Key Stage 3 Speaking and Listening
Year 7
- Formal presentation.
- Informal presentation.
- Dramatic improvisation.
- Rehearse and perform a play script and poetry.
Year 8
- Formal persuasive speech.
- Formal debate/ structured discussion.
- Role play/ hot seat exercise based on the characters in the text/s studied.
Year 9
- Spoken Language Analysis – informal discussion based on Barack Obama speeches in Iowa (locker room) and Chicago (post presidential election victory)
KEY SKILLS: listening and spotting key features (verbal and non-verbal); analysis and comparison of key features; analysing difference in context.
GCSE Speaking and Listening to be completed in Year 9.
Key Stage 3 Reading
Year 7
Content list:
- Short stories from different genres.
- Pre and post-1914 poetry (to include consideration of forms such as the ballad and sonnet and specific techniques such as rhyme, blank verse, rhythm, punctuation).
- Modern novel
- Modern drama
- Formal and informal letters.
- Magazine articles.
- Advertisements.
- Diary entries.
- Study of two authors.
- Transition sessions and induction to the Study Centre.
Year 8
Content:
- Drama: A Midsummer Night’s Dream or The Taming of the Shrew. Also to include a study of Shakespeare.
- Prose: Study of seminal world literature Also to include a study of the author.
- Modern Poetry.
- Autobiographical texts.
- Travel writing.
- Diaries and letters.
- Persuasive pieces.
- Argument pieces.
- Guided Reading sessions.
Year 9
Content:
- Drama: Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night or Much Ado About Nothing. Also to include consideration of alternative staging affecting interpretations.
- Prose: three short pre-1914 texts. Also to include the study of an author.
- Poetry: pre and post-1914. Also to include the study of a poet.
- Non-fiction comparison of texts.
- Analysis of speeches, spoken language study – Obama. Consider at least two contexts.
- Non-fiction argument.
- Non-fiction persuasion.
Key Stage 3 Writing
Year 7
Content:
- Formal and informal writing – through word choices, grammar and register.
- Imaginative writing – including the development of a narrative viewpoint, tone, paragraphing for impact, grammar, vocabulary, figurative language and structure.
- Play scripts, including structure, characterisation, setting and tone.
- Poetry writing.
- Analytical essay writing, including the PEE format, topic starter sentences, explanatory connectives and technical vocabulary.
- Summary writing.
- The use of literary and rhetorical devices formally and informally.
- Letter writing formal and informal.
- Magazine articles.
- Diary writing.
- Advertisements.
Year 8
Content:
- Formality, through word choices, grammar and register.
- Imaginative writing, including the development of a narrative viewpoint, tone, paragraphing for impact, structure.
- Analytical essay writing.
- Autobiographical writing.
- Empathetic writing.
- Summary writing.
- Writing to persuade.
- Writing to argue.
- The use of literary and rhetorical devices formally and informally.
- Letter writing formal and informal.
- Travel writing through magazine articles, especially structure, tone and grammar and word choices
- The development of narrative voices through diary writing.
- Leaflet writing.
Year 9
Content:
- Analytical essay writing.
- Creative and imaginative writing.
- Speech writing.
- Summarizing.
- Formal letter writing.
- Magazine articles: an advice column. The emphasis should be on structure, form and appropriate tone and voice.
- Writing to argue/ advise (in preparation for GCSE).
- Writing to persuade.