ENGLISH AND LITERATURE

The English curriculum is designed to enable students to become confident and articulate speakers; to read and comment on a wide range of fiction and non-fiction and to write fluently in a variety of forms.  The importance of correct spelling, punctuation and grammar is reinforced throughout the Programmes of Study.

Year 7

Beowulf: an Anglo-Saxon myth; analysis of the text and descriptive writing
Writing Skills: 
Poetry: introduction to poetic devices
Transactional Writing:
My Swordhand is Singing: a play; analysis of dramatic devices
Shakespeare: analysis of famous speeches from a selection of plays

Year 8

Frozen in Time:
Non-fiction Extracts:
Othello:
Descriptive and Narrative Writing:
Love Poetry:
The Gothic:

Year 9

Literature through the Ages:  reading and analysis of a range of texts from the literary canon
DNA: study of the play by Dennis Kelly
Language Paper 2: Section A:  Reading
Language Paper 2: Section B:  Writing (viewpoints and perspectives)
Poetry: analysis of the poems in the Power and Conflict cluster

Year 10 

Shakespeare: study of Macbeth
Language Paper 1: Section A Reading
Language Paper 1: Section B (descriptive and narrative writing)
Spoken Languages: practice and assessment
Poetry: analysis of the poems in the Power and Conflict cluster

Year 11

Nineteenth Century Novel: A Christmas Carol
Revision of all components

English Language Specification – VIEW HERE
English Literature Specification – VIEW HERE

Year 12

Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire
Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber
Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 
Carol Anne Duffy’s Rapture

Year 13

John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi 
Shakespeare’s The Tempest
Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber
John Bunyan’s Paradise Lost

English Key Stage 5 Specification – VIEW HERE