Term 1

Term 2

Term 3 & 4

Term 5

Term 6

Year 7

Unit 1:

Playscript and Novel Extracts: Heroes, Villains and Monsters

(NEW 2023/24)

Unit 2:

Poetry & Descriptive Writing: Poetry from Around the World & Descriptive Writing

(NEW 2023/24)

 
Unit 3:

Novel & Transactional Writing:

Refugee Boy, Benjamin Zephaniah

(UPDATED 2023/24)

Unit 4:

Playscript:

The Tempest, William Shakespeare

(NEW 2023/24)

 
Unit 5:

Creative Writing: The Island

(NEW 2023/24,

UPDATED 2024/25)

Key Learning

Students need to know and remember from this unit of work

·         What a playscript is.

·         The features of a playscript.

·         What a perspective is and what narrative bias is.

·         What an archetype is and what a stereotype is.

·         What subversion in literature is.

·         What features the Gothic genre contains.

·         How to structure an analytical paragraph

·         How to use evidence to support your opinions.

·         To identify and employ sensory imagery.

·         What a poetic form is and what poetic structure is.

·         To understand what personification, simile and metaphor are and be able to identify them within a text.

·         How to structure an analytical paragraph.

·         How to use evidence to support your opinions.

·         What analysis is and how to explore and look for meaning in words, phrases and technique use.

·         What descriptive writing is and how it differs from narrative writing.

·         What a flashback is and how writers use them.

·         Different narrative perspectives and the uses of first person narrative.

·         How tension is built within literature both in language, sentence and punctuation choice.

·         What evaluation is and how to use evaluative language to express a point of view.

·         How to structure an analytical paragraph.

·         How to use evidence to support your opinions.

·         What analysis is and how to explore and look for meaning in words, phrases and technique use.

·         What an anecdote is and feature of personal writing.

·         Revision of diary and letter writing – building on KS2 knowledge.

·         The importance of Shakespeare as a writer.

·         When the Elizabethan Era was and what life was like during it for different parts of society.

·         What regicide is.

·         What a theme is and which themes are used in The Tempest.

·         What is colonialism and how it is explored in the play.

·         Understand and identify different comedic conventions: slapstick and innuendo.

·         How to structure an analytical paragraph.

·         How to use evidence to support your opinions.

·         What analysis is and how to explore and look for meaning in words, phrases and technique use.

·         What a monologue is and the what the key features of a monologue are.

·         What a podcast is.

·         Understand what the adventure genre is and the key features of the genre.

·         How to develop show not tell writing.

·         Understand and identify different sentence moods: declarative, exclamative, interrogative and imperative.

·         Understand what a discourse marker is; and cause and effect discourse markers.

·         Understand what persuasion is.

·         Understand how simple persuasive techniques are used for effect.

·         Understand what travel writing is and the features of it.

·         Understand what a review is and the features of review writing.

Check for Understanding

How we will check for understanding in this unit of work

Assessment

Checkpoint:

·         Analytical response extended writing: Who is the monster in Frankenstein?

·         Creative writing piece: Writing a Gothic opening.

Assessment

Checkpoint:

·         Analytical response to a poem – extended writing.

·         Descriptive writing across a time sequence: Bournemouth beach.

Assessment

Checkpoint:

·         Evaluation of a statement. Analytical writing.

·         Letter writing.

Assessment

Checkpoint:

·         Analytical response to a poem – extended writing.

·         Monologue creative writing piece.

Assessment

Checkpoint:

·         Analytical response – how does the author persuade the reader?

·         Travel writing review

Year 8

Unit 1:

Playscript & Short Story excerpts: Greek Myths & The Odyssey, Simon Armitage

(NEW 24/25)

Unit 2:

Non-Fiction Extracts & Transactional Writing: Adventures

(NEW 24/25)

 
Unit 3:

Novel & Oracy:

Unwind, Neal Shusterman

(NEW 24/25)

Unit 4:

Poetry: Protest Poetry

(UPDATED 2023/24)

 
Unit 5:

Transactional Writing: The Art of Rhetoric

(NEW 24/25)

Key Learning

Students need to know and remember from this unit of work

·         Understanding of what myths are.

·         Understand the concept of modernising texts and ‘retelling’.

·         Understand, analyse and apply structural and narrative techniques.

·         Understanding and identifying metaphorical language in the use of Homeric epithets and appositives.

·         Evaluating the presentation of heroes.

·         Construct personal viewpoints and justify opinions with supporting text (evidence).

·         Understand Freytag’s narrative structure and identify the different parts of a narrative.

·         Discourse markers for time – chronology.

·         Understand what flashback is.

·         Sentence forms: More, More, More sentences; Semi colon for cause and effect; The writer’s aside.

·         Understand how writers are able to express their perspectives.

·         Summarising key texts.

·         Understand how sentence structures are able to create suspense and tension.

·         How to structure an analytical paragraph.

·         How to use evidence to support your opinions.

·         What analysis is and how to explore and look for meaning in words, phrases and technique use.

·         Magazine article writing – what it is and how it differs to newspaper writing.

·         Understand the features of magazine articles: headlines, subheadings, tabloid paragraphs.

·         Sentence forms: the one word sentence and tabloid paragraphs.

·         Understand what a dystopia and utopia are.

·         Understand features of the dystopian genre.

·         Understand what a dual or multiple view narrative is and evaluate the benefits, drawbacks to this narrative structure.

·         Developing oracy skills in debate; turn taking; establishing a point of view; building on others’ points of view.

·         How to structure and write a discursive essay.

·         What a counter argument is.

·         Discourse markers for contrast.

·         Revisit evaluation and how to demonstrate evaluation in written responses.

·         What is a protest and why they are necessary?

·         What is oppression and examples of oppression through the course of history.

·         How to structure an analytical paragraph.

·         How to use evidence to support your opinions.

·         What analysis is and how to explore and look for meaning in words, phrases and technique use.

·         What is SLAM poetry, how does it differ to other forms of poetry.

·         How to write their own SLAM Poems.

·         What is rhetoric?

·         Understanding the differences between argument and persuasion.

·         Understanding the features of persuasive writing and writing to argue and identifying these techniques.

·         Understand anaphora and epistrophe.

·         Employing persuasive features effectively in their own work.

·         How to answer counter arguments.

·         Discourse markers for addition.

·         What makes an effective speech?

·         How to deliver an effective speech.

·         Matching purpose to audience.

·         What ethos, logos and pathos are and how we can use them to create effect.

Check for Understanding

How we will check for understanding in this unit of work

Assessment

Checkpoint:

·         Analytical response to Odysseus as a hero.

·         Narrative writing: excerpt of a story.

Assessment

Checkpoint:

·         Analytical response: How does the writer use language to show their fear?

·         Magazine article: The importance of risk taking in a health and safety conscious world!

Assessment

Checkpoint:

·         Evaluation of a statement. Analytical writing.

·         Writing to argue, discursive essay based on topics within the story.

Assessment

Checkpoint:

·         Analytical response: How does the poet express their opinions and feelings in their protest poem.

·         Writing a SLAM poem about a topical issue.

Assessment

Checkpoint:

·         Analytical response to a speech.

·         Writing and performing a persuasive speech about a chosen topic.

Year 9

Unit 1:

Playscript: Pink Mist

(UPDATED 24/25)

Unit 2:

Transactional Writing: True Crime & Journalism

(NEW 24/25)

 
Unit 3:

Novel: Animal Farm,

George Orwell

(NEW 23/24)

Unit 4:

Poetry: Relationships

(NEW 24/25)

 
Unit 5:

Playscript: Much Ado About Nothing, William Shakespeare

(NEW 23/24)

Key Learning

Students need to know and remember from this unit of work

·         Understand the features of poetry and playscript.

·         Understand what context is and the specific context of the Afghanistan war.

·         Understand and identify colloquialism, idiolect and dialect.

·         Identify and empathise with characters’ different perspectives.

·         Identify and show understanding of authorial intention.

·         How to structure an analytical paragraph.

·         How to use evidence to support your opinions.

·         What analysis is and how to explore and look for meaning in words, phrases and technique use.

·         Recap of letter structure

·         Understand what the true crime genre is.

·         Understand what journalism is.

·         Know the difference between objective and subjective.

·         To understand what bias is and to be able to identify it.

·         To identify and use the key structural and linguistic features of newspaper writing.

·         To understand the different formality of newspaper article writing to magazine article.

·         To understand the context of the Victorian era and early journalism.

·         To understand the appeal of the crime genre and the features of a ‘whodunnit?’

·         To identify emotive and sensationalist language.

·         To successfully demonstrate their knowledge in their own writing.

·         To know and understand what an allegory is.

·         To understand the basic premise of the Russian revolution.

·         To draw parallels between the main Russian political figures and the characters in the novel.

·         Identify and show understanding of authorial intention.

·         To understand what a microcosm is and why an author might choose to employ this technique.

·         To understand and use the words: democracy, hierarchy, dictatorship, communism.

·         To revise features of rhetoric.

·         Revisit evaluation and how to demonstrate evaluation in written responses.

·         To understand what propaganda is and how it manipulates people.

·         To understand and identify an extended metaphor.

·         To understand and identify the features of a sonnet.

·         To understand how to structure a comparison and how to make connections between texts.

·         To identify similarities and differences in the ideas and methods of poets.

·         Descriptive writing revision: using pathetic fallacy and symbolism.

·         Sentence types: (TBC)

·         How to structure an analytical paragraph.

·         How to use evidence to support your opinions.

·         What analysis is and how to explore and look for meaning in words, phrases and technique use.

·         Understand features of romantic comedy.

·         Understand the idea of character arcs and how characters in the play develop.

·         Understand the conventions of a villain in Shakespearian writing.

·         Understand the typical role of women in the Elizabethan and Jacobean era and how Shakespeare both challenges and conforms to these ideas.

·         What are dramatic devices – how do directors use them for effect?

·         How to structure an analytical paragraph.

·         How to use evidence to support your opinions.

·         What analysis is and how to explore and look for meaning in words, phrases and technique use.

Check for Understanding

How we will check for understanding in this unit of work

Assessment

Checkpoint:

·         Analytical Writing: how a character is presented.

·         Letter writing

Assessment

Checkpoint:

·         Analytical writing about Jack the Ripper – how the press stoked the fear of him.

·         Newspaper article reporting on a crime.

Assessment

Checkpoint:

·         Evaluative, analytical response - The animals are right to defend the farm by whatever means necessary.

·         Persuasive speech.

Assessment

Checkpoint:

·         Write a comparative essay on two of the poems.

·         Write a description based on a first day of school experience.

Assessment

Checkpoint:

·         Analytical response: How does a character change throughout the play?

·         Write a short story based on a special event ending in disaster.

Year 10

Unit 1:

(UPDATED 2023/24)

Literature: Anthology Poetry (War poem section)

Language: Imaginative

Writing (Language Paper 1 Writing Section)

Unit 2:

(UPDATED 2023/24)

Literature: A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens (Paper 1)

Language: Paper 1 Reading Section

 
Unit 3:

(UPDATED 2023/24)

Literature: An Inspector Calls (Paper 2)

Language: Paper 2 Reading Section

Unit 4:

(UPDATED 2023/24)

Literature: Anthology Poetry (Paper 1) and Unseen Poetry

Language: Paper 2 Writing (Paper 2)

 
Unit 5:

(UPDATED 2023/24)

Literature: A Christmas Carol Revision (Paper 1)

Language: Spoken Language (Speaking and Listening): Speeches and performance

Key Learning

Students need to know and remember from this unit of work

LITERATURE

·         Understand the structure and expectations of the Literature course.

·         Read and understand 6 war poems from the anthology:

·         Charge of the Light Brigade

·         Exposure

·         Bayonet Charge

·         Remains

·         War Photographer

·         Poppies

·         Understand what the English Literature mark scheme requires of them.

·         How to learn quotations and the importance of learning quotations.

·         How to write a comparative essay in timed conditions.

·         Understand the context of each poem and how it affects the meaning of the poem.

LANGUAGE

·         Understand the structure and expectations of the Language course and specifically the breakdown of paper 1.

·         Understand the mark scheme for Section B: Imaginative writing.

·         Revision of descriptive and narrative writing.

·         Use of flashforward and positive, negative, positive structure for narrative writing.

·         Sentence forms: colon clarification; positive, negative, positive; anaphora.

LITERATURE

·         Develop knowledge about the Victorian era; Indistrial revolution and societal issues of Dickens’ lifetime.

·         Understand who Charles Dickens was; what happened during his life; why he wrote the novel ‘A Christmas Carol’ and what he hoped to achieve.

·         Understand the class hierarchy and what life was like for the different classes in Victorian Britain.

·         Know who Thomas Malthus was and how Malthusian controversy can be seen in ‘A Christmas Carol’.

·         Understand and confidently retell and explain what happens in the story.

·         Understand Scrooge’s character arc and how he develops as a character.

·         Understand and use the following key terms: allegory, misanthropist, altruistic, catalyst, redemption.

·         Understand and develop thesis statements which act as the spine of essay efforts.

LANGUAGE

·         Understand the breakdown of Paper 1, Section A: Reading

·         Understand how to approach each question, with a specific focus on Q3 – how does the writer structure the text to interest the reader?

LITERATURE

·         Develop knowledge about the Edwardian era and the events from 1912-1945: including WW1, WW2, labour unrest and the suffragette movement.

·         Understand who J. B Priestley was; what happened during his life; why he wrote the play ‘An Inspector Calls’ and what he hoped to achieve through it.

·         Understand changes to the class hierarchy from 1912-45.

·         Understand the different ideologies of: socialism, conservatism and capitalism.

·         Understand and confidently retell and explain what happens in the play.

·         Understand the different character’s arcs and how they develop as characters.

·         Understand and use the following key terms: microcosm, egalitarian, zeitgeist, conduit.

LANGUAGE

·         Understand the breakdown of Paper 2, Section A: Reading

·         Understand how to approach each question, with a specific focus on Q2 and Q4.

LITERATURE

·         Read and understand the power poems from the anthology:

-          Ozymandias

-          My Last Duchess

-          London

-          Extract from The Prelude

-          Storm on the Island

-          Kamikaze

-          Tissue

-          The Emigree

-          Checking Out Me History

·         Understand the context of each poem and how it affects the meaning of the poem.

·         Understand what the unseen poetry component consists of.

·         Use the skills developed over the two poetry units to approach unseen poetry examples.

·         Understand what the unseen mark schemes requires of them

LANGUAGE

·         Understand the mark scheme for Section B: Non fiction, transactional writing.

·         Revision of newspaper articles; magazine articles, letter writing, speech writing and review writing.

·         Understand the use of PALL when planning transactional writing pieces. (Purpose, audience, language, layout)

LITERATURE

Revision of characters, themes, and key quotations from the novella.

SPOKEN LANGUAGE

Revision of ethos, pathos and logos.

Revision of discourse markers for addition.

Revision of how to engage an audience.

Check for Understanding

How we will check for understanding in this unit of work

Assessment

Checkpoint:

·         Analytical Writing: theme comparison of two poems

·         Descriptive writing based on war poems.

Assessment

Checkpoint:

·         Analytical Writing: characterisation of Scrooge

·         Past paper of Questions 1-4 of Paper 1.

Assessment

Checkpoint:

·         Analytical Writing: characterisation of theme in the play

·         Past paper of Questions 1-4 of Paper 2.

Assessment

Checkpoint:

·         Analytical Writing: theme comparison of two poems

·         Past paper 2: transactional writing piece.

Assessment

Checkpoint:

·         Speech writing

·         Speech performance

Year 11

Unit 1:

Literature: Macbeth, William Shakespeare  (Paper 1) (NEW 2024/25)

Language: Paper 1 Revision

Unit 2:

Literature: Unseen Poetry and Revision Carousel - Paper 2:

An Inspector Calls; Anthology Poetry; Unseen Poetry.

Language: Paper 2 Revision

Unit 3:

Literature: Revision Carousel - Paper 1:

Macbeth & A Christmas Carol & Paper 2: An Inspector Calls; Anthology Poetry; Unseen Poetry.

Language: Paper 1 & Paper 2 Revision

Key Learning

Students need to know and remember from this unit of work

LITERATURE

·         Develop knowledge about the Jacobean era; James I; The Gunpowder Plot; belief in the Supernatural and Witchcraft.

·         Understand why Shakespeare wrote the play and what he hoped to achieve.

·         Understand the concepts of: The Great Chain of Being; The Divine Right of Kings; Regicide and treason; hamartia.

·         Understand what a motif is and identify the motifs used within Macbeth.

·         Understand and confidently retell and explain what happens in the story.

·         Understand key characters’ arcs and how Shakespeare develops his characters.

LANGUAGE:

·         Paper 1: Section A and B revision.

LITERATURE

·         Revision of:

o   An Inspector Calls

o   Anthology poetry

o   Unseen poetry

LANGUAGE:

·         Paper 2: Section A and B revision.

LITERATURE

·         Revision of:

o   Macbeth

o   A Christmas Carol

o   An Inspector Calls

o   Anthology poetry

o   Unseen poetry

LANGUAGE:

·         Paper 1: Section A and B revision.

·         Paper 2: Section A and B revision.

Check for Understanding

How we will check for understanding in this unit of work

Assessment

Checkpoint:

November Mocks: Literature Paper 1 (Macbeth and A Christmas Carol)

Language Paper 1

Assessment

Checkpoint:

February Mocks:

Literature Paper 2 (AIC, Anthology poetry, Unseen poetry)

Language Paper 2

Assessment

Checkpoint:

FINAL EXAMINATIONS

Literature: Paper 1 and Paper 2

Language: Paper 1 and Paper 2