Year 7
Year 8
Year 9
Fiction
Traditional Tales
Poetry
Art of Rhetoric
Narrative Writing
Novel –
‘Artemis Fowl’,
‘Hobbit’,
‘Millions’ etc
Traditional tales
/ Literary
Heritage –
Iliad, Beowulf,
Aesop’s Fables
Poetry – pre
1900
Art of rhetoric – Narrative
e.g political
writing
speeches,
Paradise Lost
‘Frankenstein’,
‘Valley of Fear’,
‘Noughts and
Crosses’
19th Century
short stories –
e.g The Red
Room
Poetry –
ballads
Non Fiction biographies /
speeches /
letters
‘Hunger
Games’, ‘Ruby
in the Smoke’,
‘To Kill a
Mockingbird’
‘Midsummer
Night’s Dream’,
‘The Tempest’,
‘Much ado about
Nothing’,
Modern Short
Stories
comparison
Poetry - post
1900
Satire - Pope
(Rape of Lock),
Orwell,
Swift etc
Descriptive
writing
Extract Study –
looking at a
certain genre
e.g. Gothic,
Science Fiction
Grammar Lessons – Year 7
Term
Homework
1
Parts of speech: verbs (modal, active and passive),
nouns, articles, adjectives and prepositions. Pronouns,
personal pronouns, adverbs.
Doddle or CGP
2
Parts of speech: verbs, nouns, articles, adjectives and
prepositions. Pronouns, personal pronouns, adverbs.
Adverbials
Doddle or CGP
3
The elements of a sentence. Subject, object verb.
Simple sentences, compound sentences, complex
sentences, commas, subordinate clauses, clause and
phrase. Subject – verb agreement. Tense,
Prepositions, connectives
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4
Dashes, colon, semi colon, bracketing and listing,
apostrophes
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5
Topic sentences, paragraphs, introductions and
conclusions
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6
Punctuating speech
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Grammar Lessons – Year 8
Term
Homework
1
REVISION: the elements of a sentence. Subject, object verb.
Simple sentences, compound sentences, complex sentences, commas,
subordinate clauses, clause and phrase. Subject – verb agreement.
Tense,
Active and passive verbs, prepositions
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2
REVISION: Dashes, colon, semi colon, bracketing and listing. Introduce
ellipsis.
REMINDER: capitals at the start of speech, for text titles etc
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3
How to plan an essay – using PEE and PEACE. Organising an argument:
topic sentences, paragraphs, introductions and conclusions
4
Developing vocabulary: connectives, synonyms and antonyms.
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5
Techniques: caesura, rhyme, rhythm, stanza, ballad, speaker /persona,
contrast, alliteration, enjambment, simile, metaphor, imagery,
onomatopoeia, quatrain, personification
TO BE COMPLETED DURING POETRY
UNIT
6
Noun, noun phrase , statement, question, exclamation, command
compound, suffix, prefix
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Grammar Lessons – Year 9
Term
Homework
1
Revision: synonyms and antonyms
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2
Revision: Dashes, colon, semi colon, bracketing and
listing
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3
determiner , pronoun, possessive pronoun ,adverbial ,
modal verb, relative pronoun, relative clause
parenthesis,
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4
cohesion, ambiguity subject, object , active, passive
synonym, antonym
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5
Techniques: rhyming couplet, iambic pentameter, prose, TO BE COMPLETED WITH
blank verse, alliteration, enjambment, simile, metaphor, SHAKESPEARE
imagery, personification, act, iambic feet, caesura, irony,
pun
6
Developing vocabulary: LC to provide a list
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