School Week
August (4-8)
(11- 15)
1. (18-22)
2. (25 -29)
3. SEPT (1 -5)
4. (8-12)
5. (15-19)
6. (22-26)
7 (OCT) (29 -3)
8. (6-10)
(13-17)
9. (20-24)
10. (27 – 31)
11. NOV (3 -7)
12. (10 -14)
13 (17 21)
14 (24 – 28)
15. DEC (1 – 5)
16 (8-12)
(15-19)
(22-26)
JAN (29-2)
17. (5-9)
18 (12-16)
19 (19 – 23)
20( 26-30)
21. FEB (2-6)
22 ((9 -13)
(16 -20)
23 (23-27)
24. MAR (2-6)
25. (9-13)
26. (16-20)
27. (23-27)
APRIL (30-3)
(6-10)
28. (13-17)
29 (20-24)
MAY (27 – 1)
30. (4-8)
31. (11-15)
32. (18-22)
(25-29)
33. JUNE (1-5)
34 (8-12)
35 (15-19)
36 (22-26)
37 (29th June)
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Year 10 – Aug 2014 June 2016
New Teacher Induction Week
Teacher Training Week
Lang Coursework 1 Persuasive Writing
Prepare for The Great Debate (oral)
Produce separate piece of persuasive courseworkSSA 50%
Lang Coursework 3 Response to a news article
Students select a respond to their own article.
Do I together as practice. Then their own.
OCT SSA 50%
OCTOBER HALF TERM
Lit coursework 1
2 Filipino Short Stories
+ Lang coursework 2
Jan SSA 50% Lang: Write a short story
Jan SSA 50% Lit: Analyse 2 short stories
Version 1
Lit coursework 1
Alternative text study
Study alternative novel
Produce essay on character or theme
2. Analysis of 2 short
stories
3. Alternative novel
Essay
4. Comment
Live Reporting Oct
(All Language)
1. Great Debate Oral
2. Persuasive Writing
C/W
3. Argument C/w
(including Reading
grade)
4. Comment
Live Report Jan
Lang.
1. Short Story
Lit.
CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS
Lit Component 1
Novel* or Poetry*
Study either poetry or prose for final lit exam and
Eofy exam. Can produce a coursework essay (must
be on 2 poems or novel)
FEBRUARY HALF TERM
April SSA from Lit C/work 2: 50%
Lit Component 1
Novel* or Poetry*
Study either poetry or prose for final lit. exam and
EofY exam. Can produce a coursework essay (must
Live Report April
Lit: either –
1. Timed commentary
or comparative essay
2. Timed commentary
or exam novel essay
3. Comment
EASTER HOLIDAYS
be on 2 poems or novel)
Lit and Lang Exam Revision Closed Book
Live Report (June)
Prepare for Lit Component 1: Poetry & Prose
Lit 100% Eof Y grade
Choice of either essay or commentary questions
Lang 100% EofY
Prepare for Lang P3 Q2
grade
MAY HALF TERM
Lit: Component 1 (closed book) Poetry and Prose 1.5 hrs
Lang: P3. Q2 1 hr
Exam Feedback.
START OF SUMMER HOLIDAYS!
School Week
August (4-8)
(11- 15)
1. (18-22)
2. (25 -29)
3. SEPT (1 -5)
4. (8-12)
5. (15-19)
6. (22-26)
7 (OCT) (29 -3)
8. (6-10)
(13-17)
9. (20-24)
10. (27 – 31)
11. NOV (3 -7)
12. (10 -14)
13 (17 21)
14 (24 – 28)
15. DEC (1 – 5)
16 (8-12)
(15-19)
(22-26)
JAN (29-2)
17. (5-9)
18 (12-16)
19 (19 – 23)
20( 26-30)
21. FEB (2-6)
22 ((9 -13)
(16 -20)
23 (23-27)
24. MAR (2-6)
25. (9-13)
26. (16-20)
27. (23-27)
APRIL (30-3)
(6-10)
28. (13-17)
29 (20-24)
MAY (27 – 1)
30. (4-8)
31. (11-15)
32. (18-22)
(25-29)
33. JUNE (1-5)
34 (8-12)
35 (15-19)
36 (22-26)
37 (29th June)
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Year 10 – Aug 2014 June 2016
New Teacher Induction Week
Teacher Training Week
Lit Component 3
Drama Text – Open Book
Study drama text for final lit exam and Jan mocks.
(Passage or essay style)
Can produce a coursework essay (Oct SSA 100%)
Lang Paper 2 Preparation Q2: Writer’s Effects
Past Papers: 30 mins 10 marks
OCTOBER HALF TERM
Lang Paper 2 Preparation Q3: Summary
Past Papers: 45 mins 20 marks
Lang Paper 2 Preparation Q1: Directed Reading
Past Papers: 45 mins 20 marks
Version 1
Live report (Oct)
Lit:
1. Timed or
Commentary
2. Timed Essay
3. Comment
Lang:
3. Writer’s effects
Live Report (Jan)
Lang:
1. Summary
2. Directed reading
3. Comment
Lit Revision
CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS
Year 11 Mock Exams
What Do We Want? All P1 Lang? Unspecified Lit Q so they must revise all?
Exam Feedback
Language P3 Preparation/Coursework
Live Report (April)
Lang:
1. Timed Q. 3
FEBRUARY HALF TERM
Exam Revision For Final Exams
Lit:
2. Timed Lit essay
3. Comment
EASTER HOLIDAYS
May Half Term
START OF SUMMER HOLIDAYS!
Set texts for 2016 exam
Thomas Hardy
These may be found in Selected
Poems, ed. Harry Thomas (Penguin).
Neutral Tone
‘I Look into My Glass’
Drummer Hodge
The Darkling Thrush
On the Departure Platform
The Pine Planters
The Convergence of the Twain
The Going
The Voice
At the Word ‘Farewell’
During Wind and Rain
In Time of ‘The Breaking of Nations’
No Buyers: A Secret Scene
Nobody Comes
From Songs of Ourselves Volume 2, Part
1, the following 14 poems:
William Blake, ‘Clod and Pebble’
Lady Mary Wroth, ‘Song’
Kathleen Raine, ‘Passion’
George Herbet, ‘Love’
John Donne, ‘Love’s Infiniteness’
William Wordsworth, ‘She was a
Phantom of delight’
Emma Jones, ‘Tiger in the Menagerie’
Amanda Chong, ‘Lion Heart’
Edith Sitwell, ‘Heart and Mind’
Liz Lochhead, ‘For my Grandmother
Knitting’
Dilip Chitre, ‘Father Returning Home’
Patricia Beer, ‘The Lost Woman’
Owen Sheers, ‘Coming Home’
Sam Hunt, ‘Stabat Mater’
DRAMA TEXTS
Arthur Miller All My Sons
* J.B. Priestley An Inspector Calls
* William Shakespeare The Merchant of
Venice
** William Shakespeare Henry V
** J Lawrence/R Lee Inherit The Wind
From Jo Phillips, ed. Poems Deep & Dangerous
The following 14 poems (from Section 4 ‘One Another’).
John Clare, ‘First Love’
Matthew Arnold, ‘To Marguerite’
Elizabeth Jennings, ‘One Flesh’
Christina Rossetti, ‘Sonnet’ (‘I wish I could remember that
first day’)
William Shakespeare, ‘Shall I Compare Thee…?’
Elma Mitchell, ‘People Etcetera’
Simon Armitage, ‘In Our Tenth Year’
William Shakespeare, ‘The Marriage of True Minds’
Seamus Heaney, ‘Follower’
Michael Laskey, ‘Registers’
Chris Banks, ‘The Gift’
Liz Lochhead, ‘Laundrette’
Liz Lochhead, ‘Poem for My Sister’
Patricia McCarthy, ‘Football After School’
Prose Selection - Novels
Jane Austen Northanger Abbey
* George Eliot Silas Marner (note this will now stay on
the syllabus until 2017)
Susan Hill I’m the King of the Castle
Robert Louis Stevenson The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll
and Mr Hyde
** Chinua Achebe No Longer at Ease
** Michael Frayn Spies
** R.K. Narayan The English Teacher
Stories of Ourselves - The following 10 stories:
no. 10 Saki (Hector Hugo Munro), ‘Sredni Vashtar’
no. 17 Sylvia Townsend Warner, ‘The Phoenix’
no. 19 Bernard Malamud, ‘The Prison’
no. 22 J G Ballard, ‘Billenium’
no. 24 Maurice Shadbolt, ‘The People Before’
no. 30 Patricia Highsmith, ‘Ming’s Biggest Prey’
no. 34 Anita Desai, ‘Games at Twilight’
no. 39 Paule Marshall, ‘To Da-duh, in Memoriam’
no. 40 Rohinton Mistry, ‘Of White Hairs and Cricket’
no. 45 Adam Thorpe, ‘Tyres’