English - Year 9

English lies at the heart of all subjects. In line with the National Strategy for English, the Year  9   the course aims to build students’ core Literacy skills: Speaking and Listening, Reading and Writing to ensure students become effective speakers and listeners, independent reader s and  confident writers, in preparation for GCSE English Language and Literature.

Main Topics:

Autumn 1: Functional Writing – students will develop key literacy skills to consolidate the ability to respond and write for a specific purpose, audience and format.

Autumn 2: The Gothic – students will read a range of classic Gothic Literature to build and consolidate their understanding and appreciation of the author’s craft and linguistic features, reading skills of inference and deduction combined with recreative and imaginative writing

Spring 1: The Novel – students use a novel as a platform for a range of dynamic activities to improve comprehension, inference, deduction and personal writing.

Spring 2: Media and the celebrity - uses multi-modular texts to engage creative, imaginative and functional skills, to consolidate interpretative and analytical skills and a wider understand of Media platforms.

Summer 1: Shakespeare -- Macbeth – pupils will have the opportunity to delve into the world of tragedy, superstitions, witches, murder and intrigue.

Summer 2: Introductory GCSE English Unit – students embark upon their first taste of GCSE English Language and Literature.