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History of English Literature and Language

The Oral Tradition

3 Lessons

History of English Literature and Language

Epic Poetry

6 Lessons

The Canterbury Tales and paired texts

The Canterbury Tales: 'General Prologue'

8 Lessons

The Canterbury Tales and paired texts

The Refugee Tales: 'Prologue', ed. Anna Pincus and David Herd

4 Lessons

The Canterbury Tales and paired texts

The Canterbury Tales: 'The Knight's Tale', Chaucer

12 Lessons

The Canterbury Tales and paired texts

Telling Tales, Patience Agbabi

9 Lessons

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare (Introduction and Act 1)

6 Lessons

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare (Act 2)

5 Lessons

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare (Act 3)

4 Lessons

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare (Act 4&5)

3 Lessons

Contemporary Short Stories (Love)

Contemporary Short Stories (1/2): The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin

4 Lessons

Contemporary Short Stories (Love)

Contemporary Short Stories (2/2): Sweetness by Toni Morrison

6 Lessons

Introduction to poetry

8 Lessons

The sonnet through time

The sonnet through time: Introduction to the sonnet

3 Lessons

The sonnet through time

The sonnet through time: 'Sonnet 18', Shakespeare

4 Lessons

The sonnet through time

The sonnet through time: 'Death, be not proud', Donne

4 Lessons

The sonnet through time

The sonnet through time: 'If thou must love me', Barrett-Browning

5 Lessons

The sonnet through time

The sonnet through time: 'If we must die', Claude McKay

5 Lessons

The sonnet through time

The sonnet through time: 'The sonnet-ballad', Gwendolyn Brooks

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Creative writing

Creative writing: short stories

4 Lessons

Creative writing

Creative writing: poetry

5 Lessons

Grammar

Recapping the basics: simple sentences, statements, paragraphs, capital letters and past simple verbs

7 Lessons

Grammar

Complex sentences, avoiding fragments and run-ons, capital letters

7 Lessons

Grammar

Past simple tense, subordinate clauses, punctuating conjunctions and lists

6 Lessons

Grammar

Writing accurate, correctly punctuated and paragraphed dialogue, using personal pronouns

6 Lessons

Grammar

Avoiding fragments, fused sentences and comma splices. Using capital letters and writing in the past tense. Using multiple subordinate clauses, punctuating lists correctly when in a complex sentence.

5 Lessons

Grammar

Paragraphing narratives for clarity, using possessive pronouns, using apostrophes accurately, structuring, writing and editing genre-specific narratives

7 Lessons

Introduction to Tragedy

3 Lessons

Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar, Shakespeare, Act 1

6 Lessons

Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar, Shakespeare, Act 2

4 Lessons

Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar, Shakespeare, Act 3

5 Lessons

Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar, Shakespeare, Act 4 and 5

3 Lessons

Romantic poetry and paired texts

Romantic poetry and paired texts: Introduction to the Romantics

3 Lessons

Romantic poetry and paired texts

Romantic poetry and paired texts: Romanticism and Nature

10 Lessons

Romantic poetry and paired texts

Romantic poetry and paired texts: Nature poetry

4 Lessons

Romantic poetry and paired texts

Romantic poetry and paired texts: Romanticism and Revolution

12 Lessons

Romantic poetry and paired texts

Romantic poetry and paired texts: Revolutionary and Protest poetry

6 Lessons

Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist: Oliver and the Workhouse

4 Lessons

Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist: Oliver Heads to London

3 Lessons

Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist: Oliver is Caught

3 Lessons

Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist: Oliver, Bill & The Maylies

4 Lessons

Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist: Oliver and the Consequences

4 Lessons

Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid

13 Lessons

Creative writing

Creative writing: memoir

5 Lessons

Rhetoric

Rhetoric: Introduction to rhetoric

3 Lessons

Rhetoric

Rhetoric: Injustice: Pankhurst & Sojourner Truth

4 Lessons

Rhetoric

Rhetoric: Change: Michelle Obama & Lennie James

5 Lessons

Rhetoric

Rhetoric: Motivate: Churchill & Gandhi

5 Lessons

Rhetoric

Rhetoric: Writing rhetoric

4 Lessons

Shakespearean Comedy - The Tempest

16 Lessons

Language Skills - Fiction - Reading

4 Lessons

Language Skills - Fiction - Writing

4 Lessons

Language Skills - Non-Fiction - Reading

8 Lessons

Language Skills - Non-Fiction - Writing

4 Lessons

Grammar for Writing

8 Lessons

The Short Story

8 Lessons

Gothic Literature

16 Lessons

Fiction: Reading and descriptive writing

25 Lessons

Non-Fiction texts and view point writing

20 Lessons

Jane Eyre

24 Lessons

Animal Farm

24 Lessons

Paragraphing non-fiction writing, including presenting a balanced argument

7 Lessons