Literature:

Poetry through the Ages – Shakespeare to modern

Developing engagement with poetry and understanding of poetic devices and their effect

Modern Shakespeare – introduction to themes

Overview of comedies, tragedies and history plays. Addressing contemporary issues i.e. colonialism, anti-Semitism and feminism through Shakespeare’s plays.

Studying a novel

Studying and evaluating a whole novel. An exploration of the presentation of a character.  

Language:

Fiction Writing

Dystopian fiction: exploring setting, characterisation and sensory language, using excerpts from dystopian fiction.

Non - fiction writing

Letter, speech, review.

Understanding the need to adapt content and tone to suit audience and purpose

Listening and Speaking –

A speech on a current issue.

Literature:

The Gothic and Romantic genres

Learning about poetry and prose of the Gothic and the Romantic genres across time; writing in the style of a Gothic writer.

Modern Shakespeare -  Macbeth

Learning how to approach a whole play, using aspects of war and conflict to support the study. 
 

Studying a novel:

‘Animal Farm’

Studying and evaluating a whole novel. Learning about the importance of context.  Focus on how the text is still relevant.

Language:

Short stories:

Exploring a selection of short stories for relatable themes and as an inspiration for creative writing.

Building up on skills from Y7 – narrative perspective, voice and chronology.
 Language-based unit – paper Non-fiction unit

Module to revise reading and writing of Non-fiction.

Focus on accuracy.

Listening and Speaking –

A presentation (GCSE style – might be Macbeth related)

Literature:

Studying a novel:

John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men

Studying an extended novel and learning about the social and historical context of this time period; examining how shifts in political and social climates influence literary responses.

Modern Shakespeare:

Othello OR: Much Ado about Nothing

Mirroring the study skills needed to access the text at GCSE level.

Eduqas GCSE Poetry Anthology

To explore and analyse poems in the GCSE anthology in preparation for KS4. To introduce the SP play of study.

Language:

Non-fiction and creative writing skills and reading skills.

Practising and studying key writing and communication skills using a range of resources and stimulus (in preparation for GCSE English Language).

Listening and Speaking -

Introduction to GCSE Language and Literature Eduqas GCSE Language C1 and Poetry Anthology

A combination of fiction, non-fiction and poetry to develop a range of skills/tasks to introduce Language Component 1 style questions and Literature Component 1.

Literature Component 1: Eduqas poetry anthology and skills to approach unseen poetry

Literature Component 2: 19th Century Novel: A Christmas Carol

Language Component 1: Creative writing and 20th century fiction

Literature Component 2: Post-1914 prose/drama: An Inspector Calls/Lord of the Flies

Language Component 2: non-fiction and transactional writing

Language Component 2: 19th and 21st century non-fiction reading paper 

Literature Component 1: Shakespeare: Romeo Juliet

Literature revision and Language revision and exam preparation

Component one, drama:

• Dr Faustus 

Component two, prose:

• Two novels from a selected cluster

Component three, poetry:

Poems of the Decade

A nominated poet

Component four, coursework:

Introduction and preparation

Component one, drama:

• King Lear/Hamlet

Component four, coursework:

• Teaching and preparation
• Writing skills

Revision and exam preparation

Phonetics, phonology and prosodics: how speech sounds and effects are articulated and analysed

Lexis and semantics: the vocabulary of English, including social and historical variation

Grammar including morphology: the structural patterns and shapes of English at sentence, clause, phrase and word level

Pragmatics: the contextual aspects of language use

Discourse: extended stretches of communication occurring in different genres, modes and contexts.

Learners will apply the language levels to a range of contexts:

• historical

• geographical

• social and individual varieties of English

• aspects of language and identity.