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     Year 7 Learning Programme 2012






 

THE LONDON NAUTICAL SCHOOL

Department of English

Programme

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This plan has been devised by the English Department of the London Nautical School to form an overarching scheme within which each teacher can devise their own unique learning programme. This scheme ensures that through their progress through Key Stage Three, the students at The Nautical build upon what they learn in a sequential way. It also ensures that the key competencies that the boys must develop to succeed in the GCSE programme at Key Stage Four are embedded during these essential formative years

  1. “Language and Identity”


  3. READING

  4. EXTENDED READING PROJECT

  5. POETRY OF LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY

  6. NON-FICTION CLOSE READING

  7. INTRO TO SHAKESPEARIAN DRAMA


  9. TEXTS

  10. Beowulf, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Two Weeks with the Queen, Ender’s Game, Holes, Skellig, Clockwork, ‘Macbeth’ by Joe Fitzgerald


  12. WRITING:

  13. LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY - including autobiographical writing

  14. POETRY - introduction to poetic devices: metre and extended metaphor. Sound poetry


  16. SPEAKING AND LISTENING:

  17. PERSUASIVE AND INFORMATIVE


  19. MEDIA:

  20. PRINT AND ADVERTISING, SHORT FILM


Year 7 Assessment Programme 2012

While this list is not comprehensive, it defines the scope of the summative assessment that will occur in Year 7 at a department/moderation level:

READING:
Close reading of non-fiction media texts
Literary analysis response to an extended text (essay or long-answer, PEEL format)

WRITING:
Autobiographical writing

SKILLS FOCUS:
Precis, reading comprehension, use and identification of language features.







Schedule of Moderation of KS3 Student Work


 

Year 7 Assessment Programme 2012

While this list is not comprehensive, it defines the scope of the summative assessment that will occur in Year 7 at a department/moderation level:

READING:
Close reading of non-fiction media texts
Literary analysis response to an extended text (essay or long-answer, PEEL format)

WRITING:
Autobiographical writing

SKILLS FOCUS:
Precis, reading comprehension, use and identification of language features.







     Year 8 Learning Programme 2012






 

  1. “Personal Geography”


  3. READING

  4. EXTENDED READING PROJECT

  5. LITERARY STUDY OF A GENRE

  6. POETRY AND NON-FICTION CLOSE READING

  7. SHORT STORY ANALYSIS

  8. SHAKESPEARIAN DRAMA


  10. Stone Cold, The Other Side of Truth, Chicken Run, Keeper, Once, Machine Gunners


  12. WRITING:

  13. GENRE WRITING - including scriptwriting

  14. POETRY - introduction to poetic devices: metre and extended metaphor. Sound poetry


  16. SPEAKING AND LISTENING:

  17. DEBATING - Leading to inter-class debating competition


  19. MEDIA:

  20. FILM STUDY - Feature Film


Year 8 Assessment Programme 2012

While this list is not comprehensive, it defines the scope of the summative assessment that will occur in Year 8 at a department/moderation level:

READING:
Close reading of poetry
Essay style response to short stories

WRITING:
Genre writing

SPEAKING:
Debating competition



Year 8 Assessment Programme 2012

While this list is not comprehensive, it defines the scope of the summative assessment that will occur in Year 7 at a department/moderation level:

READING:
Close reading of poetry
Essay style response to short stories

WRITING:
Genre writing

SPEAKING:
Debating competition



Year 9 Assessment Programme 2012

While this list is not comprehensive, it defines the scope of the summative assessment that will occur in Year 7 at a department/moderation level:

READING:
Presentation of personal reading project


WRITING:
Comparative Analysis piece


SPEAKING:
Speech Festival


SKILLS FOCUS:
Comparative analysis



     Year 9 Learning Programme 2012






 

  1. “Politics, Context, Power”


  3. READING

  4. EXTENDED READING PROJECT

  5. POETRY STUDIED IN THE CONTEXT OF AN EXTENDED TEXT

  6. SHAKESPEARIAN DRAMA


  8. The Old Man and the Sea, Tomorrow When the War Began, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, Animal Farm, Guantanamo Boy, Romeo and Juliet, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Richard III, The Taming of the Shrew


  10. WRITING:

  11. WRITING FOR A PRACTICAL PURPOSE - including review writing

  12. COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS


  14. SPEAKING AND LISTENING:

  15. RHETORIC AND DISCUSSION


  17. MEDIA:

  18. FILM STUDY - Script writing and film making

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