English

Key Stage 3 (Yr 7-9)

 Year 7

1. Textual Detectives
2. I Must Betray You
3. Epic Narratives
4. Poetry: Experiences of the City
5. Julius Caesar
6. Introduction to 19th Century Literature / The Gothic & Frankenstein

Year 8

1. Non-Fiction Writing
2. Animal Farm
3. Much Ado About Nothing
4. Genre Studies
5. War / Identity Poetry
6. Leave Taking 

Year 9

1. A View From the Bridge
2. Non-Fiction Reading and Writing
3. Great Expectations
4. Unseen Poetry
5. Descriptive and Narrative Writing
6. Noughts and Crosses 

Key Stage 4 (Yr 10-11)

 KS4 - All students study both English Language and English Literature GCSE (AQA)

Year 10

1. An Inspector Calls
2. A Christmas Carol
3. Language Paper 2
4. Power and Conflict Poetry
5. Unseen Poetry
6. Speaking and Listening

Year 11

1. Romeo and Juliet
2. Language Paper 1 
3. Revision

Key Stage 5 (Yr 12-13)

KS5

KS5 English Literature AS and A Level (Edexcel)

Year 12

1. A Streetcar Named Desire
2. Post-2000 Poetry Comparison
3. Never Let Me Go
4. Frankenstein
5. Coursework
6. Romantic Poetry 

Year 13

1. Post-200 Poetry Comparison with Unseen
2. The Romantics
3. Coursework 

Year 12: English Language GCSE (retake only, AQA)

English Language paper 1 and 2 

Independent Learning Resources

 Key Stage 3

• The BBC Bitesize KS3 English website contains tips and quizzes for reading and writing skills.
• Students can complete activities from any of the CGP KS3 English books in the library (titles include KS3 English, Essential Terms, Spelling Punctuation and Grammar and The Study Guide)
• Students should read for pleasure for 30 minutes each evening, regularly changing their book in the library. It would be particularly beneficial for students to read a book by the same author or in the same genre as the one which they are studying in lessons; students should ask their class teacher for guidance on this.
• Students should take an Accelerated Reader quiz once they have completed each independent reading book. These normally need to be completed at school in the library or VLE outside of lesson times.

Key Stage 4

AQA in English Literature and AQA in English Language

• Revision guides published variously by: CGP; York Notes; Collins; OUP; Pearson Education; and Letts are available in the library for our AQA GCSE English Literature texts: An Inspector Calls; Romeo and Juliet; Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde (Sets 1a and 1b only); A Christmas Carol; and the AQA Power & Conflict poetry anthology.
• There are also workbooks and revision guides for the AQA GCSE English Language papers.
• Students should improve their knowledge of the Literature texts by taking tests on the PiXLit App
• The BBC Bitesize AQA Literature website has very clear resources for most of the texts we study.
• The SparkNotes website has more extensive commentary on all texts except the poetry Students should read for pleasure for 30 minutes each evening, regularly changing their book in the library. It would be particularly beneficial for students to read a book by the same author or in the same genre as the one which they are studying in lessons; students should ask their class teacher for guidance on this

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