatively, you could ask the students to read the text in small groups or on their own and work together to answer the questions, this could be timed which would link with our drive to build time management, which is an essential exam skill.…show more content… Within the worksheet, we have included a glossary, it would be really useful if you asked your students to discuss what they think the unusual words mean, engage then in a group discussion about it and then talk about the correct meaning of the word with an extension task of considering where else could you use the word. Again, this would help with exam
