Key Topics

What will ALL students learn?

What will the most able students learn?

Autumn 1

Mini Monsters

Literacy and writing skills

To understand the importance of VOCP (vocabulary, openers, connectives and punctuation)

To use punctuation correctly.

To know and use different types of sentences

Develop strategies for improving writing;

To begin to use punctuation for effect

To know and use different types of sentences for effect.

Autumn 2

A Christmas Carol

Novel Study

Develop skills in finding information

Select and explain the writer’s use of language using quotations.

Independent research to understand the historical, social and cultural context of novel.

Select and explain the writer’s use of language using quotations in detail.

Spring 1

Media –The news

To understand what the news is and the ways that it is reported

To know the different features of news writing and how to structure a report

Develop presentational skills

To  identify and comment on the organization of news reports

To comment on how the writers use different features for effect.

Developing active listening and speaking skills for different contexts

Spring 2

Travel Writing

To understand what travel writing is; to be able to identify and comment on the different features of descriptive and persuasive writing;

To analyse a writer’s use of language; to use descriptive and persuasive techniques in own writing; to deduce/infer what a writer is suggesting; to convey feelings through writing; to work in groups; to develop skills of drama and presentation

Summer 1

Introduction to Shakespeare

To understand the life and times of Shakespeare through research

To understand Shakespeare’s of use language.

Adapting text

Independent research on Shakespeare to understand the historical, and social context of the author’s writing.

Select and explain the writer’s use of language using quotations.

Adapting text for different situations.

Summer 2

Poetry Power

Reading and analyzing poetry

Writing poetry

To understand what poetry is; to know about the different forms of poetry;

To identify and comment on poetic techniques in various poems;

To write poems using some poetic devices.

To be able to comment on the structure of poems and the effect on the reader;

To be able to employ poetic techniques effectively in own writing