English

Topics Taught in Key Stage 3

Year 7

(5 Periods per Week)

• Writing to explore, imagine & entertain (including autobiographical writing)
• Parts of speech
• Basic grammatical rules
• Pre-20th century poetry ("The Highwayman")
• Poetic language (simile & metaphor, personification, onomatopoeia)

Year 8

(5 Periods per Week)

• Planning and drafting, writing to persuade and advise — selling the school
• Shakespeare stories
• Crime stories "The Speckled Band" & news stories
• Research on "The Unexplained", & fact and opinion — mysteries
• Chaucer — The Pardoner's Tale
• Poetry — Blake, poetry essay, poetic forms
• Photo stories

Year 9

(5 Periods per Week)

• Audience & purpose – travel writing
• Shakespeare research
• Writing to inform, explain, describe, argue, persuade, advise, formal speeches
• SATs writing preparation
• Shakespeare - The Tempest
• Poetry comparisons
• Reading the media
• Note making skills
• Pre-20th century prose
• Short story writing