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English Language

Curriculum Details - 2023/2024 (Current)

Year	Term 1	Term 2	Term 3	Term 4	Term 5	Term 6
12	Introduction to Spoken Language (Component 1) Early Modern English, language change and standardisation (Component 1-2)	Spoken Language (Component 1) Language Change, standardisation and varieties of English (Component 1-2)	Language Issues: Language and power and Language and Situation (Component 1) English in the 21st Century (Component 2)	Child Language Acquisition (Component 1) English in the 21st Century (Component 2)	Child Language Acquisition (Component 1) Introduction to language change in written texts (Component 2)	Preparation for the NEA (Component 4) - Language and Identity.
13	Completion of the NEA	Creative and critical writing with a focus on writing for a wide range of different purposes and audiences (Component 3) Language Change in written texts (Component 2)	Component 3 - Creative and critical writing including how to write a commentary on your own writing Language Change in Written Texts (Component 2)	Language Issues - Language and Situation and Language and Power Revision Language Change revision	Language Issues: Child Language Acquisition revision Language Change Revision	N/A

English Literature

Curriculum Details - 2023/2024 (Current)

Year	Term 1	Term 2	Term 3	Term 4	Term 5	Term 6
12	Paper 1 - Novel (The Great Gatsby) and poetry study for the comparative Love Through the Ages question; Unseen poetry	Paper 1 - Novel and poetry study for the comparative Love Through the Ages question Paper 2 - Modern poetry (Owen Sheers)	Paper 2 - Comparative play and novel study (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) and poetry (Sheers)	Paper 1 - Unseen Poetry Paper 2 - Comparative play and novel study and poetry.	Non-Exam Assessment	Non-Exam Assessment
13	Completion of NEA	Paper 1 - Shakespeare Paper 2 - Unseen Prose	Paper 1 - Shakespeare Paper 2 - Revision of Y12 texts and deepening understanding of modern texts; unseen prose	Paper 1 - Revision of Paper 1 texts and deepening understanding of the presentation of love in texts through time Paper 2 revision	Paper 1 & 2 revision

English

Curriculum Details - 2023/2024 (Current)

Year	Term 1	Term 2	Term 3	Term 4	Term 5	Term 6
7	Where did our stories come from? Literary Heritage unit including Beowulf, the Greek Myths, Shakespeare and Tennyson	Literary Heritage unit; The Power of Language: an introduction to rhetoric	The Outsider in Literature & the Bildungsroman Modern Novel study – The Graveyard Book	Modern Novel study – The Graveyard Book Literature in performance: supernatural poems and performance poetry	Worlds & Lives: non-fiction autobiographies of adventure and challenge	The Bildungsroman - Treasure Island (playscript)
8	The Outside in Literature: Modern novel study - The Bone Sparrow	Worlds & Lives: non-fiction writing about our world; The power of language - argument and rhetoric	Narrative & Genre: short story unit	Worlds & Lives: contemporary voices in poetry (selection of poems); Literature in performance: performance poetry	The Outsider in Literature: Modern novel - I am Thunder	Literary Heritage: Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream
9	Literary Heritage - The development of the Gothic including short stories, Victorian mystery stories, extracts from gothic horror novels, the presentation of vampires, and gothic ideas in poetry.	Gothic scheme continued; The power of language - rhetoric and argument	Narrative & Genre: new perspectives - a contemporary novel study (Tsunami Girl / Medusa / The Hate U Give)	Narrative & Genre: short story selection	Worlds & Lives: contemporary voices in poetry - Caleb Femi Literary Heritage - an introduction to Shakespeare's tragedy (Macbeth)	Literary Heritage - Shakespeare's tragedy (Macbeth)
10	Narrative & Genre - Language Paper 1 Worlds & Lives: contemporary voices in poetry - an introduction to poetry at GCSE (unseen and AQA Poetry Anthology cluster	Narrative & Genre - Language Paper 1 AQA Poetry Anthology Cluster	The power of language - Language Paper 2 (including rhetoric and argument) Literary Heritage: The Gothic - The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde	The power of language - Language Paper 2 (including rhetoric and argument) Literary Heritage: The Gothic - The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde	The power of language - Language Paper 2 (including Spoken Language Endorsement) Narrative & Genre: The modern novel or drama (Lord of the Flies or An Inspector Calls)	Narrative & Genre - Language Paper 1; The modern novel or drama (Lord of the Flies or An Inspector Calls)
11	Language skills - revision and development Literary Heritage: Shakespeare play (Romeo and Juliet or Macbeth)	Language skills - revision and development Literary Heritage: Shakespeare play (Romeo and Juliet or Macbeth)	Poetry Anthology and Language skills	Poetry Anthology and Language skills	In Terms 3-5, students focus on deepening their knowledge and understanding of their literature texts and further securing their language skills.	Transition work for Literature broadens students' experience of great texts through a diverse and engaging summer reading list and a small literature project. Language work introduces new topics including a small project on idiolect.