Year 2 Term 1: Connecting with the past (10–12 weeks)
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Use news articles on a key issue / theme connected to your chosen drama piece, e.g. gangs / bullying in connection with DNA or teenage love / pregnancy in relation to a Taste of Honey (Core 7.1, 3.6)
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Build comprehension skills
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Write a monologue from the perspective of a character
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Work on sentences for effect (Core 1.6)
Class reading of the chosen set modern text exploring plot, theme, character, language and structure (Core 4.2–4.3) Study a connected short story or extract from a novel, exploring language, character and structure, and building comprehension skills (Core 3.3–3.4) Create own narratives from pictures (Core 8.6)
Recommended additional resources
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Set Literature text: modern text accompanying non-fiction in context
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Dictionaries
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AQA English Literature Paper 1 and mark scheme
Thesaurus 2–3 extracts, stories or modern, thematicallyconnected novel
Work on two or three unseen poems reading and discussing for pleasure and practice
Assessment AQA English Language Paper 1, Questions 1, 2, 3, 5
Term 2: The writer’s craft (10–12 weeks) Recommended additional resources
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Recap on poetry analysis skills and literary terms Begin work on the chosen poetry cluster, studying structure, theme, language, imagery, mood and making comparative links (Core 2.4–2.6, 4.4)
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Introduce how to plan and structure responses to GCSE English Literature Paper 2 Section B
AQA poetry anthology, Poems Past and Present: poetry clusters Dictionaries
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Use the poetry work as an opportunity for a vocabulary boost and lead into connected creative writing / descriptive work (Core 8.1–8.2)
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Work on three or four unseen poems of your choice, reading and working collaboratively on activity-based study
Thesaurus AQA English Literature Paper 2 and mark scheme
Assessment AQA GCSE English Literature Paper 2, Section B
Term 3: Working with a Shakespeare text (10–12 weeks)
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Complete a class reading and study of a Shakespeare play; establish plot, key themes and key characters (Core 5.2)
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Use short, key extracts and scenes to work on language/poetry analysis Develop essay writing skills (Core 6.1) Recap on Point of view writing; explore a universal issue/theme from the play via modern news articles / speeches, exploring register and more complex spellings and punctuation for effect (Core 9.2–9.8)
End-of-Year-10 assessment AQA GCSE English Language Paper 2, Section B AQA GCSE English Literature Paper 1, Section A
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Recommended additional resources
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Set English Literature Shakespeare text
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AQA English Language Paper 2
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AQA English Literature Paper 1
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Dictionaries Thesaurus
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