Topic 2 Year 7 English
| English | |||
| Topic | Contemporary Giants - Part 1 | ||
| No of lessons | 11 | ||
| When is it happening | Half Term 2 Year 7 | ||
| What will students learn | Students will develop their knowledge and understanding of contemporary fiction by exploring a carefully curated selection of extracts from the works of modern seminal authors. Students will pair this exploration with learning about one award-winning author through a study of a whole novel from the author’s canon of work. Students will learn how to write a personal letter as well as developing their skills in narrative essay and simple expository essay writing. | ||
| Key Knowledge that students should know at the end of 'Topic' | This is the knowledge that students will meet for the first time in this topic | Extracts and biographical information from seminal authors including Anthony Horowitz, J. K. Rowling, Michael Morpurgo, Philip Pullman, Khaled Hosseini, and Terry Pratchett; biographical information of a chosen award-winning author; purpose, vocabulary choice, and characters in a novel written by the chosen award-winning author | |
| This is knowledge that students may have met before but will need to deepen their understanding |
Regular retrieval of the knowledge described above will be retrieved as well as: Pandora's Box The Three Sisters of Fate Myths |
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| Key Skills that students should be able to demonstrate at the end of 'Topic' | This is the skills that students will meet for the first time in this topic |
Students will focus on acquiring the following skills: Write like a short story writer. |
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| This is skills that students may have met before but will need to develop |
Students will concentrate on developing these core Year 7 skills: Making inferences; referring to evidence; purpose; vocabulary choice; characterisation; expressing own ideas. |
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| Key vocabulary that students should know and understand |
Seminal, Canon, Todorov, Equilibrium, Disruption Resolution, Blog |
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| The Big Question | Why is it important to study children's fiction? | ||
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Key questions that students should be able to answer at the end of the 'Topic' |
What is contemporary fiction? | ||
| Who is Anthony Horowitz and what does his children's fiction look like? | |||
| Who is Patrick Ness and what does his children's fiction look like? | |||
| Who is teacher's choice of author and what does their children's fiction look like? | |||
| Who is the author of our class novel? | |||
| What happens at the start of our class novel? | |||
| What happens in the middle of our class novel? | |||
| What happens at the end of our class novel? | |||