KS3 English
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| Year Long Term Objective: Students will become confident readers that appreciate writers’ motivations – both in fiction and non-fiction texts. Students will become confident writers, crafting their writing in a range of forms and for a range of purposes. | ||||||
| Year | Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
| Medium Term Objective: Students will secure the foundations to confidently handle an unfamiliar text. A deliberate focus on engaging stories and characters will shape the year. | ||||||
| 7 |
Novel Study: Dickensian Characters ‘A Christmas Carol’ | Performance Poetry (leading into Poetry Festival) | Shakespeare: Midsummer Night’s Dream | Picture Book Unit | Novel Study: The Giver | |
| Medium Term Objective: Students will be exposed to more mature feeling texts that explore darker themes and ideas with more sophisticated characters, plots and settings. Students will begin to explore writers’ motivations against a contextual backdrop. | ||||||
| 8 |
Novel Study: Strength through Struggle ‘Salt to the Sea’ | Voices of War (Poetry) | Shakespeare: The Power of Rhetoric – Julius Caesar | The Gothic | Travelling through Time | |
| Medium Term Objective: Students will study contextually rich texts to charge their inference with a wider appreciation for the writer’s motivation. They will demonstrate a deep understanding of the texts studied through creative assessments that will provide an opportunity to exercise sophisticated connections with the writer and the reader. | ||||||
| 9 |
Novel Study: Against All Odds ‘Noughts & Crosses’ | Media Studies: Media Manipulation | Protest Poetry | Understanding Genre | Novel Study: Lord of the Flies | |