English Department Home Learning

Year 7

Information relating to all homework can be found on Microsoft Teams. Homework will be independent and project based linked to a Speaking and Listening Assessment each term.

Term 1: Adventurers and explorers: non-fiction travel writing -  Pre-1914 to modern day world literature

Group project and presentation about their imaginary expedition 

Microsoft forms spelling tests using teams x 2

Century tech: Language devices 2 & constructing an argument

Reading progress using teams

Reading book challenge

Term 2: Poetry from across the world: Range of poetry genres and forms from cultures and writers from around the world

Poetry anthology created on teams

Microsoft forms spelling tests using teams x 2

Presentation of an original poem

Century tech: language devices 1  & vocabulary choice

Reading progress using teams

Reading book challenge

Term 3: The Gothic Genre

Group or single presentation of the Gothic project

Microsoft forms spelling tests using teams x 2

Century tech: fiction description of setting, fiction description of character

Reading progress using teams

Reading book challenge

 

Year 8

Information relating to all homework can be found on Microsoft Teams. Homework will be independent and project based linked to a Speaking and Listening Assessment each term.

Term 1: Relationships: My Sister Lives on the Mantlepiece & Persuasive Writing

Preparation for social issues debate

Microsoft forms spelling tests using teams x 2

Century tech: nuggets: non-fiction personal writing & non-fiction persuasive  writing

Reading book challenge

Term 2: Performance Literature: Shakespeare’s Greatest Speeches & Songs of the Decades

Performance

Microsoft forms spelling tests using teams x 2

Century tech: analytical writing, writing purposes

Reading book challenge

Term 3: Around the World: non-fiction travel writing and Morals & Ethics from Different Countries

Create travel journal presentation

Microsoft forms spelling tests using teams x 2

Century tech: nuggets: Forms, paragraphs

Reading challenge

 

Year 9

Information relating to all homework can be found on Microsoft Teams. Homework will be independent and project based linked to a Speaking and Listening Assessment each term.

Term 1: The Dystopian – The Hunger Games & Dystopian Description

Montage of dystopian world and individual presentation

Microsoft forms spelling tests using teams x 2

Reading book challenge

Century tech:  English SPAG secondary word classes, verb forms

Term 2: Relationships: Othello & Writing to Argue

Create and present an Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter account for Othello, Desdemona and Iago

Microsoft forms spelling tests using teams x 2

Century tech: English SPAG secondary punctuation, sentences

Reading book challenge

Term 3: Around the World: non-fiction travel writing and Morals & Ethics from Different Countries

Revision materials & preparation for class debate

Microsoft forms spelling tests using teams x 2

Century tech: nuggets: English SPAG secondary writing styles, diagnostics

Reading book  challenge

 

Year 10

Term 1: AQA Language Paper 2 and A Christmas Carol

Century tech: nuggets:  English AQA language GCSE paper 2: writing and reading language devices, A05 & 6 & practice paper 2

Flash cards and revision materials

First draft of GCSE Speaking & Listening assessment (Xmas break project)

Term 2: AQA Power & Conflict Poetry Anthology

Century tech: A Christmas Carol

Flash cards and revision materials

Second draft of GCSE Speaking & Listening assessment

Term 3: Macbeth

Revision materials and flash cards

Preparation for speaking & listening

Century tech: nuggets: English SPAG secondary writing styles, diagnostics

 

Year 11

Information relating to all homework can be found on Microsoft Teams. Homework will focus on recall and retrieval to ensure that students are practicing skills requires for exam preparation rather than merely content.

Term 1: AQA Language Paper 2, Power & Conflict and Unseen Poetry

Century tech: nuggets: language devices, A05 & 6 & practice paper 2

Flash cards and revision materials for November Mocks

Term 2: Revision & Mocks

Century tech: Language Paper 1

Revision materials and flashcards for March Mocks

Term 3: Macbeth

Revision materials and flash cards for end of year GCSE exams

 

Year 12

Information relating to all homework can be found on Microsoft Teams. Homework will focus on recall and retrieval to ensure that students are practicing skills requires for exam preparation rather than merely content.

Term 1: Edexcel AS Literature Drama and Poetry – focus on Drama – A Streetcar Named Desire

Text reading and wider text reading including secondary sources

Period 5 work booklets on Dorian Gray (Autumn 1) and Streetcar (Autumn 2)

Essays/paragraphs every week.

Flash cards and revision materials

Term 2: Edexcel AS Literature Drama and Poetry – Focus on Poetry – The Forward Poems of the Decade Anthology

Unseen poetry analysis and poetry analysis of Forward Poems.

Essays/paragraph writing every week.

Term 3: Revision Edexcel AS Drama and Poetry paper plus Prose Paper

Revision materials & preparation for exams

 

Year 13

Information relating to all homework can be found on Microsoft Teams. Homework will focus on recall and retrieval to ensure that students are practicing skills requires for exam preparation rather than merely content.

Term 1: Edexcel A Literature Drama  – focus on Othello and teaching of Coursework | Edexcel A Literature Poetry – focus on Unseen teaching for Forward Poems  and Rossetti

Text reading and wider text reading including secondary sources

Period 5 work booklets on Othello (Autumn 1) and Rossetti (Autumn 2)

Essays/paragraphs every week.

Flash cards and revision materials for Streetcar and Forward Poetry

Term 2: Edexcel A Literature Drama  – focus on Othello and teaching of coursework | Edexcel A Literature Poetry – focus on Rossetti 

Unseen poetry analysis and poetry analysis of Forward Poems. Prose revision

Essays/paragraph writing every week.

Term 3: Revision Edexcel A Level Drama, Prose and Poetry

Revision materials & preparation for exams