English

Y7 Curriculum

Y8 Curriculum

Y9 Curriculum

GCSE English Literature

English Literature Specification

Course overview

The English Literature course will test the following skills:

• Comprehension skills: how well can you infer information about plot, character, events and settings?
• Critical Reading: how well do you consider different ways of interpreting a text?
• Does the historical context of a text help you come to your own informed opinion?
• Analytical skills: how well can you analyse how writers use language, form and structure. Comparison skills: how well do you compare and contract texts that you have studied.

Course content

Over the course of year 10 and 11, you will study the following texts in full:

• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
• An Inspector Calls by J. B. Priestley
• Macbeth by William Shakespeare
• Conflict Anthology by Various Poets

GCSE English Language

English Language Specification

Course overview

The English Language course develops your reading and writing skills.

Course content

Your ability to retrieve information from a range of different texts:

• Your ability to comment on the overall structure of a text
• Your ability to analyse a writer’s use of language
• Your ability to compare the content of two different texts
• The overall structure of your writing; how well you can plan and paragraph
• Your ability to use different types of sentences
• The breadth of your vocabulary
• Your accuracy with spelling and grammar

Exam board and Exam Structure