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How to use the language of contrast and comparison
What a genre is
What character is
What setting is
What an adjective, metaphor, simile, pathetic fallacy and personification
How to comment on descriptive methods
What is a ‘typical’ Gothic text?
How to comment on words and sentences
What is a point of view/ perspective?
How to use the language of contrast and comparison
What is the ‘uncanny’
What is ‘the supernatural’
How has the supernatural been viewed historically
What is a séance and table turning
What are the features of a ghost story
Why were ghost stories popular at Christmas
What are the features of a ‘speech’: hyperbole, rule of three, emotive lang.
How to use ‘signposts’ to structure a coherent argument
How to use a counterargument
How to open and end a speech effectively
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What the following methods are: adjective, adverbs, verbs, metaphor, simile, pathetic fallacy, personification, simple, complex and compound sentences, opening, characterisation, setting and perspective.
How to comment upon the effects of methods.
How to use descriptive devices in their own writing.
How structural devices are used in narrative and dramatic texts: foreshadowing, flashbacks, flash forwards, signposts.
How to write about how structural features are used in a drama text.
How to evaluate the structural methods used by a writer.
How to know how to make links between the writer’s use of methods and their intention.
That a Utopia is an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect (Paradise, heaven).
That Dystopia means: A community or society that is undesirable or frightening.
The key features of Dystopian Fiction are: Most dystopian works present a world in which oppressive societal control and the illusion of a perfect society are maintained through one or more of the following types of controls: large corporations, bureaucracy, technology and religious/ ideological control.
That a dystopian protagonist:
- often feels trapped and is struggling to escape.
- questions the existing social and political systems.
- believes or feels that something is terribly wrong with the society in which he or she lives.
- helps the audience recognizes the negative aspects of the dystopian world through his or her perspective.
Character’s names and plots of extracts studied
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How to identify information from a text
What a fact and opinion are
What is a point of view/ perspective
That the ‘Shakespearean era’ refers to the end of the Elizabethan era and the start of the Stuart age’
What 19th Century issues are: poverty, crime, pollution, lack of rights for children
Dickens was a social reformer
How to use the language of contrast and comparison
What a ‘voice’ is
What a writer’s voice is
What rhyme, simile and metaphor are:
What Social Injustice is
What is ‘poverty’ its effects
What is ‘materialism’ and ‘capitalism’
What a hierarchy is
What feudal means
What life was like for poor ‘Shakespeareans’
How to evaluate using evidence
What poverty was like in Post War Britian
What is ‘poverty’ today?
To know key poetic terms are their effects: poem, rhyme, rhyme scheme, (form: sonnets, free verse), tone and voice, caesura and enjambment.
To know how to approach poems: opening lines, titles, sentence level and word level.
To know how to write about an unseen poem.
Who Chaucer is
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.
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