English Curriculum Outlines 2008-9
An outline of the main curriculum / teaching topics is set out below for each year group by term.
Autumn Term 2007 ~ First Half Term: Me, Myself And I; Text: Boy
Autumn Term 2007 ~ Second Half Term: Other Worlds; Text: Coraline
Spring Term 2008 ~ First Half Term: English In Performance; Text: Macbeth
Spring Term 2008 ~ Second Half Term: Super Heroes Super Villains; Text: Various including moving image.
Summer Term 2008 ~ First Half Term: Personal Daemons; Text: Skellig - Joey Pigza swallowed the key
Summer Term 2008 ~ Second Half Term: Media Unit - The Language of Advertising and Writing
Autumn Term 2007 ~ First Half Term: Cursed; Text: Holes
Autumn Term 2007 ~ Second Half Term: Media Unit - Holes (Film)
Spring Term 2008 ~ First Half Term: History of Language and Ballads
Spring Term 2008 ~ Second Half Term: English in Performance; Text: The
Summer Term 2008 ~ First Half Term: Media Unit - Shelter Media Project, Stone Cold; Text: Stone Cold
Summer Term 2008 ~ Second Half Term: I'm the Expert; Text:
Autumn Term 2007 ~ First Half Term: The Best Laid Plans; Text: Of Mice and Men
Autumn Term 2007 ~ Second Half Term: Media Unit - Let Him Have It (Film)
Spring Term 2008 ~ First Half Term: Dreams and Nightmares; Text: Short stories/non fiction selection
Spring Term 2008 ~ Second Half Term: English in Performance Murder and Intrigue; Text: Richard III
Summer Term 2008 ~ First Half Term: SATS Prep
Summer Term 2008 ~ Second Half Term: Adventure - Text: Operation Red Jericho Alex Rider novel
Year 10 ~ English GCSE
Autumn Term 2007 ~ First Half Term: Introduction - Writing to Argue - Night of the Scorpion - Poetry Media - Film Review
Autumn Term 2007 ~ Second Half Term: Pre 1914 prose - Frankenstein
Spring Term 2008 ~ First Half Term: Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet
Spring Term 2008 ~ Second Half Term: Post 1914 play: An Inspector Calls
Summer Term 2008 ~ First Half Term: Original Writing - Autobiography
Summer Term 2008 ~ Second Half Term: Coursework review - Poems from Other Cultures
Year 11 ~ English GCSE
Autumn Term 2007 ~ First Half Term: Post 1914 Novel - Heroes
Autumn Term 2007 ~ Second Half Term: Post 1914 Novel - Heroes – Mock examinations
Spring Term 2008 ~ First Half Term: Poems from Other Cultures and Tradition; Poetry of Heaney and Clarkeradition
Spring Term 2008 ~ Second Half Term: Poems from Other Cultures and Tradition; Poetry of Heaney and Clarkeradition
Summer Term 2008 ~ First Half Term: Revision
Summer Term 2008 ~ Second Half Term: Examination
Year 12 ~ English AS Level
Autumn Term 2007 ~ First Half Term: Introduction to First World War Poetry; Miller's Tale
Autumn Term 2007 ~ Second Half Term: Othello ~ Shakespeare; Much
Spring Term 2008 ~ First Half Term: Othello ~ Shakespeare; Much
Spring Term 2008 ~ Second Half Term: All My Sons ~ Arthur Miller; The Miller's Tale ~ Geoffrey Chaucer
Summer Term 2008 ~ First Half Term: All My Sons ~ Arthur Miller;
Summer Term 2008 ~ Second Half Term: Poems of Owen and Sassoon; Strange Meeting ~ Susan Hill
Year 13 ~ English A2 Level
Autumn Term 2007 ~ First Half Term: Preparation for Coursework; Hamlet ~ Shakespeare
Autumn Term 2007 ~ Second Half Term: Coursework Texts:
Spring Term 2008 ~ First Half Term: Coursework Redrafting; Poetry of P. B. Shelley;
Spring Term 2008 ~ Second Half Term:
Summer Term 2008 ~ First Half Term:
Summer Term 2008 ~ Second Half Term: Examination
