Sir James Smith’s School English Department
What Will
I Be
Learning?
What
topics will
I be
studying?
What will
I have to
produce?
What
wider
reading
will I do?
Year 7 Course 2015-16
Sept 2015
Oct/Nov 2015
Dec 2015
Jan 2016
Feb/Mar 2016
Mar 2016
The Writing
Process
To follow the
writing
process:
planning and
researching;
drafting and
editing;
proofreading
Imagining that
we have
crashlanded
on a desert
island and
discussing
what we need
to do to
survive
A series of
diary entries
How To Read
A Novel
To make use
of a wide
range of
reading
strategies to
make sense of
a novel.
Under The
Microscope
To read
closely to look
at the style of
a writer’s
work
Writing
Creatively
To develop
the style and
accuracy of
my writing
The Magic of
Language
To explore
how language
is used to
create
character
Diverse Voices Writing in the
Real World
To develop my To organise
‘ear’ for the
my ideas and
sound and
shape my
rhythm of
writing for
language
different
purposes and
formats
‘Private
Peaceful’ by
Michael
Morpurgo
looking at the
words and the
structure
Extracts from
fiction written
by Anthony
Horowitz
Writing my
own Gothic
Horror story
using the
ideas from my
reading last
term
Study key
Poetry and
scenes from
non-fiction by
‘The Tempest’, Grace Nichols
building up an
interpretation
of Caliban’s
character
A short story
A response to
the language
used by the
characters
Two
A piece of
responses to
writing in the
an extract as
style of the
well as the
author
whole novel
Read extracts from a range of fiction texts on the
theme of fear, as well as challenging myself to
read a wider range of books.
Some poems
of my own
Apr/May 2016
May/June 2016
July 2016
Reading the
Classics
To make use
of reading
strategies to
make sense of
a more
challenging
text
Created in
Cornwall
To explore
how a writer
creates setting
and
atmosphere
Formal letters
and leaflets
using some
ideas from my
reading last
term
The opening
of ‘Great
expectations’
and key
extracts which
introduce the
characters
A formal letter
and the ‘copy’
for a leaflet
A response to
the characters
in the novel
Reading
extracts from
short stories
and novels by
Daphne Du
Maurier and
look at how
she describes
places
My own
descriptions of
settings
Read a range of non-fiction texts on the theme of Read a range of poetry on the theme of animals,
Cornwall, as well as continuing to challenge
as well as reviewing the range and challenge of
myself in my independent reading
my wider reading this year