Key Stage 3, English, Unit Quizzes:
The Oral Tradition
Epic Poetry
The Canterbury Tales: 'General Prologue'
The Refugee Tales: 'Prologue', ed. Anna Pincus and David Herd
The Canterbury Tales: 'The Knight's Tale', Chaucer
Telling Tales, Patience Agbabi
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare (Introduction and Act 1)
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare (Act 2)
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare (Act 3)
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare (Act 4&5)
Contemporary Short Stories (1/2): The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin
Contemporary Short Stories (2/2): Sweetness by Toni Morrison
Introduction to poetry
The sonnet through time: Introduction to the sonnet
The sonnet through time: 'Sonnet 18', Shakespeare
The sonnet through time: 'Death, be not proud', Donne
The sonnet through time: 'If thou must love me', Barrett-Browning
The sonnet through time: 'If we must die', Claude McKay
The sonnet through time: 'The sonnet-ballad', Gwendolyn Brooks
Creative writing: short stories
Creative writing: poetry
Recapping the basics: simple sentences, statements, paragraphs, capital letters and past simple verbs
Complex sentences, avoiding fragments and run-ons, capital letters
Past simple tense, subordinate clauses, punctuating conjunctions and lists
Writing accurate, correctly punctuated and paragraphed dialogue, using personal pronouns
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.
Paragraphing narratives for clarity, using possessive pronouns, using apostrophes accurately, structuring, writing and editing genre-specific narratives
Introduction to Tragedy
Julius Caesar, Shakespeare, Act 1
Julius Caesar, Shakespeare, Act 2
Julius Caesar, Shakespeare, Act 3
Julius Caesar, Shakespeare, Act 4 and 5
Romantic poetry and paired texts: Introduction to the Romantics
Romantic poetry and paired texts: Romanticism and Nature
Romantic poetry and paired texts: Nature poetry
Romantic poetry and paired texts: Romanticism and Revolution
Romantic poetry and paired texts: Revolutionary and Protest poetry
Oliver Twist: Oliver and the Workhouse
Oliver Twist: Oliver Heads to London
Oliver Twist: Oliver is Caught
Oliver Twist: Oliver, Bill & The Maylies
Oliver Twist: Oliver and the Consequences
Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
Creative writing: memoir
Rhetoric: Introduction to rhetoric
Rhetoric: Injustice: Pankhurst & Sojourner Truth
Rhetoric: Change: Michelle Obama & Lennie James
Rhetoric: Motivate: Churchill & Gandhi
Rhetoric: Writing rhetoric
Shakespearean Comedy - The Tempest
Grammar for Writing
The Short Story
Gothic Literature
Fiction: Reading and descriptive writing
Non-Fiction texts and view point writing
Jane Eyre
Animal Farm