Folder redrafts Week 13 Essay Skills and Assessment Preparation Developing understanding of ‘language levels’ and how to access Band 5 Assessment Find and bring own examples of travel blogs to lesson – annotated for linguistic devices and prepared to discuss Week 14 Analysing representations of the experience of Paris in the form of a blog Analysing generic factors in travel writing Read opening of Ernest Hemingway’s ‘A Movable Feast’ considering what features make it a piece of travel writing, making connections with anthology texts Week 15 Comparing memoirs and autobiographical writing Extract comparison presentations in preparation for practise assessment `Week 16 Engaging with assessment feedback and developing current weaknesses in extended writing tasks Redraft assessment essay Revise key terms for quiz Week 17 Exploring and analysing spoken language in crafted speech Research typography and bring findings to lesson Week 18 Understanding graphology and the anatomy of typography Compare how Paris has been represented in two extracts, focusing on the graphology and typography used Folder redrafts Week 19 Assessment Week Final assessment Read ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ and research stage reviews of the show
Week 9 Exploring Duffy’s presentation of identity (The Biographer; Small Female Skull) How does Duffy present identity in ‘The Biographer’ and one other poem of your choice? Week 10 Analysing speakers’ attitudes in Nostalgia and Litany Redraft based on assessment feedback Week 11 Student-led presentations about a poetry cluster of choice Student choice essay Week 12 Essay Skills How to structure a cohesive essay response Revise all poems studied in preparation for assessment Week 13 Language Levels Revision How to access Band 5 AO1 Read Duffy’s ‘The Suicide’ Folder redrafts Week 14 Assessment Week Beyond the set texts: The Suicide. Applying psychoanalytical theory Explore how Duffy presents a given idea/theme in one prescribed and one chosen poem AO1/AO2 Read Maragaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale Exam Unit: Dramatic Encounters Assessments Homework Week 1 Exploring the literary context surrounding the play and reading the opening scene Students to each take a contextual factor and create a handout to form class context handbook
List of suggested wider reading sources/videos and websites: The World’s Wife by Carol Ann Duffy Ariel and other selected poems by Sylva Plath 1984 by George Orwell Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Brave New World by Aldous Huxley The Power by Naomi Alderman Tender is the Night by F Scott Fitzgerald The Handmaid’s Tale TV series available on Amazon Prime The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction by P. H. Matthews A/AS Level English Language and Literature for AQA Student by Marcello Giovanelli The Waste Land by T S Eliot The Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger “Maigret and the Man on the Bench” by Georges Simenon (Highly atmospheric Parisian detective story) “A Movable Feast” (autobiographical travelogue, largely in Paris) by Ernest Hemingway La Bete Humaine (translated as “The Human Animal”) by Emile Zola “Wide Sargasso Sea” (prequel to “Jane Eyre”, classic example of literary recasting) by Jean Rhys A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess “Down and Out in Paris and London” by George Orwell (autobiographical, travelogue)