The strange case of doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde
By: ﾃ］gela Marﾃｭn Santos 4ﾂｺA
Title; The strange case of Doctor Jekyll y Mr. Hyde Author: Robert Louis Stevenson Publisher; Helbling Languages Describe the book in one or two sentences. What type of story is it? Where / when does it take place? Who are the main characters? ; It is an interesting book, in which Dr. Jekyll becomes Mr. Hyde drinking a potion, and Mr. Hyde is completely opposite to Jekyll personality. It takes place in London, in the Victorian society, in the 19 th century. Henry Jekyll, Gabriel John Utterson, Hastie Lanyon, Poole, Richard Enfield.
Write a few sentences saying why you liked (or didn’t like) the book. E .g . What were the best things about the book? What other books did it remind you of? What kind of reader do you think would enjoy this book? : I think this is an interesting book but I didn’t like some parts because they were very boring, I have liked only some parts. The best parts for me are, first when doctor Jekyll becomes Mr. Hyde the first time, and the second thing that I like the most is the end when Doctor Jekyll explains the entire story by a letter.It remind me of I think children at first of ESO will like this book because it is a thriller and it is in some parts interesting.
Would you recommend this book to other readers? I will not recommend it because when you send a required book we don’t read it with pleasure. But I will recommend it to children at first and second of ESO.
Level: The level it’s just about right, but there are some words that I don’t know before I read the book.
What question(s) would you like to ask the author? *Why is Mr. Hyde the bad person in the story? Why not Jekyll? I mean that why not Mr. Hyde is better person than Jekyll before?
Characters My favourite character is Doctor Jekyll. I like this character because is the main character and he thinks more in his experiment than in his own life, because he test the experiment in his body he is like a laboratory mouse. *Character profile
Name
Henry Jekyll
Nationality
He is British
Profession
He is a doctor but he knows a lot of
Appearance
He is intelligent, educated and learned.
chemistry. He is rich and he is tall and thin
Personality
He is really respectful with people, he is a good person, he is happy and he is a good friend of his friends.
Likes/Dislikes
He has a certain impatient and vivacity(Dislikes) He was very wise and might have had a great future
Which is your favourite incident in the story? What does it show about your favourite character? My favourite incident in the story is when Doctor Jekyll wakes up and he saw at the mirror that he wasn’t Jekyll he was Mr. Hyde.
It shows that he can’t control the experiment and show that he was more Hyde than Jekyll too.
PLOT DEVELOPMENT The story starts when Mr. Utterson talk with a friend about one incident that happens, in which a girl is shove aside by a little man, who to fix it, present a cheque to the family with the signature of Henry Jekyll. After that the lawyer starts to think what happen with Jekyll because Jekyll left his will to Mr. Hyde. A year later a girl saw how Mr. Hyde kill a member of the parliament and Mr. Utterson ask Jekyll of this murdered, but Jekyll said that Hyde will not reappears. After that Jekyll didn’t accept home visits. Poole the butler talks with Utterson about that Jekyll was really strange because he ask most of the time for some products that he need at the laboratory. They think a lot of time and they concluded that Hyde was behind the door. But when they enter to the laboratory they found that Mr. Hyde had died. Later they found a letter of Jekyll that explains all that happens. The letter says that he can’t control his bad personality so he decide to kill Hyde to save Jekyll’s life. The real reason of Doctor Jekyll ’s experiment was to eliminate the bad part of all of us but, the bad part controls the good (in this case, Doctor Jekyll)part and that end with the death of the ``two´´ characters
READING SELF-ASSESSMENT RECORD • Tick ( ) the phrase which ✔ is true for you
At the end of the book I feel
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understanding the plot of a story
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working out the meaning of unknown words
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about reading a story in English
Tick (✔) the phrase which is true for you. Then give examples from the story. I have learnt Some A lot •
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New idioms
New Words; Seek, heir, rather, upright, fit, gazing, slammed, flock, swung, kettle…
Useful expressions; Let sleeping dogs lie New idioms; fortnight, afterwards, luxurious…
The most exciting thing that happened in the story was ... when the young girl saw how Mr. Hyde killed the member of the parliament and Utterson ask about it to Mr. Jekyll.
The word that best describes the ending. The story had a happy and satisfying ending.
What did you think of the book? Circle a, b or c. a. It wasn’t bad. b. I enjoyed it. c. It was brilliant. You must read it.