Autumn1: 8 Weeks Autumn 2: 7 Weeks Spring 1: 6 Weeks Spring 2: 6 Weeks Summer 1: 5 Weeks Summer 2: 7 Weeks Monday 2nd September - Friday Tuesday 5th November – Friday Monday 6th January – Monday 24th February – Monday 20th April - Friday 22nd Monday 1st June - Friday 17th July 25th October 20th December Friday 14th February Thursday 2nd April May BASELINE ASSESSMENT: NOVEL SHORT FICTION AND INTRODUCTION TO POETRY NON-FICTION AND NGRT NARRATIVE WRITING SHAKESPEARE TRANSACTIONAL WRITING (Persuasive and rhetorical techniques) Primary – Secondary scheme (2/3 wks) A day in the life of…(4/5 wks) Year 7 Year Skellig The Schoolboy: William Demon Headmaster West African Trickster A selection of non-fictional Blake Street Child Tales A Midsummer Night’s Dream The Pied piper texts, both contemporary and First Day at School: The Twits Shorties The Tempest The Highwayman historical will be studied to Roger McGough Carrie’s War Ghostly Haunts Twelfth Night Blake selection identify meaning, writing Kensuke’s Kingdom Twisters La Belle Dame Sans Merci techniques and rhetorical Room 13 devices. The Witches LINK TO BBC 500 WORDS AQA Anthology poetry A variety of transactional writing Key Texts COMPETITION WHERE Beowulf APPROPRIATE tasks will be covered during this Goodnight Mr Tom Poems from unseen poet list term Wind in the Willows Odyssey Journey to Jo’burg Holes Season of Secrets WRITING AO3/AO4 READING AO1/AO2 WRITING AO3/AO4 READING AO1/AO2 . READING AO1/AO2 WRITING AO3/AO4 (avoid duplicating task from novel) Character/theme essay – pick a title Trouble in the street. • the content of the poems – what they Written assessment covering one format from: A day in the life of… to suit text/ pupils A fresh start. 1. How does Shakespeare are about; Article Students pick one of their favourite ‘a Write about a time when present a character/theme in • the ideas the poets may have wanted Guide day in the life of…’ and write this up 1. How does the writer present a you cheated. the play/ in act 2? us to think about; Review expanding and incorporating skills character/theme/relationship in the Continue the following: It 2. Why is Act X scene Y an • the mood or atmosphere of the Speech novel? important scene? Key learnt throughout the SOW was just a small postcard in poems; Letters 2. How does the writer create the newsagent’s window but Task should assess interpretation • how they are written – words or Report Assessment atmosphere in chapter X? it caught my eye. and understanding of character/ phrases you find interesting, the way Focus Write a story which ends theme, writer’s ideas and attitudes they are structured or organised, and Task should assess interpretation with the following: ...and to and language/structure. Wording so on; should be GCSE style with bullets to and understanding of character/ complete my misery, I knew • your response to the poems, theme, writer’s ideas and attitudes elaborate if required I would now have to face an including how they are similar and how and language/structure. Wording angry Mr Jones. they are different. should be GCSE style with bullets to elaborate if required. Useful websites: www.bbc.co.uk bitesize Potential Unseen poets: Fleur Aldcock, John Agard, Moniza Alvi, Maya Angelou, Simon Armitage, James Berry, Eavan Boland, Wendy Cope, Tony Curtis, Carol Ann Duffy, Rita Dove, Jen Hadfield, Tony Harrison, Ted Hughes, Jackie Kay, Philip Larkin, Liz Lochhead, Roger McGough, Robert Minhinnick, Andrew Motion, Grace Nichols, Sean O’Brien, Seamus Heaney, Adrienne Rich, Jo Shapcott, Owen Sheers, Derek Walcott, William Carlos Williams, Benjamin Zephaniah. Other poets from the 20th/21st Century .