Literature
Autumn term
Literature paper 1 Shakespeare and the 19th Century novel: Charles Dickens – A Christmas Carol
- Read, understand and respond to texts. Maintain a critical style and develop a personal response, use textual references, including quotations, to support and illustrate interpretations
- Analyse the language, form and structure used by a writer to create meanings and effects, using relevant subject terminology
- Show understanding of the relationships between texts and contexts in which they were written
Spring term
Literature paper 1 Shakespeare and the 19th Century novel: Shakespeare – Macbeth
- Read, understand and respond to texts. Maintain a critical style and develop a personal response, use textual references, including quotations, to support and illustrate interpretations
- Analyse the language, form and structure used by a writer to create meanings and effects, using relevant subject terminology
- Show understanding of the relationships between texts and contexts in which they were written
- Use a range of vocabulary and sentence structures for clarity, purpose and effect, with accurate spelling and punctuation
Summer term
Literature paper 2 Modern texts and poetry: J. B. Priestley – An Inspector Calls
- Read, understand and respond to texts. Maintain a critical style and develop a personal response, use textual references, including quotations, to support and illustrate interpretations
- Analyse the language, form and structure used by a writer to create meanings and effects, using relevant subject terminology
- Show understanding of the relationships between texts and contexts in which they were written
- Use a range of vocabulary and sentence structures for clarity, purpose and effect, with accurate spelling and punctuation
Language
Autumn term
Language paper 1 Explorations in creative reading and writing: Section A – Reading
- Identify and interpret explicit and implicit information and ideas
- Explain, comment on and analyse how writers’ use language and structure to achieve effects and influence readers, using relevant subject terminology to support their views
- Evaluate texts critically and support this with appropriate textual references
Language Paper 1 Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing: Section B – Writing
- Communicate clearly, effectively and imaginatively, selecting and adapting tone, style and register for different forms, purposes and audiences
- Organise information and ideas, using structural and grammatical features to support coherence and cohesion of texts
- Use a range of vocabulary and sentence structures for clarity, purpose and effect, with accurate spelling and punctuation
Spring term
Language paper 2 Writers’ viewpoints and perspectives: Section A – Reading
- Identify and interpret explicit and implicit information and ideas
- Explain, comment on and analyse how writers’ use language and structure to achieve effects and influence readers, using relevant subject terminology to support their views
- Compare writers’ ideas and perspectives, as well as how these are conveyed, across two or more texts
Language paper 2 Writers’ viewpoints and perspectives: Section B – Writing
- Communicate clearly, effectively and imaginatively, selecting and adapting tone, style and register for different forms, purposes and audiences
- Organise information and ideas, using structural and grammatical features to support coherence and cohesion of texts
- Use a range of vocabulary and sentence structures for clarity, purpose and effect, with accurate spelling and punctuation
Summer term
Spoken language endorsement
- Be audible
- Use Spoken Standard English
- Be intelligible
- Use language appropriate to the formal setting of the presentation
- Express ideas
- Organised and structured speech
- Meet the needs of the audience
- Listen and respond to questions
Continuation of revision for paper 1 and 2
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