English – KS3 overview: Topic Map
Autumn Term 1
Myths and Legends
(British and Cultural)
plus the history of
Year 7 set 1
the English
Language.
Year 7 set 2
Year 7 Set
3
Autumn Term 2
Spring Term 1
Spring Term 2
Summer Term 1
Summer Term 2
Modern Prose
‘Buddy’ by Nigel
Hinton
Drama Text ‘Our
Day Out’ by Willy
Russell
Poetry Anthology
(A study of
different poetic
forms within a
creative
anthology)
Modern Prose
The Truth Sayer’
by Sally Prue
Language of
the Media
+ 1 hour of intensive
literacy per week.
+ 1 hour of
intensive literacy
per week.
+ 1 hour of intensive
literacy per week.
Myths and Legends
(British and Cultural)
plus the history of
the English
Language.
Poetry Anthology
(A study of
different poetic
forms within a
creative anthology)
Modern Prose
‘Buddy’ by Nigel
Hinton
+ 1 hour of intensive
literacy per week
+
1
hour
of
intensive literacy
per week.
Modern Prose
‘The Tulip Touch’
by Anne Fine
Myths and Legends
(British and Cultural)
plus the history of
the English
Language.
+ 1 hour of intensive
literacy per week
+ 1 hour of
intensive literacy
per week
+ 1 hour of
intensive literacy
per week.
+ 1 hour of
intensive
literacy per
week.
+ 1 hour of
intensive literacy
per week.
+ 1 hour of intensive
literacy per week
Drama Text
‘Our Day Out’ by
Willy Russell
+ 1 hour of
intensive literacy
per week.
Poetry Anthology (A Language of the
study of different
Media
poetic forms within a
creative anthology)
+ 1 hour of
intensive literacy
+ 1 hour of intensive per week.
literacy per week.
Language of the
Media
+ 1 hour of
intensive literacy
per week.
Drama Text
‘Our Day Out’ by
Willy Russell
+ 1 hour of
intensive literacy
per week
Modern Prose
The Truth
Sayer’ by
Sally Prue
+ 1 hour of
intensive
literacy per
week.
Modern Prose
‘Buddy’ by
Nigel Hinton
+ 1 hour of
intensive
literacy per
week
Autumn Term 1
Year 8 Set
1
Year 8 Set
2
The Canterbury
Tales. General
Prologue, the Wife of
Bath’s Tale and the
Pardoner’s Tale
+ 1 hour of intensive
literacy per week
The Canterbury
Tales. General
Prologue, the Wife of
Bath’s Tale and the
Pardoner’s Tale
Autumn Term 2
Spring Term 1
Spring Term 2
Summer Term 1
Modern Prose. The
Boy in the Striped
Pajama’s by John
Boyne
Modern Poetry
Modern Prose .
Private Peaceful by
Michael Morpurgo
Shakespeare – The Language
Macbeth
of The Media
+ 1 hour of intensive
literacy per week
Modern Poetry
+ 1 hour of intensive
literacy per week
The Canterbury
Tales. General
Prologue, the Wife of
Bath’s Tale and the
Pardoner’s Tale
+ 1 hour of intensive
literacy per week
Modern Prose .
The Boy in the
Striped Pajama’s
by John Boyne
+ 1 hour of intensive
literacy per week
Shakespeare –
Macbeth
+ 1 hour of intensive
literacy per week
+ 1 hour of
intensive literacy
per week
+ 1 hour of intensive
literacy per week
Year 8 Set
3
+ 1 hour of
intensive literacy
per week
Modern Prose . The
Boy in the Striped
Pajama’s by John
Boyne
+ 1 hour of intensive
literacy per week
Modern Poetry
+ 1 hour of
intensive literacy
per week
Modern Prose
Holes by Lousi
Sachar.
+ 1 hour of intensive
literacy per week
+ 1 hour of
intensive
literacy per
week
Modern Prose
. Private
Peaceful by
Michael
Morpurgo
+ 1 hour of
intensive
literacy per
week
The Language
of The Media
+ 1 hour of
intensive
literacy per
week
Summer Term 2
+ 1 hour of
intensive
literacy per
week
The Language
of The Media
+ 1 hour of
intensive
literacy per
week
Shakespeare
– Macbeth
+ 1 hour of
intensive
literacy per
week
Autumn Term 1
Year 9 Set
1
Shakespeare – The
Tempest
+ 1 hour of intensive
literacy per week
Autumn Term 2
Spring Term 1
Spring Term 2
Drama –
Pygmalion by
George Bernard
Shaw
Pre 1900 Poetry
Modern Cultural
Prose – Things
Fall Apart by
Chinua Achebe
+ 1 hour of intensive
literacy per week
Year 9 Set
3
Poetry from Different
Cultures
Shakespeare –
Twelfth Night
+ 1 hour of intensive
literacy per week
+ 1 hour of
intensive literacy
per week
Shakespeare –
Much Ado about
Nothing.
Poetry from
Different Cultures
Gothic Literature
+ 1 hour of
intensive literacy
per week
+ 1 hour of intensive
literacy per week
Gothic
Literature
Summer Term 2
The Language of
the Media
+ 1 hour of
intensive
literacy per
week
+ 1 hour of
intensive literacy
per week
Gothic Literature
+ 1 hour of intensive
literacy per week
+ 1 hour of
intensive literacy
per week
Modern Prose
– Lord of The
Flies by
William
Golding
+ 1 hour of
intensive
literacy per
week
Drama – An
Inspector Calls by
J.B Priestly
Modern Prose –
Millions by Frank
Cotterill Boyce
The Language
of the Media
Extracts of
Gullivers Travels
by Jonathan
Swift.
+ 1 hour of intensive
literacy per week
+ 1 hour of
intensive literacy
per week
+ 1 hour of
intensive
literacy per
week
+ 1 hour of
intensive literacy
per week
Year 9 Set
2
Summer Term 1
+ 1 hour of
intensive literacy
per week
Drama – An
Inspector Calls by
J.B Priestly
The Language of
the Media
+ 1 hour of
intensive literacy
per week
+ 1 hour of
intensive literacy
per week