Year 8 English

Re-creative writing as Charlie Peaceful.

Read chapters 1 -7.

Keep a ‘My Name is Charlie’ sheet to store phrases and ideas.

SPaG

• TAP (Text type; Audience and Purpose)

• Punctuation: 3 uses of commas

• Complex, compound and simple sentences.

• Subordinate clause.

Skills and Concepts

• Explore/imagine/entertain (TAP)

• Describe

• Reading for meaning including narrative hooks and voice;

• Motifs and symbols

• Interpretation

• Varying sentences for effect.

• Persuasive devices

• Context WW1 and Edwardian England.

Re-creative writing as Charlie Peaceful final  

Read chapters 8-13 + postscript.

Maintain ‘My Name is Charlie’ sheet to store phrases and ideas.

Explore war and experiences with Horrible Hanley.

SPaG:

• TAP

• Spelling strategies

• Subordination – main clauses.

• Punctuation:

  • Semi-colon & Colon

  • Hyphen & dash

  • Apostrophe use

  • Speech marks

  • Conjunctions

• Complex, compound and simple sentences.

• Adverbial clause.

• Impact of figurative language

Skills and concepts:

• Inform/explain/ describe

• Foreshadowing

• Figurative language: imagery, metaphor, simile, alliteration…

• Empathy/Persona

• Persuasive devices - speeches

• Contextual information: Links WW1 poetry

Autumn 1:

Assessed for WRITING

Mid-term

Mid-term, re-creative writing –  write a paragraph from Charlie’s perspective – e.g: fight with Parsons (week3) AO5 and AO6 focus. 

Final assessment:

Week 6:  

w/c 17/10/22

First draft – re-creative writing: Diary of Charlie Peaceful using ideas up to Chapter 7 and contextual knowledge. AO5/AO6

Autumn 2: 

Assessed for WRITING

Mid term:

Paragraph: Charlie’s experiences of war – marked for AO5/AO6.  Explore description and characterisation/ feelings.

Final:

Week 6

w/c: 5/12/21

Re-draft and complete Charlie Peaceful diary

AR Reading:

Points target for each term should be met

Focus on Benedick – extract and across the play (AO2 and AO1/3)

SPaG:

• Sentence structure

• Spelling – homophones and high frequency words.

• Caught ‘ya for developing vocabulary range

Skills and concepts:

• Explore, infer, deduce.

• Genre

• Using evidence

• Context: Tudor language, patriarchal attitudes to marriage and women. AO3

• Analysing language and structure AO2

• Character analysis AO1/AO2

• Inference and interpretation

Write a 500 word Gothic story.

SPaG:

• Developing a range of ambitious vocabulary.

• Boundary commas

• Complex and simple sentences

• Punctuation:

• Semi-colon

• Dash

• Ellipses

• Fronted adverbials

Skills and concepts:

• Imagine/describe/ entertain

• Experiment with figurative language to convey a sense of setting and character.

• Narrative techniques.

• Sentence structure and construction: combining clauses, using the comma effectively. Use short direct sentences for tension.

• Structure and accuracy.

• Drafting and improving ideas.

• Links to Literary Heritage/conventions.

Spring 1:

Reading

Mid term

Week 3

W/C: 16/01/22

Analyse a short extract from Act 2, scene 3 exploring how Benedick is presented.  AO2 Focus on WWHW draw out use of technique and effect.

Final

Week 7

W/C: 13/02/22

Essay: How is Benedick presented across the play? AO1/AO3

Spring 2:

Writing

Mid term: create a Gothic setting

Week 3

W/C 13/03/22

Class mark

Final: 500 word Gothic story. 

Success criteria is AO5 and AO6.

Organise and present ideas to imagine and entertain. 

Week 5

W/C: 27/03/22

AR Reading:

Star testing – track progress.

Analyse the poem:  ‘Stealing’ by Carol Ann Duffy.  AO2

SPaG:

• Verbs & Adverbs

• Key vocabulary/ poetic terminology spellings

Skills and concepts:

• Infer/ Interpret/ explain

• Integrating evidence

• Figurative language

• Exploring and developing a critical viewpoint

• Recognising conventions of different poetic forms.e.g: ballad; free verse; rhyme etc.

• Making links to how texts reflect the culture in which they were produced.

Write a personal travel article about a holiday destination. AO5/AO6

SPaG:

• Revise sentence structures: simple, compound and complex;

• Paragraphing – TIPTOP

• Key spellings.

Skills and Concepts:

• Inform/persuade describe

• Researching

• To present a case persuasively making use of evidence and using rhetorical devices.

• Organise and present information, selecting and synthesising information.

• Using description, anecdote and rhetorical devices to engage a reader.

• TAP

Summer 1:

Reading

Mid term

w/c: 6/5/22

Week 4

AO2 class feedback in preparation for exam week in June

Summer 2,

Final Exam week

Poetry AO2 Reading =

Final: Exam week tbc

AO2

How does Duffy present the speaker in the poem ‘Stealing’?

Travel Writing:

Writing:

Skills based non-fiction

AR Reading:  Points targets for each term.

STAR test – progress for year