Year 2 Term 1: Connecting with the past (10–12 weeks)
• Build skills of critical evaluation and response (Core 6.5–6.6) • Work with extracts of 19th-century non-fiction linked to the themes and issues of the set novel, alongside modern non-fiction texts (Core 7.3)
• Read and study the 19th-century novel (set Literature text) in
Recommended additional resources
• Set Literature text: 19th-century novel and accompanying nonfiction texts in context
Assessment
• Dictionaries • Thesaurus • AQA English Language Paper 2
English Language Paper 2 mock exam; mark with mark scheme and feedback
• AQA English Literature Paper 1,
terms of plot theme, character, language and structure (Core 4.5, 5.2–5.3) ,
English Literature Paper 1, Section B, and feedback
and mark scheme
Section B, and mark scheme
Term 2: The writer’s craft (10–12 weeks)
• Read and study Shakespeare play (set Literature text) in terms of
Recommended additional resources
• Use extracts of Shakespeare play alongside unseen poetry to
• Set Literature text: Shakespeare
• Make links via theme with the modern drama text to kick start
• Selection of poetry, perhaps
• Use images and photographs connected with the play / key lines,
• Selection of photographic images • Dictionaries • Thesaurus • AQA English Literature Paper 1
plot, /theme, / character, / language and structure practise comparative and unseen skills revision
etc., as creative writing stimulus / to describe a character or place, for example
• Revision of poetry clusters Assessment
play
connected to the play by theme
and mark scheme
English Literature Paper 1 full mock exam; mark with mark scheme and feedback Term 3: Consolidation and exam preparation text (10–12 weeks)
• Consolidating skills in analysing language and structure (Core 4.7)
Recommended additional resources
• Revision for 19th-century novel in harness with English Language • All set English Literature texts Paper 2 (Core 7.5) • AQA English Language Papers 1 and 2 for mock exams Revision of modern drama text and Shakespeare (linked by • theme)
• Revision of short stories in harness with English Language Paper 1 skills (Core 3.8, 6.7)
Assessment English Language full mock exam with feedback
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