The Island of Doctor Moreau teacher pack
Five weeks of lessons on The Island of Doctor Moreau for ages 14 to 18: a plan, a worksheet and the answers for each week, a final essay with a marking guide, and a reading certificate to print. Free to use in class.
Five weeks, week by week
- Week 1Chapters 1 to 5
Prendick survives the lifeboat and meets Montgomery aboard the schooner, introducing uncertainty, dependence, and the effects of cruelty.
Plan · worksheet · answers - Week 2Chapters 6 to 9
Prendick is cast adrift and reaches Moreau’s station, where secrecy and animal cries turn uncertainty into concern about suffering.
Plan · worksheet · answers - Week 3Chapters 10 to 14
Prendick flees suspected human torture, encounters the Beast People’s Law, and hears Moreau challenge his fearful interpretation of incomplete evidence.
Plan · worksheet · answers - Week 4Chapters 15 to 18
Moreau explains his experiments, Prendick kills the fleeing Leopard-man, and the puma escapes, exposing conflicts between scientific aims, pity, and control.
Plan · worksheet · answers - Week 5Chapters 19 to 23
After Moreau’s death, authority collapses, the Beast People return to animal behavior, and Prendick escapes but remains fearful among humans.
Plan · worksheet · answers
Assessment
Final essay
Three questions to choose from, 800 to 1,200 words, with a marking guide in four bands.
Quiz bank
The 30 questions and 40 flashcards online, for homework or a quick check in class. Open the quiz
Discussion
Questions for small groups, meeting by meeting. The book club kit
Reading certificate
Certificate of reading
Student's name
has read
The Island of Doctor Moreau
by H. G. Wells
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