Year 8

Disasters - 16 lessons - week 1-8

Shakespeare - 20 lesson - week 10-20

Lord of the Flies - 34 lessons - week 21-38

Propaganda - 14 lessons - week 40-46

Year 9

Term 1: Heroes and Villains across Shakespeare’s texts

Term 2: A voyage across Africa - Reading and writing non-fiction

Term 3: From Hover to Trump - The study of Of Mice and Men.

Term 4: Your Voice - The Art of Rhetoric

Term 5: Too Spooky for you - Reading and writing gothic texts

Term 6: The study of the Crucible.

Year 10 & 11

In Years 10 and 11, students begin to study for the AQA English Language and English Literature GCSEs.  For English Literature, students will study An Inspector Calls, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Macbeth and the Power and Conflict cluster of poetry from the anthology.  Students will study units focused on the skills required for the English Language papers as outlined below.

What's assessed?

Section A: Reading

one literature fiction text.

Section B: Writing

descriptive or narrative writing.

Assessed

written exam: 1 hour 45 minutes

80 marks (50% of GCSE).

Questions

Reading (40 marks) (25%) – one single text

1 short form question (1 x 4 marks)

2 longer form questions (2 x 8 marks)

1 extended question (1 x 20 marks).

Writing (40 marks) (25%)

1 extended writing question (24 marks for content, 16 marks for technical accuracy).

What's assessed?

Section A: Reading

one non-fiction text and one literary non-fiction text.

Section B: Writing

writing to present a viewpoint.

Assessed

written exam: 1 hour 45 minutes

80 marks (50% of GCSE).

Questions

Reading (40 marks) (25%) – two linked texts

1 short form question (1 x 4 marks)

2 longer form questions (1 x 8, 1 x 12 marks)

1 extended question (1 x 16 marks).

Writing (40 marks) (25%)

1 extended writing question (24 marks for content, 16 marks for technical accuracy).