Year 9 English: Full 48-Session Course
A complete 48-session Key Stage 3 Year 9 English course with eight sequenced units, 48 original SVG concept maps, substantial self-study teaching, public-domain and original texts, 960 explained lesson MCQs and a 64-question unseen final assessment.
📚 Course Curriculum
Week 1, Session 1. Unit 1: Critical Reading and Academic Discussion. Estimated study time: 70-90 minutes. Core focus: inference. !Session 1 concept map: literal meaning, …
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Week 1, Session 2. Unit 1: Critical Reading and Academic Discussion. Estimated study time: 70-90 minutes. Core focus: connotation. !Session 2 concept map: denotation, connotation, …
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Week 1, Session 3. Unit 1: Critical Reading and Academic Discussion. Estimated study time: 70-90 minutes. Core focus: imagery. !Session 3 concept map: imagery, personification, …
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Week 2, Session 1. Unit 1: Critical Reading and Academic Discussion. Estimated study time: 70-90 minutes. Core focus: narrative viewpoint. !Session 4 concept map: viewpoint, …
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Week 2, Session 2. Unit 1: Critical Reading and Academic Discussion. Estimated study time: 70-90 minutes. Core focus: structure. !Session 5 concept map: structure, pacing, …
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Week 2, Session 3. Unit 1: Critical Reading and Academic Discussion. Estimated study time: 70-90 minutes. Core focus: comparison. !Session 6 concept map: comparison, conceptual …
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Week 3, Session 1. Unit 2: Gothic Fiction and the Nineteenth Century. Estimated study time: 70-90 minutes. Core focus: Gothic convention. !Session 7 concept map: …
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Week 3, Session 2. Unit 2: Gothic Fiction and the Nineteenth Century. Estimated study time: 70-90 minutes. Core focus: setting. !Session 8 concept map: setting, …
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Week 3, Session 3. Unit 2: Gothic Fiction and the Nineteenth Century. Estimated study time: 70-90 minutes. Core focus: characterisation. !Session 9 concept map: characterisation, …
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Week 4, Session 1. Unit 2: Gothic Fiction and the Nineteenth Century. Estimated study time: 70-90 minutes. Core focus: duality. !Session 10 concept map: duality, …
Open trial session →Week 4, Session 2. Unit 2: Gothic Fiction and the Nineteenth Century. Estimated study time: 70-90 minutes. Core focus: narrative withholding. !Session 11 concept map: …
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Week 4, Session 3. Unit 2: Gothic Fiction and the Nineteenth Century. Estimated study time: 70-90 minutes. Core focus: comparative literary argument. !Session 12 concept …
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Week 5, Session 1. Unit 3: Shakespeare's Macbeth. Estimated study time: 70-90 minutes. Core focus: stagecraft. !Session 13 concept map: stagecraft, paradox, prophecy, equivocation. Learning …
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Week 5, Session 2. Unit 3: Shakespeare's Macbeth. Estimated study time: 70-90 minutes. Core focus: soliloquy. !Session 14 concept map: soliloquy, conditional clause, consequence, metaphor. …
Open trial session →Week 5, Session 3. Unit 3: Shakespeare's Macbeth. Estimated study time: 70-90 minutes. Core focus: rhetoric. !Session 15 concept map: rhetoric, imperative, antithesis, gender expectation. …
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Week 6, Session 1. Unit 3: Shakespeare's Macbeth. Estimated study time: 70-90 minutes. Core focus: motif. !Session 16 concept map: motif, hyperbole, guilt, stage sound. …
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Week 6, Session 2. Unit 3: Shakespeare's Macbeth. Estimated study time: 70-90 minutes. Core focus: dramatic irony. !Session 17 concept map: dramatic irony, kingship, tyranny, …
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Week 6, Session 3. Unit 3: Shakespeare's Macbeth. Estimated study time: 70-90 minutes. Core focus: tragic recognition. !Session 18 concept map: tragic recognition, nihilism, extended …
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Week 7, Session 1. Unit 4: Poetry Across Time and Place. Estimated study time: 70-90 minutes. Core focus: poetic speaker. !Session 19 concept map: speaker, …
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Week 7, Session 2. Unit 4: Poetry Across Time and Place. Estimated study time: 70-90 minutes. Core focus: anaphora. !Session 20 concept map: anaphora, parallelism, …
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Week 7, Session 3. Unit 4: Poetry Across Time and Place. Estimated study time: 70-90 minutes. Core focus: irony. !Session 21 concept map: irony, testimony, …
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Week 8, Session 1. Unit 4: Poetry Across Time and Place. Estimated study time: 70-90 minutes. Core focus: volta. !Session 22 concept map: volta, octave, …
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Week 8, Session 2. Unit 4: Poetry Across Time and Place. Estimated study time: 70-90 minutes. Core focus: extended syntactic pattern. !Session 23 concept map: …
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Week 8, Session 3. Unit 4: Poetry Across Time and Place. Estimated study time: 70-90 minutes. Core focus: comparative poetry analysis. !Session 24 concept map: …
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Week 9, Session 1. Unit 5: Non-fiction, Rhetoric and Media Literacy. Estimated study time: 70-90 minutes. Core focus: rhetorical appeal. !Session 25 concept map: ethos, …
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Week 9, Session 2. Unit 5: Non-fiction, Rhetoric and Media Literacy. Estimated study time: 70-90 minutes. Core focus: counterargument. !Session 26 concept map: claim, evidence, …
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Week 9, Session 3. Unit 5: Non-fiction, Rhetoric and Media Literacy. Estimated study time: 70-90 minutes. Core focus: verification. !Session 27 concept map: verification, bias, …
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Week 10, Session 1. Unit 5: Non-fiction, Rhetoric and Media Literacy. Estimated study time: 70-90 minutes. Core focus: framing. !Session 28 concept map: headline, framing, …
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Week 10, Session 2. Unit 5: Non-fiction, Rhetoric and Media Literacy. Estimated study time: 70-90 minutes. Core focus: persuasive speech. !Session 29 concept map: persuasive …
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Week 10, Session 3. Unit 5: Non-fiction, Rhetoric and Media Literacy. Estimated study time: 70-90 minutes. Core focus: rebuttal. !Session 30 concept map: rebuttal, straw …
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Week 11, Session 1. Unit 6: Creative Writing Craft. Estimated study time: 70-90 minutes. Core focus: narrative opening. !Session 31 concept map: narrative opening, hook, …
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Week 11, Session 2. Unit 6: Creative Writing Craft. Estimated study time: 70-90 minutes. Core focus: atmosphere. !Session 32 concept map: atmosphere, spatial movement, restricted …
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Week 11, Session 3. Unit 6: Creative Writing Craft. Estimated study time: 70-90 minutes. Core focus: indirect characterisation. !Session 33 concept map: indirect characterisation, close …
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Week 12, Session 1. Unit 6: Creative Writing Craft. Estimated study time: 70-90 minutes. Core focus: subtext. !Session 34 concept map: subtext, evasion, action beat, …
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Week 12, Session 2. Unit 6: Creative Writing Craft. Estimated study time: 70-90 minutes. Core focus: narrative tension. !Session 35 concept map: tension, stakes, revelation, …
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Week 12, Session 3. Unit 6: Creative Writing Craft. Estimated study time: 70-90 minutes. Core focus: revision. !Session 36 concept map: revision, editing, proofreading, feedback. …
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Week 13, Session 1. Unit 7: World Literature, Identity and Power. Estimated study time: 70-90 minutes. Core focus: autobiographical voice. !Session 37 concept map: autobiographical …
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Week 13, Session 2. Unit 7: World Literature, Identity and Power. Estimated study time: 70-90 minutes. Core focus: identity. !Session 38 concept map: identity, belonging, …
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Week 13, Session 3. Unit 7: World Literature, Identity and Power. Estimated study time: 70-90 minutes. Core focus: social critique. !Session 39 concept map: social …
Open trial session →Week 14, Session 1. Unit 7: World Literature, Identity and Power. Estimated study time: 70-90 minutes. Core focus: register. !Session 40 concept map: register, dialect, …
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Week 14, Session 2. Unit 7: World Literature, Identity and Power. Estimated study time: 70-90 minutes. Core focus: cross-context comparison. !Session 41 concept map: cross-context …
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Week 14, Session 3. Unit 7: World Literature, Identity and Power. Estimated study time: 70-90 minutes. Core focus: synthesis. !Session 42 concept map: synthesis, seminar, …
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Week 15, Session 1. Unit 8: Academic Mastery and Transition to KS4. Estimated study time: 70-90 minutes. Core focus: sentence control. !Session 43 concept map: …
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Week 15, Session 2. Unit 8: Academic Mastery and Transition to KS4. Estimated study time: 70-90 minutes. Core focus: morphological analysis. !Session 44 concept map: …
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Week 15, Session 3. Unit 8: Academic Mastery and Transition to KS4. Estimated study time: 70-90 minutes. Core focus: line of argument. !Session 45 concept …
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Week 16, Session 1. Unit 8: Academic Mastery and Transition to KS4. Estimated study time: 70-90 minutes. Core focus: source evaluation. !Session 46 concept map: …
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Week 16, Session 2. Unit 8: Academic Mastery and Transition to KS4. Estimated study time: 70-90 minutes. Core focus: oral defence. !Session 47 concept map: …
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Week 16, Session 3. Unit 8: Academic Mastery and Transition to KS4. Estimated study time: 70-90 minutes. Core focus: independent mastery. !Session 48 concept map: …
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Course Syllabus
Year 9 English syllabus
This 48-session course secures the full Key Stage 3 English entitlement through
eight connected units. Students read whole works and substantial extracts,
including nineteenth-century fiction, Shakespeare, English literary heritage,
seminal world literature, poetry, speeches, autobiography and contemporary
non-fiction. Reading, writing, grammar, vocabulary and spoken English are
integrated in every unit.
Sequence
- Critical Reading and Academic Discussion, Sessions 1-6
- Gothic Fiction and the Nineteenth Century, Sessions 7-12
- Shakespeare's Macbeth, Sessions 13-18
- Poetry Across Time and Place, Sessions 19-24
- Non-fiction, Rhetoric and Media Literacy, Sessions 25-30
- Creative Writing Craft, Sessions 31-36
- World Literature, Identity and Power, Sessions 37-42
- Academic Mastery and Transition to KS4, Sessions 43-48
Every session includes reading, explicit vocabulary, analytical or creative
writing, grammar for meaning, spoken English, retrieval practice and twenty
explained MCQs. The final assessment contains 64 unseen-text questions.
Course Outcomes
G1: Control sentence boundaries, clauses, punctuation, tense and agreement.
G2: Select grammar and vocabulary consciously to achieve particular effects.
G3: Use morphology, etymology and context to infer and apply unfamiliar vocabulary.
R1: Read challenging fiction, drama, poetry and non-fiction independently and with secure literal understanding.
R2: Make inferences and support them with precise, relevant textual evidence.
R3: Analyse how vocabulary, figurative language, grammar and structure create meaning and effect.
R4: Use knowledge of purpose, audience and context to support comprehension and evaluation.
R5: Analyse setting, plot, characterisation, poetic convention and stagecraft.
R6: Make critical comparisons within and across texts, allowing for alternative interpretations.
R7: Interpret drama as performance and evaluate how staging choices shape meaning.
R8: Evaluate claims, evidence, bias, source quality and the responsible use of information.
S1: Build on others' ideas in structured discussion and challenge viewpoints courteously.
S2: Give organised speeches and presentations using Standard English where the context requires it.
S3: Perform drama and poetry with deliberate role, tone, pace, volume, silence and movement.
S4: Participate in formal debate, summarising and rebutting arguments accurately.
S5: Answer questions about a presentation and defend choices with evidence.
W1: Plan, draft, edit and proofread with clear awareness of audience, purpose and form.
W2: Write sustained analytical essays with a coherent line of argument and integrated evidence.
W3: Write effective narratives with controlled viewpoint, setting, character and structure.
W4: Use literary and rhetorical devices deliberately rather than mechanically.
W5: Write well-structured arguments, speeches and formal letters using credible evidence.
W6: Summarise, synthesise and organise information accurately.
W7: Revise writing at sentence, paragraph and whole-text level to improve impact.
W8: Use source acknowledgement and citation practices appropriate to school research.
📝 Practice Questions
1024 interactive questions with instant feedback and explanations.
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