Year 7 English

Unit 1 Step into the unknown: fiction reading and creative writing Unit 2 'The Tempest' Unit 3 The Canterbury Tales: 'General Prologue' Unit 4 Sherlock Holmes: short stories Unit 5 'The Twisted Tree': fiction reading Unit 6 Telling Tales, Patience Agbabi Unit 7 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare (Introduction and Act 1) Unit 8 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare (Act 2) Unit 9 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare (Act 3) Unit 10 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare (Act 4&5) Unit 11 Contemporary Short Stories (1/2): The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin Unit 12 Contemporary Short Stories (2/2): Sweetness by Toni Morrison Unit 13 Introduction to poetry Unit 14 The sonnet through time: Introduction to the sonnet Unit 15 The sonnet through time: 'Sonnet 18', Shakespeare Unit 16 The sonnet through time: 'Death, be not proud', Donne Unit 17 The sonnet through time: 'If thou must love me', Barrett-Browning Unit 18 The sonnet through time: 'If we must die', Claude McKay Unit 20 Creative writing: short stories Unit 21 Creative writing: poetry Unit 24 Past simple tense, subordinate clauses, punctuating conjunctions and lists Unit 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. Unit 27 Paragraphing narratives for clarity, using possessive pronouns, using apostrophes accurately, structuring, writing and editing genre-specific narratives