KS3/4 World Lit and Creative Writing Complete Scheme of Work

Key Objectives and Outcomes:
• To be introduced to texts from around the world
• To consolidate analysis and evaluation skills and produce exam-style responses
• To develop creative writing skills

Overview:
A collection of extracts and shorts stories from Nigeria, Southern Africa, the Caribbean and South Asia, focused on the themes of love and relationships.

Texts:
Love and Society: Forbidden love

1. Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi (extract)
2. The Great Indian Tee and Snakes, Kritika Pandey (short story)
3. Country Lovers, Nadine Gordimer (short story)
4. Naleli, Bolu Babalola (short story)
5. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver (mid-term extract)

Love and Society: Parents and Children
6. The Strange Story of the World, Chigozie Obioma (short story)
7. War Horse, Michael Morpurgo (extract)
8. How The One-armed Sister Sweeps the house, Cherie Jones (extract)

Love and Society: Love and Migration
9. Small Island, Andrea Levy, adapted by Helen Edmundson (film, National Theatre production)

Short extracts from Nigeria
• The Girl with the Louding Voice, Abi Daré
• Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie
• My Sister the Serial Killer, Oyinkan Braithwaite
• An Orchestra of Minorities, Chigozie Obioma

Short extracts from South Asia
• The Glass Palace, Amitav Ghosh
• The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
• Moth Smoke, Mohsin Hamid

Key Assessments: Edexcel Language Paper 1:
• Evaluation Question (AO4)
• Imaginative writing (AO5 & AO6)