|
Term |
Unit |
Speaking &
Listening |
Reading |
Writing |
|
1a |
Newspapers |
Listening to a radio news broadcast |
Tabloid/broadsheet newspapers
Newspaper article Personal private reading
|
Newspaper front page
Analyse, review and comment on a newspaper article
|
|
1b |
Class Reader (Citizenship) |
Pair/ group discussion based on issues raised in class reader |
Class Reader E.g. Animal Farm Holes
NATE group reading materials:
Bretevski Street,
Lin Coghlan
Holes, Louis Sachar
The Ruby in the Smoke, Philip Pullman Chinese Cinderalla,
Adelaine Yen Mah
The Wind Singer, William Nicholson
|
Writing to persuade, argue, advise
|
|
2a |
Plays & Performance |
Direct and produce a scene from a play in group (independent learning) |
A play. Choose from:
- Drama by a major playwright
- Recent and contemporary drama
- Drama by major writers from different cultures and traditions
Personal private
reading Year 8 Optional Reading Test (En2)
|
A short additional scripted scene for the play performed
Year 8 Optional Writing
Test (En3)
|
|
2b |
Poetry Analysis |
Poetry readings and performances |
A range of poetry from pre-1914 and post 1914 poets on a common theme (ensure one
poet from the post-1914 list and two poets from the pre-1914 list are covered)
Personal private reading
|
Comparison of two poems, one published before 1914 and one published after 1914 |
|
3a |
Local History |
Live news broadcast based on local history event |
Local history (Range of fiction and non-fiction texts, e.g. ‘Dracula’, Wordsworth’s
poetry, Scarborough Scrapbooks, etc)
Extracts from a range of texts to demonstrate
accent, dialect and language development
Personal private reading
|
First person narrative based on events from local history reading |
|
3b |
The Moving Image |
Advert pitch. Groups of four discuss, agree and pitch idea for TV advert for a chosen
product (linked to storyboard/synopsis activity in En3) |
Television advertisements
Personal private reading
|
Storyboard
Writing to inform, explain, describe (150-word synopsis of TV advert
idea for En1 activity)
|