| Autumn 1 (Sept-Oct) | Autumn 2 (Nov-Dec) | Spring 1 (Jan- Feb) | Spring 2 (Mar-Apr) | Summer (May) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Topic Title | Unit 6: Living in a material world | Unit 7: Believe it or not | Unit 8: World famous | Unit 9: Endings | Exam practice and revision | |
| Key Skills and Content | ● Categorising information | • Discussing fake news | • Preparing for mock exams | • Writing to express ideas and opinions | Practising exam techniques with past papers | |
| ● Giving a talk | • Writing to express thoughts and opinions | • Writing an article | • Analysing plots | |||
| ● Writing a letter of complaint | • Writing a news report | • Writing a letter | • Writing to describe | |||
| ● Writing a persuasive speech | • Writing a human interest story | • Giving a presentation and influencing an audience | • Writing a narrative composition | |||
| ● Writing an article | • Writing an article | • Writing descriptive compositions | • Papers 1 and 2 exam preparation | |||
| ● Writing a summary | • Writing a narrative composition | • Ending a story | ||||
| ● Writing a report | • Paper 2 exam preparation | • Papers 1 and 2 exam preparation | ||||
| ● Writing an extended monologue | ||||||
| ● Paper 1 exam preparation | ||||||
| Summative Assessment | Teacher choice of assessment including writing letters of complaint, articles, and persuasive speeches | Teacher choice of assessment including writing descriptive accounts and extended analytical essays | Teacher choice of assessment including preparing balloon debates and writing informative articles, formal letters and short stories | Teacher choice of assessment including writing comic monologues and extended analytical essays | Teacher choice of assessment including practising exam-style questions | |
