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1: Oct - Dec

2: Jan - Feb

2: Mar - April

3:April - July

Grade 6

My Special Memory – personal writing.

The Titanic: Research and non-fiction writing

The Titanic continued

 It’s a Wonderful Life:  film study

Novel: The Declaration by Gemma Malley

The Declaration by Gemma Malley

Play: Frankenstein adapted by Philip Pullman

End of year Exam

Individual, differentiated weekly activities: Bedrock literacy platform, writing journals and reading.

Grade 7

Novel: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon

Adaptation of a novel for theatre:

Comparing the novel and the play

Film study: Shrek

Global English, Language Change and Varieties of English

Children’s Picture books.

Crafting Writing: Short stories.

Short stories continued

 Poetry

 End of Year Exam

Individual, differentiated weekly activities: Bedrock literacy platform, writing journals and reading.

Grade 8

Autobiography: Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

Performance Poetry

Play: Journey’s End by RC Sherriff

Journey’s End

Shakespeare: Macbeth

 End of Year exam

Individual, differentiated weekly activities: Bedrock literacy platform, writing journals and reading.

Grade 9

IGCSE First Language English

Film Noir and Detective Writing (Paper 2)

Introduction to Paper 1

Paper 1 skills:

-   Vocabulary

-   Comprehension

-   Summary skills

People and Places: Into the Wild Descriptive Writing (Paper 2)

Border Crossings: Migration stories and Narrative Writing (Paper 2)

 Paper 1 work

 End of Year exam

Grade 9

IGCSE English Literature

Literary analysis & Unseen Poetry

 Drama set text: A Streetcar named Desire by Tennessee Williams

 A Streetcar named Desire by Tennessee Williams

Set Text Poetry

(selection of 15 poems from around the world) 

Completing study of Set Text Poetry

 Skills for the Unseen exam

End of Year exam

 Introduction to the set text novel

Grade 10 

IGCSE First Language English

Evaluation and Opinion (Paper 2)

Writing for purpose and Audience (Paper 2)

Paper 1 skills:

-   Vocabulary       

-  Comprehension

-  Summary skills

Narrative writing (Paper 2)

Descriptive writing(Paper 2)

Exam practice and revision

 FINAL EXAM

Grade 10 IGCSE

English Literature

Set Text Novel:

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Set Text Novel:

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Preparation for the Unseen Exam

Revision and exam practice: Drama, Poetry, Novel, Unseen

FINAL EXAM

Grade 11

IB English A

Induction /Concepts & Areas of Exploration

Hubert Mingarelli: Four Soldiers

(HL Owen’s poetry)

Conflict:

Hubert Mingarelli: Four Soldiers

Arthur Miller: All My Sons

 Paper 1 work

Identity, Family and Society:

William Blake

Edouard Louis: Who Killed My Father

Introduction to the Oral exam

Oppression, Power and Control:

 Marjane Satrapi: Persepolis

(HL El Saadawi: Woman at Point Zero)

 Toni Morrison: The Bluest Eye

End of year Exam

Grade 11

IB English B

Identities

Khalid Hosseini: The Kite Runner

Citizens of the World

Belief and Identity

Stephen Chobsky: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Human Ingenuity

Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let me Go

Future Humans

Technology and Human Interaction

Daniel Keys: Flowers for Algernon and extracts from Frankenstein

Social Organisation

Doris Pilkington: The Rabbit Proof Fence.

Minorities and Education

End of Year exam 

Grade 12

IB English A

Paper 2 introduction

IA Orals

Henrik Ibsen:

Hedda Gabler

 (HL Emily Dickinson poetry)

 Comparison of Texts for Paper 2

 Paper 1 work

MOCK EXAM

Feedback and revision

 FINAL EXAM

Grade 12

IB English B

Art Spiegelman: Maus / Fitzgerald:

The Great Gatsby

Migration

Pilgrimage

Extreme Sports

Sharing the Planet

Ending Poverty

Climate Change

Oral Exams

MOCK EXAM

Feedback and Revision

 FINAL EXAM