A mansion of Gothic activities

Last updated: 15/11/2023
A mansion of Gothic activities
Main Subject
Key stage
Category
English
Resource type
Differentiated
Student activity
Teaching ideas
Genre
Gothic

This comprehensive resource is a great starting point for anyone teaching the Gothic as a topic or a specific Gothic text. It includes ten different teaching ideas along with differentiated or flipped versions of the activities.

The resource takes the metaphor of exploring a Gothic mansion to provide a number of teaching ideas. These include some introductory activities such as Gothic snap where students identify common tropes, a research task, analysing a monster, Gothic story consequences, writing Gothic settings, exploring Gothic music, designing Gothic games, writing parodies of Gothic characters, exam preparation activities and creating a display.

The accompanying PowerPoint presentation includes a selection of images to use alongside the teaching activities.

You can find out more about the approach, by reading Victoria Walker's CPD article on teaching Gothic fiction. 

If you are looking for more exciting ideas for teaching Gothic fiction with KS3 students, download Victoria Walker's complete scheme of learning and teaching pack.  

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Have you used this resource?

I'm going to use several of these as 'over and above' tasks for my learners whilst they are working from home. Great resource!

Jennifer Miller

12/01/2021

5

12/01/2021

I'm about to take up a post as a secondary English teacher in Jurien Bay District High School (Western Australia). Hoping to use this resource to tempt some disengaged students...

Deb Lynass

10/12/2016

Great starters for the Gothic. Thank you

Stella Re

05/12/2016

I'm going to use several of these as 'over and above' tasks for my learners whilst they are working from home. Great resource!

Jennifer Miller

12/01/2021

5

12/01/2021

I'm about to take up a post as a secondary English teacher in Jurien Bay District High School (Western Australia). Hoping to use this resource to tempt some disengaged students...

Deb Lynass

10/12/2016

Great starters for the Gothic. Thank you

Stella Re

05/12/2016

Loads of good ideas here. Thank you

Angela McKinley

05/12/2016

brilliant. thank you very very much.

vicki bothwell

05/12/2016

No technical problems, great resource, will use when I do Gothic literature

05/12/2016

5

5