Curriculum Plan for Parents – Year 7
Subject
English
Contact Person
Ms L. Cunningham
Half term
and topic
Your child will learn....
Key
Homework
Assessment – On-going
for all Assessment
Objectives
Autumn 1
The history of language:
Context: Literature from the Dark Ages to
medieval England
Stimulus: Beowulf/Chaucer
Canterbury Tales
Writing skills: Inform and Explain
Suggested private readers: The Road to
Canterbury
Stories from Other Times
Stories Old and New
Pre-twentieth Century Short Stories
Key spellings
Speaking & Listening - AO1
Role play
Autumn 2
Spring 1
Spring 2
The Construction and de-construction of
the 19th century novel
Context: Structure and language of 19th
Century novel – ‘to raise the Ghost of an
Idea’
Stimulus: A Christmas Carol
Extracts from 19TH Novels
Writing skills: Describe
Suggested private readers: The Road to
Canterbury
Stories from Other Times
Stories Old and New
Pre-twentieth Century Short Stories
Epics and Myths
Context: Analysis of The Seven Basic Plots
Stimulus: Analysis of The Seven Basic
Plots
Writing skills: Describe
Suggested private readers:
Boy, A Roald Dahl Selection
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Out of the Ashes
First World War Poetry
Context: How
Literary Language was used to convey the
horror of the Great War
Stimulus: The structure and language of
Wilfred Owen’s Poetry
Writing skills: Inform and Explain
Suggested private readers:
Join local library
Independent
reading e.g. of
new author
Spelling Tests
Topical websites
and bring in
favourite R.Dahl
novels
Research social
and historical
context
Reading AO2/AO3
Reading Test
Writing AO5/AO6:
Write a letter to your junior
school.
Speaking & Listening - AO1 –
Role play
Key spellings
Reading AO2/AO3
Response to the text
Writing to
Describe
Writing AO5/AO6:
Creative writing based on
freeze frame
Grammar
websites
Myths and fairy
story research
and analysis
Speaking & Listening - AO1 –
Talking to others
Key spellings
Reading AO2/AO3
Rising Stars style test
Topical Write a
Research WW1
Writing AO5/AO6:
Write a Fairy Tale using one of
the seven plots
.Speaking & Listening - AO1 –
talking to others
Reading AO2/AO3
Response to the text
Writing AO5/AO6:
Write a Dramatic
Monologue/Blog from one
character’s point of view
Summer 1
Summer 2
Debates and speeches
Context: What makes a good speech?
Stimulus: Michelle Obama
JK Rowling
Malala Yousafzai
Writing skills: Persuade and Argue
Suggested private readers:
Room 13
Sky Hawk
The Secret Garden
Topical Research
for presentation
Speaking & Listening - AO1 –
Discussion
Key spellings
Reading AO2/AO3
Rising Stars style test
Introduction to Shakespeare’s women
Context: Introduction to Shakespeare’s
women
Stimulus: Juliet, Goneril and Regan
Cordelia, Miranda, Lady Macbeth
Cleopatra, Ariel, Ophelia, Desdemona
Topical Research
on Shakespeare
Who, of Shakespeare’s women, really
represent the Elizabethan Woman?
Sub text – Misogynist or feminist
Writing skills: Persuade and argue
Suggested private readers:
Planning for
presentations and Writing AO5/AO6:
debates
Formal debates
Speaking & Listening - AO1 discussion
Key spellings
Reading AO2/AO3
End of KS3 test
Writing AO5/AO6:
Dramatic Monologue, or Blog,
from the point of view of one
of Shakespeare’s female
characters