English · Key Stage 3 · £4.99
Year 8 English
Scheme of Work
Six half-termly units across one academic year, written backwards from Year 9 and forwards from Year 7. The year adds the three things Year 9 assumes: comparison, control of register for a named audience, and sustained reading of pre-1900 prose.
£4.99The Year 8 scheme: 6 half-termly units, 35 pages
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- 1aReading a Novel: Theme and Writer’s Purpose
- 1bWriting to Inform, Explain and Persuade
- 2aPoetry: Comparing Voices
- 2bShakespeare: Power and Consequence
- 3aThe Gothic: Reading and Writing the Nineteenth Century
- 3bMedia, Bias and the Language of Persuasion
Ten sections per unit, in the same order every time. Lessons are one row each rather than a page each — enough to teach from, not so much that it cannot be maintained across a whole department.
One principle applies to every unit and is stated once at the front: every claim about a text is followed by evidence from it, in writing and in discussion.
Every duration, text, task and assessment word is a strong default rather than a fixed rule. Year 8 means ages 12–13, or S1–S2 in Scotland.
- Written to
- The statutory programme of study for key stage 3 English (DfE, 2013)
- Intended for
- heads of English, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it
- Extent
- 35 pages · 10 sections
The sequence
What this scheme of work covers, unit by unit
The 6 units of the Year 8 English Scheme of Work, in teaching order, with the term each one runs in and the question it is built to answer.
1a
Reading a Novel: Theme and Writer's Purpose
Autumn 1 · approx. 7 weeks · September – October
What is a writer trying to make us think, and how do we know?
1b
Writing to Inform, Explain and Persuade
Autumn 2 · approx. 7 weeks · November – December
How does a writer change the way they sound for a different reader?
2a
Poetry: Comparing Voices
Spring 1 · approx. 6 weeks · January – February
Two poets, one subject — why do they sound nothing like each other?
2b
Shakespeare: Power and Consequence
Spring 2 · approx. 6 weeks · February – April
What makes a good person do a terrible thing?
3a
The Gothic: Reading and Writing the Nineteenth Century
Summer 1 · approx. 6 weeks · April – May
Why does a two-hundred-year-old ghost story still work?
3b
Media, Bias and the Language of Persuasion
Summer 2 · approx. 6 weeks · June – July
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