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Mastery Content English – What it looks like at secondary school at Oasis Don How often Valley Academy • • What – Literary Heritage and Grammar • Books we study • ERIC time • Knowledge Organiser • Our wider learning • Our faculty – me and Lotte

Lesson guide Do Now Print as a handout Activity: Picture round - Images of different characters from across the texts we cover in year 7. – Students to name as many of the characters as they can. 0 -5 Explanation and introduction Introduce staff Explain activity: Look, cover, write style - Students to listen to the information and then record the information on their handouts 10 -15 ‘Reading activities’: 1. Work through the six questions (speech bubbles) Resource – Speech bubble worksheet Extension activity Poem Read the poem Question students on how they feel about English Resource - poem Mastery assessment plenary Students share answers. Targeted questions to students. Follow LA/EAL/SEN/PP bench mark approach How do you want to capture understanding? Targeted questioning? Exit routine 15 -25 25 -30

How many of these characters and writers can you name? 5 3 1 8 9 7 2 4 5 11 10 0 -5 mins

English at secondary Oasis Don Valley Academy Hi! I’m Miss Towne. I’m the Head of English. Hi! I’m Miss Hemmen. I’m the Second in Department. Hi! I’m Miss Snape. I’m one of the new English teachers. 5 -10 mins Hi! I’m Ms Tolley. I’m one of the new English teachers.

English at OADV What will I learn in English in year 7? What support will I get with English? What will I read? How often will I have English? Will I read anything else? What wider learning will I do?

What I will learn in English lessons at secondary at Oasis Don Valley Academy? We split English into two parts. We do Literary Heritage lessons, Grammar lessons and GRIT lessons. • Literary Heritage – Reading of class texts – Character focus – New vocabulary • Grammar – Recapping of SATs grammar – New grammar rules – Creative writing • 10 -12 mins GRIT – – Guided Reflection Improvement Time Responding to teacher marking Knowledge quizzes Re-teaching of any sections that haven’t been fully mastered What will I learn in English in year 7?

Will I read anywhere else at the academy? Will I read anything else? You will have three ERIC advisory sessions a week with your advisory tutor. You will do literacy work with them. • Reading in advisory – You will have three advisory sessions to support your literacy as practise makes perfect! – Session 1 = Reading of class text – Session 2 = Vocabulary – Session 3 = Independent reading • Independent reading – Everyone should be reading every day as practise makes perfect! – We have a library that is stocked with books that you have chosen so you can read a book of your choice • 12 -14 mins Reading in other lessons – You will read aloud in all lessons – You will read extracts and books that are specific to each subject that you have because we love reading!

Texts you’ll be reading with us in year 7 at Oasis Don Valley Academy Year 7 English Literary Heritage texts Year 7 Advisory texts What will I read? 14 -16 mins

What support will I get with English at Oasis Don Valley Academy? • Support • • • – Everyone will get the opportunity to read aloud – Groups of students will be selected for one to one reading Knowledge Organiser Learning Labels Exit tickets • Knowledge quizzes – • You will complete a quiz every few weeks to check your comprehension of the class text you are reading in advisory Reading tests – – 16 -17 mins You will complete a grammar quiz every two weeks in your GRIT lessons to check your comprehension of the class text you are reading Vocabulary quizzes – • You will complete a knowledge quiz every two weeks in your GRIT lessons to check your comprehension of the class text you are reading Grammar quizzes – • What support will I get with English? At the start and end of the year, you will complete a reading test. Don’t worry, it’s not scary! These show what support and challenge you each need to help us help you to keep improving your reading

Knowledge Organiser Focus: Oliver Twist I should already know: • Life in modern day London • The form of a novel I will learn: Life in Victorian London; Victorian crime; the form of a novel; Bill Sikes, Fagin, the Artful Dodger, Oliver; morality • Key Words Word Definition Example villains A villain is a bad person in a story, who harms other people or breaks the law to get what they want. The villain plotted to take over the world. victims A person who has come to feel helpless and passive in the face of misfortune or ill-treatment. Oliver Twist was a victim. vulnerable If someone is vulnerable they are in a situation where they could be easily harmed. All her friends had left her and she didn’t know what to do. She felt so vulnerable. corrupt Someone is ‘corrupt’ if they use their power in a dishonest or illegal way in order to make life better for themselves. An English teacher says she would give a student a good grade if they gave her £ 20. 00. The English teacher is corrupt. naïve Someone is naïve if they don’t have experience of how complicated life can be and therefore trust people too much. The naïve mouse sniffed at the cat’s nose. orphan An orphan is a child whose parents are dead. Oliver Twist is an orphan. moral A moral is a message that is conveyed or a lesson to be learned from a story or event. The moral of Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist is to persevere in the face of adversity. Composing a topic sentence; the subject; subject / verb agreement; the past simple tense • This helpofin. Sherlock the future: • will Y 8 study Holmes • • Y 9 study of Jane Eyre GCSE English Literature Victorian novel study Greater Depth Challenge • • Vocabulary I should already know: • Character, author, chapter, page, blurb Grammar I should already know: • SATs age related grammar How might the reactions of modern readers be different to Victorian readers? Evaluate the importance of money in relation to how people are treated. Holes read. Reading in Y 8 Further Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone read this year Northern Lights The Vile Victorians (Non fiction)

Knowledge Organiser Focus: Key words ‘Oliver Twist’: Knowledge Organiser Plot breakdown morality – a code of right and wrong. People who try to be good can be called moral and Oliver is born in the workhouse. When he is people who do bad things can be called a bit older he is nominated to ask for more immoral. food because the boys are starving. vulnerable – in a situation in which you could be He is kicked out of the workhouse and easily harmed. People living on the streets are given away to the Sowerberry family to be vulnerable. an undertaker’s apprentice. He’s bullied brutal – very violent or cruel. by Noah, they fight and he is locked up. corrupt – a word used to describe a person who Oliver runs away to London, meets Dodger uses their power in a dishonest or illegal way in and is introduced to Fagin’s gang. order to make life better for themselves. Oliver is taken out with the gang and is villain – a ‘baddie’ who harms other people horrified to see Dodger steal a or breaks the law to get what they want. gentleman’s handkerchief. Oliver is malicious – meant to hurt or upset someone. wrongly arrested for theft. victim – someone who has been harmed, often The gentleman, Mr. Brownlow, takes pity on by other people. Oliver and takes him in. The gang plot to get him back in case he reveals information naïve – If someone is naïve if they don’t have experience of how complicated life can be and about them. therefore trust people too much. Oliver is abducted by the gang whilst society – the people who live in a certain area. running an errand for Mr. Brownlow. This could be a country, town or small group. Oliver is used by Sikes in a burglary. They workhouse – a place where people who fail and Sikes runs away. Oliver is left couldn’t support themselves were sent to live behind but the people who live there feel sorry for him and look after him. They are and work. called Fred and Rose Maylie. Background information When Bill and Fagin realise what has ‘Oliver Twist’ was written in 1837 -39. happened, they plot to catch Oliver again. It was written by Charles Dickens. Nancy overhears and visits Mr. Brownlow to In was published chapter by chapter in a warn him. Fagin tells Bill about Nancy’s betrayal and periodical (magazine). Bill murders her. Fagin is discovered and sent to prison and Bill dies trying to run away. Oliver discovers who his parents were and joins Mr. Brownlow and the Maylies to live happily ever after. Characters Oliver He is a ‘pale, thin’ orphan who is treated badly by almost everyone he meets. He tries his best to be a good person and experiences ‘horror and alarm’ whenever he sees crimes being committed. Mr. Bumble The man who runs the workhouse and gives Oliver his name. He is ‘a fat man’ who enjoys power and doesn’t care about the people beneath him. Noah Claypole A ‘malicious and ill-conditioned’ boy who bullies Oliver at the undertakers. He eventually runs away to London and joins the same gang as Oliver. Fagin An old man who runs the gang of pickpockets. He seems kind but his ‘villainous-looking and repulsive face’ reflects his selfish nature as he gets young boys to do his dirty work for him. Jack Dawkins (The Artful Dodger) A young boy who introduces Oliver to Fagin’s gang who has ‘all the airs and manners of a man’. He’s confident and cunning. Bill Sikes A ’rough man’ who has been a criminal for many years. He beats his dog viciously and brutally kills his girlfriend, Nancy Bill’s girlfriend who risks her life to help Oliver escape from the gang. She loves Bill even though he treats her abusively and she feels guilty about the life of crime she has led. Charles Dickens had to work in harsh conditions as a child when his father was sent to prison. Mr. Brownlow A wealthy older gentleman who takes Oliver in and Dickens wanted to criticise a new change to The looks after him. He believes in Oliver’s goodness Poor Law which happened in 1834 and created even when it looks like Oliver has stolen from him and more workhouses and show hard life was eventually finds out the truth about Oliver’s parents. for poor people.

Learning Labels 17 -19 mins Exit tickets

How many lessons will I have and who will teach me? Miss Towne Who will teach you? Miss Towne, Miss Hemmen, Miss Snape or Miss Tolley. How many lessons will I have? 5 lessons a week. Some of you may have 6 lessons a week. Miss Hemmen Miss Snape How often will I have English? 19 -22 mins Ms Tolley

Will we go on any trips or do anything else in English? What wider learning will I do? 22 -25 mins

This is one reason why we all love English so much. Why read?

What our students have said about English at Oasis Don Valley Academy. Where have you learnt the most this half term and why? I: English VTo – “[Miss]tells me what I need to improve on and I can use Knowledge Organizer to do it. ” Work is interesting and challenging R: “English always has extension in grammar and there achievement points. ” What topic have you found most interesting? S: “Oliver Twist. ” Teachers’ explanations are clear and easy to follow I: VTo: “If I don’t get the key words, she [Miss] explains them well and exactly what to do. ”

Knowledge check English at OADV What will I learn in English in year 7? What will I read? How often will I have English? What support will I get with English? 25 -30 mins Will I read anything else? What wider learning will I do?

5 1 3 steps to the end of lesson Tuck chairs in and wait to be dismissed by your teacher. Leave quietly and do not wait outside the door. Tidy away all resources and pile books at the end of your row. Any loose resources need to be glued in neatly or handed back in. Review your stickers. What have you achieved? How do you know? Tick off the success criteria you can show you have met.

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