Assessment Detail

Students will sit 2 exam papers which will account for 100% of their grade*

Paper 1: Explorations and Creative Writing

Section A: Reading one literature fiction text.

Section B: Writing descriptive or narrative writing.

The paper accounts for 50% of the overall grade.

Paper 2: Writer’s Viewpoints and Perspectives

Section A: Reading  one non-fiction text and one literary non-fiction text.

Section B: Writing to present a viewpoint.

The paper accounts for 50% of the overall grade.

*nb that students will complete a teacher assessed compulsory Speaking and Listening endorsement

Students will sit 2 exam papers which will account for 100% of the their grade. The exam is closed book which means that texts are not allowed in the examination.

Paper 1: Shakespeare and Post 1914 Literature

Section A: The Tempest a two-part question, with the first task focused on an extract of approximately 30 lines.

The second task is focused on how a theme reflected in the extract is explored elsewhere in the play.

Section B: An Inspector Calls ONE essay question.

Paper 2: 19^th Century Novel and Poetry since 1789

Section A: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde a two part question, with the first part focussed on an extract of approximately 400 words.

The second part is an essay question exploring the whole text.

Section B: Conflict Poetry: ONE question comparing a named poem from the Pearson

Poetry Anthology conflict collection to another poem from that collection.

The named poem will be shown in the question paper.

Part 2: ONE question comparing two unseen contemporary poems.

Autumn Term: Students will study a range of 19^th, 20^th and 21^st century

Spring Term: students will study a range of non-fiction extracts to to explore a writer’s viewpoints and perspectives

Summer Term: Students must undertake a prepared spoken presentation on a specific topic.

Autumn Term: Students will study The Tempest by William Shakespeare

Spring Term: Students will read and study conflict poetry from the Edexcel Pearson Anthology and revisit the novel ‘Jekyll and Hyde’

Summer Term: Students will develop greater appreciation of poetry and practise their analytical writing skills through exploration of  a range of unseen poems

• Read a wide range of texts, fluently and with good understanding.
  
  
• Read critically, and use knowledge gained from wide reading to inform and improve their own writing.
  
  
• Write effectively and coherently using Standard English appropriately.
  
  
• Use grammar correctly, punctuate and spell accurately.
  
  
• Acquire and apply a wide vocabulary, alongside a knowledge and understanding of grammatical terminology, and linguistic conventions for reading, writing and spoken language.

• Study a Shakespeare play and a post-1914 British play or novel.
  
  
• Develop skills to analyse how the language, form, structure and context of texts can create meanings and effects.
  
  
• Develop skills to maintain a critical style and informed personal response.
  
  
• Study a 19th-century novel and a poetry collection from the Pearson Poetry Anthology.
  
  
• Develop skills to analyse how the language, form, structure and context of texts can create meanings and effects.
  
  
• Develop skills to maintain a critical style and informed personal response.
  
  
• Develop comparison skills.

Expose yourself to lots of rich vocabulary and experiences by reading books of interest on the KS4 reading list

Explain why you think a writer chose to begin and end a book the way they did considering language and structural features used.

Compare how one newspaper presents a serious event with another.

Follow the link below to complete activities to support assessment and exam preparation

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Follow the link below to complete revision activities

• Research Elizabethan and Jacobean England.
  
  
• What major events occurred during this time period? Research the political and social views of Shakespeare.
  
  
• Research the Gunpowder Plot, Patriarchy, Colonialism and magic during this period of history.
  
  

Follow the links below to complete revision activities

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Cliffs Notes

Students will sit 2 exam papers which will account for 100% of their grade*

Paper 1: Fiction and Imaginative Writing

Section A – Reading: questions on an unseen 19th-century fiction extract.

Section B – Writing: a choice of two writing tasks.
The tasks are linked by a theme to the reading extract.

The total number of marks available is 64.

Assessment duration 1 hour and 45 minutes.

Paper 2: Non-Fiction and Transactional Writing

Section A – Reading: questions on two thematically linked, unseen non-fiction

extracts.

Section B – Writing: a choice of two writing tasks. The tasks are linked by a theme to the reading extracts.

The total number of marks available is 96.

Assessment duration: 2 hours and 5 minutes.

*nb that students will complete a teacher assessed compulsory Speaking and Listening endorsement.

Paper 1: Shakespeare and Post 1914 Literature

Section A: The Tempest a two-part question, with the first task focused on an extract of approximately 30 lines.

The second task is focused on how a theme reflected in the extract is explored elsewhere in the play.

Section B: An Inspector Calls ONE essay question.

Paper 2: 19^th Century Novel and Poetry since 1789

Section A: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde a two part question, with the first part focussed on an extract of approximately 400 words.

The second part is an essay question exploring the whole text.

Section B: Conflict Poetry: ONE question comparing a named poem from the Pearson Poetry Anthology conflict collection to another poem from that collection.

The named poem will be shown in the question paper.

Part 2: ONE question comparing two unseen contemporary poems.

Autumn Term: Students will study a range of 19^th century fiction and 20th and 21^st century non-fiction extracts focusing on English Language reading and writing skills.

Spring Term: Students will refine analytical reading skills and develop independent writing skills to build confidence prior to the exams in the Summer Term.

Autumn Term: Students will study The Tempest by William Shakespeare and revise An Inspector Calls.

Spring Term: Students will revise and revisit Jekyll and Hyde and Conflict poetry.

Summer Term: Students will revise and revisit all literary texts including: The Tempest, An Inspector Calls, Jekyll and Hyde and Conflict Poetry

• Read a wide range of texts, fluently and with good understanding.
  
  
• Read critically, and use knowledge gained from wide reading to inform and improve their own writing.
  
  
• Write effectively and coherently using Standard English appropriately.
  Use grammar correctly, Punctuate and spell accurately.
  
  
• Acquire and apply a wide vocabulary, alongside a knowledge and understanding of grammatical terminology, and linguistic conventions for reading, writing and spoken language.
  
  

• Study a Shakespeare play and a post-1914 British play or novel.
  
  
• Develop skills to analyse how the language, form, structure and context of texts can create meanings and effects.
  
  
• Develop skills to maintain a critical style and informed personal response.
  
  
• Study a 19th-century novel and a poetry collection from the Pearson Poetry Anthology.
  
  
• Develop skills to analyse how the language, form, structure and context of texts can create meanings and effects.
  
  
• Develop skills to maintain a critical style and informed personal response.
  
  
• Develop comparison skills.

• Expose yourself to lots of rich vocabulary and experiences by reading books of interest on the KS4 reading list.
  
  
• Explain why you think a writer chose to begin and end a book they way they did considering language and structural features used.
  
  
• Compare how one newspaper presents a serious event with another.

Follow the link below to complete activities to support assessment and exam preparation

BBC Education

• Revise key contexts, characters and themes for all set texts (The Tempest, An Inspector Calls, Conflict Poetry and Jekyll and Hyde).
  
  
• Ensuring that relevant quotes are practised as part of independent study.

Follow the links below to complete revision activities

Spark Notes
BBC Education

Cliffs Notes