| GCSE English Literature. • 19th-century novel. • AQA Jekyll & Hyde Complete Study Guide 12 lessons across 4 months. Gothic conventions, Victorian context, duality and repression — with exercises built into every lesson so your child is doing analysis, not just reading about it. AQA • Robert Louis Stevenson • All grades 4–9 • 12 lessons • 4 exercise types: £22 — one-off purchase • download immediately |
| THE REAL PROBLEM |
Jekyll & Hyde catches students out
It’s only 80 pages. Students assume short means easy. It doesn’t. Stevenson packs an extraordinary amount of meaning into every word choice, every structural decision, every image. The students who do brilliantly on this text aren’t the ones who’ve read it most often. They’re the ones who’ve learned to read it most carefully.
| They miss the Gothic layer They describe Hyde as ‘evil’ without explaining what Gothic conventions Stevenson uses, or why a Victorian reader responded differently to those conventions. | They use context as decoration ‘In Victorian society people had to be respectable.’ Earns almost nothing. Context earns marks when woven into language analysis. This guide teaches exactly how. | |
| They stop at technique identification ‘Stevenson uses a metaphor.’ Which word in that metaphor is doing the work? Why that word rather than a simpler one? That’s the question this guide trains students to answer. | Home educators A complete 4-month programme they can work through independently. Every lesson is written to be followed without any external support. | |
| WHAT’S INSIDE |
12 lessons across 4 months
| Month 1 Story, structure & characters. The detective narrative, Gothic conventions, all four characters with dramatic irony explained. | Month 2 Themes & language analysis. Duality, repression, secrecy. Six key passages at word level. Grade Ladders and Zoom-Ins throughout. | Month 3 Exam questions & technique. The five question types decoded. Full Grade 5 vs Grade 9 comparison with paragraph-by-paragraph commentary. | Month 4 Mock questions & revision. Two Grade 9 model essays. Top 20 quotations. Exam day revision card: characters, themes, context, question decoder. |
| Four exercise types built into every lesson ✔ Zoom-In: a quotation is given, a specific word named, student writes 4–5 sentences of close analysis ✔ Grade Ladder: a Grade 5 answer is given — student upgrades it to Grade 7 or 9 ✔ Spot the Difference: two answers side by side, student identifies what the stronger one does differently ✔ Planning Tasks: full exam questions to plan and write before seeing the model answer |
| CONTEXT COVERED IN FULL |
Victorian respectability, degeneracy theory, the Gothic tradition, science vs religion, the concept of the double. All explained in plain language and all connected directly to specific passages in the text — not as background information, but as tools for earning AO3 marks.
| £22 — Jekyll & Hyde Complete Study Guide Download immediately • yours to keep |
| ✔ 12 lessons across 4 months of structured study. ✔ Introduction, AOs, and full Victorian & Gothic context section. ✔ Zoom-In, Grade Ladder, Spot the Difference, and Planning exercises throughout. ✔ Six key passages analysed at word level. ✔ Two full Grade 9 model essays with paragraph-by-paragraph commentary. ✔ Top 20 quotations + exam day revision card |
