Subject:
Teacher:
Year 7 Subject Learning Map
Autumn Term
Date (w/b)
Weekly Focus
Lesson Details/Objectives
5th Sept
Introduction to
Mastery and Literacy
Revision
Lessons 1-5
WEEK 1
12th Sept
The History of the
English Language
WEEK 2
19th Sept
‘Beowulf’
26th Sept
• Literacy Revision
• Reading Assessment
• Looking at Mastery and how it is used
• Rules and Routines
Lessons 6-10
• Origins of the English Language
• The Roman Influence
• Regional Differences
• The Lindisfarne Gospels
Lessons 11-15
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WEEK 3
‘Beowulf’
The history of Beowulf
Plot, Structure, Language and Poetic
Conventions
Lessons 16-20
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WEEK 4
Opening - Creative Writing, exploring
the hero, feasts and funerals (Sutton
Hoo)
3rd Oct
‘Beowulf’
Lessons 21-25
WEEK 5
ASSESSMENT
•
10th Oct
The History of the
English Language
Lessons 26-30
WEEK 6
=
Strength
=
Weakne
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Preparation and Assessment
The impact of invasions – Vikings,
Normans (The Great Vowel Shift)
Technological Inventions
.
Have I
revised
this?
Subject:
Teacher:
17th Oct
Assessment
Feedback
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WEEK 7
24th Oct
•
31st Oct
Introduction to
Chaucer
Continuation with
Chaucer
Introduction to
Shakespeare
Shakespeare
Continued
ASSESSMENT
(Extract from
Richard the Third)
Shakespeare
Continued
Assessment
Feedback
WEEK 14
Key facts about William Shakespeare
Knowledge about his theatre company
and The Globe
• His most famous plays and sonnets
Lessons 51-55
Descriptive writing about life in
Shakespearean times
• Perspective of a ‘groundling’ in the
Globe theatre
• Shakespeare’s histories and Richard
the Third
Lessons 56-60
Carnegie Winners
Shakespeare’s contemporaries
Modern day interpretations
Lessons 61-65
•
WEEK 13
12th Dec
• The Pardoner’s Tale
• The Knight’s Tale
• Historical Context
• Morals of the Tales
• Importance of Chaucer
Lessons 46-50
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WEEK 12
5th Dec
Lessons 41-45
•
WEEK 11
28th Nov
Who was Geoffrey Chaucer?
What are the Canterbury Tales?
The Prologue
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WEEK 10
21st Nov
Lessons 36- 40
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WEEK 9
14th Nov
Improvements (green pen work)
HALF-TERM
HOLIDAY
WEEK 8
7th Nov
Lessons 31-35
Improvements (green pen work)
Lessons 66-70
.
• An introduction to recent winners
• Examining extracts
• Evaluation of unit
.
Subject:
Teacher:
19th Dec
CHRISTMAS
HOLIDAY
26th Dec
CHRISTMAS
HOLIDAY
Spring Term
Date (w/b)
Weekly Focus
2nd Jan
Gothic Literature Lessons1-3
WEEK 15
9th Jan
WEEK 16
16th Jan
WEEK 17
23rd Jan
WEEK 18
30th Jan
Lesson Details/Objectives
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What is Gothic Horror?
Conventions of Gothic Literature
Creating a description of a Gothic
setting/character
Gothic Literature Lessons 4-8
• Exploring the ‘Raven’
• Analysing the text
• Creating a ‘Gothic’ animal
Gothic Literature Lessons 9-13
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Explore extract from Dracula
How is fear created?
Developing analytical writing
Gothic Literature Lessons 14-18
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Exploring ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’
How is madness presented?
Producing an analysis
How is tension created?
ASSESSMENT
(Lit. Analysis)
Gothic Literature Lessons 19-23
H/Work
I have
revised
this
Subject:
Teacher:
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WEEK 19
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6th Feb
Gothic Literature Lessons 24-27
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WEEK 20
13th Feb
HALF-TERM
HOLIDAY
20th Feb
Romeo and
Juliet
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Romeo and
Juliet
6th March
Romeo and
Juliet
•
13th March
ASSESSMENT
Romeo and
Juliet
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20th March
WEEK 25
Romeo and
Juliet
The Secret Meeting and Marriage
‘Murder in the Square’ - News
Report
Persuasive editor’s column
Lessons 16-20
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WEEK 24
Unrequited love
Ideology surrounding arranged
marriages
Love at first sight
Shakespeare’s use of imagery
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.
Lessons 11-15
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WEEK 23
Role of men and women in
Shakespearean Times
Plot predictions
Exploring the prologue
Lessons 6-10
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WEEK 22
Responding to a picture-stimuli
Work-shop for creative writing
Write up
Assessment Feedback (Green pen
work)
Lessons 1-5
•
WEEK 21
27th Feb
Explore Frankenstein
What influenced the creation of
Frankenstein?
How is Frankenstein’s monster
described by Shelley?
Who is the real ‘monster’? Debate.
‘Parting is such sweet sorrow’ Act 3
Scene 5
The role of the ‘good’ father
Group drama exploring the
arranged marriage ultimatum
Lessons 21-25
•
In-role writing
Subject:
Teacher:
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27th March
Romeo and
Juliet
Lessons 26-30
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WEEK 26
3rd April
EASTER
HOLIDAY
10th April
EASTER
HOLIDAY
The Potion Scene - Gothic Links
Compare attitudes of Paris and
Romeo
Exploring the death scene
Who’s to blame? (Debate)
Assessment feedback (green pen
work)
Summer Term
Date (w/b)
18th April
Weekly Focus
War - Private
Peaceful
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WEEK 27
24th April
War - Private
Peaceful
War - Private
Peaceful
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8th May
WEEK 30
War - Private
Peaceful
Chapter 1 - Structure of the novel
Chapter 2 - Emotive language and
its effect
Lessons 10-13
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WEEK 29
Predictions/connotations
Historical Context
Lessons 5-9
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WEEK 28
2nd May
Lesson Details/Objectives
Lessons 1-4
Chapter 3 - Relationships and
narrator’s feelings
Chapter 4 - Diary entry
Chapter 5 - The changing balance
of power in relationships
Lessons 14-18
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Chapter 6 - Losing pets
Chapter 7 - Propaganda
Chapter 8 - Life for recruits in World
War 1
Subject:
Teacher:
15th May
ASSESSMENT
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War - Private
Peaceful
Lessons 19-23
•
WEEK 31
•
22nd May
War - Private
Peaceful
29th May
HALF-TERM
HOLIDAY
5th June
War - Private
Peaceful
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12th June
War - Private
Peaceful
19th June
War - Private
Peaceful
Chapter 12 - Predictions
Chapter 13 - Ending, reactions and
the treatment of soldiers in World
War 1
Lessons 11-15
•
WEEK 35
Chapter 11 - Gas attack/Wilfred
Owen Poem
Poetic writing responding to a
picture stimuli
Lessons 6-10
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•
WEEK 34
Chapter 9/10 - Life in the trenches
Assessment feedback - green pen
work
Lessons 1-5
•
WEEK 33
Chapter 8 continued - Comic strip
ideas
Chapter 9 - PEAK paragraphs on
Tommo and Charlie’s relationship
Lessons 24-28
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WEEK 32
Letter Home
Preparing for Assessment on
Conflict in Private Peaceful
26th June
War - Private
Peaceful
WEEK 36
ASSESSMENT
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3rd July
War - Poetry
Lessons 21-25
WEEK 37
Lessons 16-20
•
Assessment write-up
Evaluation of Unit
World War 1 Poetry research
Subject:
Teacher:
10th July
War - Poetry
•
WEEK 38
17th July
WEEK 39
Lessons 26-30
War - Poetry
Assessment Feedback (green pen
work)
Lessons 31-35
•
World War 1 Poetry Analysis
Subject:
Teacher:
Year 8 Subject Learning Map
Autumn Term
Date (w/b)
Weekly Focus
Lesson Details/Objectives
5th Sept
Routines and
Literacy Revision
Lessons 1-5
•
•
WEEK 1
12th Sept
19th Sept
Lessons 6-10
Revision
• Beowulf
• The Canterbury Tales
• Origins of the English Language
• How invasions have influenced change
in the English Language
• The influence of other cultures
(Romans, Tribes, Vikings, Normans)
A Literary Journey
Lessons 11-15
•
WEEK 3
•
26th Sept
A Literary Journey
ASSESSMENT
A Literary Journey
10th Oct
WEEK 6
•
A Literary Journey
What is metaphysical poetry?
Social historical context.
Poets of 17th Century England
John Donne-‘Death be not Proud’ and
‘No Man is an Island’
Assessment Preparation – poetry
response
Lessons 21-25
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WEEK 5
The printed word (First Dictionary and
Domesday Book)
Current day English
Lessons 16-20.
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•
WEEK 4
3rd Oct
Literacy Revision
Reading Assessment
A Literary Journey
WEEK 2
What is a novel?
Origins
Robinson Crusoe
Gulliver’s Travels
Lessons 26-30
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=
Strength
=
Weakne
ss
.
A brief history of the Industrial
revolution
Key writers/Blake
.
I have
revised
this
Subject:
Teacher:
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•
17th Oct
A Literary Journey
24th Oct
HALF-TERM
HOLIDAY
31st Oct
A Literary Journey
A Literary Journey
WEEK 9
14th Nov
A Literary Journey
WEEK 10
ASSESSMENT
21st Nov
WEEK 11
A Literary Journey
The Romantic period
What is Romanticism?
Keats
Coleridge
Wordsworth
Lessons 36- 40
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WEEK 8
7th Nov
Lessons 31-35
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WEEK 7
Power and Conflict
Blake’s ‘London’
The Gothic novel- features and elements
Conventions of the Gothic
Vocabulary and Gothic storytelling
Gothic Characters
Lessons 41-45
•
Bram Stoker- Dracula
•
Shelley- Frankenstein
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•
Gothic poetryPoe’s ‘The Raven’
Lessons 46-50
•
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•
Emily Bronte’s childhood
Isolation and imagination
Writing style-nature vs culture
Wuthering Heights-an introduction
Assessment preparation
Lessons 51-55
•
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•
The Rise of women’s writing
The Victorian Novel
The Class system
Elizabeth Gaskell and the Industrial
novel
North and South-The Mill trade and its
influence on Victorian Literature
.
Subject:
Teacher:
28th Nov
A Literary Journey
•
WEEK 12
5th Dec
Lessons 56-60
A Literary Journey
Context and Dickens’ novels
(overview)-common themes
• Characters as caricatures
• Victorian scandal
• Oliver Twist/A Christmas Carol
Lessons 61-65
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•
WEEK 13
•
12th Dec
A Literary Journey
WEEK 14
19th Dec
CHRISTMAS
HOLIDAY
26th Dec
CHRISTMAS
HOLIDAY
Novelist AND poet
Contemporaries
Thomas Hardy’s poetic themes- loss of
faith;chance and co incidence
‘The Oxen’
Lessons 66-70
.
• Biography and timeline of Oscar Wilde
• Lifestyle and aesthicism
• The Picture of Dorian Gray
• Assessment Feedback (green pen
work)
Spring Term
Date (w/b)
Weekly Focus
Lesson Details/Objectives
2nd Jan
Crime and
Punishment ‘Macbeth’
Lessons1-3
WEEK 15
•
The Life of William Shakespeare
H/Work
I have
revised
this
Subject:
Teacher:
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MACBETH
9th Jan
WEEK 16
16th Jan
WEEK 17
Crime and
Punishment ‘Macbeth’
Lessons 4-8
Crime and
Punishment ‘Macbeth’
Lessons 9-13
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•
ASSESSMENT
23rd Jan
WEEK 18
Crime and
Punishment ‘Macbeth’
WEEK 19
6th Feb
WEEK 20
Predictions
Themes
Superstitions and Beliefs
Prophecies and reactions
The tempting of Macbeth
Lady Macbeth’s ambition
Partners in crime-Macbeth and
Lady Macbeth
Traditional gender roles (Act 1
Scene 7)
The Murder – impact on the
Macbeths and society
Assessment preparation – Act 1
Scene 7
Lessons 14-18
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•
30th Jan
Elizabethan England
Women in the 1600s
The second prophecies
Further crimes – Banquo and
Macduff
Madness and guilt - banquet
Crime and
Punishment ‘Macbeth’
Lessons 19-23
Crime and
Punishment ‘Macbeth’
Lessons 24-27
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Lady Macbeth’s descent
Punishment and the acceptance
of fate - Macbeth/Macduff
confrontation
Who is guilty? – Debate/drama
Equal blame on Macbeth and
Lady Macbeth?
Consequences of evil
Did the punishments fit the
crimes?
Assessment feedback (green
pen work)
Evaluation of unit
Subject:
Teacher:
13th Feb
HALF-TERM
HOLIDAY
20th Feb
Extreme Travel
Lessons 1-5
•
WEEK 21
Extreme Travel
•
27th Feb
Extreme Travel
Lessons 6-10
•
WEEK 22
•
•
6th
March
ASSESSMENT
Extreme Travel
13th March
Extreme Travel
ASSESSMENT
20th March
Extreme Travel
27th March
WEEK 26
Extreme Travel
The history of space travel
Neil Armstrong
Felix Baumgartner
Kennedy’s speech
Speech writing – Assessment
Preparation
Lessons 21-25
•
•
•
WEEK 25
Travelling for Thrills
‘Born Survivor’ – Bear Grylls
‘When Man Meets Wild’
Extract from the Diary of Captain
Scott
Lessons 16-20
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•
WEEK 24
Frankenstein/Dr Walton extract
analysis – (Links to Gothic)
Travel and the Upper Classes –
‘The Grand Tour’
Creative Writing – Travel Journal
.
Lessons 11-15
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•
WEEK 23
The first International travel – The
Great Explorers (research)
Travel for emigration – ‘Witch Child’
Novel Extracts and Articles
‘Touching the Void’ – Joe Simpson
Focused annotation
Language Techniques
Lessons 26-30
•
Phineas Fogg’s journeyPassepartout’s viewpoint
Subject:
Teacher:
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3rd April
EASTER
HOLIDAY
10th April
EASTER
HOLIDAY
Exploring the author’s craft
Assessment feedback (green pen
work)
Evaluation of unit
Summer Term
Date (w/b)
18th April
WAR
WEEK 27
24th April
WEEK 28
Weekly Focus
‘Boy in the
Striped
Pyjamas’
‘Boy in the
Striped
Pyjamas’
Lesson Details/Objectives
Lessons 1-4
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Lessons 5-9
•
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•
2nd May
WEEK 29
‘Boy in the
Striped
Pyjamas’
•
•
‘Boy in the
Striped
Chapters 3 and 4 – implicit
meanings
Exploring the character of Bruno
Exploring the historical
context/concentration camps
Lessons 10-13
•
8th May
Pre reading analysis
Historical context
Chapters 1 and 2
Analyse writing style
First impressions of key characters
Chapters 5 and 6 – analysing
relationships
Chapters 7 and 8 – significance of
imagery
Chapters 9 and 10 – exploring
symbolism
Lessons 14-18
Subject:
Teacher:
WEEK 30
Pyjamas’
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Chapters 11 and 12 – analysing
emotions of the characters
Analysing the importance of ‘the
fury’
Analysis of how Boyne creates
meaning – Assessment write-up
ASSESSMENT
15th May
WEEK 31
Lessons 19-23
‘Boy in the
Striped
Pyjamas’
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•
22nd May
WEEK 32
‘Boy in the
Striped
Pyjamas’
Lessons 24-28
•
•
29th May
HALF-TERM
HOLIDAY
5th June
War Poetry
12th June
War Poetry
19th June
War –
Viewpoints
ASSESSMENT
World Conflicts – Ciaran Carson,
Choman Hardi and Robert
Minhinnick
Lessons 11-15
•
WEEK 35
WW1 – Context and poets
Explore Wilfred Owen, Rupert
Brook
Lessons 6-10
•
WEEK 34
Assessment Feedback (green pen
work)
Evaluation of unit
Lessons 1-5
•
•
WEEK 33
OUTSIDERS
Chapters 13 and 14 – exploring
misuse of power
Chapter 15 – private friendships vs.
public loyalties/fear
Chapter 16 – Exploring similarities
Chapter 17 – war and the impact on
the family
Chapter 18 – Misconceptions
Chapter 19 – False hope
Chapter 20 – Dealing with loss
•
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Malala Yousafzai – context and
writing
Speech analysis
Assessment preparation
Subject:
Teacher:
26th June
Viewpoints of
War
Lessons 16-20
WEEK 36
•
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3rd July
Lessons 21-25
WEEK 37
•
10th July
Outsiders
•
•
17th July
WEEK 39
Outsiders
Assessment Feedback – (green pen
work)
Lessons 26-30
•
WEEK 38
Nelson Mandela
‘The Right Word’ – Imtiaz Dharker
Analysis of M. Night Shyamalan
movie
How characters are presented
Creation of setting
Lessons 31-35
•
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How camera shots create meaning
How tension is created
Film review
Subject:
Teacher:
Year 9 Subject Learning Map
Autumn Term
Date (w/b)
Weekly Focus
Lesson Details/Objectives
5th Sept
Revision
Lessons 1-5
•
WEEK 1
•
12th Sept
A Literary Journey
•
19th Sept
A Literary Journey
•
26th Sept
A Literary Journey
3rd Oct
WEEK 5
ASSESSMENT
A Literary Journey
The printed word (First Dictionary and
Domesday Book)
Current day English
Lessons 16-20.
•
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•
•
•
WEEK 4
Beowulf
The Canterbury Tales
Origins of the English Language
How invasions have influenced change
in the English Language
The influence of other cultures
(Romans, Tribes, Vikings, Normans)
Lessons 11-15.
•
WEEK 3
PEAK paragraphs – short exercise
using new extract, peer assess and rewrite in green pen.
Spot the mistakes (SPaG exercise)
write the correct version in their books.
Lessons 6-10
•
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WEEK 2
=
Strength
=
Weakne
ss
.
What is metaphysical poetry?
Social historical context.
Poets of 17th Century England
John Donne and Andrew Marvel
Assessment Preparation – poetry
comparison and unseen
Lessons 21-25
•
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•
What is a novel?
Origins
Robinson Crusoe
Gulliver’s Travels
Henry Fielding and Samuel
Richardson
.
I have
revised
this
Subject:
Teacher:
10th Oct
A Literary Journey
Lessons 26-30
•
WEEK 6
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•
17th Oct
A Literary Journey
24th Oct
HALF-TERM
HOLIDAY
31st Oct
A Literary Journey
WEEK 8
7th Nov
A Literary Journey
The Romantic period and context
Keats
Coleridge
Wordsworth
Byron
Shelley
Lessons 36- 40
•
Bram Stoker- Dracula
•
Shelley- Frankenstein
•
Gothic poetry - Poe’s ‘The Raven’
Lessons 41-45
•
WEEK 9
14th Nov
Lessons 31-35
•
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WEEK 7
A brief history of the Industrial
Revolution
Key writers/Blake and Elizabeth Barrett
Browning
Power and Conflict
Blake’s ‘London’
Ruskin and Arnold
The Gothic novel- features and
elements
Conventions of the Gothic
Vocabulary and Gothic storytelling
Gothic Characters
Assessment Preparation – creative
writing
ASSESSMENT
•
•
•
•
A Literary Journey
Lessons 46-50
WEEK 10
•
•
•
•
•
21st Nov
A Literary Journey
Emily Bronte’s childhood
Isolation and imagination
Writing style-nature vs culture
Wuthering Heights-an introduction
Charlotte Bronte – a Victorian
childhood ‘Jane Eyre’
Lessons 51-55
.
Subject:
Teacher:
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WEEK 11
•
28th Nov
A Literary Journey
Lessons 56-60
•
WEEK 12
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5th Dec
A Literary Journey
•
12th Dec
A Literary Journey
WEEK 14
19th Dec
CHRISTMAS
HOLIDAY
26th Dec
CHRISTMAS
HOLIDAY
Context and Dickens’ novels
(overview)-common themes
Characters as caricatures
Victorian scandal
Oliver Twist/Great Expectations/David
Copperfield
Assessment Feedback (green pen
work)
Lessons 61-65
•
•
WEEK 13
The Rise of women’s writing
The Victorian Novel
The Class system
Elizabeth Gaskell and the Industrial
novel
North and South-The Mill trade and its
influence on Victorian Literature
Novelist and poet
Mechanisation of rural life and the
impact on rural society
Thomas Hardy’s poetic themes- loss of
faith; chance and coincidence
Lessons 66-70
.
• Biography and timeline of Oscar Wilde
• Lifestyle and aesthetic movement
• ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’
• Assessment Feedback (green pen
work)
• Extracts from plays Subject:
Teacher:
Spring Term
Date (w/b)
Weekly Focus
Lesson Details/Objectives
2nd Jan
‘Unwind’
Lessons1-3
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WEEK 15
•
•
9th Jan
‘Unwind’
Lessons 4-8
•
WEEK 16
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16th Jan
‘Unwind’
•
23rd Jan
‘Unwind’
•
30th Jan
WEEK 19
‘Unwind’
Exploring grammatical techniques
to add descriptive detail
Creating character through
monologue (embedding plot and
creating a convincing protagonist)
Lessons 14-18
•
WEEK 18
Analysing the author’s craft –
creating mood and atmosphere
Using prepositional phrases and
varied vocabulary
Assessment preparation commentary of narrative opening
Lessons 9-13
•
WEEK 17
Dystopia – exploring concepts
Background and context,
explanation of civil war
Why writers use dystopian ideas to
make political points or comment on
society
How language and symbols
represent a dystopia
Extracts from ‘1984’ – exploring the
character of Winston and his world
‘The Hunger Games’ – portrayal of
women in the protagonist role
Lessons 19-23
•
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‘Divergent’
‘Examination Day’ – Henry Slesar
H/Work
I have
revised
this
Subject:
Teacher:
6th Feb
‘Unwind’
Lessons 24-27
•
WEEK 20
•
13th
Feb
20th Feb
HALF-TERM
HOLIDAY
Prejudice ‘Othello’
Lessons 1-5
•
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WEEK 21
•
•
27th Feb
Prejudice ‘Othello’
•
Prejudice ‘Othello’
•
ASSESSMENT
13th March
Prejudice ‘Othello’
20th March
WEEK 25
Prejudice ‘Othello’
Role of men in the 1600s
Exploring attitudes towards men
and women through the character of
Emilia
Assessment preparation - writing in
role
Lessons 16-20
•
•
•
WEEK 24
Timeline of events in Othello
Role of women in 1600s/
Desdemona and Emilia
How does Iago feel about women?
.
Lessons 11-15
•
•
WEEK 23
Introduction and predictions
Position of black people in the
1600s
Why does Iago hate Othello?
How Shakespeare’s language
creates character
Lessons 6-10
•
•
WEEK 22
6th March
Assessment feedback (green pen
work)
Evaluation of unit
How does Iago manipulate Othello?
Analysing the language of prejudice
Charting Othello’s journey and
analysing key quotes
Lessons 21-25
•
•
Crimes of passion
OJ Simpson/ Oscar Pistorius
Subject:
Teacher:
27th March
Prejudice ‘Othello’
WEEK 26
Lessons 26-30
Assessment feedback (green pen work)
3rd April
EASTER
HOLIDAY
10th April
EASTER
HOLIDAY
Summer Term
Date (w/b)
18th April
Weekly Focus
Extreme Travel
Lesson Details/Objectives
Lessons 1-4
•
•
WEEK 27
•
24th April
Extreme Travel
2nd May
Lessons 5-9
•
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WEEK 28
Extreme Travel
•
•
8th May
WEEK 30
Extreme Travel
Michael Palin
Steve Backshall
David Attenborough
Steven Callahan
Bear Grylls
Lessons 10-13
•
•
WEEK 29
Introduction to extreme travel
Endurance tests – ‘Long Way
Down’ Ewan McGregor
Dunwich Dynamo
Fiction
‘Heart of Darkness’ – Joseph
Conrad
‘Journey to the Centre of the Earth’
– Jules Verne
‘The Mosquito Coast’ – Paul
Theroux
Lessons 14-18
•
Prepare for Assessment –
Comparison of writer’s styles
Subject:
Teacher:
•
ASSESSMENT
15th May
Extreme Travel
Lessons 19-23
•
•
WEEK 31
•
•
22nd May
Extreme Travel
•
•
•
29th May
HALF-TERM
HOLIDAY
5th June
Politics and
Society –
‘Animal Farm’
WEEK 33
WEEK 34
Politics and
Society –
‘Animal Farm’
•
•
•
•
•
WEEK 35
Politics and
Society –
‘Animal Farm’
Analysing Major’s speech – Chapter
1
Religious references and key
figures in Russian history – Chapter
2
Boxer and the Russian peasant
Snowball’s banishment linking with
Trotsky and Stalin’s 5 year plan
Squealer and propaganda
Lessons 11-15
•
•
•
ASSESSMENT
Pre-reading – exploring communism
and the Russian Revolution
Investigating George Orwell
Terminology and Key Vocabulary
Lessons 6-10
•
19th June
Extreme Locations
‘Into Thin Air’ – Jon Krakauer
‘Death in the Long Grass’ – Peter
Hathaway Capstick
Bermuda Triangle journals
Assessment Feedback (green pen
work)
Evaluation of unit
Lessons 1-5
•
•
12th June
Great Explorers
Christopher Columbus – ‘Four
Voyages’
The Galapagos Islands
Darwin
Lessons 24-28
•
•
•
WEEK 32
The Old Patagonian Express – Paul
Theroux
Exploring rebellion
Alliance of the farmers linked with
Russian foreign policy
Exploring characters as symbols for
groups of people in Russia
Subject:
Teacher:
•
26th June
Politics and
Society –
‘Animal Farm’
Lessons 16-20
•
WEEK 36
•
3rd July
WEEK 37
10th July
WEEK 39
Linking the events in the novel to
the demise of the Soviet Union
Russia today
Politics and
Society –
‘Animal Farm’
Lessons 21-25
Purposes of
Writing
Lessons 26-30
Assessment Feedback (green pen
work)
•
WEEK 38
17th July
Assessment preparation –
analysing the presentation of
Napoleon
Purposes of
Writing
Writing to inform and persuade
Lessons 31-35
•
Writing to advise/instruct and
entertain
Subject:
Teacher:
Year 10 Subject Learning Map
Autumn Term
Date (w/b)
Weekly Focus
Lesson Details/Objectives
5th Sept
AQA LIT. EXAMPAPER 1
‘MACBETH’
Lessons 1-5
• Shakespearean society
• The witches’ prophecies
• Macbeth’s temptation
• The role of women
WEEK 1
Act 1- Lead up to
Duncan’s murder
12th Sept
WEEK 2
AQA LIT. EXAMPAPER 1
‘MACBETH’
Act 2- Madness,
murder and
disbelief.
19th Sept
WEEK 3
AQA LANGUAGE
EXAM PAPER 1
SECTION B –
CREATIVE
WRITING (the
murder of Duncan)
ASSESSMENT
(lang)
26th Sept
WEEK 4
AQA LIT. EXAMPAPER 1
‘MACBETH’
Act 3- The rise of the
tyrant. Exploration
through language
and structure
ASSESSMENT (lit)
=
Strength
=
Weakne
ss
.
Lessons 6-10
• The character of lady Macbeth
• Macbeth’s dilemma
• The Macbeths’ relationship
• The murder
• Impact of murder on the Macbeths
and society
Lessons 11-15
• Revision of SPAMSOAP
• Revision of sentence types and
punctuation
• Creating vocabulary banks
• Using the mark scheme
• Writing the assessment
Lessons 16-20
• Macbeth’s reaction to and
treatment of Banquo
• Macbeth’s descent into madness
• The banquet scene
• Exploring extracts
• Assessment
.
I have
revised
this
Subject:
Teacher:
3rd Oct
WEEK 5
AQA LIT. EXAMPAPER 1
‘MACBETH’
Act 3/4 - The
downfall and wider
perspectives of the
Macbeths
10th Oct
WEEK 6
AQA LIT. EXAMPAPER 1
‘MACBETH’
Act 4/5 – honour and
murder
17th Oct
WEEK 7
AQA LIT. EXAMPAPER 1
‘MACBETH’
24th Oct
HALF-TERM
HOLIDAY
31st Oct
AQA LANG. EXAM
- Paper 1 Section A
Responding to
Literary Fiction
WEEK 8
Lessons 21-25
• The Macbeths’ changing
relationship
• Exploring Macbeth’s guilt
• Macbeth and the supernatural
• The murder of the Macduff family
• The English Court
Lessons 26-30
• The English court continued
• Analysing lady Macbeth’s madness
• Macbeth’s response to crisis
• Fate plays out
• The Macbeths – ‘dead butcher and
fiend-like queen’?
Lessons 31-35
• Creative writing sharing responses
• Examining the mark scheme and
target setting
• Green pen work
• Analysis of extract – identifying key
points, lang and struc.
• Target setting
• Green pen work
Lessons 36- 40
• What Section A looks like.
• Exploring language and structure
• Evaluating how a writer achieves affects
• Exploring openings – ‘I’m the King of the castle’( Susan
Hill) and ‘Paddy Clarke Ha,Ha, Ha!’( Roddy Doyle)
Subject:
Teacher:
7th Nov
WEEK 9
14th Nov
WEEK 10
AQA LANG. EXAM
- Paper 1 Section A
Responding to
Literary Fiction
Lessons 41-45
• Transition Points and Endings –
‘Spies’( Michael Frayn) and ‘The
39 Steps’ (John Buchan)
AQA LANG. EXAM
- Paper 1 Section A
Responding to
Literary Fiction
Lessons 46-50
• Presenting people, places and
action – ‘I’m the King of the castle’
(Susan Hill) and ‘Paddy Clarke Ha,
Ha Ha! (Roddy Doyle)
ASSESSMENT
21st Nov
WEEK 11
ASSESSMENT
AQA LANG. EXAM
– Paper 2 Section
A Writers’
Viewpoints and
Perspectives
•
Extract from Daphne Du Maurier
Lessons 51-55
•
•
-
What does the exam look like?
Comparing texts on the theme of
war:
‘Diaries of Nella Last: writing in
war and peace’ and ‘As I walked
out one Midsummer Morning’
(Laurie Lee)
.
Subject:
Teacher:
28th Nov
WEEK 12
AQA LANG. EXAM
– Paper 2 Section
A Writers’
Viewpoints and
Perspectives
Lessons 56-60
•
-
-
Accounts of Danger in a hostile
environment:
‘Touching the Void’ (Joe Simpson);
Extract from the diary of Capt.
Scott; interview with Sir Edmund
Hillary and ‘I fell through Arctic Ice’
Gary Rolfe
Assessment
ASSESSMENT
5th Dec
WEEK 13
12th Dec
WEEK 14
AQA LANG. EXAM
– Paper 2 Section
A Writers’
Viewpoints and
Perspectives
Lessons 61-65
- Speeches:
- President Kennedy; Nelson
Mandela and Chief Joseph
AQA LANG. EXAM
– Paper 2 Section
A Writers’
Viewpoints and
Perspectives
Lessons 66-70
19th Dec
CHRISTMAS
HOLIDAY
26th Dec
CHRISTMAS
HOLIDAY
-
Reviewing Paper 1 Assessment:
setting targets and green pen work
Reviewing Paper 2 Comparison:
setting targets and green pen work
Subject:
Teacher:
Spring Term
Date (w/b)
Weekly Focus
Lesson Details/Objectives
2nd Jan
AQA Lit. Paper 2
‘Animal Farm’
Lessons1-3
• Historical/social context
• Totalitarianism
AQA Lit. Paper 2
‘Animal Farm’
Lessons 4-8
• Plot and links with Russian
history
• Key characters
AQA Lit. Paper 2
‘Animal Farm’
Lessons 9-13
• Themes
• Preparation for assessment –
exam style response
• Write up of assessment
WEEK 15
9th Jan
WEEK 16
16th Jan
WEEK 17
ASSESSMENT
23rd Jan
WEEK 18
30th Jan
WEEK 19
6th Feb
WEEK 20
AQA Lit. Paper 2
‘Power and
Conflict’
Lessons 14-18
Focus on environment
• ‘Ozymandias’ – Shelley
• ‘London’ – Blake
• ‘The Prelude’ – Wordsworth
AQA Lit. Paper 2
‘Power and
Conflict’
Lessons 19-23
• ‘Storm on the Island’ –
Seamus Heaney
• Assessment feedback (green
pen work)
Focus on the battlefield
• ‘Charge of the Light Brigade’ –
Tennyson
AQA Lit. Paper 2
‘Power and
Conflict’
Lessons 24-27
• ‘Exposure’ – Wilfred Owen
• ‘Remains’ – Simon Armitage
• ‘Bayonet Charge’ – Ted
Hughes
H/Work
I have
revised
this
Subject:
Teacher:
13th Feb
HALF-TERM
HOLIDAY
20th Feb
AQA Lit. Paper 1
‘Jekyll and
Hyde’
Lessons 1-5
• Social and Historical Context
• Victorian Gentleman
AQA Lit. Paper 1
‘Jekyll and
Hyde’
Lessons 6-10
• Plot and key characters
• Extracts
WEEK 21
27th Feb
WEEK 22
6th March
WEEK 23
13th
March
WEEK 24
20th March
WEEK 25
27th March
WEEK 26
3rd April
AQA Lit. Paper 1
‘Jekyll and
Hyde’
‘ASSESSMENT’
AQA Lit. Paper 2
‘Power and
Conflict’
.
Lessons 11-15
• Themes
• Extracts
• Assessment preparation and
write up
Lessons 16-20
Effects on individuals
• ‘My Last Duchess’ – Browning
• ‘Poppies’ – Weir
• ‘War Photographer’ - Duffy
AQA Lit. Paper 2
‘Power and
Conflict’
Lessons 21-25
• Assessment feedback (green
pen work)
• ‘Tissue’ – Dharker
• ‘The Emigree’ – Rumens
AQA Lit. Paper 2
‘Power and
Conflict’
Lessons 26-30
• ‘Checking Out Me History’ –
Agard
• ‘Kamikaze’ – Garland
• Writing a comparison
EASTER
HOLIDAY
Subject:
Teacher:
10th April
EASTER
HOLIDAY
Summer Term
Date (w/b)
18th April
WEEK 27
24th April
WEEK 28
Weekly Focus
AQA Lang.
Paper 1 Section A
Lesson Details/Objectives
Lessons 1-4
• Story openings – ‘Bring up the
bodies’ – (Mantel) and ‘The
reluctant fundamentalist’
(Hamid)
• Transition points and endings
• ‘The White Tiger’ - (Adiga)
AQA Lang.
Paper 1 Section A
Lessons 5-9
• Presenting people, places and
action
• ‘Remarkable Creatures’ –
(Chevalier)
• ‘Bird Song’ – (Faulks)
ASSESSMENT
2nd May
WEEK 29
8th May
WEEK 30
15th May
WEEK 31
22nd May
WEEK 32
AQA Lang.
Paper 1 Section B
Lessons 10-13
• Creative Writing – responding to
images
• Revision of skills
AQA Lang.
Paper 1 Section B
Lessons 14-18
• Creative Writing – responding to
images
• Writing and assessing
AQA Lang.
Paper 2 Section B
Lessons 19-23
• Travel writing
• Extracts from AQA reading
source
AQA Lit. Paper
2 – Unseen
Poetry
Lessons 24-28
• Skills and practice
29th May
HALF-TERM
HOLIDAY
5th June
AQA Lang.
Paper 2 –
Section B
WEEK 33
Lessons 1-5
• Revision of persuasive features
and forms of writing
Subject:
Teacher:
12th June
WEEK 34
19th June
WEEK 35
AQA Lang.
Paper 2 –
Section B
Lessons 6-10
• Analysis of persuasive articles
and writing a response
AQA Lang. –
Speaking and
Listening
Lessons 11-15
• Revision of structures of
speeches
• Analysis of techniques and their
effects
• Discussion of topics
ASSESSMENT
26th June
AQA Lang. –
Speaking and
Listening
Lessons 16-20
• Discussing articles
• Creating linked arguments
• Developing a topic
AQA Lang. –
Speaking and
Listening
Lessons 21-25
• Peer-assess and practice
Speaking and Listening
• Analyse examples of
prepared/filmed speeches
• Set personal/peer targets
AQA Lit. Paper
2 – Unseen
Poetry
Lessons 26-30
• Exploring skills, techniques,
developing a strategy
• Analysing examples
• Peer-assessment using exam
board criteria
AQA Lit. Paper
2 – Unseen
Poetry
Lessons 31-35
• Analysing poems on related
themes
• How to approach a comparison
• Writing up a comparison
WEEK 36
3rd July
WEEK 37
10th July
WEEK 38
17th July
WEEK 39
Subject:
Teacher:
Year 11 Subject Learning Map
Autumn Term
Date (w/b)
Weekly Focus
Lesson Details/Objectives
5th Sept
AQA LANG. EXAM
AQA LIT. EXAM
Lessons 1-5
• English/Literature results and the
next challenge, target setting
• Comparing 3 speeches: techniques
and viewpoints
• Analysing ‘Major’s speech – how is
it persuasive?
• Writing a persuasive speech
• Exploring the speaking and
listening exam
WEEK 1
– Paper 2 Section
A /Speaking and
Listening/LIT
EXAM UNIT 2
12th Sept
WEEK 2
19th Sept
Speaking and
listening/AQA
LANG. EXAM –
Paper 2 Section B
Lessons 6-10
• Creating a speech and anticipating
questions
• Writing to explore and discuss
• Writing to persuade
• Writing to argue
• ‘Animal farm’ – revision of plot and
characters
AQA LANG. EXAM
AQA LIT. EXAM
Lessons 11-15
• Power and Conflict Poetry
Focus on environment
• ‘Ozymandias’ – Shelley
• ‘London’ – Blake
• ‘The Prelude’ – Wordsworth
• ‘Storm on the Island’ – Seamus
Heaney
• Assessing example speeches
• Developing ideas for speech
AQA LANG. EXAM
AQA LIT. EXAM
Lessons 16-20
• Writing a persuasive response
using techniques
• Preparation for assessment –
Paper 2
• Draft a detailed plan of a
persuasive speech with techniques
• Develop questions and answers
• Comparison of Florence
WEEK 3
26th Sept
WEEK 4
=
Strength
=
Weakne
ss
.
I have
revised
this
Subject:
Teacher:
ASSESSMENT
3rd Oct
AQA LANG. EXAM
AQA LIT. EXAM
Lessons 21-25
• Practising speech, peerassessment and target setting
• Revision of plot and characters in
‘Jekyll and Hyde’
• Power and Conflict poetry
Focus on the battlefield
• ‘Charge of the Light Brigade’ –
Tennyson
• ‘Remains’ – Simon Armitage
• ‘Bayonet Charge’ – Ted Hughes
AQA LANG. EXAM
AQA LIT. EXAM
Lessons 26-30
• ‘Exposure’ – Wilfred Owen
• Revising Section A.
• Focus on language and structure
• Evaluating how a writer achieves
affects
• Openings – ‘I’m the King of the
castle’( Susan Hill) and ‘Paddy
Clarke Ha,Ha, Ha!’( Roddy Doyle)
AQA LANG. EXAM
AQA LIT. EXAM
Lessons 31-35
• Transition Points and Endings –
‘Spies’( Michael Frayn) and ‘The
39 Steps’ (John Buchan)
• Assessment Feedback (green pen
work)
• Revise previous mock paper
WEEK 5
10th Oct
WEEK 6
17th Oct
Nightingale extracts
WEEK 7
24th Oct
HALF-TERM
HOLIDAY
31st Oct
LANG. EXAM –
Paper 2 Section A
Lessons 36- 40
• Revise Shakespeare
• Plot and characters
• Themes
• Extract analysis
• Revise Jekyll and Hyde
• Focus on social and historical context and relate to key
moments in the novel
Mock Exams - Lit
Lessons 41-45
• Comparing texts on the theme of
war:
• ‘Diaries of Nella Last: writing in
WEEK 8
7th Nov
WEEK 9
.
Subject:
Teacher:
war and peace’ and ‘As I walked
out one Midsummer Morning’
(Laurie Lee)
14th Nov
Mock Exams Lang
Lessons 46-50
• Revise creative writing skills
• Responding to image stimuli
• Peer-assessment
AQA Lit. Poetry –
Power and Conflict
Lessons 51-55
Effects on individuals
• ‘My Last Duchess’ – Browning
• ‘Poppies’ – Weir
• ‘War Photographer’ - Duffy
•
Lessons 56-60
• ‘Tissue’ – Dharker
• ‘The Emigree’ – Rumens
• ‘Checking Out Me History’ – Agard
• ‘Kamikaze’ – Garland
WEEK 10
21st Nov
WEEK 11
28th Nov
AQA Lit. Poetry –
Power and Conflict
WEEK 12
5th Dec
AQA Lit.
Lessons 61-65
• Writing a poetry comparison
• Analysis of Lit. Papers (green pen
work)
AQA Lang.
Lessons 66-70
• . Analysis of Lang. Papers (green
pen work)
WEEK 13
12th Dec
WEEK 14
19th Dec
CHRISTMAS
HOLIDAY
26th Dec
CHRISTMAS
HOLIDAY
Subject:
Teacher:
Spring Term
Date (w/b)
Weekly Focus
2nd Jan
WEEK 15
9th Jan
WEEK 16
16th
Jan
WEEK 17
23rd Jan
WEEK 18
30th Jan
WEEK 19
6th Feb
WEEK 20
Lesson Details/Objectives
Lessons1-3
• Literacy revision
AQA Language
– Paper 2
Section A
ASSESSMENT
AQA Language
– Paper 2
Section B
Lessons 4-8
• Accounts of Danger in a hostile
environment:
• ‘Touching the Void’ (Joe
Simpson); Extract from the diary
of Capt. Scott; interview with Sir
Edmund Hillary and ‘I fell
through Arctic Ice’ Gary Rolfe
• Extracts on the theme of war
• Preparation and write-up for
assessment
Lessons 9-13
• Revision and practice at writing
in different forms
• Assessed response
AQA Lit. Poetry Lessons 14-18
– Unseen
• Unseen poetry and comparison
– Assessment Power and
Conflict
AQA LANG.
EXAM
AQA LIT.
EXAM
Lessons 19-23
• Assessment feedback for
Language (green pen work)
• Revision of ‘Jekyll and Hyde’
AQA LANG.
EXAM
AQA LIT.
EXAM
Lessons 24-27
• Assessment feedback for
Literature (green pen work)
• Revision of ‘Animal Farm’
13th Feb
HALF-TERM
HOLIDAY
20th Feb
AQA LANG.
EXAM
AQA LIT.
EXAM
Lessons 1-5
• Revision of Shakespeare
• Revision of Power and Conflict
poetry
AQA LANG.
Lessons 6-10
WEEK 21
27th Feb
H/Work
I have
revised
this
Subject:
Teacher:
WEEK 22
6th March
WEEK 23
13th March
WEEK 24
20th March
WEEK 25
27th March
WEEK 26
EXAM
AQA LIT.
EXAM
•
•
•
•
Revision of Paper 1 – Section A
Story Openings
Transition points and endings
Presenting people, Places and
Action
AQA LANG.
EXAM
AQA LIT.
EXAM
Lessons 11-15
• Revision of persuasive features
• Analysis of persuasive texts
• Creating persuasive texts
AQA LANG.
EXAM
AQA LIT.
EXAM
Lessons 16-20
• Analysis of Lit. Papers (green
pen work)
AQA LANG.
EXAM
AQA LIT.
EXAM
Lessons 21-25
• Analysis of Lang. Papers (green
pen work)
AQA LANG.
EXAM
AQA LIT.
EXAM
Lessons 26-30
• Creative writing
• Practice and peer-assessment
3rd April
EASTER
HOLIDAY
10th April
EASTER
HOLIDAY
Summer Term
Date (w/b)
18th April
WEEK 27
24th April
WEEK 28
Weekly Focus
AQA LANG.
EXAM
AQA LIT.
EXAM
Lesson Details/Objectives
Lessons 1-4
• Animal Farm revision
• Exam style response on themes
• Language Paper 1 – exploring
extracts
AQA LANG.
EXAM
AQA LIT.
Lessons 5-9
• Revision of Shakespeare
• Extract analysis
Subject:
Teacher:
EXAM
2nd May
WEEK 29
8th May
WEEK 30
15th May
WEEK 31
22nd May
WEEK 32
Lessons 10-13
• Revision of Jekyll and Hyde
• Extract analysis
• Making links with whole text
• Language Paper 2 Section B –
Writing persuasive texts
AQA LANG.
EXAM
AQA LIT.
EXAM
Lessons 14-18
•
Revision of Power and
Conflict poems
•
Writing a comparison
•
Language Paper 2
Section A – Comparing texts
AQA LANG.
EXAM
AQA LIT.
EXAM
Lessons 19-23
• Unseen Poetry comparisons
• Animal Farm revision
AQA LANG.
EXAM
AQA LIT.
EXAM
Lessons 24-28
• Tailored exam revision in
preparation for GCSE Lit./Lang.
exams
HALF-TERM
HOLIDAY
5th June
AQA LANG.
EXAM
AQA LIT.
EXAM
12th June
Making links with whole text
Language Paper 1 Section B creative writing
AQA LANG.
EXAM
AQA LIT.
EXAM
29th May
WEEK 33
•
•
Lessons 1-5
• Tailored exam revision in
preparation for GCSE Language
exams
Lessons 6-10
WEEK 34
19th June
WEEK 35
Lessons 11-15
Subject:
Teacher:
26th June
Lessons 16-20
WEEK 36
3rd July
Lessons 21-25
WEEK 37
10th July
Lessons 26-30
WEEK 38
17th July
WEEK 39
Lessons 31-35