Armfield Academy – Department - English

Year 9 Curriculum Overview
 

CLASS:

To access your child’s English video lessons, click the link below depending on their class. This link will take them directly to Google Classroom / their weekly activities.

9X1

https://classroom.google.com/c/MTQ1MzY0MTY4NTg4

9X2

https://classroom.google.com/c/MTQ1MzY0MTY4NjEx

9X3

https://classroom.google.com/c/MTQ1MzY0MzYxNDgz

9X4

https://classroom.google.com/c/MTQ1MzY0MTY4NjQw

9Y1

https://classroom.google.com/c/MTQ1MzMyNDUyNDU0

9Y2

https://classroom.google.com/c/MTQ1MzM2NDE3MDA4

9Y3

https://classroom.google.com/c/MTQ1MzY0MTY4NTM1

 

Half Term 1

 

Date

Curriculum Overview
Focus: Non-fiction study Topic: Travel & Employment

Remote Learning

WEEK 1

02/09

Non-fiction recap / Introduction to travel writing genre / Orient Express research / Dictionary race vocabulary task / OE brochure language analysis / Spelling & vocabulary quiz

- Armfield Video Lessons: [See Google Classroom class links above]

- Skills Activities:

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/mastering-confused-words-6wtk4d/activities/2

- Recommended E-Book:
https://www.myon.co.uk/login/                      (search: ‘Peter Pan’)

WEEK 2

07/09

Developing vocabulary/ Capital letters / apostrophes / Fronted adverbials / Semi-colons / Travel article planning / Spelling & vocabulary quiz

- Armfield Video Lessons: [See Google Classroom class links above]

- Skills Activities:

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/grammar-for-writing-sentence-construction-cmukar/activities/1

- Recommended E-Book:
https://www.myon.co.uk/login/           (search: ‘Firestormers – Back Burn’)

WEEK 3

14/09

Travel review (‘Life on the Orient Express’ article task) / Employment skills ‘Life literacy - OE Job application form / Spelling & vocabulary quiz

- Armfield Video Lessons: [See Google Classroom class links above]

- Skills Activities:

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/grammar-for-writing-using-semicolons-to-link-main-clauses-c4uk8c

- Recommended E-Book:
https://www.myon.co.uk/login/                            (search: ‘Dracula’)

WEEK 4

21/09

Application letter / Speaking and listening task (job interview role play) / Persuasive techniques recap / Redrafting / Spelling & vocabulary quiz

- Armfield Video Lessons: [See Google Classroom class links above]

- Skills Activities:

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/embedding-skills-to-use-a-range-of-grammatical-structures-68t3cc

- Recommended E-Book:
https://www.myon.co.uk/login/                    (search: ‘Passage to Fortune’)

WEEK 5

28/09

Visit Blackpool webpage analysis / Bill Bryson’s Bradford (article comprehension) / ‘Holiday from Hell’ (satire writing task) Spelling & vocabulary quiz

- Armfield Video Lessons: [See Google Classroom class links above]

- Skills Activities:

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/rhetoric-and-clarity-of-expression-counter-arguments-6cw30c

- Recommended E-Book:
https://www.myon.co.uk/login/                (search: ‘Case of the Stolen Space Suit’)

WEEK 6

05/10

‘My Time in ___________’ travel journal planning / Assessment task: Travel article writing task / RRR reflection / Spelling & vocabulary quiz

- Armfield Video Lessons: [See Google Classroom class links above]

- Skills Activities:

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/refining-punctuation-in-creative-writing-6mu62t/activities/2

- Recommended E-Book:
https://www.myon.co.uk/login/            (search: ‘Awesome Jobs Involving Technology’)

WEEK 7

12/10

 

- Armfield Video Lessons: [See Google Classroom class links above]

- Skills Activities:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zphc9j6/revision/1

- Recommended E-Book:

Half Term 2

 

Date

Curriculum Overview
Focus: Literature Study Topic: Childhood

Remote Learning

WEEK 1

02/11

Introduction to literature timeline / Comparison of childhood [then and now] / The Renaissance context research / Ballad comprehension task (Babes in the Wood) Spelling & vocabulary quiz

- Armfield Video Lessons: [See Google Classroom class links above]

- Skills Activities:

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/independent-clauses-c8vkje/activities/2

- Recommended E-Book:
https://www.myon.co.uk/login/                    (search: ‘Smart Research Strategies’)

WEEK 2

09/11

Introduction to The Neoclassical era / Cloze activity / Prose study (A token for Children) / Describing a feral child task / Comma splicing activity / Spelling & vocabulary quiz

- Armfield Video Lessons:  [See Google Classroom class links above]

- Skills Activities:

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/subordinate-clauses-c5hkgd

- Recommended E-Book:
https://www.myon.co.uk/login/                              (search: ‘Portrait Vandal’)

WEEK 3

16/11

Introduction to the Romantic Movement / Video research (active reading task) / Poetry analysis (The Chimney Sweeper) / Spelling & vocabulary quiz

- Armfield Video Lessons: [See Google Classroom class links above]

- Skills Activities:

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/subordinate-conjunctions-although-unless-and-if-c9gk0d

- Recommended E-Book:
https://www.myon.co.uk/login/                   (search: ‘Humans and Other Life on Earth’)

WEEK 4

23/11

Introduction to the Victorian Times / Research notes / Prose analysis (Oliver Twist) / Non-fiction study (Lord Shaftsbury’s speech) / Writing task – Victorian short story or Anti-child labour article / Spelling & vocabulary quiz

- Armfield Video Lessons: [See Google Classroom class links above]

- Skills Activities:

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/subordinate-conjunctions-even-though-because-and-whenever-cdhkac

 

- Recommended E-Book:
https://www.myon.co.uk/login/                      (search: ‘The Songs of Stones River’)

WEEK 5

30/11

Introduction to the Modern Era / Class discussion – the arrival of modernism / Poetry study (‘If’ comprehension) / Spelling & vocabulary quiz

- Armfield Video Lessons: [See Google Classroom class links above]

- Skills Activities:

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/past-simple-tense-cmv6ar


- Recommended E-Book:
https://www.myon.co.uk/login/                                         (search: ‘Maps’)

WEEK 6

07/12

Introduction to Postmodernism / Non-fiction analysis (Greta Thunberg speech) / Comprehension task) Spelling & vocabulary quiz

- Armfield Video Lessons: [See Google Classroom class links above]

- Skills Activities:

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/subordinate-clauses-64w3ac

- Recommended E-Book:
https://www.myon.co.uk/login/                       (search: ‘Missing Museum Archives’)

WEEK 7

14/12

Assessment task: Literature essay ‘How has the presentation of childhood differed over the literary periods?’ / Feedback, self-reflection and pupil voice
Spelling & vocabulary quiz

- Armfield Video Lessons: [See Google Classroom class links above]

- Skills Activities:

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/singular-and-plural-subjects-6njkcc

- Recommended E-Book:
https://www.myon.co.uk/login/                       (search: ‘Looking Through the Glass’)

Half Term 3

 

Date

Topic: Skills

Remote Learning

WEEK 1

04/01

Subject-verb agreement / Sentence openers/variety / Subordinating conjunctions / Precise and appropriate vocabulary

- Armfield Video Lessons: [See Google Classroom class links above]

- Skills Activities:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zd4kwty

- Recommended E-Book:

WEEK 2

11/01

- Relative clauses/ parenthesis - Sentences for clarity, sequence and purpose - Word effects - Structuring description creatively

- Armfield Video Lessons: [See Google Classroom class links above]

- Skills Activities:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z8scf82

- Recommended E-Book:

 

Curriculum Overview
Focus: Non-fiction study Topic: Viewpoint Texts

Remote Learning

WEEK 3

18/01

Introduction to viewpoint texts / What is discursive writing? ‘Roadkill’ documentary notes / Article writing task / Spelling & vocabulary quiz

- Armfield Video Lessons: [See Google Classroom class links above]

- Skills Activities:
https://www.grammarbook.com/grammar_quiz/semicolons_and_colons_1.asp

- Recommended E-Book:

WEEK 4

25/01

Emotive language / The power of viewpoint texts / Influential language / Spelling & vocabulary quiz

- Armfield Video Lessons: [See Google Classroom class links above]

- Skills Activities:
https://www.grammarbook.com/grammar_quiz/adjectives_and_adverbs_1.asp

- Recommended E-Book:

WEEK 5

01/02

 

- Armfield Video Lessons: [See Google Classroom class links above] 

- Skills Activities:
https://www.grammarbook.com/grammar_quiz/subject_verb_agreement_1.asp

- Recommended E-Book:

WEEK 6

08/02

 

- Armfield Video Lessons: [See Google Classroom class links above]

- Skills Activities:
https://www.grammarbook.com/grammar_quiz/commas_1.asp

- Recommended E-Book:

WEEK 7

15/02

 

- Armfield Video Lessons: [See Google Classroom class links above]

- Skills Activities:
https://www.grammarbook.com/grammar_quiz/apostrophes_1.asp

- Recommended E-Book:

Half Term 4

 

Date

Curriculum Overview
Focus: Poetry Study Topic: Conflict Anthology

Remote Learning

WEEK 1

22/02

Spelling & vocabulary quiz

- Armfield Video Lessons:
- Skills Activities:
- Recommended E-Book:

WEEK 2

01/03

Spelling & vocabulary quiz

- Armfield Video Lessons:
- Skills Activities:
- Recommended E-Book:

WEEK 3

08/03

Spelling & vocabulary quiz

- Armfield Video Lessons:
- Skills Activities:
- Recommended E-Book:

WEEK 4

15/03
 

Spelling & vocabulary quiz

- Armfield Video Lessons:
- Skills Activities:
- Recommended E-Book:

WEEK 5

22/03

Spelling & vocabulary quiz

- Armfield Video Lessons:
- Skills Activities:
- Recommended E-Book:

WEEK 6

29/03

Assessment Task: How is war presented (comparison task) / RRR Feedback / Accelerated Reader STAR Test

- Armfield Video Lessons:
- Skills Activities:
- Recommended E-Book:

Half Term 5

 

Date

Curriculum Overview
Focus: Non-Fiction Study Topic: Perspective Writing

Remote Learning

WEEK 1

12/04

Spelling & vocabulary quiz

- Armfield Video Lessons:
- Skills Activities:
- Recommended E-Book:

WEEK 2

19/04

Spelling & vocabulary quiz

- Armfield Video Lessons:
- Skills Activities:
- Recommended E-Book:

WEEK 3

26/04

Spelling & vocabulary quiz

- Armfield Video Lessons:
- Skills Activities:
- Recommended E-Book:

WEEK 4

03/05

Spelling & vocabulary quiz

- Armfield Video Lessons:
- Skills Activities:
- Recommended E-Book:

WEEK 5

10/05

Spelling & vocabulary quiz

- Armfield Video Lessons:
- Skills Activities:
- Recommended E-Book:

WEEK 6

17/05

 

 

WEEK 7

24/05

 

 

Half Term 6

 

Date

Curriculum Overview
Focus: Shakespeare Study Topic: Romeo and Juliet

Remote Learning

WEEK 1

07/06

Spelling & vocabulary quiz

- Armfield Video Lessons:
- Skills Activities:
- Recommended E-Book:

WEEK 2

14/06

Spelling & vocabulary quiz

- Armfield Video Lessons:
- Skills Activities:
- Recommended E-Book:

WEEK 3

21/06

Spelling & vocabulary quiz

- Armfield Video Lessons:
- Skills Activities:
- Recommended E-Book:

WEEK 4

28/06

Spelling & vocabulary quiz

- Armfield Video Lessons:
- Skills Activities:
- Recommended E-Book:

WEEK 5

05/07

 

Spelling & vocabulary quiz

- Armfield Video Lessons:
- Skills Activities:
- Recommended E-Book:

WEEK 6

12/07

 

Spelling & vocabulary quiz

- Armfield Video Lessons:
- Skills Activities:
- Recommended E-Book:

WEEK 1

07/06

 Book review / Assessment Feedback, self-reflection & pupil voice / Accelerated Reader STAR Test

- Armfield Video Lessons:
- Skills Activities:
- Recommended E-Book: