Year 7
| Unit: ‘The Ruby In The Smoke’ | Unit: ‘The Ruby In The Smoke’ | Unit: ‘Poetry Through the Ages’ | Unit: ‘Poetry Through the Ages’ | Unit: ‘Renaissance Literature.’ | Unit: ‘Renaissance Literature.’ | Unit: ‘Ruling with Rhetoric.’ | Unit: ‘Ruling with Rhetoric.’ | Unit: How to write a complex sentence. | |
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| Unit content (lesson order) | 1. Reading for Meaning in ‘The Story of an Hour’ by Kate Chopin. click here 2. Language in ‘The Story of an Hour’. click here 3. Form and Structure in ‘The Story of an Hour.’ click here 4. Evaluation and Personal Response: ‘The Story of an Hour’. click here 5. Thinking about space: where do women belong? click here | 1. The Pied Piper of Hamelin. click here 2. Excerpt from ‘A Christmas Carol’. click here 3. The storyteller. click here 4. Analysing the writer’s use of language. click here 5. What is an adjective? click here | 1. Introduction to poetry. click here 2. What makes a poem, a poem? click here 3. Big ideas and emotions in poetry. click here 4. Open and closed form in poetry. click here 5. Imagery. click here | 1. Structure. 2. Rhyme. click here 3. Rhythm. click here 4. Metre. click here 5. What is a noun? click here | 1. ‘Death, be not proud’ Part 1. click here 2. ‘Death be not proud’ Part 2. click here 3. ‘Death be not proud’ Part 3. click here 4. ‘Death be not proud’ Part 4. click here 5. How to use tenses. click here | 1. ‘No Man Is An Island.’ click here 2. ‘If thou must love me’ Part 1. click here 3. ‘If thou must love me’ Part 2. click here 4. ‘If thou must love me’ Part 3. click here 5. ‘If thou must love me’ Part 4. click here 6. ‘If thou must love me’ Part 5 click here | 1. Introduction to rhetoric: ethos. click here 2.Introduction to rhetoric: logos click here 3. Introduction to rhetoric: pathos. click here 4. Language in nonfiction texts click here 5. Structure in nonfiction texts. click here | 1. Use a rhetoric framework for writing. click here 2. How to persuade a reader. click here 2.How to write a speech. click here 3. Writing a speech using rhetoric. click here 4. Analysing persuasive texts. click here 5.How to check that your apostrophes are correct. click here | 1.How to write a complex sentence. click here 2. How to spell plural nouns. click here 3.How to memorise tricky spellings. click here 4.Past and present tense. click here 5.Reading skills. click here |
| Notes (how to do the work) | Watch all of the lessons and do all of the activities that go with them. Remember to do them in this order. | Watch all of the lessons and do all of the activities that go with them. Remember to do them in this order. | Watch all of the lessons and do all of the activities that go with them. Remember to do them in this order. | Watch all of the lessons and do all of the activities that go with them. Remember to do them in this order. | Watch all of the lessons and do all of the activities that go with them. Remember to do them in this order. | Watch all of the lessons and do all of the activities that go with them. Remember to do them in this order. | Watch all of the lessons and do all of the activities that go with them. Remember to do them in this order. | Watch all of the lessons and do all of the activities that go with them. Remember to do them in this | Watch all of the lessons and do all of the activities that go with them. Remember to do them in this order. |
Year 8
| Unit: ‘Dystopian Worlds’ | Unit: ‘Dystopian Worlds’ | Unit: Protest Poetry | Unit: Protest Poetry | Unit: | Unit: ‘Shakespeare’ | Unit: ‘Wondrous World’ | Unit: ‘Wondrous World.’ | Unit: | |
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| Unit content (lesson order) | 1. Someone might be watching – an introduction to dystopian fiction. click here 2. Why do people follow the crowd? click here 3. Conformity. click here 4. Total control in North Korea. click here 5. The ten commandments. click here 6. Stalin: A brutal legacy uncovered. click here | 1. Why teens find the end of the world so appealing. click here 2. The machine stops. click here 3. Brave New World. click here 4. Excerpts from We. click here 5. What is a comma? click here | 1. Introduction to poetry. click here 2. What makes a poem, a poem? click here 3. Big ideas and emotions in poetry. click here 4. Imagery. click here 5. How to link ideas in sentences. click here | 1. Personification. click here 2. Simile and metaphor. click here 3. Sound and rhyme. click here 4. Reading and Exploring ‘Torture’ and ‘We Alone Can Devalue Gold’ by Alice Walker. click here 5. How to punctuate direct speech. click here | 1. ‘Good Bones.’ click here 2. ‘To The Indifferent Women.’ click here 3. ‘Caged Bird.’ click here click here | 1. Audience and social attitudes. click here 2. Beliefs and superstition. click here 3. Shakespeare’s life. click here 4. The legacy of William Shakespeare click here 5. Excerpts from ‘Romeo and Juliet’. click here | 1. Language in nonfiction texts. click here 2. Structure in nonfiction texts. click here 3. Strength in numbers. click here 4. What is earth? click here 5.Past and present tense. click here | 1. Analysing persuasive texts. click here 2. Tiny plastic, big problem. click here 3.How to use subordinating conjunctions. click here 4. Global warming click here 5. Genetically modified salmon: food or Frankenfish? click here 6. How to use suffixes. click here | 1. Malala: a normal yet powerful girl. click here 2. Water scarcity. click here 3. Drones put spying eyes in the sky. click here 4. Building an argument. Writing nonfiction. click here 5. How to persuade a reader. click here |
| Notes (how to do the work) | Read the text and then answer the guiding questions. Complete the assessment questions. Click on discussion and watch: show me how to lead effective discussions. Answer the question, explaining your point of view. evidence from the text. | Read the texts and then answer the guiding questions. | Watch all of the lessons and do all of the activities that go with them. Remember to do them in this order. | Watch all of the lessons and do all of the activities that go with them. Remember to do them in this order. Read the poems and complete the activities. | Read the texts and answer the questions. Watch all of the lessons and do all of the activities that go with them. Remember to do them in this order. | Watch the lessons or work through the learning on the website and then answer the questions. | Watch the lessons or work through the learning on the website and then answer the questions. | Watch the lessons or work through the learning on the website and then answer the questions. | Watch the lessons or work through the learning on the website and then answer the questions. |
Year 9
| Unit: ‘Gothic’ | Unit: ‘Gothic’ | Unit: ‘Power and Conflict’ | Unit: ‘Power and Conflict’ | Unit: ‘Ruling with Rhetoric’ | Unit: ‘Ruling with Rhetoric.’ | Unit: ‘Of Mice and Men.’ | Unit: ‘Of Mice and Men.’ | Unit: | |
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| Unit content (lesson order) | 1. What Gothic fiction means. click here 2. What Gothic conventions are. click here 3. Gothic characters. click here 4. Gothic themes. click here 5. Understanding authorial intent and how to use this to develop analysis. click here 6. Scientists clone human embryo make stem cells. click here 7. Analysing language in Frankenstein. click here | 1. Understanding authorial intent and how to use this to develop analysis click here 2. Settings and the Gothic. click here 3. What is a comma? click here 4. The Tell-Tale-Heart. click here 5. The Raven. click here 6. The Cask of Amontillado. click here | 1. Introduction to poetry. click here 2. What makes a poem, a poem? click here 3. Big ideas and emotions in poetry. click here 4. Introduction to poetry. click here 5. Who were the Romantics? click here | 1. Themes of Romanticism. click here 2. ‘London’ Part 1. click here 3. ‘London’ Part 2. click here 4. ‘Ozymandias’ Part 1. click here 5. ‘Ozymandias’ Part 2. click here | 1. President Obama’s speech to school children. click here 2. Malala: a normal yet powerful girl. click here 3. Why I refuse to say I ‘fight’ my disability. click here 4. How to use a semicolon. click here 5. How to use a semicolon in a list. click here | 1. Speech on slavery. click here 2. Steve Jobs’ speech. click here 3. ‘A Time for Choosing’ speech. click here 4. How to check that your apostrophes are correct. click here 5. How to link ideas in sentences. click here | 1. ‘To A Mouse.’ click here 2. Context of ‘Of Mice and Men.’ click here 3. Plot summary of ‘Of Mice and Men.’ click here 4. Read ‘OMAM’ free online on: click here 5. Themes in ‘OMAM’. click here | 1.Characters in ‘OMAM’. click here 2. Form, structure and language in ‘OMAM’. click here 3.’Burning a Book’. click here 4. ‘The New Colussus’. click here 5.How to use subordinating conjunctions. click here | 1. Building an argument. Writing nonfiction. click here 2.How to persuade a reader. click here 3. Language in nonfiction texts. click here 4.Structure in nonfiction texts. click here 5. How to write a formal letter. click here |
| Notes (how to do the work) | Watch all of the lessons and do all of the activities that go with them. Remember to do them in this order. | Read the texts and then answer the guiding questions. | Watch all of the lessons and do all of the activities that go with them. Remember to do them in this order. | Watch all of the lessons and do all of the activities that go with them. Remember to do them in this order. | Watch the lessons or work through the learning on the website and then answer the questions. | Watch the lessons or work through the learning on the website and then answer the questions. | Read ‘Of Mice and Men’ online for free using the website provided in number 4. Watch the lessons or work through the learning on the website and then answer the questions. | Watch the lessons or work through the learning on the website and then answer the questions. | Watch the lessons or work through the learning on the website and then answer the questions. |
Year 10
| Unit: | Unit: | Unit: | Unit: | Unit: ‘An Inspector Calls.’ | Unit: ‘An Inspector Calls.’ | Unit: ‘Writer’s viewpoints and perspectives.’ | Unit: Writer’s viewpoints and perspectives.’ | Unit: ‘Spoken Language’ | |
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| Unit content (lesson order) | 1. My Last Duchess (Part 1). click here 2. My Last Duchess (Part 2). click here 3. Ozymandias (Part 1). click here 4. Ozymandias (Part 2): Language, Form and Structure. click here 5. Tissue (Part 1). click here 6. Tissue (Part 2). click here 7. Exposure. click here | 1. ‘The Emigree’ Part 1. click here 2. ‘The Emigree’ Part 2. click here 3. ‘Checking Out Me History’ Part 1. click here 4. ‘Checking Out Me History’ Part 2. click here 5. Comparing poems in the ‘Power and Conflict’ cluster. click here | 1. Excerpt from ‘A Christmas Carol’: Marley’s ghost. click here 2. Redemption (Part One). click here 3. Redemption (Part Two). click here 4. Social responsibility and charity (Part 1). click here 5. Social responsibility and charity (Part 2). click here | 1. Revise Paper 1. click here 2. What do AQA examiners want in descriptive writing? click here 3. Scrooge Part 1. click here 4. Scrooge Part 2. click here 5. Form, structure and language in ‘A Christmas Carol.’ click here | 1. Context. click here 2. Priestley’s background. click here 3. Staging the play. click here 4. Character introductions. click here 5. Mr Birling. click here 6. The Inspector. click here | 1. The generational divide. click here 2. The inspector’s identity. click here 3. Collective social responsibility. click here 4. Hope for change and the younger generation. click here 5. Form, structure and language in ‘An Inspector Calls.’ click here | 1. Nonfiction text types. click here 2. Purpose and audience. click here 3. Language and structure. click here 4. How to analyse an extract. click here 5. How to use a semicolon. click here | 1. How to compare texts. click here 2. Audience, purpose and form. click here 3. Writing nonfiction. click here 4. Using language effectively. click here 5. How to use a semicolon in a list. click here | 1. ‘The Man In The Arena’ speech. click here 2. Emma Watson’s ‘He For She’ speech. click here 3. Steve Jobs’ speech. click here 4. click here 5. click here |
| Notes (how to do the work) | Watch all of the lessons and do all of the activities that go with them. Remember to do them in this order. | Watch all of the lessons and do all of the activities that go with them. Remember to do them in this order. | Watch all of the lessons and do all of the activities that go with them. Remember to do them in this order. | Watch the Youtube videos and make notes. Watch the lessons and complete the activities. | Watch the lessons or work through the learning on the website and then answer the questions. | Watch the lessons or work through the learning on the website and then answer the questions. | Watch the lessons or work through the learning on the website and then answer the questions. | Watch the lessons or work through the learning on the website and then answer the questions. | Watch the lessons or work through the learning on the website and then answer the questions. |
Year 11
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| Unit content (lesson order) | 6. Excerpt from ‘A Christmas Carol’: Marley’s ghost. click here 7. Redemption (Part One). click here 8. Redemption (Part Two). click here 9. Social responsibility and charity (Part 1). click here 10. Social responsibility and charity (Part 2). click here 11. Method to plan and write brilliant description. click here 12. Improve your description by 2 grades. click here | 1. Paper 2 Question 5. click here 2. Paper 2 Question 1. click here 3. Paper 2 Question 2. click here 4. Paper 2 Question 3. click here 5. Paper 2 Question 4. click here 6. Key themes in ‘A Christmas Carol.’ click here 7. Form, structure and language in ‘A Christmas Carol.’ click here 8. ‘A Christmas Carol’ sample exam question. click here | 1. Revise Paper 1. click here 2. Revise Paper 1 Question 4. click here 3. ‘Macbeth’ historical context. click here 4. Shakespeare, tragedy and the tragic hero. click here 5. ‘Macbeth’ and the natural order. Part 1. click here 6. ‘Macbeth’ and the natural order. Part 2. click here | 1. Language and Structure. click here 2. ‘The Man In The Arena’ speech. click here 3. Descriptive Writing. Paper 1 Question 5. click here 1. ‘Macbeth’ and the supernatural Part 1. click here 4. ‘Macbeth’ and the supernatural Part 2. click here 5. The Tragic Hero Part 1. click here 6. The Tragic Hero Part 2. | 1. Responding to a fiction text. click here 2. Top tips for narrative writing. click here 3. Responsibility Part 2 in ‘An Inspector Calls.’ click here 4. Responsibility Part 2 in ‘An Inspector Calls.’ click here 5. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. click here 6. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. click here 7. Dramatisation in ‘An Inspector Calls.’ click here 8. Challenging class and gender in ‘An Inspector Calls’ Part 1. click here | 1. Transactional writing. click here 2. Steve Jobs’ speech. click here 3. Writing a speech. click here 4. The generational divide in ‘An Inspector Calls.’ click here 5. The generational divide in ‘An Inspector Calls.’ click here 6. Form, structure and language in ‘An Inspector Calls.’ click here 7. ‘An Inspector Calls’ sample exam question. click here | 1. Language Paper 1, Question 3. click here 2. Writing to persuade – grade 8 and 9. click here 3. Language Paper 1, Question 4. click here 4. What do AQA examiners want in descriptive writing? click here 5. The best method to achieve grade 9 for the unseen poetry question. click here 6. Top grade unseen poetry essay. click here |
| Notes (how to do the work) | Watch all of the lessons and do all of the activities that go with them. Remember to do them in this order. After you have watched the Youtube videos (number 6 and 7), use the picture shown in the first Youtube video (number 6) to plan and write your own descriptive writing. | Read the text and answer the questions. Watch the Youtube videos on how to answer question 1-4 in Paper 2 and add to your revision notes. | Watch the Youtube videoes and makes notes. Watch all of the lessons and do all of the activities that go with them. Remember to do them in this order. | Read the speech and answer the questions. Watch the Youtube video and add to your revision notes. Watch all of the lessons and do all of the activities that go with them. Remember to do them in this order. | Watch all of the lessons and do all of the activities that go with them. Remember to do them in this order. On the Bitesize website, you need to revise by completing the activities and then test your knowledge. | Watch all of the lessons and do all of the activities that go with them. Remember to do them in this order. |
