Year 9 - English

Unit 1: Novel study

The first few weeks of the year will be spent developing descriptive writing skills using Gothic literature as inspiration.

After half term, based on year end of year 8 exam results and your work from the half first term of Year 9, all students will be put into sets.

Unit 2: Novel Study

Next in the autumn term, you’ll be studying ‘Of Mice and Men’. You’ll learn about the social and historical context of the time in which the novel was set to aid your understanding of the novel as you read. Assessment will be a GCSE Literature style essay.

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Unit 3: Directed Writing

In this unit you will learn how to write either a letter, speech, article or report after reading two texts on a particular topic to help you form ideas and opinions.

Writing will be either discursive, persuasive or argumentative. This will also ready you for GCSE style writing.

Unit 4: Poetry

You will next look at some poetry from the GCSE Literature anthology and learn new poetry analysis skills, particularly how to write a comparison on two poems

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Unit 5: IGCSE Drama Study

The final study of the year will be of the play ‘An Inspector Calls’. For some of you this will be a text you will study for GCSE Literature. You’ll learn about the plot, characters and when it was written and set. As well as this, we’ll consider stagecraft and what motivated the writer to produce the play.

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