SUBJECT: ENGLISH
Subject Leader: Mrs M. Smart
Overview
The overarching aim for English is to promote high standards of language and literacy by equipping students with a strong command of the spoken and written word, and to develop their love of literature through widespread reading for enjoyment. The national curriculum for English aims to ensure that all students:
- read easily, fluently and with good understanding
- develop the habit of reading widely and often, for both pleasure and information
- acquire a wide vocabulary, an understanding of grammar and knowledge of linguistic conventions for reading, writing and spoken language
- appreciate our rich and varied literary heritage
- write clearly, accurately and coherently, adapting their language and style in and for a range of contexts, purposes and audiences
- use discussion in order to learn; they should be able to elaborate and explain clearly their understanding and ideas
- are competent in the arts of speaking and listening, making formal presentations, demonstrating to others and participating in debate.
Key Stage 3 Overview
Year 7
Autumn 1
Topic: Ancient Tales (Anthology of short stories from around the world.)
Mastery Writing
Revisit:
- Reviewing
- Speaking and Listening skills
- Comprehension skills
Autumn 2
Topic: Oliver Twist (Autumn Assessment)
Mastery Writing
Assessment Week:
06.12.2021 – 10.12.2021
Revisit:
- Victorian Context
- Topic Sentences
- Comprehension
- Analysis
- Essay Writing
Spring 1
Topic: Subha
(19th century short story)
Mastery Writing
Revisit:
- Figurative language
- Creative writing
- Narrative structure
- Character Study
Spring 2
Topic: Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Spring Assessment)
Mastery Writing
Assessment Week:
21.03.2022 – 25.03.2022
Revisit:
- Context about Elizabethan England
- Analysing language
- Analysing structure
Summer 1
Topic: Poetry anthology. (Summer Assessment)
Mastery writing
Revisit:
- Metaphor
- Writer’s message
- Context
- Analysing language
Topic: Voices of Protest
Extracts from 19th /20th century protest speeches.
Revisit:
- Rhetorical devices
- Speaking and Listening skills
- Writing to argue
- Speech Writing
Year 8
Autumn 1
Topic:
Transition Unit
Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Mastery Writing
Revisit:
- Context about Elizabethan England.
- Analysing language
- Thematic analysis
Autumn 2
Topic: Sherlock Holmes (Autumn Assessment)
Mastery Writing
Assessment Week:
29.11. 2021 – 03.12.2021
Revisit:
- Victorian Context
- Topic Sentences
- Comprehension
- Analysis
- Essay Writing
Spring 1
Topic: Poetry about Journeys
Mastery Writing
Revisit:
- Poetic features
- Analysis
- Context
- Comparison skills
Spring 2
Topic: Shakespeare
The Tempest
(Spring Assessment)
Mastery Writing
Assessment Week:
14.03.2022 – 18.03.2022
Revisit:
- Context about Elizabethan England
- Analysing language
- Analysing structure
Summer 1
Topic: Animal Farm (Summer Assessment)
Mastery Writing
Revisit:
- Context
- Writer’s ideas
- Analysis and structure.
Summer 2
Topic: Times of Change
Extracts from 20th century non-fiction texts
Mastery Writing
Revisit:
- Persuasive language
- Writing to persuade
- Forms of non-fiction texts
- Structuring for effect
- Speaking and Listening
Useful websites/resources
https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/subjects/z3kw2hv
https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/subjects/zykdmp3
https://www.doddlelearn.co.uk/
Key Stage 4 Overview
Exam Board: AQA
Qualification type:
- GCSE English Literature
- GCSE English Language
Assessment
English Language
For English Language, there will two examination papers:
- Paper 1 is called ‘Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing.’ Students will answer four questions on one literature fiction text and then produce a piece of descriptive or narrative writing. (1 hour 45 minutes)
- Paper 2 is called ‘Writers’ Viewpoints and Perspectives’. Students will answer four questions on two linked non-fiction texts then write to present a viewpoint. (1 hour 45 minutes)
English Literature
For English Literature, there will be two examination papers and they will be closed book.
- Paper 1 is called ‘Shakespeare and the 19th Century Novel’. Students will answer one question on a Shakespeare play by commenting on an extract and the play as a whole. The structure is repeated in Section B for a 19th century novel. (1 hour and 45 minutes)
- Paper 2 is called ‘Modern Texts and Poetry.’ In section A, students will answer one essay question on a modern prose or drama text, in section B they will answer a comparative poetry question based on poems from an anthology and in section C students will be asked to analyse unseen poems. (2 hours and 15 minutes).
Year 9
Autumn 1
Topic: The Gothic text –
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
(3 lessons per week)
Poetry (1 lesson per wk)
‘Sonnet 29
‘Love’s Philosophy’
Or
‘Ozymandias’
‘Storm on the Island’
Revisit:
English Language – selecting implicit and explicit information
- comprehension activities
Identifying and considering the effect of language devices –
Simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration and onomatopoeia.
Autumn 2
Topic: The Gothic text (continued)
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
(3 lessons per week)
Poetry:
‘The Farmer’s Bride’
‘When We Two Parted’
Or
‘Exposure’
‘London’
(1 Lesson per week)
Assessment 1
29.11. 2021 – 03.12.2021
Revisit:
Summary writing Selecting key information from more than 1 text and comparing them.
Embedding evidence.
Emotive Language –
Tier 2 Vocabulary
Anguish, melancholy, cathartic, composed,
Petulant, enraged, mystified, appreciative, enamoured, bitter, abandon, overwhelmed, stunned.
Spring 1
Topic:
The Modern Text
An Inspector Calls
(3 lessons per week)
Poetry :
(1 lesson per week)
‘Winter Swan’
‘Singh Song’
‘Bayonet Charge’
‘Charge of the Light Brigade’
Assessment 2:
14. 03. 2022 – 18. 03.2022
Revisit:
English Language
-using sensory language to impact the readers’ experience.
Visual appeal – metaphor, simile and personification
Auditory appeal –
onomatopoeia, alliteration and sibilance.
Spring 2
Topic:
The Modern Text (continued)
An Inspector Calls
(3 lessons per week)
Poetry :
‘Follower’
‘Mother, Any distance’
Or
‘Tissue’
‘Kamikaze’
Revisit:
- Structural techniques:
- Beginning.
- Middle.
- End.
- Zoom in/zoom out.
19th Century texts
Revision of plot and key events.
Summer 1
Topic:
English Language Paper 1: Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing - Questions 1 - 4
Poetry:
- ‘When We Two Parted’.
- ‘Walking Away’.
Or
- ‘War Photographer’.
- ‘Poppies’.
Revisit:
- Modern text.
- Character analysis.
- The Inspector.
- Mr Birling.
- Persuasive Writing
- Section B: Writing - writing to present a viewpoint.
- Planning.
- Use of DAFOREST (persuasive skills).
Summer 2
Topic:
English Language Paper 1 – Section B Creative Writing.
Assessment 3:
13.06.2022 - 17.06.2022
Revisit:
Analysis of protagonists in 19th Century texts.
Year 10
Autumn 1
Topic:
The Shakespearean Text:
‘Macbeth’. (3 Lessons per week)
English Language Paper 1 (1 hr per week)
Revisit:
Technical Accuracy spelling, punctuation, grammar and
Vocabulary.
Identifying structural devices.
- Foreshadowing.
- Foreboding.
- Narrative shift.
- Focal shift.
- Rhetorical shift.
- Spatial shift.
- Temporal shift.
Autumn 2
Topic:
The Shakespearean Text (Continued)
‘Macbeth’. (3 lessons per week)
English Language Paper 1 (1 lesson per week)
Assessment:
06.12.2021 - 10.12.2021
Revisit:
Punctuating for effect –
punctuation skills
( ) : ; … - ! ? ‘ “ “
Creative Writing
Descriptive devices
Adjective, adverbs, verbs, nouns, simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia,
5 senses
Responding to picture prompts.
Spring 1
Topic:
Revision of
English Literature paper 1: Shakespeare and the 19th Century novel
(3 lessons per week)
English Language P1 and 2
Walk Through Mocks
(1 lesson per week)
Assessment 2:
21. 03. 2022 – 25. 03. 2022
Revisit:
Using literature texts to revise persuasive writing.
Creating bias in persuasive writing.
Developing counter arguments.
E.g. ‘Mr Birling is the most honest character in the play.’ Write a speech presenting your viewpoint.
Spring 2
Topic:
Revision–
English Literature Paper 2
(3 lessons per week)
Revisit:
Identifying different sentence structures and considering their effect on readers.
Summer 1
Topic:
English Language Paper 2: Viewpoints and Perspectives.
Section A
- Questions 1 – 4.
Revisit:
Analysing characters from Shakespeare texts:
- Key quotations.
- Creating fact files on each character.
Summer 2
Topic:
EN1 – Speaking and Listening
-Presentation/ audio-visual recording.
Assessment 3:
13.06.2022 – 17.06.2022
Revisit:
Key themes from Shakespeare texts:
- Conflict
- Power
- Gender roles
- Supernatural
Year 11
Autumn 1
Topic:
English Language paper 1
Section A and B
Reading and Writing Creatively
(3 lessons per week)
Unseen poetry
(1 lesson per week)
EN1 Spoken Language
(delivery – week 2)
Revisit:
Writers’ message
19th century views on
Social class/division
Etiquette
Science vs religion
Darwinism
Malthus’ theory
Autumn 2
Topic:
Revision
English Language papers 2
(3 Lessons per Week)
English Literature P1
Gothic
Shakespeare
(1 lesson per week)
Assessment 1:
08. 11. 2021 – 26. 11. 2021
Revisit:
Key themes in An Inspector Calls:
- Responsibility.
- Social status.
- Power.
- Gender
- Age
- Capitalism vs. Socialism
Spring 1
Topic:
Revision
English Literature papers 1 & 2
(based on gaps in learning after assessment of Mocks)
(3 lessons per week)
Walk Through Mock
English Language P1 and P 2
(1 lesson per week)
Assessment 2:
31.01.2022 – 11.02 2022
Revisit:
Creative writing
- Use of picture prompts.
- Structuring for effect.
- Poverty, social class, religion, responsibility, love, death.
Spring 2
Topic:
Revision
Final Preparation for All 4 papers.
(focus on questions that need improvement)
Revisit:
Reading Skills – select and synthesise evidence from different texts.
Writing Skills –
Communicate clearly, imaginatively.
Adopting tone, style, register for different purposes.
Writers’ methods
Connotations.
Denotations.
Further meaning.
Summer 1
Topic:
AQA Examinations – All 4 papers
Revisit:
- Relevant subject terminology
- Time management skills
- Character analyses
Summer 2
Exams
Useful websites/resources
https://www.doddlelearn.co.uk/
Recommended revision guide
CGP Text Guides for the Literature texts
Oxford Literature Companions for the Literature Texts
Collins Snap Revision guides for AQA GCSE English Literature
CGP AQA English Language for Grade 9-1 Course
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