St John s Senior School Subject: ENGLISH Teacher: Mrs Swynnerton, Mrs Pavli Form: FOURTH FORM Term: AUTUMN WEEK WEEK BEGINNING ROMEO & JULIET \ ENGLISH LANGUAGE PAPER ONE LANGUAGE SKILLS PREP\ HWK. 1 2 3rd GCSE Overview The Prologue & Act 1, Scene 1 Responses to the opening scene: The brawl The introduction of Romeo. Circling Romeo and Juliet what students know and want to know about Romeo and Juliet Assessment criteria Voicing The Prologue: Reading for meaning group activity Verbal Warfare: enacting the Montague Vs Capulet hostility in words. Paper One (Q1and Q2) Act 1, Scenes 2 and 3 Reading Critical reading and retrieval Literal and inferential comprehension Evaluation of a writer s choice of vocabulary, grammatical and structural features. Compare texts, themes and characters Show understanding of the contexts in which texts were written. Writing Produce clear and coherent text Writing for impact using standard English and terminology appropriately Using grammar, punctuating and spelling accurately A02 Research Elizabethan Society. Produce a Fact Sheet of useful information for this time.
10 th Introducing character Romeo Analysing an extract character/action/methods/co ntext Writing about an extract unpacking process. Character analysis using Romeo quotations Analysing an extract: How the feuding families and the Prince are presented on stage, plus extract analysis (2A) Writing about the feuding families and the Prince, what examiners expect. Act 1 Paper One ( Q2) Character analysis: Juliet Exploring Shakespeare s methods as a dramatist Exploring a dramatic situation: the masked ball. Speaking Listen to and understand spoken language Responding to spoken language using standard English effectively. Presenting information and ideas General Summarise and synthesise information or ideas from texts Use knowledge gained from wider reading to inform and improve their own writing Acquire and apply a wide vocabulary, alongside a knowledge and understanding of grammatical terminology, and linguistic conventions for reading, writing and spoken language First impressions of the Montague Family Extract analysis of Juliet s soliloquy 3 17 th Character analysis using Juliet quotations Exploring the writer s intentions: plot, characters and events (3A) Situating the author.
Paper One (Q3) Act 2, Scenes 1 & 2 Romeo and Juliet the balcony scene October Mini Test: Young lovers Romeo Vs Juliet Exploration of character Analysing and writing about an extract. Extract analysis: Act 3, Scene 1. How does Shakespeare use language to depict Romeo as a victim in this extract? Create the diary of Romeo and Juliet Analysing an extract: Romeo s speech, Act 2, 4 24 th Scene 2 (4A) Relating an extract to the play, as a whole (4B) Romeo Vs Juliet in Act 2, Scene 2: comparison. Paper One (Q3) Act 2, Scenes 3-6 & Act 3, Scene 1. 5 1st October Work of the month Analysing plot development and dramatic method Looking at language The deadly duels. The comic calm before the Extract analysis of Romeo in response to the death of Tybalt storm: Act 2, Scenes 3-6 (5A)
Looking at language (5B) A plague o both your houses (5C) Revision for the mini test 8 th October MINI TEST WEEK Act 3, Scene 2. 6 15 th October Character presentation Romeo and Juliet. Juliet s dilemma: Act 3, Scene 2 (6A) Analysing an extract (6B) Writing about Juliet (6C) Paper One (Q3) Past question on Juliet Paper One (Q4) 7 Accelerated Reader Assessment Act 3, Scenes 3, 4 & 5. Character/theme parents and children The language of love: Juliet and Romeo s parting The language of anger Capulet and Juliet. Plot development: Friar Lawrence Loving and leaving: Act 3, Scene 5 language and performance (7A) Father and daughter: Act 3, Create the diary of Friar Lawrence
Scene 5 exploring language with a focus on father and daughter conflict (7B) Paper One (Q2) Complete practise paper English Language. 8 29 th October 22nd 26 th OCTOBER HALF TERM Act 4 and Act 5, Scene 1. Looking at dramatic structure the Friar s plan Framing the moment. Plot development: Friar Lawrence s plan sequencing activity (8A) Wordframes: Act 4, Scenes 2-5 (8B) Character analysis of Friar Lawrence Paper One (Q5) 9 5 th November Act 5, Scenes 2 &3. Language analysis language and dramatic impact in the final scene Audience reaction to the deaths and their presentation Hot-seating Shakespeare (Speaking and Listening activity) Dying words dramatic circling of Juliet plus consideration of how Romeo has changed (9A) Who caused the deaths of Romeo and Juliet? analysing the contribution of: Mercutio, Capulet, Tybalt and Friar Lawrence (9B) Extract analysis of Romeo soliloquy
Audiences reactions: then and now (9C) Paper One (Q5) Themes and Ideas Writing about a Romeo and Juliet extract and writing about the whole text. Themes and ideas: Conflict, ove, Parents and Children, Past Examination Essay question Light and Dark, Fate and Fortune (10A E) Analysing and responding to an extract: Act 5, Scene 3, 10 12 th November lines 88-120 (10F) Self-assessment unpacking AOs in relation to Shakespeare, plus using Romeo and Juliet selfassessment sheets (10G) Paper One (Q6) English Language Paper One 11 19 th November Exploring specimen material and exemplar responses in relation to the mark scheme. Student Exam Guidance Sheets Complete Q2 Past Paper Unpacking and applying grade criteria and exploring exemplar student responses. 12 26 th November English Language Paper One Practise all questions\peer assessment based oin mark scheme Exemplar material Complete Q2 Past Paper 13 3rd December English Language Paper One Receipt of feedback and GCSE band. Redrafting and making corrections. Q5 creative writing essay
English Language Paper One 14 10 TH December Exploring specimen material and exemplar responses in relation to the mark scheme. Unpacking and applying grade criteria and exploring exemplar student responses. Improve creative writing response (Q5)