Year 10 English Transition

The English Department Claire Lockwood – Director of English Emma Lewis – Curriculum Leader, English James Cobb – Second in English (KS4) Shani Baker – Third in English Faculty (KS3) Carrie-Anne Jones – English Teacher Marissa Early – English Teacher Sara Price – English Teacher Nicola Phelan – English Teacher Eva Hazeltine-Rees – English Teacher Angela James – English Teacher Jo Hennessy – English Teacher Hafsa Mohammed – English Teacher Jo Goaman-Jones – English Teacher & NVQ Health & Social Rachel Newnes – English Teacher & LENCO

GCSE English Language and Literature (new from Sep 2015) English Literature Both exams are at the end of year 11 20% of the course is oracy (recorded) 10% individually researched presentation 10% interacting and responding (discussion) 80% is externally examined Unit 2 (40%) description, narration or exposition, including editing and proof-reading, and a choice of 2 writing tasks Unit 3 (40%) persuasion and argumentation and 2 pieces of writing Writing accuracy features as 50% of all writing tasks (sentence structure, punctuation, spelling and grammar) Unit 1 exam (35%) at the end of year 10 (22nd May 2017) Unit 2 exam (40%) at the end of year 11 Unit 3 (25%) controlled assessment 12.5% Shakespeare (already completed) 12.5% Poetry comparison (currently completing)

Assessment Every half-term students will be assessed so that we can track their progress and ensure that teaching is matched to their needs. The language papers have a wide range of question types that test a variety of reading skills and cover a range of text types, both continuous and non-continuous, fiction and non-fiction. Question types: multiple choice comparison inference deduction synthesis summary explanation sequencing

Outline of course Year 10 Learning & Teaching Focus Assessment Focus Autumn 1 (7 weeks) Welsh Poetry Anthology (2 weeks) Unseen Poetry (2 weeks) Read through of Of Mice and Men (2 weeks) Poetry Controlled Assessment (1 week) Mock Unit 1 Literature on extract and essay. Autumn 2 1930s America SoL (3 weeks) Specimen exam paper plus DIRT activity (2 weeks) Spring 1 Discrimination SoL (3 weeks) Progress and Change SoL (2 weeks) Specimen exam paper plus DIRT activity (2 weeks) Spring 2 (6 weeks) Attitudes to Women SoL (2 weeks) Unseen Poetry revision (2 weeks) Of Mice and Men revision (1 week) Responding and Interacting discussion (1 week preparation and assessment) Summer 1 (5 weeks) SSPS skills (1 week) Text Purposes and Accuracy SoL (2 weeks) Full mock Unit 1 Literature (1 week) External Examination Unit 1 Literature (22nd May 2017) Summer 2 Read though of An Inspector Calls (2 weeks) Individual Researched Presentation (2 weeks)

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