KS3 Curriculum Booklet

English

Year 7

There will be compulsory reading lessons in library once a week. As well as reading and grammar lessons in addition to core provision.

Autumn 2

Autumn 1

Spring 1

Summer 1

Summer 2

Spring 2

1.Reading response-

Shakespeare extract

1. Unseen poem

2. Poetry recital

1. Story writing

2. Practice

responses: r & wr

1. Unseen writing

task – exam style

2. S&L speech

1. Exam: reading and

writing ( novel).

1. C/Ass – text

comparison

2.C/Ass - directed wr

Library –

Introduction to

reading for pleasure/

Renaissance Reading

Introduction

to Poetic

Forms and

Devices

Poet study

Poetry recital

Unseen poem

Haiku, limerick,

rhyming couplets,

sonnets, ballads,

narrative

Media

Studies:

Animation:

The Sandman,

Disney, Pixar.

Nonfiction –

Survival

Range of extracts

and texts

including:

Touching the

Void, Bear Grylls

Novel –

teacher

choice

Including

poems linked

to the

character

Buddy

Ways to Live

Forever

Tins

Cirque du Freak

Non Fiction

Writing –

animals

Speech

writing and

performing

Enrichment

activity -

Debate

History of

English

Language

Literary

Heritage:

Chaucer

Beowulf

Shakespeare

Author Study

Enrichment

activity –

Shakespeare

performance

Media

Studies:

Computer

Games -

comparing

texts

Summary

Skills

Spelling Bee

Terminal

exam

(Edexcel)