Sir James Smith’s School English Department Year 10 Course 2016-17
Sept 2016 / Oct/Nov 2016 / Dec 2016 / Jan 2017 / Feb/Mar 2017 / Mar 2017 / Apr/May 2017 / May/June 2017 / July 2017The Writing Process / How To Read A Set Text / Under The Microscope / Writing In Control / The Magic of Language / Diverse Voices / Writing To Influence / Reading the Classics / Created in Cornwall
What Will I Be Learning? / To develop practice of writing process in order to help structure writing / To build an interpretation based on increasingly precise evidence / To build appreciation of authorial technique / To control and shape narrative writing / To analyse how language is used / To develop use of imagery / To develop appropriate register for audience / To make comparisons between texts / To explore how a writer uses detail
What topics will I be studying? / You will explore how to develop an argument and produce a letter or article outlining your opinion. / You will read the play ‘Blood Brothers’ / You will read a range of poetry and non-fiction by a range of Romantic writers / You will explore the structure and style of short stories, before producing your own narrative writing. / You will read scenes from ‘Romeo and Juliet’ showing Romeo’s story, or go on to read ‘Othello’ or ‘Macbeth’ / You will read a range of poetry, fiction/non-fiction by Sylvia Plath / You will develop a speech suitable for a formal audience, and present your speech to be assessed for spoken language. / You will revise poems already read in wider reading sessions and read new poems. You will practise for the first trial exam. / You will explore poems and non-fiction by John Betjeman written about Cornwall
What will I have to produce? / A written argument in form of letter or article / Response to a character in an extract and the whole play / Descriptive Writing / Narrative Writing / Response to a relationship or theme in an extract and the whole play / Creative Writing / Written speech/
Spoken Language presentation / Trial exam:
Lit Paper 1 -Shakespeare + Poetry Anthology / Creative Writing
What wider reading will I do? / You will read a range of fiction, non-fiction and poetry on the theme of change, including some poems from your Eduqas Anthology / You will read a range of poetry and non-fiction on the theme of love, including some poems from your Eduqas Anthology / You will read a range of poetry and non-fiction on the theme of place, including some poems from your Eduqas Anthology