1. “All things are ready, if our mind be so”
Shakespeare: Henry V

2. English Literature Animal Farm Jekyll and Hyde Macbeth Conflict Poetry
Texts:
Animal Farm
Jekyll and Hyde
Macbeth
Conflict Poetry

3. English language

4. The context of English: KS4 Changes: Curriculum 2017
AO5: Communicate clearly, effectively and imaginatively, selecting and adapting tone, style and register for different forms, purposes and audiences. Organise information and ideas, using structural and grammatical features to support coherence and cohesion of texts
AO6: Candidates must use a range of vocabulary and sentence structures for clarity, purpose and effect, with accurate spelling and punctuation. (This requirement must constitute 20% of the marks for each specification as a whole.)
Key Points
Greater focus on unseen extracts across both language and literature.
Contextual knowledge essential to ‘unlocking’ extracts and constitutes 15% of English Literature marks.
Literacy capabilities and terminology rewarded in AO2 analysis and 50% of marks in English Language are given to:
2 GCSEs = 7.5 hours of exams
Literature= 4 texts as ‘closed book’

5. A spiral curriculum can be defined as a course of study in which students will see the same topics throughout their school career, with each encounter increasing in complexity and reinforcing previous learning.

6. Spaced assessments
Revising, rehearsing and shaping knowledge

7. Revised here
Formally assessed here

8. What might revision involve? What it shouldn’t involve
1.) Flash cards of quotations and context
2.) Lists
3.) Annotating extracts
4.) Self testing
5.) Making essay plans
6.) Writing answers
7.) Breaking up and varying topics
8.) Memory Palace with images
What it shouldn’t involve
1.) Re-reading notes
2.) Highlighting too much
3.) Staying with what you like
4.) Answering the same questions
5.) Reading the texts
6.) Just looking at websites
7.) Not writing
8.) Cramming

9. 1.) Basic narratives of the texts: re-reading, watching, understanding
What does this mean for learning behaviours outside of lessons?
English Literature:
1.) Basic narratives of the texts: re-reading, watching, understanding
2.) Learning and recall of quotations and contextual knowledge
3.) Mind-maps for connections between characters, themes and events
4.) Planning essays using question stems and 3 part structures: ‘How is X presented in Y?’; ‘Explore the theme of X.’
5.) Applying language analysis to passages from the texts

11. What does this mean for learning behaviours outside of lessons?
English Language: 1.) Learning and recall of language terminology 2.) Application of language analysis to any extract from fiction and non-fiction 3.) Developing a basic understanding of 19th, 20th and 21st century timelines of world events 4.) Spelling and punctuation revision and rehearsal 5.) Revision and rehearsal of descriptive, narrative and persuasive writing features