KS3 – Year 7
Autumn Term
Do you remember?
Spring Term
Taking over the world
Content of study:
Assessment Focus:
Content of study:
BISP
War poetry
20th Century Letters
and letter writing
Reading EF 2,3,5,6
The Tempest
Reading EF-2,3,6,7
Context—Colonialism
Drama—Power in
Writing EF 1,2,3
speeches
Non fiction
soliloquy/monologues
Writing EF 1,4,7,8
Author Study
Assessment Focus:
Summer Term
Surviving the darkness
Content of study:
Assessment focus:
Range of fictionfantasy element
19th century gothic
texts
Reading EF 2,3,4,5
Writing EF– 4,5,6,7,8
Author study
Grammar - verbs, nouns, articles, adjectives
and prepositions. Subject-verb agreement.
Tense
Grammar: Topic sentences, paragraphs,
introductions and conclusions.
Key Assessments 1st
Half-Term:
Key Assessments:
Key Assessments:
Reading-Responding
to how author
presents a ‘villain’ or
a ‘hero’ in the
play/novel.
End of year
assessments.
Homework:
Grammar—The elements of a sentence,
Simple sentence, compound sentence,
complex sentence. Listing and bracketing
commas.
Key Assessments 2nd Key Assessments:
Key Assessments:
Half-Term:
Reading-Close
S and L-presentation
Reading-personal
analysis of extract
of speech.
response to how
from Tempest.
poets use devices to
Reading-analysis of a
present the reality of Writing-Speech
drama speech
war.
discussing
Colonialism.
Writing-Write own
Writing—Create a
soliloquy
letter linked to unit
of study.
Homework:
Homework:
Homework:
Homework:
Homework:
Takeaway tasks
Takeaway tasks
Takeaway tasks
Takeaway tasks
Reading-close
analysis of extract
from BISP
Writing-diary entry
of Father or Mother
after Bruno has gone
missing.
Takeaway tasks
Takeaway tasks
Writing-monologue
of a character.
KS3 – Year 8
Autumn Term
Impossible is nothing
Unit Outline:
Assessment focus:
Spring Term
Are you a lover or a hater?
Unit Outline:
Assessment focus:
Point Blanc
21st century NF texts
19th century texts
Arguments
presentationdevelopment of
technology
Romeo and Juliet
Romanticism/conflict
poetry
Scripts and reviews
Non fiction textsarranged
marriages/forbidden
love
Reading EF-2,3,5,6
Writing EF-1,4,7,8
Reading EF-2,3,4
Writing EF-1,2,5
Unit Outline:
Summer Term
Life’s not fair!
Assessment focus:
OMAM
20th century non
fiction texts
Poetry-race based
Speeches-equality
Reading EF-3,5,6,7
Writing EF-3,4,6,7
Grammar: Revision of previous year, plus—
adverbs, comparatives and superlative
adjectives, nouns, plural nouns, the genitive
case (apostrophe), contraction
Key Assessments 1st Key Assessments 2nd
Half-Term:
Half-Term:
Grammar: Revision of previous year, plus:
compound-complex sentences, noun
appositive phrases, conjunctive adverbs and
semi colons.
Key Assessments 1st Key Assessments 2nd
Half-Term:
Half-Term:
Grammar: Revision of previous year, plus:
connections between sentences,
proofreading, drafting and rewriting.
Key Assessments 1st
Half-Term:
Key Assessments 2nd
Half-Term:
Reading-
Reading-
Reading– analysis of
how Steinbeck
portrays inequality.
End of Year
Assessments
Writing-
Writing-
Reading-responding
Reading-analysis of
to how Shakespeare poem
creates conflict in the
play.
Writingargumentative speck
Writing– Diary entry discussing arranged
marriages.
Writing-monologue
of Crooks/Curley’s
wife
S and L-speech
Homework:
Homework:
Homework:
Homework:
Homework:
Homework:
Takeaway tasks
Takeaway tasks
Takeaway tasks
Takeaway tasks
Takeaway tasks
Takeaway tasks