Year 7

Autumn Term

Love, Relationships and Betrayal in Literature: Poetry

 

Assessment:

Literature: How does Wordsworth present the theme of love in Valentine?

Language: Letter “Valentine’s Day is over-hyped and a waste of money”. Write a letter to your local newspaper in which you agree or disagree with the statement.

Spring Term

Love, Relationships and Betrayal in Literature: Shakespeare  – ‘Macbeth’

 

Assessment:

Literature: How does Shakespeare present Macbeth in the opening 3 scenes?

Language:

Speech “Does Shakespeare still have a place on the modern curriculum?”

Narrative Write the beginning of a story called ‘The Betrayal’

Summer Term

Love, Relationships and Betrayal in Literature: Prose

Texts:

Whole Texts:

“Lamb to the Slaughter”

“Royal Jelly”

Extracts:

“Wuthering Heights”

“The Mill on the Floss”

“Jayne Eyre”

 

Assessment:

Literature: How does Dahl present character in ‘Royal Jelly’?

Language:

Narrative  – Write the opening of a short story that establishes character and setting

Enrichment/Wider Reading

Wider reading around the texts studied in class & private reading is encouraged by class teachers.

One lesson a fortnight in the Library.

Class Readers that can be read for pleasure: ‘Wonder’, ‘Wolf Brother’, ‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’

Year 8

Autumn Term

Power & Conflict Texts WAR – a range of fiction and non-fiction texts studied.

Poems include:

‘Dulce et Decorum est’

‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’

‘Base Detail’

‘The General’

Prose extracts include:

Chapter 5 of ‘Frankenstein’

‘War Horse’

‘Birdsong’

 

Assessment

Literature:

How does Owen present conflict in ‘Dulce’?

How does Owen present conflict in ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’?

Language:

War Horse Reading Assessment

Persuasive speech in response to the quote: “Now that all the veterans of WW1 have died the poppy has become an outdated symbol and it needs to be updated or got rid of.”

Spring Term

Power, Conflict & Discovery Texts Man and the Weather

Texts:

The Tempest

‘Storm on the Island’

‘Hurricane hits England’

 

Assessment

Literature:

How does Shakespeare present Caliban?

Language:

Write a description of a storm

Summer Term

Power, Adventure  & Discovery Texts:

‘Of Mice & Men’

 

Assessment

Literature:

How does Steinbeck present the themes of friendship and freedom?

Language:

Reading Assessment

Writing: Write an article about the deaths of a local woman and itinerant labourer killed on a Salinas ranch.

Enrichment/Wider Reading

Wider reading around the texts studied in class & private reading is encouraged by class teachers.

One lesson a fortnight in the Library.

Class Readers that can be read for pleasure: ‘Beast’, ‘Stone Cold’, ‘Trash’

Year 9

Autumn Term

Power, Conflict and Morality:

Non Fiction & Poetry – Moral Panics

Byron and the Romantics

The cult of celebrity.

Desegregation in 1950s-60s America

Mods and Rockers

Sophie Lancaster – Black Roses

Does media consumption encourage violence? Bulger

Video games

Slender man

Victorian Societal Worries

Knife Crime

To vaccinate or not?

Poverty in society

Obesity & the sugar tax

BlackFish – should Sea World be closed? Are Zoos necessary?

Is testing on animals justifiable? Anna Laetitia Barbauld’s ‘The Mouse’s petition’

Assessment

Literature:

How does Barbauld use language in ‘The Mouse’s Petition’?

Language:

Speech on a moral panic topic – should animals be kept captive for our entertainment

Spring Term

Power, Conflict and Morality:

Prose – Noughts and Crosses

  

Assessment

Literature:

How are Callum/ Sephy presented?

Language:

How does Blackman use Language to create atmosphere?

Summer Term

Power, Conflict and Morality:

Shakespeare – Romeo and Juliet

  

Assessment

Literature:

How does Shakespeare present Romeo?

Language:

Description of the ballroom scene

Enrichment/Wider Reading

Wider reading around the texts studied in class & private reading is encouraged by class teachers.

Re-reading of the texts studied.

Year 10

Autumn Term

19th Century Literature: ‘A Christmas Carol’.

A range of Literary Fiction & Non Fiction, Descriptive & Narrative writing & Transactional / Discursive writing.

Spring Term

Power & Conflict Poetry

A range of Literary Fiction & Non Fiction, Descriptive & Narrative writing & Transactional / Discursive writing

Summer Term

Modern text: ‘DNA’

A range of Literary Fiction & Non Fiction, Descriptive & Narrative writing & Transactional / Discursive writing.

Enrichment/Wider Reading

Wider reading around the texts studied in class. Re-reading of the texts studied is important so as to reinforce pupils’ understanding of the text.

Year 11

Autumn Term

Shakespeare: ‘Romeo & Juliet’ revision

19th Century Literature: ‘A Christmas Carol’ revision

Lang P1

Lang P2

Spring Term

Modern texts: ‘DNA’ revision

Power & Conflict Poetry revision.

Lang P1

Lang P2

Summer Term

Gap teaching

Enrichment/Wider Reading

Each year the Road Map, which details revision topics, will have suggested  wider reading. Depending upon the play being screened, Year 11 will usually attend a ‘Shakespeare Live’ broadcast in school of the Shakespeare play they are studying.

Assessment of Learning

Years 7 & 8 & 9

Assessment is done each term; a piece of writing is assessed, strengths are highlighted (WWW) & how to improve (EBI) is also identified. Pupils are asked to engage with their work and consider how to improve by responding to the EBIs in green pen. Assessment also occurs at the end of the Autumn term and the end of the Spring term via a Reading, Writing & SPAG test that is common to all TCAT schools. At the end of the Summer term a similar test will be undertaken.

Years 10 & 11

AQA GCSE Language & Literature are studied as separate subjects so pupils gain 2 different GCSEs from English lessons. The work is assessed using (WWW) & (EBI) and pieces are graded according to the appropriate GCSE mark scheme. Pupils are asked to engage with their work and consider how to improve by responding to the EBIs in green pen.

The link below will give allows you to choose English Language or Literature for further detail regarding the specifications.

https://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects

The link below will give allows you to choose English Language or Literature for further detail regarding the specifications.

https://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects

Download English Assessment Map