Homework information for website:
Subject: English Year 9
Year Group:
Autumn 1
Autumn 2
Spring 1
Detail of ‘project’, open-ended research
(including relevant websites)
 Explore stories written in 1st and
3rd person narrative. Provide
examples of both styles and
evidence of research of both.
 Research the life of someone you
are interested in – write up your
findings in the 3rd person.
 Investigate autobiographies and
biographies – what is the key
difference?
 List the key ingredients of first
person writing.
 Advertising – look at a range of
adverts. Print and TV – what
techniques are employed? Are they
persuasive?
 Collate a sample of print
advertisements from magazine and
newspapers. Compare how they
differ – list key points.
 Advert Analysis – Different types of
advert. Find examples adverts
which show:
Healthy products
Unhealthy products
Adverts aimed at children.
Compare the styles used and explain how
different techniques are used and the
effect.
Back ground research into WW1 and 2.
Look at:
 Jews and concentration camps.
 Evacuation
 Life in the Trenches.
Heroes prepapration.
 Investigate the involvement of
Spring 2
Summer 1
Summer 2
American troops in WWII.
 Injuries sustained by soldiers and
how they were treated or
rehabilitated.
War poetry
 Investigate famous war poets and
their work.
Investigating Shakespeare
 Elizabethan relationships. (men
and women/parent and child).
 Expectations upon boys and girls.
How do they differ?
 Marriage – traditional ceremonies
of the time
Conflict – define what conflict is and give
a variety of examples of it.
Non-fiction investigation – looking at the
format and style of non-fiction texts.
Newspapers
Web pages
 Produce a non-fiction article – for
the school newsletter.
 List the key ingredients for writing
non-fiction texts.
Of Mice and Men
 Research into America in 1930s
and itinerant workers.
 Issues with Racism and how black
people were treated in the 1930s
 How were women treated?
Expectations of women in the
1930s
 Ranch Life