Purely Textual · Secondary English
Gothic fiction, evidence-led close reading and substantial literature units for secondary ELA. Start with the classroom problem you need to solve.
Grades 9–12 · AP Literature and secondary ELA
When tomorrow needs a serious lesson, not emergency busywork.
Twelve no-prep close-reading lessons across Dracula, Frankenstein and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Designed for substitute coverage or demanding last-minute lessons.
Explore the bundle →Grades 9–12 · AP Literature, A-Level and GCSE
Move beyond plot and turn Brontë’s narrative structures into evidence-led arguments.
Five analytical lenses, each paired with a poster, lesson and close-reading analysis or assessment resource. A coherent fifteen-resource teaching unit.
Explore the bundle →Grades 8–12 · AP Literature and secondary ELA
Build a Dracula unit around six real critical arguments, not character worksheets.
Eighteen teaching resources organised around six arguments, with corresponding analytical posters, lessons and assessments.
Explore the bundle →Choose by classroom need
Use the 12 Gothic Horror Emergency Sub Plans for independent close reading across Frankenstein, Dracula and Jekyll and Hyde. Line-numbered extracts, worksheets, answer keys and substitute guidance keep the work purposeful.
Use the Wuthering Heights analysis unit to explore narrative reliability, obsession, setting, symbols and thresholds through five connected sets of lessons and assessments.
Use the Dracula literary analysis unit to develop claims about power, gender, violence, blood and Victorian anxieties. Each of six arguments links a poster, a lesson and an assessment.
A student can identify a ghost, a setting or a symbol without explaining what a writer is doing. A stronger question asks them to take a position, choose precise language from the passage, and explain how that evidence complicates an interpretation. The resources here prioritise the move from recognition to an arguable claim, whether for one substitute period or a longer novel unit.
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