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| Topic Title | Selected Poems | Selected Poems | Unseen | Unseen | Exam Practice & Revision |
| Key Skills and Content | ● Gaining a sense of genre | ● Understanding sound, rhyme, and rhythm | ● Assessing a writer’s purpose | ● Writing about description and dialogue | ● Practising exam techniques with past papers |
| ● Developing a sense of poetic form and content | ● Developing knowledge of technical terms | ● Understanding the writer’s concerns | ● Exploring characterisation | |
| ● Understanding poetic conventions such as form and structure | ● Analysing the effects of figurative language | ● Analysing openings and endings | ● Analysing the role of protagonists | |
| ● Understanding free verse and formal verse | ● Analysing tone in poetry | ● Exploring different types of narration | ● Discussing the impact of powerful settings | |
| ● Building technical vocabulary | ● Exploring neologisms and archaisms | ● Discussing chronological order and time | ● Writing about thematic elements | |
| ● Understanding sonnets and quatrains | ● Understanding formal and informal register | ● Writing about tone, mood, and atmosphere | ● Considering social and political concerns | |
| ● Paper 1 exam preparation (Poetry)) | ● Analysing the use of first person in poetry | ● Exploring how language is used to convey meaning | ● Recognising genre in unseen work | |
| ● Paper 1 exam preparation (Poetry) | ● Analysing how actions affect characters and the overall narrative | ● Exploring how structure enhances the reader’s interpretation of content | |
| | ● Paper 2 exam preparation (Unseen) | ● Responding to comparative elements | |
| | | ● Paper 2 exam preparation (Unseen) | |
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| Summative Assessment | Teacher choice of assessment including practising exam-style passage-based questions | Teacher choice of assessment including practising exam-style passage-based questions | Teacher choice of assessment including practising exam-style passage-based questions | Teacher choice of assessment including practising exam-style passage-based essays | Teacher choice of assessment including practising exam-style passage-based essays |
