A creative and engaging teaching unit for The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, designed for Year 7 English classrooms. This resource supports students in exploring the novel’s unique blend of fantasy and coming-of-age storytelling while building key skills in comprehension, analysis, and creative thinking.

Through structured lessons and interactive activities, students examine character, theme, and language while developing confidence in discussion, interpretation, and analytical writing.

What’s included
A full teaching unit with clearly sequenced lessons
Theme analysis (identity, belonging, life and death, growing up, courage)
Character analysis (Nobody “Bod” Owens, Silas, Miss Lupescu, Jack and others)
Language features and techniques (imagery, symbolism, tone, setting, narrative voice)
Context exploration (Gothic elements, fantasy genre, intertextual links)
Interactive and kinaesthetic learning activities
Discussion questions and comprehension checks
Creative response and extension tasks
Writing scaffolds for analytical paragraphs and short responses

You can:
Convert to PowerPoint: Upload the PDF to PowerPoint (File → Open) and it will automatically convert to slides.
Use in Google Slides: Upload the PDF to Google Drive, right-click, and open with Google Slides.
Use digitally or print: Upload the PDF to your LMS (Google Classroom, Canvas, etc.) or print it for handouts.
You could also use Canva to upload the PDF and convert and save as a PowerPoint.