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Analysis & Study Guide: Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde: Complete text & integrated study guide
Read Robert Louis Stevenson's complete novel, 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde', accompanied by a modern translation, literary analysis, and questions with model answers! Essential reading for anyone taking exams on the book!
“Clearly Francis Gilbert is a gifted and charismatic teacher,” Philip Pullman, author of 'Northern Lights'.
Are you struggling to understand Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel?
Or are you an English teacher wanting ready-made exercises and guidance to help you teach this difficult text? Do your students need support to understand the language properly and work independently on the book?
This brilliant study guide and analysis of Stevenson’s novel may be the answer to your prayers. Written by an experienced teacher and best-selling author, this version is aimed at students who must analyse the text in depth or teachers wanting to deliver outstanding lessons on it. This book contains an annotated complete text, numerous essays on the novel, including detailed accounts of Robert Louis Stevenson’s life, relevant contexts and discussion of vital themes and imagery. The complex vocabulary of the book is analysed throughout, and simple explanations of what is happening punctuate each chapter. Furthermore, there are academic explorations of the issues as well as comprehensive question and answer sections at the end of each chapter, including a “fill-in-the-blanks” summary to check understanding. At the end of the guide, there is advice on how to write successful essays and assignments. There are also plenty of pointers to help students develop their own personal responses, including thought-provoking thematic questions, links to the author’s YouTube readings and explanations, and creative response tasks.
Sarah Page "As an English Literature teacher, I found your book a lifeline. Surprisingly, my pupils found your “cloze” (fill-in-the-gaps) exercises engaging, but what was most empowering was being able to relay the ‘translations’ of the your emboldened alternative words were extremely useful and enlightening for both the pupils and myself. In addition, your tours around the capital were also very good, particularly as shoe-horning context is particularly vital.
Anyhow, just wanted to say ‘thanks’ for the ‘Study Guide Edition’ which is far removed from the usual “study guide” and very in tune with the thinking teacher / pupil."
“Clearly Francis Gilbert is a gifted and charismatic teacher,” Philip Pullman, author of 'Northern Lights'.
Are you struggling to understand Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel?
Or are you an English teacher wanting ready-made exercises and guidance to help you teach this difficult text? Do your students need support to understand the language properly and work independently on the book?
This brilliant study guide and analysis of Stevenson’s novel may be the answer to your prayers. Written by an experienced teacher and best-selling author, this version is aimed at students who must analyse the text in depth or teachers wanting to deliver outstanding lessons on it. This book contains an annotated complete text, numerous essays on the novel, including detailed accounts of Robert Louis Stevenson’s life, relevant contexts and discussion of vital themes and imagery. The complex vocabulary of the book is analysed throughout, and simple explanations of what is happening punctuate each chapter. Furthermore, there are academic explorations of the issues as well as comprehensive question and answer sections at the end of each chapter, including a “fill-in-the-blanks” summary to check understanding. At the end of the guide, there is advice on how to write successful essays and assignments. There are also plenty of pointers to help students develop their own personal responses, including thought-provoking thematic questions, links to the author’s YouTube readings and explanations, and creative response tasks.
Sarah Page "As an English Literature teacher, I found your book a lifeline. Surprisingly, my pupils found your “cloze” (fill-in-the-gaps) exercises engaging, but what was most empowering was being able to relay the ‘translations’ of the your emboldened alternative words were extremely useful and enlightening for both the pupils and myself. In addition, your tours around the capital were also very good, particularly as shoe-horning context is particularly vital.
Anyhow, just wanted to say ‘thanks’ for the ‘Study Guide Edition’ which is far removed from the usual “study guide” and very in tune with the thinking teacher / pupil."
199 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 16, 2014
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January 1, 2020
Useful but needs editing
This book will without doubt be useful to GCSE students but it needs heavy third person editing.
The frequent typos and missed words are just about acceptable but there are other failings that are truly scary coming from a teacher of English. These include: incorrect definitions, definitions given with no reference to context, confused homonyms (amusingly ‘rapt’ instead of ‘wrapped’), mangled tenses, ambivalent sentences.
There are several instances of questionable personal opinion. These would be allowable if identified as such but they are fed to students as fact.
It is interesting that the author criticises a student’s answer for repetition - when he has flagrantly been guilty of the same failing throughout the book.
I cite the frequency of ‘very’ within the text as a separate issue so as not to mask or dilute the other repetitions.
And will someone please explain to the author the difference between ‘hung’ and ‘hanged’.
In conclusion: a useful book that will enhance young students’ understanding of the novel/novella. However, students would be well advised not to use it as a style guide for their own writing.
This book will without doubt be useful to GCSE students but it needs heavy third person editing.
The frequent typos and missed words are just about acceptable but there are other failings that are truly scary coming from a teacher of English. These include: incorrect definitions, definitions given with no reference to context, confused homonyms (amusingly ‘rapt’ instead of ‘wrapped’), mangled tenses, ambivalent sentences.
There are several instances of questionable personal opinion. These would be allowable if identified as such but they are fed to students as fact.
It is interesting that the author criticises a student’s answer for repetition - when he has flagrantly been guilty of the same failing throughout the book.
I cite the frequency of ‘very’ within the text as a separate issue so as not to mask or dilute the other repetitions.
And will someone please explain to the author the difference between ‘hung’ and ‘hanged’.
In conclusion: a useful book that will enhance young students’ understanding of the novel/novella. However, students would be well advised not to use it as a style guide for their own writing.
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