English at Key Stage 3

	Half-term 1	Half-term 2	Half-term 3	Half-term 4	Half-term 5	Half-term 6
Year 7	Identities and Communities	Private Peaceful or A Monster Calls	Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream	Adventure Fiction: Reading and Writing	Using Persuasive Language	London
Year 7	What makes your identity? How do writers express their own identity?	How do writers present close relationships with family?	How does Shakespeare use the magical world and real world to explore key issues around how women were treated in Elizabethan society?	How do writers explore the imagination to engage readers?	How do speakers use language to persuade?	How have writers used London as means of creativity in history? How have non-fiction writers presented London throughout history?’
Year 8	Animal Farm and Protest	Contemporary Voices	Speeches that Changed the World	Macbeth	Great Expectations and Gothic Fiction	Screen Writing
Year 8	How does Orwell show revolution and corruption in his novel?	How do writers use the world around them to create poetry?	How do speakers use language to become powerful figures of change?	How does Shakespeare explore human frailties in Macbeth?	How does Dickens and others use gothic conventions to create vivid worlds?	Can you use current narratives to create your own and turn it into a film?
Year 9	Romantic Poetry and Protest in Literature	Connections across Literature: Jane Eyre and Noughts and Crosses	Creative Reading and Writing: Fiction	The Merchant of Venice	Viewpoints and Perspectives	Worlds and Lives Poetry Anthology
Year 9	How do poets like Blake and Wordsworth present the victims of the Industrial Revolution?	How do Bronte and Blackman explore connections across literature?	How do writers use language and structure to create vivid texts?	How does Shakespeare present the prejudices of Elizabethan England?	How do writers present their viewpoints in a range of texts?	How do poets use language, structure and form to present the world around them?

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