English S1 Course Plan 18/19
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Curriculum Area:
Reading
Activity
- Text Study
- Understanding writer’s technique(19)
- Characterisation/theme/using quotations
- understanding technical skills(12)
- Personal Reading Programme(11)
- Close Reading(17)
- Inferences/own words/summarising/quoting
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Curriculum Area:
Writing
Curriculum for Excellence ‘Benchmark’
Personal Reflective(30)-autobiography-paragraphing/sentence construction/word choice/engaging the reader/presentation and layout/proofreading
Activity
- Developing a writing style(20)
- Spelling/Technical skills(21,23)
- Presentation(24)
- Purpose(26)
- Audience(27)
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Curriculum Area:
Listening and Talking
Activity
- Talking to Learn- group discussion(2)
- Active listening(4), including everyone/effective questioning/challenging/supporting/clarifying
- Expanding/adopting roles/keeping on task/
- Talking respectfully
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Curriculum Area:
Term 2 - Reading
Activity
- Text Study
- Understanding Writer’s technique, understanding technical skills(12)
- Critical Essay(19)
- Personal Reading Skills(11)
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Curriculum Area:
Term 2 - Media
Activity
- Technical codes- mise-en-scene, camera, lighting, costume, colour, sound, music(4,7,8)
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Curriculum Area:
Term 2 - Writing
Activity
- Imaginative Writing(31),developing a writing style(20)
- Paragraphing/sentence construction/word choice/engaging the reader/proofreading
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Curriculum Area:
Term 3 - Reading
Activity
- Text Study
- Personal Reading Programme(11)
- Close Reading non-fiction 11-14(17),understanding point of view(18)
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Curriculum Area:
Writing
Curriculum for Excellence ‘Benchmark’
- Functional Writing skills
Activity
- Effective selection(13) reading/use of research(14,15),distilling information(16)presentation(24)
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Curriculum Area:
Listening and Talking
Activity
- Solo Talk-presentation skills-skilful communication(10)
- Researching and editing content/eye-contact/pace/tone/use of power point/visual aids/rhetorical questions/use of humour/word choice/engaging the listener/effective conclusions
- Talking for a purpose(9)understanding/using register(3)
