English Department: Scheme Of Work
Key Stage 3
Year 7
| Autumn | Spring | Summer |
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| Scheme Of Work | ||
Unit 1: |
Unit 5: What’s in the News: investigating the media 6 weeks |
Unit 8: Great Lives: biographical and autobiographical writing 7 weeks |
| Base line test 1 week |
Unit 6: Tales of Wonder – Ballads 4 weeks |
Unit 9: Introduction to Shakespeare: researching, then reader focus on a series of extracts from his plays and poems 7 weeks |
Unit 2: |
Unit 7: |
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| Unit 3: Talk About Talk 3 weeks |
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Unit 4: |
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| Assessment | ||
| 1. Base Line test – 1st Day at Moorside (W) | 5. Speaking and listening - News report | 9. Speaking & Listening research project into a family member |
| 2. Year 7 Exam (R&W) | 6. Newspaper article | 10. Written analysis of a biographical piece (R&W) |
| 3. Speaking and Listening - Interview | 7. Ballad / letter | 11. Shakespeare Analysis (R) |
| 4.GCSE Preparation Descriptive Writing (W) | 8. News Report – (W) | 12. Speaking and listening – Shakespeare Play |
Year 8
| Autumn | Spring | Summer |
|---|---|---|
| Scheme Of Work | ||
| Unit 1: Race for the Stone - 5 weeks |
Unit 4: Exam prep. and Yr 8 Exams 3 weeks |
Unit 7: School under Siege – Media and drama based unit 7 weeks |
| Unit 2: Study of a pre-20th century novel 6 weeks |
Unit 5: A Study of Modern Poetry 5 weeks |
Unit 8: Study of a play – Hobson’s choice or Flour Babies – reading for meaning 7 weeks |
| Unit 3 - What makes a good story? 3 weeks |
Unit 6: Debates: rhetorical devices 4 weeks |
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| Assessment | ||
| 1.Story opening/scenario (W) | 5.Year 8 exams – Reading (R & W) | 9. Speaking and Listening – Virus Meeting |
| 2. GCSE Preparation – Descriptive Writing (W) | 6. Year 8 Exams Writing (W) ) | 10. Newspaper Article (W) |
| 3. Character study – Miss Havisham – P.E.E (R) | 7. Written comparison of poems (W | 11. Character study (R & W) |
| 4. Guess the genre (Sp. & List.) | 8. Speaking and Listening – Debate | 12. Speaking and Listening – Thematic study of Play |
Year 9
| Autumn | Spring | Summer |
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| Scheme Of Work | ||
| Unit 1: Travelling and Telling 5 weeks |
Unit 4: Study of a Shakespeare Play 6 weeks |
Unit 6: Paper 2 Exam Prep 1 week |
| Unit 2: Analysing media 4 weeks |
Unit 5: War Literature (Journey’s End) 6 weeks |
Exams |
| Unit 3: Said With Feeling 5 weeks |
Evaluation of exams 1 week |
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| Unit 7: Spoken Language Study 4 weeks |
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| Unit 8: Imaginative Writing 5 weeks |
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| Assessment | ||
| 1. Travel Writing Analysis (R) | 5. Speaking and Listening Modern translation drama of Shakespeare Play | 9. Year 9 Exam (R) |
| 2. Test Training (W) | 6. Shakespeare scene analysis essay (R & W) | 10. Year 9 Exam (W) |
| 3. Speaking & Listening – media analysis | 7. Original Writing – War Diaries (W) | 11. Writing – Spoken Language (R) |
| 4. GCSE Unseen poetry comparison – Literature Assessment (R) | 8. Drama Sp & List. | 12. GCSE Language Preparation – Descriptive Writing (W) |
Key Stage 4
Year 10
| Autumn Term 1 | Autumn Term 2 | Spring Term 1 | Spring Term 2 | Summer Term 1 | |
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| Scheme Of Work | 1. Explain outline of course and assessment/exam plan. | Unit 3: Narrative Writing - Controlled Assessment | Unit 3: Studying Written Language - Controlled Assessment | Unit 4: Studying Spoken Language | Unit 1: Exam - Non-fiction text and questions |
| Unit 3: Descriptive Writing - Controlled Assessment | 1. S&L: communicating and adapting language - Individual. | 1. Continue study of text for controlled assessment. | 1. Continue to prepare for Studying Spoken Language assessment. | 1. Continue exam Preparation for non-fiction text and questions. | |
| 2. S&L: interacting and responding - Group. | 2. Prepare for Narrative Writing Assessment. | 2. S&L: role play - Drama. | Unit 1: Exam - Non-fiction text and questions | Unit 2: Exam - Non-fiction writing tasks | |
| 3. Prepare for Descriptive Assessment. | Unit 3: Studying Written Language - Controlled Assessment | Unit 4: Studying Spoken Language | 2. Exam Preparation for non-fiction text and questions. | 2. Exam Preparation for non-fiction writing tasks. | |
| 3. Begin study of text for controlled assessment. | 3. Prepare for Studying Spoken Language assessment. | ||||
| Assessment | 1. S&L - Group | 3. S&L - Individual | 1. Studying Written Language Controlled Assessment | 2. Studying Spoken Language Controlled Assessment | 1. Unit 1: Non-fiction text question |
| 2. Descriptive Writing Controlled Assessment | 4. Narrative Writing Controlled Assessment | 2. S&L - Drama | 3. Unit 1: Non-fiction text question | 2. Unit 2: Non-fiction writing task |
Year 11
| Autumn Term | Spring Term | Summer Term | |
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| Scheme Of Work | 1. Unit 3 - Paper 1 - Section B - 3 weeks | 4. Unit 6 - Paper 2 - Section A - 3 weeks | 7. Unit 5 - Exam Papers |
| 2. Unit 4 - Of Mice and Men - 8 weeks | 5. Unit 7 - Paper 2 - Section B - 3 weeks | ||
| 3. Unit 5 - Unseen poetry prep - 4 weeks | 6. Unit 8 - Revise Key texts - 4 weeks | ||
| Assessment | 1. Paper 1 - Section B | 5. Paper 2 - Section A | 9. Exam Paper 1 |
| 2. Of Mice and Men Literature Exam Question | 6. Paper 2 -Section B | 10. Exam Paper 2 | |
| 3. Of Mice and Men Literature Exam Question | 7. Literature play question | ||
| 4. Un-seen Poem Question | 8. Of Mice and Men question |
