English · GCSE (Key Stage 4) · £5.99
Year 10 English
Scheme of Work
GCSE English Scheme of Work (SOW) — Year 10, Language & Lit
Sixty-three pages covering both GCSE English qualifications at once: Language and Literature are separate GCSEs taught in the same lessons, and this plans both. All four statutory text categories, no set texts named, so it works with whatever your department teaches. Every unit shows a piece of student work with the error in it beside the repair, and there are six printable diagnostics at the back.
£5.99The Year 10 scheme: 6 half-termly units, 63 pages
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Both years: GCSE English scheme of work
Everything else this site has for English: English teaching resources
- 1aLanguage: Reading Fiction, and Writing to Describe and Narrate
- 1bLiterature: The Nineteenth-Century Novel
- 2aLiterature: Shakespeare
- 2bLanguage: Non-Fiction, Comparison and Writing to a Viewpoint
- 3aLiterature: The Modern Text — Fiction or Drama from 1914
- 3bPoetry Since 1789, and the Spoken Language Endorsement
Ten sections per unit, in the same order every time. Phases rather than single lessons, because English is timetabled at three to four hours a week.
Two things follow from the subject rather than from a house style. It plans two qualifications at once, because English Language and English Literature are separate GCSEs taught in the same lessons by the same teacher. And it names no set texts, because the four text categories are statutory while the particular novel, play and anthology are not.
Neither English GCSE is tiered, so there is no entry decision to make and no separate pathway to plan.
- Written to
- The GCSE subject content for English language and English literature (DfE, 2013) and the statutory programme of study for key stage 4 (DfE, 2014)
- Intended for
- heads of department, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it
- Extent
- 63 pages · 18 sections
The sequence
What this scheme of work covers, unit by unit
The 6 units of the Year 10 English Scheme of Work, in teaching order, with the term each one runs in and the question it is built to answer.
1a
Language: Reading Fiction, and Writing to Describe and Narrate
Autumn 1 · approx. 7 weeks · September – October
How does a writer make a reader feel something, and how would you prove it?
1b
Literature: The Nineteenth-Century Novel
Autumn 2 · approx. 7 weeks · November – December
What is this novel arguing about the world it was written in?
2a
Literature: Shakespeare
Spring 1 · approx. 6 weeks · January – February
Why is this play still worth four hundred years of argument?
2b
Language: Non-Fiction, Comparison and Writing to a Viewpoint
Spring 2 · approx. 6 weeks · February – April
Two writers, one subject, two hundred years apart — where exactly do they disagree?
3a
Literature: The Modern Text — Fiction or Drama from 1914
Summer 1 · approx. 6 weeks · April – May
What does this writer want the audience to go home and do?
3b
Poetry Since 1789, and the Spoken Language Endorsement
Summer 2 · approx. 7 weeks · June – July
What can a poem do in fourteen lines that a novel needs four hundred pages for?
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Contents
All 18 sections
Taken from the book’s own contents page, so the page numbers are the real ones.