Sir James Smith’s School English Department
What Will
I Be
Learning?
What
topics will
I be
studying?
What will
I have to
produce?
Year 9 Course 2014-15 *
Sept 2014
Oct/Nov 2014
Dec 2014
Jan 2014
Feb/Mar 2014
Mar 2014
May/June 2014
July 2014
The Writing
Process
To follow the
writing
process:
planning and
researching;
drafting and
editing;
proofreading
Creating my
own
superhero and
exploring how
to tell a story,
as well as to
write to advise
How To Read
A Novel
To explore the
structure and
theme of a
novel
Under The
Microscope
To read
closely to look
at the way a
writer uses
language
Writing
Creatively
To take on
convincing
roles in my
writing
Reading the
Classics
To explore the
way a writer
structures a
novel and
creates
characters
Diverse Voices Writing in the
Real World
To develop my To develop a
use of
lively tone to
dialogue
engage the
reader
The Magic of
Language
To how
Shakespeare
uses language
to create
character
Created in
Cornwall
To explore
how writers
express
emotion
Researching a
real event and
writing an
account of it
in the first
person
Reading key
extracts from
‘Of Mice and
Men’ by John
Steinbeck
Reading
extracts from
non-fiction
written by
Maya Angelou
Reading
extracts from
‘The Tempest’
focusing on
the character
of Caliban
Read poetry
by Thomas
Hardy as well
as extracts
from ‘A Pair of
Blue Eyes’
A novel
A range of
chosen by
poetry by
your teacher
Wilfred Owen
for your class
such as ‘The
Curious
Incident of the
Dog in the
Night-time’
An advice
A response to A diary based
letter and a
an extract as
on Wilfred
short story
well as the
Owen’s poetry
whole novel
Read a range of non-fiction and poetry from
World War 1, as well as challenging myself to
read a wider range of books.
Apr/May 2014
Interviewing a
partner and
producing a
magazine
article about
their rise to
fame, drawing
on my reading
from last term
A magazine
article
A first-hand
A response to My own script
A response to My own
account of a
an extract as
Caliban’s
writing
dramatic real
well as the
language
creating
event
whole novel
tension
What
Read a range of non-fiction texts on the theme of Read extracts from short stories and fiction on
wider
heroes and idols, as well as continuing to
the theme of fantasy worlds, as well as reviewing
reading
challenge myself in my independent reading
the range and challenge of my wider reading this
will I do?
year
* This year we are introducing the new National Curriculum, which means we may need to adapt and change details from this plan during the year