Year 10
Mosslands School English Department
Year Ten Curriculum Map
Year Ten |
Autumn |
Spring |
Summer |
Text |
English Language Paper 1 Assessment Booklet |
Macbeth by William Shakespeare |
English Language Paper 2 Assessment Booklet |
End of Unit Assessment |
Language Paper 1 Specimen Materials 2 Brighton Rock |
(Literature Paper 1 2017)
Explore how Shakespeare presents ambition in Macbeth.
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Language Paper 2 Specimen Materials 2 Glastonbury/ Greenwich Fair
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Key Knowledge |
Inference and retrieval Language and effects Structure and effects Evaluation Descriptive writing Narrative writing |
Life in 11th C and Life in 16th C Divine right of Kings Witchcraft in 16th Century
Themes of supernatural, betrayal, kingship, bravery, loyalty.
Characterisation/ Plot |
Comprehension Summarising Language and effects Comparing texts Writing to argue and persuade |
Key Vocabulary |
Structure - Circular narrative, linear narrative, motif, contrast, repetition, flashback, foreshadowing, shift of perspective, chronological order. Language – simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, semantic field. |
Tragedy, soliloquy, aside, motif, hamartia, hubris, dramatic irony, iambic pentameter, tragic hero, protagonist, antagonist, foil, usurp, regicide, conscience, symbolism, foreshadowing. |
Fact and opinion, point of view, perspective, anecdote, analogy, indignant tone, assertion, emotive language, humour, satire, pun, facts, data, statistics, repetition, antithesis. |
Grammar and Writing |
Paper 1: Descriptive writing Narrative writing
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Literature: Analytical writing |
Paper 2: Writing to argue Writing to persuade
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