New English Curriculum taught as of Sept 2014 by A Purcell Key Stage 3 Years 7-9

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1 New English Curriculum taught as of Sept 2014 by A Purcell Key Stage 3 Years 7-9 Year 7 Prose pre 1914 Telling a Story Autumn 1 Autumn 2 Spring 1 Spring 2 Summer 1 Summer 2 Narrative about a Journey Suggested text Robinson Crusoe or extracts from it. Could use The Island booklet for activities. (See Angela Purcell) Diary entry using imagination that they re stranded on a desert island. Diary entry about a journey they have been on. Prose Novel Guided reading suggested text Holes by Michael Morpego. literature essay using PEE Book review Verbs Tenses Adverbial phrases Apostrophes Poetry Sonnets/ Pre 1914 Poetry. Suggested poem The Highway Man. reader for all. Comparative PEE essay. Responding to a poem, personal opinion. Metaphors Similes Media Newspapers, magazines and TV. (could possibly link this to alien landing investigation?) reader for all. Write a newspaper article. Write a list of headlines. Sentence structures Language exam Skills Reading comprehension. Theme: Childhood Suggested text Boy by Roald Dahl reader for all comprehension questions that include extracting information from the text. Comprehension questions that do not include extracting information. Conjunctions Shakespeare. 1 st half brochure on Shakespeare 2 nd half performance of small scene from a Shakespeare play. Midsummer Nights Dream, Romeo and Juliet. Presentations. Review previous focuses

2 Adjectives Commas Full stops Discourse markers Paragraphs Year 8 Shakespeare (could link to last term) Suggested play Romeo and Juliet How you think characters feel. Write from a characters perspective about events in the play. Character study Prose Modern Literary Heritage Suggested short stories Hemmingway, Dahl,DH Lawrence Writing to inform and persuade people to visit a place from novel studied. Describe a local Poetry Poems from Different Cultures Suggested texts from legacy AQA anthology. How writes express ideas in poems. Write your own shape poem Write your own (Modern) writing and performing a play Suggested Play The Demon Headmaster Write a short play using the correct form (could link with PSHE current issues) Write and perform Language Exam Skills/ Non- Fiction texts Persuasive writing Writing to persuade. Look at complaint letters rat burger Look at stylistic techniques AFOREST. Write a persuasive Pre 1914 Novel Introduction to Charles Dickens. (Could choose another pre 1914 novel if preferred such as Mary Shelley s Frankenstein) Read extracts from Great Expectation or Oliver Twist. Explore Dickens descriptions.

3 Emotive Similes place Compound/ complex sentences. S for possession. Commas Semi colons poem on the theme of Spring. Developing the use of sophisticated vocabulary. a short play Write and perform a short dialogue Revise tenses Paragraphs letter Write a persuasive letter with a frame. Discourse marker Modal verbs and Project on Dickens life and one of his novels Review of figurative Homophones Year 9 Prose Pre 1914 Dickens Novel or Mary Shelley if preferred. Great Expectations/ Oliver Twist/ Frankenstein Link to last term of yr 8 Read whole novel Discuss characters (Modern) Techniques in modern drama Our Day Out by Willy Russell. Diary of Anne Frank (Play version) Explore themes in the play. Poetry (War poetry) WW1 and WW2 poetry Suggested poets Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon. Write a war poem using poetic techniques similes, metaphors, onomatopoeia etc. (Shakespeare) Characters Hamlet, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, King Lear. Look at genre comedy, tragedy. Debate on what characters have done. Were they English Language Skills Non-fiction texts Journalistic writing, reading comprehension, comparing 2 articles. Read and analyse range of nonfiction texts. Encourage personal opinions on articles. Prose (Modern) Controlled Prep Seminal World Literature and Different Cultures. Read Of Mice and Men. Explore the Great Depression.

4 PEE essay on a character Character profile Revision of tenses Paragraphs in essays and Explore how a theme is presented in a play. With our without essay frame. s for possession Commas and semicolons to create a range of sentence structures. Write a letter as if Owen or Sassoon. Write a letter as if you are on the front line or on the home front. Developing the use of sophisticated vocab Spelling of complex words right? on themes in the play. Write a newspaper article on an event in the play. Storyboard an event in the play using quotations. Compare two texts using PEE Compare two texts what are their similarities/ differences. Also could attempt a mock style exam. Could be a past paper from WJEC or teacher made. Punctuation review Discursive markers exploration of a character using an extract from the book. Character profile using quotations form the text. Review of punctuation Sentence Structure The new English KS3 curriculum states that students should be taught both pre and 1914 contemporary literature (prose, poetry and drama); 2 Shakespere plays and seminal world literature. reader should be used to assess reading and comprehension throughout the key stage. Pupils should be tested on a termly basis.

5 Teachers must ensure they do not cover the same Shakespeare plays as previous years. Ideally pupils should be taught one tragedy and one comedy play. Pupils should also become in the habit of using PEE and analysing texts in preparation for GCSE.