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| Topic Title | Noughts and Crosses | Noughts and Crosses | Noughts and Crosses / Much Ado About Nothing | Much Ado About Nothing | Much Ado About Nothing |
| Key Skills and Content | • Identifying and evaluating narrative viewpoint | • Investigating the turning points in the developing plot | N&C | • Constructing first impressions of the characters | • Identifying and analysing the use of banter |
| • Determining key points about social relations | • Identifying how a writer builds narrative tension | • Exploring how a writer’s choices affect a reader’s response | • Evaluating attitudes to love and marriage | • Exploring different perceptions of honour |
| • Analysing the novel’s major themes | • Evaluating how far a writer’s viewpoint is evident in a fictional text | • Recognising the nature of tragedy | • Understanding thematic elements | • Exploring the purpose of comic relief in tragedy |
| • Investigating the ways a writer draws on history to inform fictional events | • Analysing how a writer manipulates genre and plot | • Evaluating key character developments | • Investigating foil characters | • Evaluating the effectiveness of analytical paragraphs |
| • Develop judgements on writers and readers’ sympathies | • Establishing the dramatic potential of a court scene in fiction | • Recognising how a writer prompts readers to anticipate the ending of a novel | • Examining defiance of societal expectations | • Describing key conflicts |
| • Tracing how a writer uses characters to structure a plot | • Exploiting language for media reporting | • Using informative and persuasive language to promote a novel MAAN | • Exploring characterisation further | • Evaluating the end of the play based on conventions |
| | • Understanding the play’s social and historical context | • Analysing how music underscores the double standards in the play | |
| | • Examining the basic features of the main characters | • Analysing the use of allusions and extended metaphors | |
| | • Considering the symbolic elements of the setting | • Writing a letter to an agony aunt | |
| Summative Assessment | Teacher choice of assessment including writing extended analytical essays | Teacher choice of assessment including writing creative pieces | Teacher choice of assessment including writing extended analytical essays | Teacher choice of assessment including writing letters to an Agony aunt | Teacher choice of assessment including writing extended analytical essays |
| Year 9 Literature projects | 3D graffiti walls | Video news broadcasts | Character costume designs | Masquerade masks | Character reimaginings |
