ENGLISH KEY STAGE 4
GCSE Year 10
Unit
Year 10 need to focus on writing
skills – writing enough; planning,
sequencing; topic sentences,
linking and connectives, inventive
use of vocabulary – and
accuracy!!!
10C to begin with Prose
coursework – short stories.
10B – ‘An Inspector Calls’.
10A – ‘Wessex Tales’.
All Year 10 have done some
Cluster 2 Poetry from Different
Cultures. (10C should do both
clusters by the end of KS4 – other
sets if time permits.) Complete
Cluster 2 poems by Christmas.
Original writing coursework.
All groups should have done one
piece by Christmas.
Long Term Plan
Resources
GCSE English for AQA A – all
pupils are loaned this.
Videos/DVD ; photocopied
notes
Remind pupils re. Internet
research; THEY MUST LIST
WEBSITES IF USED.
GCSE Year 11
Unit
Emphasise to year 11 – cwk
skills are relevant to exam tasks
too. Everything connects…
11C to begin with Media
coursework – preparation to be
completed by Ramadan/Eid
break and first draft by end of
break.
11B to begin with ‘An Inspector
Calls’.
11A to begin with ‘An Inspector
Calls’
Info. on poets – see AQA
English/Eng.Lit. Specification
– Teachers’ Guide (kept in
exam cupboard)
AQA/A Anthology – annotate
lightly
Teachers’ copies of Working
with the Anthology for AQA/A
Bitesize revision videos have
good info. on poets and poetry.
S & L Coursework EN1
Autumn Term 2009
PUPILS HAVE OWN
DICTIONARIES. CHECK and
ENCOURAGE USE OF
DICTIONARIES.
(Media coursework – use film
or printed media.)
Do at least one EN1
assessment –
 Drama (pair or group,
possible a monologue –
link to criteria)
 Argue, persuade – group
or pairs. Check with
above and criteria.
Preparation for this could
crossover with exam
revision, Paper 1, Section
A.
Resources
Ensure that all pupils have a copy
of GCSE English AQA A
textbook and the AQA/A
Anthology. Use dictionaries too.
GCSE mark schemes – copy
examples for pupils
Pupils’ mock exam question and
answer papers.
Material from Inset attended by
HD on raising achievement in
English – each teacher has a copy.
Reading Media Texts
NATE video for KS3 English –
Media
PTO
Magazine covers
assessments. Keep detailed
records; use EN1 assessment
record sheets. S & L can be
linked to Poetry from Different
Cultures. See SoWs
GCSE for English AQA/A
Textbook
Reading Non-fiction and Media
Texts. Focus on Inference,
Images and Graphics. Lead
pupils through Paper 1, Section A,
p 53 – 65
1 week to cover Writers’ Effects,
Selecting Material, Reading with
Insight.
Homeworks – some checked in
class
After the Eid break 11C to
continue with Shakespeare
(The Merchant of Venice);
11B – ‘Of Mice and Men’;
11A – ‘Macbeth’.
11C should have completed
first reading of ‘To Kill a
Mockingbird’ by end of
summer break.
Set texts for English
Literature:
11C – ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’
11B – ‘Of Mice and Men’
11A – ‘Of Mice and Men’
Introduce and read. See CGP
guides. Plan and write a
practice essay.
Spend time on Paper 1
preparation prior to exams.
AQA textbook and past papers.
Use folders of Imelda Pilgrim
materials.
Resources on improving
achievement from Inset attended
by HD.
Bitesize videos
English file videos on background
to To Kill a Mockingbird, Of
Mice and Men. Plot summaries
and photocopied notes.
PTO
Past GCSE papers and mark
schemes – selective photocopying
of schemes can aid pupils.
Prose coursework:
‘The Turn of the Screw’
BBC Bitesize videos – useful for
the two writing triplets (Argue,
‘Jane Eyre’
‘Thomas Hardy Short
Stories’ including ‘The
Withered Arm’
‘Stories from Other Times’
Persuade and Advise; Explain,
Describe and Inform)
BBC Bitesize video on Poems of
Different Cultures
GCSE English for AQA A
textbook has sample papers with
advice, H and F level
TEACHERS - PLEASE KEEP
CAREFUL RECORDS OF
BOOKS LOANED.
KS4 Sow LongTerm Plan doc.