7 week SOW on BLM and Influential Americans

key Stage 3, Year 9 English SOW that has strong links to History.

A full half term scheme of work, fully resourced for each week with a detailed medium term plan outlining every lesson. Key vocabulary is outlined for the scheme. A skeleton powerpoint is also provided with 38 slides of basic guidance for teachers for the first week of learning. Each week has a different focus, with key skills worked on throughout the SOW. These skills are:

Reading:
Comparing texts, synthesising information, analysing writer’s techniques and message and evaluating texts

Writing:
Using discourse markers, using ambitious punctuation, using writer’s techniques, using the correct layout and writing engaging texts.

The scheme of work includes:

-an analysis of the language of media looking at cases of police brutality

-an exploration of how the civil rights movement started with transactional writing tasks linked to different moments within the Civil Right’s Movement, as well as source analysis

-An analysis and comparison of different influential figures - includes extracts of autobiographies, speeches and articles about MLK, Malcolm X, JFK and Emmett Till. Also has a great lesson on the FBI report around Emmett Till’s murder.

-Exploration of Civil Rights poetry (June Jordan, Nikki Giovanni and Margaret Walker

-Exploring presidential campaigns and how they are created. This looks at Barack Obama’s presidential campaign and speeches and compares them to different presidents

-The final two weeks give students the opportunity to create their own presidential campaign and to create a celebration of Black History Month. These weeks include lots of opportunity for written and spoken assessment, as well as collaborative projects.

Each week has a blue highlighted task that can be the assessment task, or a weekly checkpoint task.