Free lesson: The Heist Map (Grade 10 English)

Try a complete lesson free: students learn plot structure as a heist map, then predict and listen their way through Part I of “The Monkey's Paw.”

This is a complete lesson from ENG2D Unit 1, Voice and Story, free to download and use. It's exactly what you get in the paid units, so you can see the quality before you buy.

Students learn the six stages of plot as a heist that goes wrong, practise with a story everyone knows, then read Part I of W. W. Jacobs' “The Monkey's Paw” (1902, public domain) with prediction stops and a close-reading quote.

What you get

A teacher lesson plan with curriculum expectations, learning goals, success criteria, a timed sequence, differentiation and an answer guide
An 18-slide deck with speaker notes on every slide: what to say, what to ask, what to look for and how long to spend
Student handouts: the Heist Map organizer and a Prediction Log
Editable Word and PowerPoint files, plus PDFs

Like it? The full Voice and Story unit has 13 lessons, and the complete ENG2D course covers the whole semester.

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