Owen Marks

This is a resource I use that takes about 1 lesson to finish - students are presented an idea present within the text and they have to find a quote to support and explain why it does - extra credit for including a technique. This is a good scaffolded lesson that I use to really ingrain within the class the theme of superstition vs rationalism throughout the book. They always have a very good understanding and produce excellent paragraphs in their essays on this theme when we do this activity. Th

This is a PowerPoint presentation that I use at the start of my Intertextual Units. It is an example of how authors use intertextuality in their texts, drawing upon the publics knowledge of these texts, to create tension and dramatic irony. It also has an activity at the end. I usually spend half a lesson on this after I introduce intertextuality.