WILMINGTON GRAMMAR SCHOOL FOR BOYS –KS3 PROGRAMME OF STUDY
Year 7
Unit 1
Narrative
Techniques:
Unit 2
Poetic
Techniques and
the Literary
Heritage:
Roald Dahl’s Boy
Myths and Legends
Writing to
Writing to explore /
inform/explain/describe imagine:
– a chapter from your Short story
own ‘autobiography’
Unit 3
Texts in Context:
Unit 4
An Introduction to
Shakespeare:
The Boy in the
Striped Pyjamas
A Midsummer
Night’s Dream
Writing to review /
comment:
Book reviews
Unit 5
Media and Nonfiction: class
newspaper
Unit 6
Post 1914 Drama
and Other
Cultures:
Writing to analyse:
Pre-1914 Poetry:
William Blake
Class project
Face – Benjamin
Zephaniah
Writing to argue /
persuade / advise
SAT’s style
comparison of two
short scenes.
Writing to analyse
– poetry
comparison
Year 8
Unit 1
Post 1914 Poetry:
Unit 2
Pre 1914 Prose:
Duffy and Armitage
A Christmas Carol
Writing to explore /
imagine entertain:
Short story
Poetry comparison
Writing to analyse:
Scrooge’s
character
Unit 3
Poetry:
Unit 4
Post 1914 Novel:
Conflict and Identity
Curious Incident of
the Dog in the
Night-time
Writing to
argue/persuade/
advise
Writing to inform /
explain /describe
Unit 5
Genre : Gothic
Writing
Writing to explore /
imagine entertain:
Short story /
descriptive writing
Unit 6
Shakespeare on
Film
Much Ado and
Taming of the
Shrew
Writing to analyse /
review / comment
GCSE English and English Literature Course Outline
Year 10
Term 1
English Skills:
Reading
closely, writing
sensitively
(Top Grade
English)
Introduce S&L
Short story
coursework
Year 11
Post 1914
Prose
(Literature
exam):
Lord of the
Flies or Of
Mice and Men
Term 2
Pre 1914 prose
coursework –
Social /
Historical
Context (19th C
short stories or
Jekyll and
Hyde)
Argumentative
and persuasive
writing
Non – fiction
coursework
piece
(autobiography
/ reflective
piece)
Term 3
Post 1914
poetry: War
Poems
(English Lit
exam)
Term 4
Shakespeare
coursework
(English and
Literature)
Macbeth /
Romeo and
Juliet / Twelfth
Night / Henry V
Term 5
Reading media
and non-fiction
texts (prerelease for
mock exams)
Poems from
different
cultures and
traditions.
Mock exams.
Post 1914
drama
(Literature
exam): An
Inspector Calls
Revision of
War Poetry,
Post 1914
prose and
drama texts
Revision of Pre
– release
material and
examination
technique.
Writing skills
Review of
Coursework
Pre – release
material:
reading media
texts
Timed essay
practice
Mock prerelease
material
Writing Skills
Timed essay
practice
Term 6
Pre 1914 and
Literary
heritage
Coursework
(English Lit
only). Either
selection from
Best Words or
Blake /
Wordsworth.