Year 7 Outline Scheme of Work ICT s1

Year 7 Outline Scheme of Work – English

Term Topic Useful Weblinks  http://www.thepoetrychannel.org.uk/  http://www.poetryarchive.org/childrensarchive/home.do

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/benjamin-zephaniah-on-becoming-a- poet/9228.html Becoming a poet 1  Poetry Unit Prepare a piece of writing for an assembly on an issue you feel strongly about

Enter the Foyles Young Poet of the Year competition through the Poetry Society

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/constructing-sentences/777.html Consciously crafted sentences 2  Ernest Shakleton’s Exploration  http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/shackleton_ernest.shtml  http://shackletonfoundation.org/about/sir-ernest-shackleton/

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/clips/p019qy4h Book Review  Read Jane Eyre for a challenge and compare the upbringing of the two young 3  Study of Yen Mah’s ‘Chinese Cinderella’ girls http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1229822/

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/what-writers-think-about-when- writing/748.html 

Try reading and watching David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, Hard Times or A Christmas  What the Dickens! 4 Carol  Creative Writing Unit  http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/dickens_charles.shtml  http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/dickens  http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/clips/p019qy4h 

Look out for charities that support these issues and write to them, fund raise, make a 5  ‘Welcome to the Jungle’ Unit difference. This unit encourages you to consider environmental and societal issues. You could research the Amazon jungle  http://www.rsc.org.uk/education/ (Visit Stratford)  http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/a-midsummer-nights-dream-act-3- scene-2-pt-1-2/8282.html  http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/a-midsummer-nights-dream-act-3-  Study of Shakespeare’s ‘A Mid Summer Night’s 6 scene-2-pt-2-2/8283.html Dream’  http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/a-midsummer-nights-dream-helena- and-hermia/8281.html View Clips and discuss  http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/an-introduction-to-shakespeares- globe/8383.html Discover Shakespeare’s Globe (Visit Globe) Looking for a Challenge? Try these … http://www.thepoetrychannel.org.uk/ (Upload your own poetry – comment on other students creative writing)  http://www.lulu.com/ (See Lulu Demo – Publish your own short stories, poems, scripts and art here on this site)  http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/expanding-sentences-for-effect/775.html  http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/exploration-of-language-at-word-and-sentence-level/768.html  http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/philip-ridley-explaining-how-he-finds-inspiration-for-his-writing/753.html  http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/punctuation/765.html The necessity of Punctuation  http://www.poetrysociety.org.uk/content/education/ A brilliant Poetry Resource  http://www.bl.uk/ the fantastic, interactive free resource website of the world’s No. 1 library – The British Library  www.bl.uk/evolvingenglish the British Library Use Stroud High’s library portal to visit the following amazing resources for free: Oxford Online dictionary, the National Dictionary of Biography, The Oxford Companion to English Literature, The Grove Art collection