| Topic Title | | Selected poems from Songs of Ourselves Vol 1 | Selected poems from Songs of Ourselves Vol 1 | Unseen (Poetry) | Unseen (Prose) | Exam Practice & Revision |
| Key Skills and Content | | ● Reviewing poetic forms and elements | ● Identifying and analysing devices in context | ● Understanding the requirements of Unseen questions | ● Understanding the set prose texts | ● Practising exam techniques with past papers |
| ● Communicating first impressions | ● Connecting themes to personal experiences | ● Exploring the difference between surface and deeper meanings | ● Exploring deeper implications about characters | |
| ● Structuring arguments and using textual evidence | ● Understanding how language conveys emotion | ● Exploring how language creates effects | ● Analysing context | |
| ● Exploring the poem’s deeper implications | ● Developing comparative arguments | ● Examining the ways structure is used to shape meanings | ● Examining how writers appeal to the senses to create settings | |
| ● Examining how the poet uses language and form to create effects | ● Write an extended personal response to a selected poem | ● Exploring the effects of form in unseen texts | ● Exploring passages and relating them to the whole text | |
| ● Exploring how the poet uses structure to shape meanings | ● Assessing understanding of poetic elements | ● Evaluating the effectiveness of a response to an unseen text | ● Considering the ways the narrative is told | |
| ● Discussing on the use of persona in poetry | ● Paper 1 exam preparation (poetry) | ● Paper 4 exam preparation (unseen) | ● Exploring the portrayal of characters in prose | |
| ● Writing critically about poetry | | | ● Paper 4 exam preparation (Prose) | |
| ● Paper 1 exam preparation (poetry) | | | | |
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| Summative Assessment | | Teacher choice of assessment including practising exam-style passage-based essay questions | Teacher choice of assessment including practising exam-style passage-based essay questions | Teacher choice of assessment including practising exam-style passage-based essay questions | Teacher choice of assessment including practising exam-style passage-based essay questions | Teacher choice of assessment including practising exam-style passage-based essay questions |
