Hamilton Community College English Department
KS3 Long Term Plan
Year Group Autumn Term 1
7
Autumn Term 2
Spring Term 1
Spring Term 2
Summer Term
1
Summer Term 2
Non Fiction Unit:
Thematic
(Reading & Writing)
Modern Post 1914
Prose Text
Class novel
(Reading)
Personal Non Fiction
Texts
(Autobiographies/Author
study opportunity)
(Writing)
Post 1914 Drama
Unit (Play)
(Reading &
Writing)
Pre & Post 1914
Poetry Unit:
Thematic Unit
(Reading)
Pre-1914 Drama:
(Shakespeare)
Midsummer
Night’s Dream
(Writing)
Assessment:
Reading question
based on the craft
of the writer.
Assessment: Create
their own
autobiography using
techniques.(1st person
narratives)
Assessment:
R: Q’s based on
extract & essay
W: Create own
scene (additional
or alternative
ending.
Assessment:
Unseen poetry
task.
Assessment:
Transpose a
scene from a
playscript into
third person
chapter (Prose)
(Spoken Language:
Individual
Idiolect/Sociolect
S&Presentation)
(S&L Presentation:
Group)
Class readers
To include the same authors as the class novel if possible. (Link to author study)
Assessment:
R: Comparison of
Non Fiction Texts.
W: Link to GCSE
written Task (Formal
Letter/Speech etc)
(S&L Presentation:
Speech)
8
Pre & Post 1914
prose:
Transformation
Unit
(Reading)
Post 1914 Non Fiction
Unit:
Derek Bentley
(Writing)
(S&L - Debate)
Media Unit: Digital
literacy unit
(Reading &
Writing)
(S&L –Individual
Presentation)
Post-1914 Poetry:
Other cultures
(Reading)
Pre 1914 Drama
Frankenstein
(Writing)
Modern post 1914
Prose Text
Class novel – Stone
Cold
(Reading & Writing)
(S&L – Group)
Assessment:
Comparison of
the writer’s
work/craft
Assessment: Written
Task based on Derek
Bentley: Newspaper
Article
Assessment:
R:
Compare/contrast
non-fiction media
text.
W: Persuasive
Leaflet/Guide to
encourage elderly
people to use the
internet.
Assessment:
Comparison of two
poems
(Author Study –
Zephaniah/Agard.
Assessment:
Writing : A
Comparison of
the play script to
the film.
Write a review
Assessment:
Reading/Extract
question to mirror
new GCSE spec.
Link to Spoken
Language within Unit
(Phonetics)
(Report writing in sow)
Class readers
To include the same authors as the class novel. (Link to author study)
Writing: 1st
Narrative Writing
9
Post-1914 Prose
fiction/fiction
from other
cultures: Of Mice
and Men
(Seminal)
(Reading)
Writing for different
purposes non-fiction
unit
(Writing)
Assessment:
Assessment: GCSE type
R : Extract/essay
written task: Letter, &
question that
speech.
mirrors GCSE spec.
(S&L: Group
George on trial)
Narrative Writing
Unit – C20th 3rd
person Narrative
(Writing)
Unseen Text Unit
Pre/Post 1914
Poetry Texts
(Reading)
Pre-1914 Drama:
(Shakespeare)
Macbeth/Hamlet
(Reading)
GCSE Skills Unit
Fiction/Non Fiction
Mirror WJEC Paper
(Reading & Writing)
Assessment:
R: Read and
respond to a
narrative extract
(Writer’s craft)
W: Write narrative
based on a
particular genre
Assessment:
Unseen Poetry
Task
Assessment:
Extract/essay
linked to
character/craft
of writer
Assessment:
R: Comparison of
Non Fiction Texts
W: GCSE type
written task: Formal
Letter/Article
(S&L – Individual
Response to
poems)
(S&L – Individual
Link to Spoken
Language
Compare
Shakespeare to
modern day)
Class readers