Units: English

1. The Oral Tradition

History of English Literature and Language

2. Epic Poetry

History of English Literature and Language

3. The Canterbury Tales: 'General Prologue'

The Canterbury Tales and paired texts

4. The Refugee Tales: 'Prologue', ed. Anna Pincus and David Herd

The Canterbury Tales and paired texts

5. The Canterbury Tales: 'The Knight's Tale', Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales and paired texts

6. Telling Tales, Patience Agbabi

The Canterbury Tales and paired texts

7. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare (Introduction and Act 1)

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

8. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare (Act 2)

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

9. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare (Act 3)

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

10. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare (Act 4&5)

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

11. Contemporary Short Stories (1/2): The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin

Contemporary Short Stories (Love)

12. Contemporary Short Stories (2/2): Sweetness by Toni Morrison

Contemporary Short Stories (Love)

13. Introduction to poetry

14. The sonnet through time: Introduction to the sonnet

The sonnet through time

15. The sonnet through time: 'Sonnet 18', Shakespeare

The sonnet through time

16. The sonnet through time: 'Death, be not proud', Donne

The sonnet through time

17. The sonnet through time: 'If thou must love me', Barrett-Browning

The sonnet through time

18. The sonnet through time: 'If we must die', Claude McKay

The sonnet through time

19. The sonnet through time: 'The sonnet-ballad', Gwendolyn Brooks

The sonnet through time

20. Creative writing: short stories

Creative writing

21. Creative writing: poetry

Creative writing

22. Recapping the basics: simple sentences, statements, paragraphs, capital letters and past simple verbs

Grammar

23. Complex sentences, avoiding fragments and run-ons, capital letters

Grammar

24. Past simple tense, subordinate clauses, punctuating conjunctions and lists

Grammar

25. Writing accurate, correctly punctuated and paragraphed dialogue, using personal pronouns

Grammar

26. Avoiding fragments, fused sentences and comma splices. Using capital letters and writing in the past tense. Using multiple subordinate clauses, punctuating lists correctly when in a complex sentence.

Grammar

27. Paragraphing narratives for clarity, using possessive pronouns, using apostrophes accurately, structuring, writing and editing genre-specific narratives

Grammar

28. Introduction to Tragedy

29. Julius Caesar, Shakespeare, Act 1

Julius Caesar

30. Julius Caesar, Shakespeare, Act 2

Julius Caesar

31. Julius Caesar, Shakespeare, Act 3

Julius Caesar

32. Julius Caesar, Shakespeare, Act 4 and 5

Julius Caesar

33. Romantic poetry and paired texts: Introduction to the Romantics

Romantic poetry and paired texts

34. Romantic poetry and paired texts: Romanticism and Nature

Romantic poetry and paired texts

35. Romantic poetry and paired texts: Nature poetry

Romantic poetry and paired texts

36. Romantic poetry and paired texts: Romanticism and Revolution

Romantic poetry and paired texts

37. Romantic poetry and paired texts: Revolutionary and Protest poetry

Romantic poetry and paired texts

38. Oliver Twist: Oliver and the Workhouse

Oliver Twist

39. Oliver Twist: Oliver Heads to London

Oliver Twist

40. Oliver Twist: Oliver is Caught

Oliver Twist

41. Oliver Twist: Oliver, Bill & The Maylies

Oliver Twist

42. Oliver Twist: Oliver and the Consequences

Oliver Twist

43. Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid

44. Creative writing: memoir

Creative writing

45. Rhetoric: Introduction to rhetoric

Rhetoric

46. Rhetoric: Injustice: Pankhurst & Sojourner Truth

Rhetoric

47. Rhetoric: Change: Michelle Obama & Lennie James

Rhetoric

48. Rhetoric: Motivate: Churchill & Gandhi

Rhetoric

49. Rhetoric: Writing rhetoric

Rhetoric

50. Shakespearean Comedy - The Tempest

51. Language Skills - Fiction - Reading

52. Language Skills - Fiction - Writing

53. Language Skills - Non-Fiction - Reading

54. Language Skills - Non-Fiction - Writing

55. Grammar for Writing

56. The Short Story

57. Gothic Literature

58. Fiction: Reading and descriptive writing

59. Non-Fiction texts and view point writing

60. Jane Eyre

61. Animal Farm

62. Paragraphing non-fiction writing, including presenting a balanced argument