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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.	Language Paper 2 Specimen Materials 2 Glastonbury/ Greenwich Fair
Key Knowledge	Inference and retrieval Language and effects Structure and effects Evaluation Descriptive writing Narrative writing	Life in 11^th C and Life in 16^th C Divine right of Kings Witchcraft in 16^th 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	Literature: Analytical writing	Paper 2: Writing to argue Writing to persuade