Year 7
Information relating to all homework can be found on Microsoft Teams. Homework will be independent and project based linked to a Speaking and Listening Assessment each term.
Term 1: Adventurers and explorers: non-fiction travel writing - Pre-1914 to modern day world literature
Group project and presentation about their imaginary expedition
Microsoft forms spelling tests using teams x 2
Century tech: Language devices 2 & constructing an argument
Reading progress using teams
Reading book challenge
Term 2: Poetry from across the world: Range of poetry genres and forms from cultures and writers from around the world
Poetry anthology created on teams
Microsoft forms spelling tests using teams x 2
Presentation of an original poem
Century tech: language devices 1 & vocabulary choice
Reading progress using teams
Reading book challenge
Term 3: The Gothic Genre
Group or single presentation of the Gothic project
Microsoft forms spelling tests using teams x 2
Century tech: fiction description of setting, fiction description of character
Reading progress using teams
Reading book challenge
Year 8
Information relating to all homework can be found on Microsoft Teams. Homework will be independent and project based linked to a Speaking and Listening Assessment each term.
Term 1: Relationships: My Sister Lives on the Mantlepiece & Persuasive Writing
Preparation for social issues debate
Microsoft forms spelling tests using teams x 2
Century tech: nuggets: non-fiction personal writing & non-fiction persuasive writing
Reading book challenge
Term 2: Performance Literature: Shakespeare’s Greatest Speeches & Songs of the Decades
Performance
Microsoft forms spelling tests using teams x 2
Century tech: analytical writing, writing purposes
Reading book challenge
Term 3: Around the World: non-fiction travel writing and Morals & Ethics from Different Countries
Create travel journal presentation
Microsoft forms spelling tests using teams x 2
Century tech: nuggets: Forms, paragraphs
Reading challenge
Year 9
Information relating to all homework can be found on Microsoft Teams. Homework will be independent and project based linked to a Speaking and Listening Assessment each term.
Term 1: The Dystopian – The Hunger Games & Dystopian Description
Montage of dystopian world and individual presentation
Microsoft forms spelling tests using teams x 2
Reading book challenge
Century tech: English SPAG secondary word classes, verb forms
Term 2: Relationships: Othello & Writing to Argue
Create and present an Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter account for Othello, Desdemona and Iago
Microsoft forms spelling tests using teams x 2
Century tech: English SPAG secondary punctuation, sentences
Reading book challenge
Term 3: Around the World: non-fiction travel writing and Morals & Ethics from Different Countries
Revision materials & preparation for class debate
Microsoft forms spelling tests using teams x 2
Century tech: nuggets: English SPAG secondary writing styles, diagnostics
Reading book challenge
Year 10
Term 1: AQA Language Paper 2 and A Christmas Carol
Century tech: nuggets: English AQA language GCSE paper 2: writing and reading language devices, A05 & 6 & practice paper 2
Flash cards and revision materials
First draft of GCSE Speaking & Listening assessment (Xmas break project)
Term 2: AQA Power & Conflict Poetry Anthology
Century tech: A Christmas Carol
Flash cards and revision materials
Second draft of GCSE Speaking & Listening assessment
Term 3: Macbeth
Revision materials and flash cards
Preparation for speaking & listening
Century tech: nuggets: English SPAG secondary writing styles, diagnostics
Year 11
Information relating to all homework can be found on Microsoft Teams. Homework will focus on recall and retrieval to ensure that students are practicing skills requires for exam preparation rather than merely content.
Term 1: AQA Language Paper 2, Power & Conflict and Unseen Poetry
Century tech: nuggets: language devices, A05 & 6 & practice paper 2
Flash cards and revision materials for November Mocks
Term 2: Revision & Mocks
Century tech: Language Paper 1
Revision materials and flashcards for March Mocks
Term 3: Macbeth
Revision materials and flash cards for end of year GCSE exams
Year 12
Information relating to all homework can be found on Microsoft Teams. Homework will focus on recall and retrieval to ensure that students are practicing skills requires for exam preparation rather than merely content.
Term 1: Edexcel AS Literature Drama and Poetry – focus on Drama – A Streetcar Named Desire
Text reading and wider text reading including secondary sources
Period 5 work booklets on Dorian Gray (Autumn 1) and Streetcar (Autumn 2)
Essays/paragraphs every week.
Flash cards and revision materials
Term 2: Edexcel AS Literature Drama and Poetry – Focus on Poetry – The Forward Poems of the Decade Anthology
Unseen poetry analysis and poetry analysis of Forward Poems.
Essays/paragraph writing every week.
Term 3: Revision Edexcel AS Drama and Poetry paper plus Prose Paper
Revision materials & preparation for exams
Year 13
Information relating to all homework can be found on Microsoft Teams. Homework will focus on recall and retrieval to ensure that students are practicing skills requires for exam preparation rather than merely content.
Term 1: Edexcel A Literature Drama – focus on Othello and teaching of Coursework | Edexcel A Literature Poetry – focus on Unseen teaching for Forward Poems and Rossetti
Text reading and wider text reading including secondary sources
Period 5 work booklets on Othello (Autumn 1) and Rossetti (Autumn 2)
Essays/paragraphs every week.
Flash cards and revision materials for Streetcar and Forward Poetry
Term 2: Edexcel A Literature Drama – focus on Othello and teaching of coursework | Edexcel A Literature Poetry – focus on Rossetti
Unseen poetry analysis and poetry analysis of Forward Poems. Prose revision
Essays/paragraph writing every week.
Term 3: Revision Edexcel A Level Drama, Prose and Poetry
Revision materials & preparation for exams