Year 7 English Overview

The key skills that students learn in English are speaking and listening, reading and writing. At BES, we recognise that these areas are interconnected and are taught as part of a complete course, which combines language and literature.

In Year 7, the aim is for all pupils to have a firm grasp of literary analysis and have cultivated a love of reading. They begin to think about the 'meaning' of texts and the skilful craft of writers, but are also encouraged to write creatively themselves.

Students study a range of texts, from Shakespeare to more modern books, such as Holes by Louis Sachar, which tells the story of an unlucky teenage boy who is sent to a juvenile detention centre in a desert in Texas, after being falsely accused of theft.

Topics include:

• Understanding different text types
• How to find information and identify characters
• Key grammatical features and terms
• Creative writing skills
• Shakespeare and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre
• Writing in different formats
• The spoken language
• Nineteenth-century poetry and literature prose such as Frankenstein

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