103·English · Key Stage 3
Year 9
English
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.
- 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, 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 For heads of English, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it
- Extent 35 pages · 8 sections
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