Scheme of Work English, Year 9 (2022-2023)
Scheme of Work English, Year 9 (2022-2023)
Scheme of Work English, Year 9 (2022-2023)
Author: Julia Burchell, Steve Eddy, Mike Gould, Naomi Hursthouse, Ian Kirby, Alexandra Melville, Emma Page and Richard Vardy
Week Topic / Content Learning Outcomes Teaching & Learning activities Resources
4/1 – 6/1 (Presenting a point of view) Reflect on and discuss an opinion piece Identify explicit Student’s Book
and consider the author’s viewpoint information
Week 2 3.1 Enjoy reading identify explicit information in a text and Features of opinion PPT slides
3.2 What is opinion writing? analyse implicit information writing
9/1 – 13/1 3.3 Exploring how opinion Worksheets
identify features of opinion writing Analyse bias in a text
texts are organised across different extracts Identify rhetorical
Week 3
3.4 Identifying main ideas, bias consider how writers present their views devices
16/1 – 20/1 and viewpoint through language choices Use of language
3.5 Analysing rhetorical analyse bias in texts techniques
Week 4 techniques
explore how bias affects meaning Deliver an individual
3.6 Using rhetorical techniques
23/1 – 27/1 identify rhetorical devices and consider presentation
3.7 Presenting and responding
their effects on a reader Commentary on
23/1-24/1 (CNY to an issue
analyse a writer’s use of language opinion article
break) 3.8 Adapting grammar to
techniques
create effects
analyse a writer’s use of sentences and
Week 5 3.9 Organising an argument
punctuation to support their purposes
within each paragraph
30/1 – 3/2 explore how language techniques are
3.10Writing your own opinion
chosen to impact a particular audience
piece
Week 6 plan, deliver and evaluate an individual
3.11Responding to an opinion
presentation effectively
6/2 – 10/2 article
use adverbs to make your arguments
6/2 (Thaipusam) more powerful
use normalisation and modal verbs to
Week 7 Literature: A Christmas Carol create a more authoritative tone
13/2 – 17/2 combine the persuasive and
argumentative writing skills learned in
Week 8 one text
on an opinion article
20/2 – 24/2 Week 7 CA 1 Comprehension
(Term break)
27/2 – 3/3 (Surprising stories) Respond to a narrative with unusual or Structuring narrative Student’s book
original elements to it essay
Week 10 4.1 Enjoy reading Analyse the ways writers structure How to create PPT slides
4.2 Exploring how writers stories characters
6/3 – 10/3 structure stories to surprise Worksheets
Analyse the style of one writer and say Plan and present ideas
or interest readers what makes it memorable or surprising confidently
Week 11
4.3 Recognising an author’s plan and present ideas confidently Create distinctive
13/3 – 17/3 style voices
use language, sentence structure and
4.4 Exploring how writers punctuation to reveal character and Create variety and
Week 12 create original characters create distinctive voices impact in stories
4.5 Presenting original ideas
20/3 – 24/3 create and develop their own original Create and develop
for a story
narrative own original narrative
Week 13 4.6 Revealing character in a
write about the techniques an author
range of ways
uses to create an engaging and original
27/3 – 31/3 4.7 Organising time and ideas
story
in creative ways
Week 14 to evaluate and improve your own
4.8 Writing your own original
responses in the light of sample answers
narrative
3/4 – 6/4 4.9 Responding to an original
6/4 Last day of narrative
Term 2