Time Allocation: Students study English for four 1 hour lessons a week throughout Key Stage 4.
Exam Board: Edexcel
GCSE English Language |
Fiction and Imaginative Writing |
Section A – Reading: questions on an unseen 19th Century novel. |
20% |
Section B – Writing: a choice of two writing tasks. The tasks are linked by a theme to the reading extract. |
20% |
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Non-fiction and Transactional Writing |
Section A – Reading: questions on two thematically linked, unseen non-fiction extracts. |
30% |
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Section B – Writing: a choice of two writing tasks. The tasks are linked by a theme to the reading extracts. |
30% |
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GCSE English Literature |
Shakespeare and Post-1914 Literature |
Section A – Shakespeare: a two-part question, with the first task focused on an extract of approximately 30 lines. The second task is focused on how a theme reflected in the extract is explored elsewhere in the play. |
50% |
Section B – Post-1914 British play or novel: ONE essay question. |
50% |
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19th-century Novel and Poetry since 1789 |
Section A – 19th-century novel: a two part question, with the first part focussed on an extract of approximately 400 words. The second part is an essay question exploring the whole text. |
50% |
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Section B – Part 1: ONE question comparing a named poem from the Pearson Poetry Anthology collection to another poem from that collection. The named poem will be shown in the question paper. Part 2: ONE question comparing two unseen contemporary poems. |
50%
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Schedule of teaching:
10 |
Autumn 1 |
19th Century non-fiction reading and creative writing |
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Autumn 2 |
British play or novel |
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Spring 1 |
Poetry |
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Spring 2 |
Shakespeare |
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Summer 1 |
Non-fiction reading |
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Summer 2 |
Non-fiction writing |
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11 |
Autumn 1 |
19th Century novel |
(including practice for English Language Fiction and Imaginative Writing) |
Autumn 2 |
Non-fiction reading and writing |
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Spring 1 |
Shakespeare revision |
Poetry revision |
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Spring 2 |
British play or novel revision |
Poetry revision |
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Summer 1 |
General revision |
For more information, contact Ms Ennis.