M5 IGCSE Eng. / Lit.

Course Planner

Michaelmas Term

Week 1

Course overview

Sentence work

Weeks 2/3/4

English Coursework 1

Inform / Analyse / Argue

Weeks 5/6/7

English Literature Coursework 1

Prose text from Paper 1

Kiran Desai

Week 8

Half Term

Weeks 9/10/11

English Literature Coursework 1

Prose text from Paper 1

Continued.

Weeks 12/13/14

English Coursework 2

Imagine/Describe/Narrate

Week 15

Overflow week

Lent Term

Weeks 1/2/3/4

English Literature Coursework 2

Shakespeare

Week 5

English Coursework 1 revisited

Inform / Analyse / Argue

Week 6

Half Term

Week 7

English Coursework 1 revisited

Inform / Analyse / Argue

Continued

Weeks 8/9

English Exam skills

Question 1 – Empathetic genre conversion

Weeks 10/11

English Coursework 2 revisited

Imagine/Describe/Narrate

Trinity Term

Weeks 1/2

English Exam skills

Question 2 – Writer’s Effect

Weeks 3/4

English Exam skills

Question 3 – Selective summary

Week 5

English Exam skills

Question 1 – Empathetic genre conversion

Revisited

Week 6

Internal exam

(Full Paper 1 mock paper)

Week 7

Half Term

Week 8

Internal exam results & feedback

Weeks 9/10/11

English Literature Coursework 2

Revisited

(text to be decided)

Terminal examination for English will be taken in November of U5

Terminal examination for English Literature will be taken in May of U5

Materials to be covered in U5

English exam skills (all 3 questions)

Literature Paper 1 – DramaLiterature Paper 1 – PoetryLiterature paper 1 – Prose revisitedLiterature exam skills