YEAR 8- English Term 1 plan 2016-2017

Week Topic Learning outcomes

1

Introductory Lessons /Descriptive Features

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Welcome. Introductions and ground rules

Stationery requirements and marking policy (marking symbols glued in)

Planning of action for the Year (Course outline detailing key reading and writing skills)

Descriptive features – the 5 senses, adjectives, adverbs, similes, metaphors, alliterations.

Writing task – 2 paragraphs of descriptive writing (A lesson I enjoyed in English or My room)

2 AF2: To understand, describe, select or

retrieve information, events or ideas from

texts and use quotation and reference to

text

Lamb to the Slaughter

Old man and the sea

Private reading

Mapping the shape of a story you know

Drawing a tension graph of a well-known novel or film

Listing the features of a good short story

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AF3: To deduce, infer or interpret information, events or ideas from texts

Read between the lines according to the purpose of a text.

Completing PQA tables

Completing PQA paragraph

Making deductions about characters in fictional texts.

4 AF5: To explain and comment on writers’

use of language, including grammatical and

literary features at word and sentence level

Displaying of PQA paragraphs

Displaying of tension graphs from this term's short stories

Divide class into groups in order for this to work

Break

Half Term Break

October half term Homework

Write your own short story for presentation to the class on the following topics given by the teacher, using all that they have learnt so far

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Display projects

End of unit tasks.

Present the short stories to the front of the class

Media aids is most welcome

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AF2 (Writing): Introductory Tasks

Feedback on October half term Homework short stories

Feedback on Thematic display projects.

Assessments.

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7 AF5: To explain and comment on writers’ use of language, including grammatical and literary features at word and sentence level (writing)

Write a mini essay, using the writing frame provided, analysing how the writer presents the Nightingale's views of love in The Nightingale and The Rose.

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AF3: deduce, infer or interpret information, events or ideas from texts (reading/writing)

Act on targets for improvement in PQA essays on The Nightingale and The Rose.

Give feedback on short stories

Write and answer and derive to correct answers from questions

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AF1:Write interesting, imaginative and thoughtful texts

Write an informal paragraph to your best friend about the school canteen.

Challenge: Writing a formal letter to Madame Chantal about the school canteen.

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Writing – The Cause-and-Effect Essay

Cause analysis

Effect analysis

Causal chain

Writing a Cause-and-Effect essay

11 AF4:Construct paragraphs and cohesion within and between paragraphs

Writing- the different types of Essays

Writing a paragraph to me about how much homework you are given. Make the tone negative. CHALLENGE: Repeat the same task but make the tone positive.

Writing a paragraph using the title ‘It was a dark winter’s night’ Describe the atmosphere. CHALLENGE: Include as many negative words as you can.

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12 Exam Revision/Examinations

Examination revision – top tips

Examinations

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YEAR 8- English Term 2 plan 2016-2017

Week Topic Learning outcomes

1

Review of end of Term 1 Examination

Peer assess/self assess using mark scheme

Identifying weak areas

Set targets for improvement

Reviewing Holiday Homework (Reading a novel)

2 Reading the class novel: Skellig

Pre-reading activities + Read Chapters 1 – 2 and complete related tasks.

First Impressions based on Cover – predictions

Reading the blurb – review predictions

Reading the first few chapters (1-6)

Studying and analyzing of Setting and Character

Responding sensitively to the text.

3 Read Chapters 3 – 4 and complete related tasks.

Studying and analyzing of characters and setting.

Responding sensitively to the text.

Plot analysis

Alternative ending to chapter(s)

4 Read Chapters 5 – 6 and complete related

tasks.

Analysis of chapters – plot and narrative techniques

Responding confidently and appropriately using a structured response

Using evidence to aid/support your response

Language analysis/synthesis

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Assessment on chapters so far

Chapter 1-2

Chapter 3-4

Chapter 5-6

Interpreting the chapters

Analyzing themes, characters and plot

PQA assessment

6 Read Chapters 7 – 8 and complete related

tasks.

Responding sensitively to the text.

Analyzing the ways the writer has used form, structure and language to create and shape meanings.

Analysis of Themes and Motifs

7 Read Chapters 9 – 10 and complete related

tasks. Work on targeted extension tasks

Responding sensitively to the text.

Analysis of the ways the writer has used form, structure and language to create and shape meanings.

Using appropriate terminology when responding to the text.

Language analysis – conscious crafting

Realism and Evaluation

8 Read Chapters 11 and complete related

tasks. Work on targeted extension tasks

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Revision on class Novel

Writing a summative essay on the novel

Breaking down chapter by chapter

10 Examination Revision 2 Self and Peer-Assess articles using mark schemes.

Reading out good/impressive responses.

Looking at how to present television reports.

11 Term 2 Examinations Section A: Comprehension and Grammar

12 Term 2 Examinations Section B: literacy and language techniques

YEAR 8- English Term 3 plan 2016-2017

Week Topic Learning outcomes

1 Literacy week activities/Examination

feedback

Promoting Literacy awareness

Improving creative writing skills

Giving feedback to students – identifying areas of strength and areas for improvement

2

Introduction to Shakespearean Literacy

Reading AF 2

Understand, describe, select or retrieve information, events or ideas from texts and use quotation and reference to text

Researching Shakespeare's life and background.

Difference between playwrights and novels

Famous plays

Shakespearean language or contribution to English

3 Reading AF 3

Deduce, infer or interpret information, events or ideas from the text

Act 1, Scene 1 the three witches and predictions

Themes in the play: power; fair is foul and foul is fair

Act 1

prediction

Act 1 key scenes

The Witches

4 Reading AF 4

Identify and comment on the structure and organisation of texts, including grammatical and presentation features at text level

Act 2 key scenes

Act 2: Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair – themes, symbols and motifs

5 Reading of the play

Act 3 key scenes

Act 3 – Banquo’s ghost, guilt and Elizabethan beliefs in the supernatural (cultural context – AF7)

6 Experimenting with another genre (drama

to prose).

Act 4 key scenes

Act 4 – Dramatic Irony and structural devices

Writing a summary of the events of act 4

The importance of the witches

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Developing your creative skills

Act 5 key scenes

Act 5 – what is a tragic hero and a fatal flaw?

In-depth analysis of character and theme. What kind of people are Lady Macbeth and Macbeth?

Using the events from Act 5 (death of Macbeth), creating a poem about his downfall

8 Various tasks based on the play - Macbeth How to select and analyse quotes

How to structure an analytical paragraph

Begin planning essay about Macbeth and/or Lady Macbeth

Drafting essay

Peer and self-assessment

9 Revision

General revision on the Macbeth unit

10 Examinations Examinations