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Oasis Media City Subject Curriculum Plan Subject: English Head of Subject: Mrs Stacey Ryan Date updated: Summer 2020 This document is an overview of the learning that students will experience within their subject area. This is a working document that provides teachers, students and parents with a map of key content that will be delivered during lessons in each year group. Year Term: 1 (3 Weeks) 1 (12 weeks) 2 (12 weeks) 3 (12 weeks) 7 Topic(s): Transition – Abrahamic Stories Greek Myths Tales from Shakespeare Smith Booklet: (Stephen Fry, Rick Riordan, Hesiod, Classic Macbeth, Othello, A Midsummer Night’s Leon Garfield Mythology) Dream Subject Knowledge: Biblical, moral, tradition, Greek Mythology, Mythology, Idiom, Metaphor, Performance/Play, Protagonist, Antagonist, Novel, Character, Villains, Notorious Felons, 18th Century Abrahamic, allegory, Appositives, conjunctions, Subordinating Tragedy, Comedy, Supernatural, Racism, London, Highwaymen, Links to Oliver Twist – Pastiche, consequence, sin, blame, Conjunctions, Deities, Tradition, Retribution and Sexism, Gender Roles, Patriarchy, Marriage London Squalor, Justice System, Poverty, Social Hierarchy, wisdom, faith, compassion, Reward. and Relationships, Corruption, Machiavelli, Literacy and Illiteracy, Inequality, Redemption. Samaritan, courage, resilience, Regicide, High Treason, Social Class justice, injustice, wrathful, forgiving, salvation, damnation. Grammar: (Transition Needs) +Because, But, So +Subordinating Conjunctions, +Because, But, So +Apostrophes +Topic Sentences +Appositives +Commas Vocabulary: See Student Vocabulary Booklet Link to Context Biblical allegory, Sin and Reward, Greek Mythology, Theology, Nihilism, Society and Macbeth: Jacobean audience, Demonology, Victorian London, Cycles of Poverty, Inequality, 18th afterlife, Adam and Eve, Paradise, Civilisation, War and Reconciliation, Gender Roles, Monarchy, Gender Roles Century Justice system, 18th Century Prisons – Newgate Religious Consequence, Morality, Ideas of Justice, Seism and Equality. Othello: Racism, Gender Roles, Machiavelli Gaol, 18th Century Laws (crime and punishment, alcohol Abrahamic Faiths. A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Elizabethan laws, …) audience, Sexism, Roles of Women, Father- Daughter relationships, Social Class Assessment Type: Assessment Booklet Assessment Booklet Assessment Booklet Assessment Booklet EOY EXAM Vocabulary Quiz Vocabulary Quiz Vocabulary Quiz Vocabulary Quiz Topic Creative Writing: Writing Fiction EPIIIC – Establishing an Audience Mood: Sky (setting) Teaching weather types and personification. Making a difference – litter (MP- RLB), Grammar Assessment Oasis English Writing (Tenses) education (HT) , youth clubs (YouthW), Assessment. Explicit Teaching every other week (+recall in between) crime (COP), leisure (CEO) Past Tense verbs, Present Tense verbs, Pitfalls and Misconceptions (KEM way S&L – another student has to sit in the Focus Writing of teaching tenses) way they need to sit. Role-Play / Hot- Seating. SC needed. (Plurals) Oasis Media City Subject Curriculum Plan Year 1 (15 weeks) 2 (12 weeks) 3 (12 weeks) Term: 8 Topic(s): Romeo and Juliet Oliver Twist Gothic Fiction William Shakespeare Charles Dickens Subject Soliloquy; chorus; prologue; monologue; Authorial intent, contextually, character arc, Gothic, Supernatural, heroine, macabre, Knowledge: hamartia; tragicomedy; fate; recurring (image sympathy, Bildungsroman, metaphor, philanthropy, subversive, melodramatic, villain, profane, or theme), metaphor, binary opposites, misanthropy, inherent, learned, humane, pious, voracious, sated, natural, unnatural, simile, free will, turmoil, tranquillity, inhumane, inferior, superior, pure, corrupt. decadent, restraint, degradation, elevation reverence, scorn, excess, moderation, objectify, value. Grammar: +Appositives +Because, But, So +Subordinating Conjunctions +Appositives (+for context) +Subordinating (for use in Conjunctions plenaries also) Vocabulary: See Student Vocabulary Booklet Link to Elizabethan England; conflict; love and Victorian England; Poverty; Inequality; Conflict; 18thC England, Religion, Hysteria, class and context/Character: relationships, patriarchal, A.C Bradley, Family, Paupers, Charity and Welfare, Social prejudice, Gothic genre, Gothic location, Aristotle, Tragic Hero, Social Hierarchy Hierarchy, Crime and Punishment, Class-based Patriarchy, conflict, resolution. Prejudice, Racism. Assessment Type: Assessment Booklet Assessment Booklet Assessment Booklet Vocabulary Quiz Vocabulary Quiz Vocabulary Quiz EOY EXAM Topic: EPIIIC Picture This vs Imagine only The City Creative Writing based on images EPIIIC Persuasive Paragraph (opposites: dystopia vs utopia, war vs peace, Tiny Features (HT3) vs Action (HT4) (zoom in and +Co-ordinating Conjunctions order vs chaos, past vs future, wet vs dry) zoom out) (Information – expert, number, quote) (Plurals) (Narrative Perspective) Explicit Teaching every other week (+recall in between) Explicit Teaching every other week (+recall in ASSESS: Presentation (2): Campaign to Make Tiny Features – spot the tiny features (getting between) the World Better (War vs Peace). (SC) students to identify the features to zoom in on), Focus Writing (Tenses) move towards doing this without the picture. Explicit Teaching every other week (+recall in Teach them to think of nouns. between) Nouns (face, clothing, ground) Action – Looking at Past Tense verbs, Present Tense verbs, Pitfalls and verbs as well (what is happening). Misconceptions (KEM way of teaching tenses) Oasis Media City Subject Curriculum Plan 9 Topic(s): Soliloquies and Hamlet Poems from Different Cultures Of Mice and Men Satire: Bloody Chamber -Angela Carter William Shakespeare John Steinbeck and Animal Farm - George Orwell Subject Soliloquy, chorus, prologue, monologue, Identity; conflict; violence; faith; Toxic Masculinity, The Great Viewpoint, narrator, allegory, extended Knowledge: hamartia, tragicomedy, fate, recurring (image loss; belonging; cultural Depression, Wall Street Crash, metaphor, tone, irony, dark humour, or theme) experiences; responsibility; power; American Geography, Racism, emotive, rhetorical, cyclical, autocracy, political correctness Segregation, Sexism, Prejudice, democracy, utopia, dystopia, subservient, Play/Performance, Artistic Licence, Prologue, Discrimination, novella, Setting, tyrannical, purge, pollute, infinite, finite. Monologue, Accent Grammar +Appositives +Because, But, So +Appositives (+for context) +Subordinating Conjunctions, +Subordinating Conjunctions +Topic +Appositives Sentences + Vocabulary: See Student Vocabulary Booklet Link to Family relationships; Insanity, Elizabethan Cultural diversity; language; Relationships, Comradeship, Communism; Dictatorship; Society, War, context/Character: Society, Tragedy, Aristotle, Tragic Hero, tolerance Honour, Gender Roles, Political Citizenship, Tyrants, Democracy, The Gender Roles, Nobility and Monarchy, Divine Climate human condition, USSR and the Bolshevik Right of Kings. Revolution, Literacy and Illiteracy, Propaganda. Assessment Type: Soliloquies Assessment Assessment Booklet Assessment Booklet Assessment Booklet EOY EXAM Writing for Booklet Vocabulary Quiz Vocabulary Quiz Vocabulary Quiz Performance / Spoken Vocabulary Quiz Word Creative Writing linked to text Non-Fiction EPIIIC Non-Fiction EPIIIC Reactions (Action and Reaction) Anecdotes (Speaking out for Grammar Assessment Oasis English (Tenses) (verbs for action, past, present and others) (Victim / Witness) putting Counter-argument Writing Assessment. future) ourselves in the shoes of someone Views of the time (Contemporary): who has felt … outcast, loss of racism, sexism, ageism. Counter Explicit Teaching every other week (+recall in identity, ignored, victim of bigotry, persuading an imagined person to between) sexism, racism… hire Crooks, Candy, Curley’s Wife… Past Tense verbs, Present Tense verbs, Pitfalls and Misconceptions (KEM way of teaching (Teach visual and auditory TINY Non-Fiction from the period Writing Focus Writing tenses) FEATURES) (identify narrative perspective if able) (Plurals) (Narrative Perspective) Oasis Media City Subject Curriculum Plan 10 Topic(s): GCSE: Macbeth GCSE English Language GCSE: Poems of Power GCSE English Language An Inspector Calls GCSE English Language (Term 1: 4 Lessons) EPIIIC (Term 1: 1 Lesson) & Conflict (Term 2: 1 Lesson) J.B. Priestley Needs for EOY Paper 2 Writing (Term 2: 4 Lessons) Paper 2 Reading and Writing (Term 3: 4 Lessons) (Term 3: 1 Lesson) Interleaved Subject Knowledge: Feudal, Renaissance, EPIIIC – 12 lessons, Discipline, Honour, START – 6 lessons (HT3), Post-War, Drama, (HT5) Supernatural; Anagnorisis, including assessment Dignity, Duty, Sacrifice, including assessment Dramatic Device, Stage- English Language P2 – Machiavellian, Morality, opportunities. Writing to Disillusionment, Elegy, opportunities. Grammar Direction, Socialist, Reading – ‘The Way We Juxtaposition, Nemesis, Great be saved for future SP. Sonnet, Resolution, to be embedded. Capitalist, Morality Tale, Do It’ Chain Of Being, Hierarchy, Grammar to be Romantic, Epic, Poetic (HT4) Cliché, Stock-Character, VOCAB: Dogmatic vs Order Vs Chaos (Turmoil), embedded into lessons Voice. Ekphrastic, English Language P1 Allegory, Andro-Centric, Malleable. Moral vs Dramatic Foil Dramatic Monologue Reading – ‘The Way We Microcosm, Dramatic Immoral. Rational vs Do It’ Mirror Emotional. Innocent vs VOCAB: Normal vs Corrupt. abnormal. Predator vs Inferior to vs Superior Prey. Order vs Chaos. to. Reinforce vs Banal vs Idiosyncratic.
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