KS3 & KS4 English curriculum

This unit uses and builds on pupils' understanding of structure from the unit 'Literary perspectives from the First World War'. In that unit, pupils started to notice and comment on writers' structural choices. In this unit, pupils become more conscious of structure, and start to make more complex observations about how writers use structure to manipulate readers. They start to use structure purposefully in their own writing for effect. This prepares them for the unit 'Science fiction writing', where they develop their literary analysis to focus on writers' language choices and their impact.

1. Developing reading skills by responding to Murakami's 'After Dark'
2. 'After Dark': selecting evidence to support language analysis
3. ‘After Dark’: exploring Murakami’s extended metaphor
4. Exploring structure in Murakami's ‘After Dark’
5. Emulating Murakami’s craft to write a descriptive opening
6. Analysing Saramago's use of structural devices in 'Blindness'
7. Emulating Saramago's use of structure in 'Blindness'
8. Using inversion and asyndeton to craft interesting sentence structures
9. Using onomatopoeia and alliteration to craft interesting sound imagery
10. ‘Suite Française’: forming opinions on fiction
11. Suite Française’: evaluating ideas about a writer’s craft
12. Exploring and emulating character description in Nemirovsky's 'Suite Française'
13. Analysing images of hope and destruction in Galloway's 'The Cellist of Sarajevo'
14. Exploring the use of time in Galloway's ‘The Cellist of Sarajevo’
15. 'The Cellist of Sarajevo': expressing a personal and critical response to a text
16. Exploring and emulating Galloway's use of symbols in ‘The Cellist of Sarajevo’
17. Structuring paragraphs effectively in creative writing
18. Crafting an engaging narrative