St Richard Reynolds Catholic High School
SUBJECT:
English
YEAR GROUP:
7
TOPICS COVERED:
Language and Media: Story and Setting; Aspects of Poetry; Novel: Private
Peaceful; Drama: A Flavour of Shakespeare; Extended Project: Short Stories.
All Programmes of Study are taught on rotation during the academic year.
PROGRAMME OF STUDY
Language and Media Unit: Story and Setting
7
METHOD OF ASSESSMENT
Writing: re-drafted – describe a setting of your
choice in detail.
This is an eight week programme of study exploring key reading and writing skills that will
support pupils’ transition into key stage 3. This programme aims to encourage students in their Reading: controlled conditions – Consider how
Roald Dahl uses language to present Miss
understanding of how writers’ use language and structure to impact on their audience. Pupils
Pratchett
explore and analyse a range of multimodal texts around the theme of story and plan and
Speaking and listening: individual task –
produce independent writing. Pupils are also encouraged to present information in a variety of
balloon debate (argue, persuade) – which
forms that will enhance their planning skills and enable them to develop and adapt their
speaking and listening skills. Students will also gain an understanding of how writers’ intentions fictional character should survive?
are revealed through their writing.
Writing: controlled conditions - create a
Aspects of Poetry
newspaper report about the events in ‘The
Lady of Shalott’ (inform and explain)
This eight week programme of study aims to introduce poetry and teach pupils about different
Reading: re-drafted - examine how Cook
poetic forms and techniques. Pupils will analyse contemporary poetry and pre twentieth
presents an image of spiders in his poem ‘The
century poems and consider the importance and relevance of context. We will also explore
Spider’?
how language, structure, themes and ideas are explored in poems and the impact of these on
the reader. Pupils will learn the tools for exploring poems independently and how to write about Speaking and listening: pairs research and
create a presentation on a poet and prepare a
poems analytically.
dramatic reading of one of their poems
(explain, describe, narrate).
Writing: controlled conditions – describe their
first day at school or a daunting experience
A study of ‘Private Peaceful’ by Michael Morpurgo as part of a nine week Programme of Study. (describe)
Pupils will learn about the tools they will need in order to successfully study a novel – including: Reading: re-drafted – Analyse how Morpurgo
has presented the character of Charlie in the
language, themes, structure, setting, context, mood and the writer’s intentions/key messages.
novel.
Pupils will also research and explore the contextual references from the novel – focusing on
Speaking and listening: group task – role
the events leading up to WW1 and the conditions of trench life. They will learn how to write
play a radio interview with characters before
about a novel analytically, following the PEE+ model and they will also write creatively, using
techniques used by Morpurgo, to describe an event clearly. In addition, pupils will consider the the court martial (explore and explain).
moral/social implications of issues raised in the text.
Novel: ‘Private Peaceful’ by Michael Morpurgo
Drama: A Flavour of Shakespeare
A nine week Programme of Study introducing pupils to Elizabethan/Jacobean theatre and
Shakespeare. Pupils will learn about Shakespeare’s life and life in Elizabethan London and
they will also be introduced to the methods for studying a play. Pupils will gain an insight into
the genres of Shakespeare’s plays and gain an overview into some of Shakespeare’s famous
plays through active approaches. We will then focus specifically on ‘A Midsummer Night’s
Dream’ for closer/more focused analysis.
Writing: re-drafted - film review (analyse,
review, comment) of the 1999 film adaptation.
Reading: controlled conditions – Explore how
Shakespeare presents the theme of love in Act
1 scene 1.
Speaking and listening: Individual task – hotseating in the role of one of the lovers
(imagine).
Extended Project: Short Stories
Pupils will be presented with three project options with increasing levels of challenge. This will
form an independent project for pupils and they will be required to complete four stages to the
task – Proposal, Planning, Project and Proof (references).
Three project options exploring Short
Stories.