| Strand | Autumn Term (19th C Literature) | Spring Term (Shakespeare) | Summer term A (Language: Writing) | Summer Term B (CUSP What does it mean to be human?) | |
| Heroes and Villains in Literature (2 lessons) | Text | Great Expectations | A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Haverhill Heroes – writing unit | Blended unit of reading, writing, literature and vocabulary skills on the concept of humanity and being ‘human’ from the USP CUSP team. |
| Knowledge | Life in Victorian London; Victorian crime; the form of a novel; workhouses; the poor laws; Abel Magwitch, Pip, Miss Havisham; morality | Life in Elizabethan England; life in ancient Athens; Shakespeare’s life; the four lovers; the love potion; Elizabethan family relationships; the form of a play | Persuasive speech writing, poetry and writing a ‘How to’ guide all on the theme of heroes. Polishing and perfecting work for display at the Year 7 showcase | ||
| Vocab | villains and victims; vulnerable; corrupt; naïve; orphan; moral; benefactor | soliloquy, severe, conflict, unrequited love, to mock, chaos | Hero / kindness / volunteer | ||
| Assessment/skills mapping | End of lit unit assessment – summative Thesis statements Topic sentences Embedded quotes | End of lit unit assessment – summative Zoomed in, detailed analysis Analytical verbs | Writing assessment – comparative judgement – speeches | ||
| Grammar (1 lesson) | Mastery Writing 2 lessons 1-38 writing in complete and full sentences; identifying the action and verb; subject-verb agreement for ‘to-be’, regular and irregular past simple verbs, avoiding fragments; avoiding fused sentences; using capital sentences accurately; using pronouns; sentence structure; paragraphing; speech punctuation. | ||||
| Writing (1 lesson) | 5-week cycles: Intro and model, generate ideas, slow writing x 2 lessons, edit and polish using feedback (5 polished pieces in a year – 3 of which assessed using comparative judgement) | ||||
| Reading (1 lesson) | Direct Reading Instruction for the continuing of development of fluent and comprehending readers (Prose, Fiction & Non-fiction, Poetry) ‘We are Displaced’ – Malala Yousafzai ‘There’s a boy in the girl’s bathroom’ – Louis Sachar ‘Things the eye can’t see’ – Penny Joelson ‘Life of Pi’ – Yann Martel ‘Sapiens: Graphic Novel (Volume 1)’ – Yuval Noah Harari | ||||
