Northanger Abbey teacher pack
Five weeks of lessons on Northanger Abbey 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 6
Catherine enters Bath society, meets Henry and Isabella, and begins learning how conversation and actions reveal character.
Plan · worksheet · answers - Week 2Chapters 7 to 12
John Thorpe’s boasting and deception disrupt Catherine’s growing friendship with the Tilneys, teaching students to distinguish pressure from respect.
Plan · worksheet · answers - Week 3Chapters 13 to 19
Catherine resists her friends’ pressure, welcomes an invitation to Northanger, and struggles to judge Isabella’s conduct toward James and Captain Tilney.
Plan · worksheet · answers - Week 4Chapters 20 to 25
At Northanger, Catherine mistakes ordinary details for evidence of cruelty before Henry’s correction and James’s letter redirect her judgment.
Plan · worksheet · answers - Week 5Chapters 26 to 31
Catherine rejects Isabella’s appeal, suffers the General’s dismissal, and learns how money shapes his opposition to her marriage with Henry.
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
Northanger Abbey
by Jane Austen
Teacher and class
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