CURRICULUM English AREA/CONTENT Year 9
YEAR 9 - ENGLISH
Term Topic Title
Brief Description of Content
MCA ENGLISH DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION CURRICULUM (Overview) YEAR 9 Autumn 1 Autumn 2 Spring 1 Spring 2 The Taming of the Transactional Read All Of Mice and Men Shrew Writing About It! Pupils study The Pupils develop Pupils study Of Pupils Taming of the skills in formal Mice and Men. The explore Shrew and develop writing drawing novel will be used articles from skills in analysis, from a range of as stimulus for a variety of interpretation and stimulus including developing both sources and relating a text to its George Orwell’s reading and writing use their context. This unit 1984. skills, focussing on analysis as a has a comparative descriptive writing. basis for element where developing pupils will discover their own links between the skills in play and the poetry article of Carol Ann Duffy. writing.
Summer 1 Poetry: Conflict Pupils will develop skills in interpretation and analysis of language through the study of poetry across time on a given theme.
Summer 2 Novel Students study a modern novel. It will be used as stimulus to develop both reading and writing skills.
YEAR 9 - ENGLISH MCA ENGLISH DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION CURRICULUM (Overview) YEAR 9 Term Autumn 1 Autumn 2 Spring 1 Spring 2 Reading Writing Reading Reading and Main Skill Development Writing Internal Formative Writing to Internal Formative Unit 1 Paper: persuade and all AFs W advise. (AF2,AF3 AF4, AF5, AF6) Reading Age Internal Formative Internal Formative Unit 1 Paper: Discursive Essay all AFs Summative R (AF2, AF3, AF5, Assessment AF6, AF7) Tasks AF3: Role-play and AF1: Persuasive AF3: Role Play AF2: Group Drama. Speaking with peer inspired by text – Discussion Monologue. assessment (AF1, varied extra scene with a crossAF4) tasks curricular/S SL MSC focus.
Summer 1 Reading Internal Formative
Internal Formative
Summer 2 Reading and Writing Descriptive Writing: all AFs
Reading Age Unseen Poetry Paper: all AFs AF2: Group AF1: Discussion Presenting: with a focus Possible on an unseen prosecution poem. speech based on a particular character.
YEAR 9 - ENGLISH MCA ENGLISH DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION CURRICULUM (Overview) YEAR 9 Term Autumn 1 Autumn 2 Spring 1 Spring 2 Reading Writing Reading Reading and Main Skill Development Writing Moral: Students will Moral: Students Cultural: Cultural: explore moral and will explore and Exploration of Developing SMCS ethical issues within discuss moral Victorian culture. and Development the play. values and ethical Social: expressing Spiritual: Students issues. Understanding how personal will explore human communities and views or feelings and societies function values. emotions within the and the impact on play. the individual. Science: Why isn’t All subjects Iron Sulphide on provide The Periodic Table questions for of Elements? S&L Cross Curricular (Writing to discussion. inform/explain) H&W: Cooking Evaluations.
Summer 1 Reading
Summer 2 Reading and Writing Social: Social: Developing Understandin personal g how qualities and communities using social or societies skills. function, focusing on 1930s America.
YEAR 9 - ENGLISH MCA ENGLISH DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION CURRICULUM (Overview) YEAR 9 Term Autumn 1 Autumn 2 Spring 1 Spring 2 Summer 1 Summer 2 Main Skill Reading Writing Reading Reading and Reading Reading and Development Writing Writing Taming of The Live Science Performance Article Project: Shrew Marketplace: demonstration. by theatre Students introductory lesson. company with research articles Guest speakers from a workshop on a topic of their Creative range of occupations choice and use Engagement demonstrating the way this as stimulus that different text types to create their are used in ‘real life’ own final situations. discussion piece. Line graphs Line graphs (S&D) Line Diamond 9 Line Line (S&D) Statistics for graphs to Sequencing graphs graphs Diamond 9 persuasion (S&D) plot (N) (S&D) (S&D) Sequencing themes. Using Diamon Diamon Numeracy Links (N) (S&D) statistics for d9 d9 Diamond persuasion. Sequen Sequen 9 (N) cing (N) cing (N) Sequenci ng (N)
YEAR 9 - ENGLISH
Term Topic Title
Brief Description of Content
MCA ENGLISH DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION CURRICULUM Text Tracker YEAR 9 Autumn 1 Autumn 2 Spring 1 Spring 2 The Taming of the Transactional Read All Of Mice and Men Shrew Writing About It! Pupils study The Pupils develop Pupils study Of Pupils Taming of the skills in formal Mice and Men. The explore Shrew and develop writing drawing novel will be used articles from skills in analysis, from a range of as stimulus for a variety of interpretation and stimulus including developing both sources and relating a text to its George Orwell’s reading and writing use their context. This unit 1984. skills, focussing on analysis as a has a comparative descriptive writing. basis for element where developing pupils will discover their own links between the skills in play and the poetry article of Carol Ann Duffy. writing.
Summer 1 Summer 2 Poetry: Novel Conflict Pupils will TBC develop skills in interpretation and analysis of language through the study of poetry across time on a given theme.
YEAR 9 - ENGLISH
Term Main Skill Development
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MCA ENGLISH DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION CURRICULUM Text Tracker YEAR 9 Autumn 1 Autumn 2 Spring 1 Spring 2 Reading Writing Reading Reading and Writing Orwell 1984 Of Mice and Men Selections of The Taming of the Shrew Touching the Void broadsheets, Critical readings: The Twelve Years A tabloids, Taming of the Shrew Slave blogs and Selected poetry Carol The Road autobiograph Ann Duffy (for (McCarthy) y comparison) Orwell 1984 The Taming of the Shrew Touching the Void Selected Poetry Carol Twelve Years A Ann Duffy (for Slave comparison)
Of Mice and Men
Selections of broadsheets, tabloids, blogs and autobiograph y
Summer 1 Reading
Summer 2 Reading and Writing TBC
TBC
YEAR 9 - ENGLISH MCA ENGLISH DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION CURRICULUM Text Tracker YEAR 9 Term Autumn 1 Autumn 2 Spring 1 Spring 2 Reading Writing Reading Reading and Main Skill Development Writing Orwell 1984 Of Mice and Men Selections of NURTURE The Taming of the Touching the Void broadsheets, NB some texts are Shrew Twelve Years a tabloids, differentiated through use Selected Poetry Slave blogs and of abridgements or Carol Ann Duffy (for autobiograph through study alongside comparison) y graphic versions.
Summer 1 Reading
Summer 2 Reading and Writing TBC