KS3 Curriculum Booklet 2017 -18

Curriculum Overview KS3 – Year 7 Subject: English Overview effective from[date ]: September 2017

Autumn 1

Autumn 2

Spring 1

Spring 2

Summer 1 Summer 2

GCSE links: Literature Paper 2, Section A

Imaginative writing Language paper 1, Section A/B

GCSE links: Literature Paper 1, Section B

GCSE links: Literature Paper 2, Section B

GCSE links: Language Paper 2, Section A

Language Paper 2, Section A/ B

Drama

Adventure

Novel Study

2 week primary transition project Letters to be written to primary schools Creative response – my first day at secondary school

Conflict Poetry

Villains in History

Face

Reading into writing – themed

Flour Babies

Buddy 

Ways to Live Forever 

fictional extracts

Tins 

Assessed by: responding to an extract style question

Assessed by: responding to an unseen poem

4 weeks

Cirque du Freak 

Iqbal 

SURVIVAL

Study of a range of non-fiction extracts Assessed by: transactional writing ‘survival guide’ and a reading response to an unseen non-fiction text.

Assessed by: comparing non- fiction texts Speech writing

Assessed by: an extract  question on  character/theme/setti ng 

Assessed by: creative writing