English · Key Stage 3 · £4.99
Year 9 English
Scheme of Work
Six half-termly units across one academic year, forming the bridge to GCSE. Every demand a GCSE course makes — a whole nineteenth-century novel, a whole Shakespeare play, comparison across periods, structured creative writing, viewpoint writing and a formal spoken assessment — is met here first, with no marks attached.
£4.99The Year 9 scheme: 6 half-termly units, 36 pages
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- 1aThe Nineteenth-Century Novel
- 1bCreative Writing: Craft and Control
- 2aPoetry: Power, Identity and Protest
- 2bShakespeare: A Whole Play
- 3aLiterature and Society: Dystopia and Protest
- 3bSpoken Language and Writing to a Viewpoint
Ten sections per unit, in the same order every time. Lessons are one row each rather than a page each, enough to teach from and 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 9 means ages 13–14, or S2–S3 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
- 36 pages · 11 sections
The sequence
What this scheme of work covers, unit by unit
The 6 units of the Year 9 English Scheme of Work, in teaching order, with the term each one runs in and the question it is built to answer.
1a
The Nineteenth-Century Novel
Autumn 1 · approx. 7 weeks · September – October
What does a novel written two hundred years ago know about us?
1b
Creative Writing: Craft and Control
Autumn 2 · approx. 7 weeks · November – December
What separates writing that is correct from writing that is good?
2a
Poetry: Power, Identity and Protest
Spring 1 · approx. 6 weeks · January – February
Who gets to speak, and who decides?
2b
Shakespeare: A Whole Play
Spring 2 · approx. 6 weeks · February – April
Does a play mean what the writer intended, or what this production decides?
3a
Literature and Society: Dystopia and Protest
Summer 1 · approx. 6 weeks · April – May
What is a writer trying to stop from happening?
3b
Spoken Language and Writing to a Viewpoint
Summer 2 · approx. 6 weeks · June – July
Can you argue well for something you do not believe?
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