Foundation Grammar and Sentence Structure

• Paragraphing
• Improving Vocabulary
• Using commas and the apostrophe
• Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives and adverbs
• The main and subordinate clause
• Its and It’s
• Punctuating Speech
• Varying Sentence structure

Writing to Describe

• Scheme of Learning

Writing to Persuade

• Room 101 speaking and listening task based on the Orwellian concept from 1984.
• Purposeful structuring of persuasive writing
• Contrast and addition connectives
• Using emotive language
• Rhetorical techniques
• Personal pronouns, comparatives & superlatives and the Rule of Three
• Practice assessment tasks

Class Novel

• A challenging and varied scheme of learning based around the assessment focuses for both reading and writing.

Assessment (W)

Written piece: Explore, Imagine, Entertain

Assessment (W)

Written piece: Argue, Persuade, Advise

Assessment (W)

Written task based around the novel

Media and Non-Fiction Texts

• Adapting a text to a certain audience
• How the purpose of a text affects its language and layout
• Recognition of multi-purpose texts
• Distinguishing between fact and opinion
• Techniques used to present an argument
• Bias, rhetoric and exaggeration
• Generalisations, and counter arguments
• Analysis of two media texts

Ghosts and The Supernatural

• Techniques used to create tension in ghost story writing
• Short, breathless sentences
• Analysis of The Red Room, by H.G. Wells
• Story writing using the four part structure
• A comparative essay based on The Red Room by HG Wells and The Signal-Man by Charles Dickens

Class Novel

• Completion of the Class Novel scheme of learning.
• Assessments
• Completion and checking of portfolio work in preparation for year 8.

Assessment (R)

Analysis of media piece: Water World

Understanding writer’s craft: Analysis of a text

Assessment (R)

Reading exam paper based on the class novel

Intermediate Grammar and Sentence Structure

• Paragraphing
• Improving Vocabulary
• Using commas and the apostrophe
• Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives and adverbs
• The main and subordinate clause
• Its and It’s
• Punctuating Speech
• Varying Sentence structure

Frankenstein

• Literary, social and historical context
• Thematic content
• Inference and Deduction

Poetry from a Literary Heritage

• ‘Nettles’ by Vernon Scannell
• ‘London’ by William Blake
• The Enlightenment and Blake’s London
• Exploration of imagery, style and form
• Structure
• Poetic Techniques
• Using P.E.E.

Class Novel

• A challenging and varied scheme of learning based around the assessment focuses for both reading and writing.

Assessment(R)

Analysis of Frankenstein

Assessment (R)

Written analytical essay

Assessment (R) 

Novel-based reading exam.

Writing to Entertain

• Scheme of Learning based on narrative writing
• Effective Openings
• Structuring a story in four parts
• Avoiding Cliché
• Identifying main and subordinate clauses in complex sentences
• Analysis of “Wild Wood”

• Skimming, scanning and highlighting
• Making linear and diagrammatic notes
• Making notes from multi-modal texts
• Transforming notes into Standard English

An Introduction to Shakespeare

• Text in performance
• Language
• Character and motivation
• Ideas and themes

Class Novel

• Completion of the Class Novel scheme of learning.
• Assessments
• Completion and checking of portfolio work in preparation for year 9.

Assessment (W)

Inform, Explain, Describe

Assessment (W)

Argue, Persuade, Advise

Advanced Grammar and Sentence Structure

• Paragraphing
• Embedded Clauses
• Using commas and the apostrophe
• Infinitive verbs and adverbial clauses
• Adjectival Clauses
• The main and subordinate clause
• Its and It’s
• Punctuating Speech
• Varying Sentence structure

Functional Skills: Reading and Writing

Argue, Persuade, Advise

• Booster Scheme

Explore, Imagine, Entertain

• Booster Scheme

Analyse, Review, Comment

• Booster Scheme

Inform, Explain, Describe

• Booster Scheme

Class Novel

• A challenging and varied scheme of learning based around the assessment focuses for both reading and writing.
• Once class novel is complete, work begins on the first GCSE Controlled Assessment. Language Unit 4; Studying Spoken Language.

Assessment (W)

Writing a Formal Email

Assessment (W)

Writing Paper

Assessment(R&W)

Reading Exam paper

Literature Exam Preparation / Controlled Assessment:

Unit 3: Of Mice and Men

Controlled Assessment:

Unit 3: Narrative Writing

Controlled Assessment

Lit Unit 3:

Exam Preparation:

Language Unit 1 (i.e. Paper 2 section A)

Controlled Assessment:

Unit 3: Descriptive writing

Controlled Assessment:

Lit Unit 3: Shakespeare and poetry 

Exam Preparation:

Language Unit 1

Literature Unit 1 – Of Mice and Men/Unseen poetry comparison

JUNE EXAMS:

·LITERATURE UNIT 1

·LANGUAGE UNIT 1