Scheme of Work

English, Year 9 (2022-2023)

Textbook: Cambridge Lower Secondary English Book 9

Author: Julia Burchell, Steve Eddy, Mike Gould, Naomi Hursthouse, Ian Kirby, Alexandra Melville, Emma Page and Richard Vardy

Term: 2, 2022/23 Teacher: Ms Kalaivani

Week Topic / Content Learning Outcomes Teaching & Learning activities Resources

Week 1 Chapter 3: Arguing Students will be able to:

4/1 – 6/1 (Presenting a point of view)  Reflect on and discuss an opinion piece  Identify explicit Student’s Book
and consider the author’s viewpoint information
Week 2 3.1 Enjoy reading  identify explicit information in a text and  Features of opinion PPT slides
3.2 What is opinion writing? analyse implicit information writing
9/1 – 13/1 3.3 Exploring how opinion Worksheets
 identify features of opinion writing  Analyse bias in a text
texts are organised across different extracts  Identify rhetorical
Week 3
3.4 Identifying main ideas, bias  consider how writers present their views devices
16/1 – 20/1 and viewpoint through language choices  Use of language
3.5 Analysing rhetorical  analyse bias in texts techniques
Week 4 techniques
 explore how bias affects meaning  Deliver an individual
3.6 Using rhetorical techniques
23/1 – 27/1  identify rhetorical devices and consider presentation
3.7 Presenting and responding
their effects on a reader  Commentary on
23/1-24/1 (CNY to an issue
 analyse a writer’s use of language opinion article
break) 3.8 Adapting grammar to
techniques
create effects
 analyse a writer’s use of sentences and
Week 5 3.9 Organising an argument
punctuation to support their purposes
within each paragraph
30/1 – 3/2  explore how language techniques are
3.10Writing your own opinion
chosen to impact a particular audience
piece
Week 6  plan, deliver and evaluate an individual
3.11Responding to an opinion
presentation effectively
6/2 – 10/2 article
 use adverbs to make your arguments
6/2 (Thaipusam) more powerful
 use normalisation and modal verbs to
Week 7 Literature: A Christmas Carol create a more authoritative tone
13/2 – 17/2  combine the persuasive and
argumentative writing skills learned in
Week 8 one text
 on an opinion article
20/2 – 24/2 Week 7 CA 1 Comprehension
(Term break)

Week 9 Chapter 4: Narrating Students will be able to:

27/2 – 3/3 (Surprising stories)  Respond to a narrative with unusual or  Structuring narrative Student’s book
original elements to it essay
Week 10 4.1 Enjoy reading  Analyse the ways writers structure  How to create PPT slides
4.2 Exploring how writers stories characters
6/3 – 10/3 structure stories to surprise Worksheets
 Analyse the style of one writer and say  Plan and present ideas
or interest readers what makes it memorable or surprising confidently
Week 11
4.3 Recognising an author’s  plan and present ideas confidently  Create distinctive
13/3 – 17/3 style voices
 use language, sentence structure and
4.4 Exploring how writers punctuation to reveal character and  Create variety and
Week 12 create original characters create distinctive voices impact in stories
4.5 Presenting original ideas
20/3 – 24/3  create and develop their own original  Create and develop
for a story
narrative own original narrative
Week 13 4.6 Revealing character in a
 write about the techniques an author
range of ways
uses to create an engaging and original
27/3 – 31/3 4.7 Organising time and ideas
story
in creative ways
Week 14  to evaluate and improve your own
4.8 Writing your own original
responses in the light of sample answers
narrative
3/4 – 6/4 4.9 Responding to an original
6/4 Last day of narrative
Term 2