Key Stage 3
Year 7
Topic Overview:
Myths Legends & Folktales
A Christmas Carol
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
Poetry Through the Ages
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Year 8
Topic Overview:
Gothic Horror and Suspense
Poetry from Different Times and Cultures
Blood Brothers
Shakespeare – Much Ado About Nothing
Noughts and Crosses
Year 9
Topic Overview:
Of Mice and Men
Telling Tales: Modern Short Story Anthology
Unseen Poetry
Extracts from Shakespeare’s Plays
Animal Farm
Exploring the Literary Canon
Key Stage 4
In years 10 and 11 for GCSE, Students study with the exam board AQA.
Topic Overview:
Macbeth
Language Paper 1
Unseen Poetry
Jekyll and Hyde
Language Paper 2
Power & Conflict Poetry
Spoken Language
An Inspector Calls
In English Language and Literature there is only one type of paper which is for students of all abilities (there are no Foundation or Higher versions). The papers are designed so that less confident students can access the questions and showcase their skills, as well as providing a platform for more confident students to display complex and sophisticated ideas.
http://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/english/gcse/english-language-8700
http://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/english/gcse/english-literature-8702
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The exams they sit at the end of Year 11 are listed below:
| English Language GCSE |
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Paper 1 - Fiction based
Paper 2 - Non-fiction based
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The students are given an unseen fiction passage to analyse via four questions. They also write a fiction piece of their own.
The students are given two unseen fiction pieces to analyse via four questions, one of which is 19th century.
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| English Literature GCSE |
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Paper 1 – Shakespeare and the 19th Century
Paper 2 – Modern text and Poetry
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The students answer two essay questions:
‘Macbeth’ by William Shakespeare / 'Jekyll and Hyde' by Robert Louis Stevenson
The students answer three essay questions:
‘An Inspector Calls’ by J.B Priestley
‘Power and Conflict’ (an anthology of fifteen poems)
An essay on two unseen poems.
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