English
Qualifications offered are:
Functional Skills English Entry levels 1,2,3 with Pearson/Excel
Functional skills levels 1 and 2 with AQA
GCSE English with AQA
GCSE English Literature with AQA
A Level English Literature with OCR
Year | Term 1: Autumn | Term 2: Winter | Term 3: Spring | Term 4: Summer |
7 | Guided Reading Students will study a reading book in lessons designed to develop their thinking and inference skills.
| Guided Reading Students will study a reading book in lessons designed to develop their thinking and inference skills. Creative Writing Skills Using techniques and ideas inspired by their reading student create their own characters and stories. | Shakespeare Students will explore Shakespeare’s life, work and types of audience as an introduction to one of the following plays. A Midsummer Night’s Dream or Twelfth Night
| Poetry Introduction to poetry language techniques, imagery, social historical context and writer's purpose. Students will also develop their extended writing skills.
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8 | Guided Reading Students will study a reading book in lessons designed to develop their thinking and inference skills. | Guided Reading Students will study a reading book in lessons designed to develop their thinking and inference skills. | Introduction to Pre-1914 literature texts Students will explore extracts from Jane Eyre, I Christmas carol, The Selfish Giant, Nicholas Nicholby and Far from the Madding Crowd. | Class Reading Book Shared reading of a novel, developing their knowledge of how writers use language and structure to engage readers. |
| Black British Writing Students will undertake a writing project
| Creative Writing Skills Using techniques and ideas inspired by their reading student create their own characters and stories.
| Media Studies Students learn about how to create print, web and film news reports. They will present a news report on film or write an extended non-fiction piece expressing a viewpoint. | Narrative Poetry The Highwayman, The Wild Irish Rose Students develop their understanding of English cultural heritage and the way language, form and structure create meaning in a text. |
9 | Summarising and comparing characters, places and events in fiction extracts Students begin building and developing analytical skills in preparation for GCSE | Analysing Drama Shared reading of a play, developing students’ knowledge of how writers use language and structure to create meaning and the significance of social and historical context in | Pre-1914 extracts (fiction and non-fiction) Students prepare for GCSE study by learning to analyse unseen texts, such as Frankenstein, Northanger Abbey, Wuthering Heights, Dracula.
Shakespeare Shared reading of Romeo and Juliet, developing students’ knowledge of social/historical context and how writers use language and structure to create meaning. | Shakespeare (cont’d) Poetry Anthology Students will be developing their understanding and use of figurative language and imagery through their study of poems in the Power and Conflict AQA anthology; namely Poppies, Charge of the Light Brigade, War Photographer and Ozymandias
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10 | GCSE Language | Approachng ‘Unseen’ Text Skills Summarising and comparing a range literary extracts. | Figurative Language Skills Analysing language techniques in a range of literary extracts. | Creative writing Skills Using language and structure techniques, to describe and to express a point of view. | Reading for meaning skills Summarising and comparing characters, places and events in fiction extracts. |
GCSE Literature | Shakespeare Close study and revision of Romeo and Juliet. | 19th Century Novels Continued close study of A Christmas Carol | Power and Conflict Poetry Close study of a selection of poems set by the AQA examination board | Modern Texts Completion and revision of the AQA Power and Conflict anthology | |
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11 | GCSE Language | Reading for meaning skills Reading literary fiction for Paper 1. | Paper 1 writing skills Further developing creative writing and descriptive techniques. Spoken Language Assessments | Reading for meaning skills Reading literary non fiction and comparing writers’ viewpoints for Paper 2 preparation. Preparation for Mock exams. | Paper 2 writing skills Further developing writing for different purposes and to express viewpoints. Exam preparation. Revision and practice papers. After school revision sessions. |
GCSE Literature | Power and Conflict Poetry Revision of An Inspector Calls Reading literary fiction and non-fiction, and comparing writers’ viewpoints. | 19th Century Novels Revision of the 19th century novel. Preparation for Spoken Language presentations. | Exam Preparation Revising Shakespeare and the modern text. | Exam Preparation Revision and practice papers. After school revision sessions. |