Curriculum Plan for Parents – Year 8
Subject
English
Contact Person
Ms L. Cunningham
Half term
and topic
Your child will learn....
Key
Homework
Assessment –
APP
Self / Peer/ Teacher
‘Rising Stars’ & Accelerated
reading
Autumn 1
MEDIA ADVERTISING - WRITING to
PERSUADE
Moodle
Research for
advertising
campaign
Self / Peer/ Teacher
Assessment & Target setting:
e.g. radio interview on current novel,
television advertisement,
Reading - Analysing advertisements SOW
e.g. Funfair, Cosmetics. AFOREST, AFP,
GASP
Big Write Create advertising campaign for
chosen product
Literacy Blast - VCOP
Enrichment- National Poetry Day
Write a poem for
Flashback Short stories competition
National Poetry
Day
Autumn 2
Spring 1
Modern Text – short story / novella
e.g. Abomination, Holes
Narrator’s viewpoint & techniques
Class Reader – all students will study one
text in-depth per term (two novels and
one play over the year). Carousel system
e.g. ‘Abomination’/ ‘The Devil Walks’
Private Reading – comprehension skills
Accelerated Reading
‘The Day’ website – on-going non- fiction
initiative
Big Write Topical Issues e.g. Bonfire
night, Halloween and Remembrance Day.
Literacy focus – High level punctuation
Enrichment-National Poetry Day October
Modern Drama and Reading
Play Study– all students will
read/perform
e.g. ‘Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ R.L.
Stevenson
Private Reading – comprehension and
review skills focus
Accelerated Reading
Big Write – Focus on writing drama
scripts e.g. Writing to inform and
entertain. Focus on accuracy of writing
e.g. structure and punctuation.
Literacy focus – Stage directions / Speech
EnrichmentMini Saga Short Story Competition
Research social
and historical
context of class
text e.g. Gothic in
‘The Devil Walks’
Writing to
describe /
entertain based
on text studied
Grammar
websites
Moodle
Research context
of class play
APP
Speaking & Listening
AFs 1-4
Reading
AFs 1-8
Writing
AFs 1-8
Standards folders updated
with their progress each term
in all areas of English.
Self / Peer/ Teacher
Assessment & Target setting:
APP
Speaking & Listening
AFs 1-4
Reading
AFs 1-8
Writing
AFs 1-8
Standards folders updated
with their progress each term
in all areas of English.
Rising Stars reading and
writing assessment
Self / Peer/ Teacher
Assessment & Target setting:
Mini-presentation APP
of the Victorian
Speaking & Listening
Era
AFs 1-4
Reading
AFs 1-8
Writing
AFs 1-8
Accelerated Reading Private
Reading Quiz
Standards folders updated
with their progress each term
in all areas of English.
Spring 2
Modern novel
e.g. ‘Millions’ Narrator’s viewpoint &
techniques
Class Reader – all students will study one
text in-depth per term (two novels and
one play over the year). Carousel system
Private Reading – comprehension and
review skills focus
Accelerated Reading
Big Write – Focus on speeches and
persuasive writing. Topical issues e.g. civil
rights.
Literacy focus – Sentence structure and
varying sentence types e.g. simple,
compound and complex sentences.
Enrichment - International Women’s Day,
Comic Relief
Topical
homework based
on class reader
e.g. create an
encyclopaedia
page on Ospreys.
Research a
famous speech by
a female
Independent
reading e.g. of
different genre
Learn persuasive
techniques
Self / Peer/ Teacher
Assessment & Target setting:
APP
Speaking & Listening
AFs 1-4
Reading
AFs 1-8
Writing
AFs 1-8
Accelerated Reading Private
Reading Quiz
Standards folders updated
with their progress each term
in all areas of English
Research topical
websites
Summer 1
Summer 2
Cultural Poetry
Study of a selection of poetry from other
cultures and traditions. E.g. Grace Nichols
/ Benjamin Zephaniah
Private Reading – comprehension and
review skills focus
Accelerated Reading
Big Write – Creative writing based on
poetry study
Literacy focus – Poetry terminology
Enrichment- Visit by a poet / trip to
Liverpool Slavery Museum
Study of SHAKESPEARE
Detailed reading of key Shakespeare
scenes of a play (traditional & modern
extracts)
‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’
Private Reading - free choice
Accelerated Reading
Big Write – Modernise a scene from
Shakespeare text studied.
Literacy focus – Vocabulary /
Shakespearean language
Enrichment – Multi-media versions of
text / Theatre trip
Research into
context of
cultural poetry
studied
Self / Peer/ Teacher
Assessment & Target setting:
APP
Speaking & Listening
AFs 1-4
Reading
AFs 1-8
Writing
AFs 1-8
Accelerated Reading Private
Reading Quiz
Standards folders updated
with their progress each term
in all areas of English.
Create a multimedia version of
a Shakespeare
scene / extract.
E.g. podcasts /
film sequence
Self / Peer/ Teacher
Assessment & Target setting:
APP
Speaking & Listening
AFs 1-4
Reading
AFs 1-8
Writing
AFs 1-8
Accelerated Reading Private
Reading Quiz
Standards folders updated
with their progress each term
in all areas of English.