English (Year 8)
                                          See Year 8s English ‘Schedule of Learning’ for the 2025/26 academic year
| Topic | Sub-topic | 
|---|---|
| Animal Farm | Context, ch.1&2 | 
| Animal Farm | Ch.3&4 | 
| Animal Farm | Ch.5&6 | 
| Animal Farm | Ch.7&8 | 
| Animal Farm | Ch.9&10 | 
| Animal Farm | Reflecting on the novel | 
| Exploring the Natural World | Intro to unit, texts 1, 2, writing to present a viewpoint | 
| Exploring the Natural World | Texts 3, 4 & 5, descriptive writing | 
| Exploring the Natural World | Texts 6, 7 & 8 , descriptive writing | 
| Exploring the Natural World | Texts 9 & 10, personal nature writing | 
| Exploring the Natural World | Texts 11 & 12, writing to present a viewpoint | 
| Women’s voices | The Role of Women, ‘Phenomenal Woman’, ‘I Coming Back’ | 
| Women’s voices | Still I Rise’ & extracts from ‘Goblin Market’ | 
| Women’s voices | Mirror’, ‘Praise Song for my Mother’, ‘Catrin’ | 
| Women’s voices | Women’s voices in war time: ‘There Will Be Soft Rains’, ‘Children in War Time’ and ‘Perhaps’ | 
| Women’s voices | Fiction extracts – Austen | 
| Women’s voices | Fiction extracts – Austen | 
| Dystopian Fiction | Conventions of the genre, ‘The War of the Worlds’, ‘1984’ & start ‘The Pedestrian’ | 
| Dystopian Fiction | Finish ‘The Pedestrian’, ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ and ‘Vox’ | 
| Dystopian Fiction | Oryx and Crake’, ‘The Hunger Games’ and ‘The Time Machine’ | 
| Dystopian Fiction | A Sound of Thunder’, ‘Never Let Me Go” and ‘Farenheit 451’ | 
| Dystopian Fiction | Consolidation | 
| The Empress | Intro to the context of the play, Act 1 Scenes 1-3 | 
| The Empress | Act 1 Scenes 4-8 | 
| The Empress | Act 1 Scenes 9-12 | 
| Y8 exams (English, Maths, Science, Languages, Humanities) | |
| The Empress | Act 1 Scenes 13-15 | 
| The Empress | Act 2 Scenes 1-4 | 
| The Empress | Act 2 Scenes 5-7 | 
| The Empress | Act 2 Scenes 8-12 | 
| The Empress | Act 2 Scenes 13-14 | 
| The Empress | Reflection and watching ‘Victoria and Abdul’ | 
What will you study?
1. Novel: Animal Farm – George Orwell
2. Non-Fiction Writing – Nature Writing
3. Poetry: Women’s Voices
4. Fiction extracts: Dystopian Fiction
5. Modern Drama
6. Independent Reading Scrapbook
7. Media Unit: Whale Rider
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