| Topic Title | Terror Kid | Terror Kid | Rooftoppers | Rooftoppers / Trash | Trash |
| Key Skills and Content | • Discussing the meaning of terror | • Changing narrative perspective | ● Exploring how writers create an exciting opening | Rooftoppers | ● Using textual clues to identify character |
| • Explaining the portrayal of characters | • Analysing the way the writer presents characters in a positive way | ● Understanding how the writer creates powerful characters | ● Considering the effectiveness of the ending and writing an epilogue | ● Understanding the use of multiple narrators |
| • Using references to support ideas | • Creating an advice leaflet | ● Making inferences | ● Examining how the writer’s experience has influenced her writing | ● Using the monologue form to reveal alternative views |
| • Discussing conflict | • Writing an entry for a website | ● Exploring good parenting in the Victorian age | | ● Exploring character through role-play |
| • Presenting a conversation | • Writing a reflective journal | ● Describing a journey | Trash | ● Using language and layout for newspaper reports |
| • Analysing techniques to increase narrative pace | • Analysing the effects of the original cover | ● Understand how the characters are developed through clues given in the novel | ● Making deductions about context from images | ● Inferring the attitude of a character through body language |
| • Arguing for or against a course of action | • Drafting a summative analysis | ● Analysing how the author builds up suspense | ● Identifying facts from an article | ● Understanding the cultural context of the final chapters |
| • Writing a news bulletin | • Writing a poem using first person | | ● Understanding and imagining the setting of the novel | ● Gathering evidence to use in a biography |
| | | ● Considering moral dilemmas | ● Using evidence to create a diary from a character’s viewpoint |
| | | | ● Collecting textual evidence to write a report |
| | | | ● Understanding and applying a metaphorical point |
| Summative Assessment | Teacher choice of assessment including writing news bulletins and diary entries | Teacher choice of assessment including writing journal entries and closing speeches | Teacher choice of assessment including writing analytical paragraphs and monologues | Teacher choice of assessment including preparing a performance | Teacher choice of assessment including writing reviews |
| Yr 8 Literature Projects | Independent research | Posters | Radio scripts | Scripted role-plays | Chapter additions |
| Comic strips | Podcasts | Character sketches |
| PPT presentations | | |
