Year 8 - English

• analytical skills
• social contextual study
• vocabulary and grammar work
• summarising
• inference
• narrative viewpoints

Analysis of character and writer’s language use.

Speaking and listening opportunities including P4C, hot seating and discussions.

Survival non-fiction unit

• Students will learn
• persuasive, argumentative and descriptive writing;
• planning and research skills,
• comprehension skills,

Language Study
Students will learn

• research and presentation opportunity,
• understanding formality and register,
• origins of English and change over time,
• neologisms,
• standard and non-standard English,
• regional variation,
• grammar work on word class.

Descriptive and narrative, persuasive and advice writing

Speaking and listening – group discussion, role-play, presentation on the history of English.

Cambridge Progression test covering key skills learnt.

Poetry

Structure and language study of a variety of poetry from different cultures/time periods

Shakespeare (Julius Caesar)

• inference skills
• viewpoint of writer
• interpretation skills
• writing skills
• self-directed learning project on context.

Analysis of a variety of poems, including a comparative piece; focus on language, structure, personal response; writing own poems.

Analytical writing, sensory writing, personal writing, persuasive speech/letter writing.

Speaking and listening opportunities including poetry performance, group discussion, P4C, hot-seating.