Through the Looking-Glass teacher pack
Five weeks of lessons on Through the Looking-Glass 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 2
Alice enters the reflected house and joins a giant chess game, introducing reversed expectations and rules that shape her journey.
Plan · worksheet · answers - Week 2Chapters 3 to 4
Alice loses her name and disputes the brothers’ dream claim, raising questions about identity, reality, and how others define her.
Plan · worksheet · answers - Week 3Chapters 5 to 7
Alice encounters backward time, disputed word meanings, and a struggle over a crown, testing ordinary expectations and claims to authority.
Plan · worksheet · answers - Week 4Chapters 8 to 9
Alice receives the White Knight’s help and becomes a Queen, but royal demands and dinner disorder lead her to resist authority.
Plan · worksheet · answers - Week 5Chapters 10 to 11
Alice shakes the changing Red Queen and wakes among her cats, yet her questions leave the dream’s ownership and reality unsettled.
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 39 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
Through the Looking-Glass
by Lewis Carroll
Teacher and class
Free for 3 months
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