OVERVIEW – ENGLISH

‘CREATING, CONNECTING, COMMUNICATING’

 

Members of Department:

HOD: Mrs Ann O’Neill
KS3 Co-ordinator: Mrs Ann O’Neill

Miss Catherine Cumiskey

Ms SarahJane Fahy

Mrs Claire Ferguson

Mrs Mary Gavin

Mrs Karen McCann

Ms Deborah O’Kane

Ms Lisa Ryan

The aims of our department are to help students to:
• Communicate effectively in speech and writing
• Understand, select and use relevant information
• Understand and respond imaginatively and sensitively to what they hear, read and experience in a variety of media
• Appreciate and respond to all genres of literature in a way appropriate to the student’s development and the demands of the courses being followed
• Appreciate their cultural heritage
• Understand themselves and others and in doing so encourage respect and tolerance both in the school community and in society
• Experience enjoyment and a sense of personal achievement.

Key Stage 3
A wide range of literature (Poetry, Prose and Drama) is studied as well as non-literary and media texts. The emphasis is on engagement with reading, exploring the intentions of the writer and reactions of the reader. There are opportunities for individual and group work with displays and presentations.
Students also have an opportunity to visit our school library once a fortnight during English class.
Pupils have 5 periods of English per week.

 

Year 10 English
The suggested list of 19th Century authors for GCSE English Literature is below. Year 10 pupils are reminded to refer to this list, as reading some of their novels will be invaluable preparation for next year. Remember, “A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
Authors
Louisa May Alcott
Hans Christian Anderson
Jane Austen
Charlotte Bronte
Emily Bronte
Lewis Carroll
Charles Dickens
Arthur Conan Doyle
Alexandre Dumas
George Eliot
Thomas Hardy
Victor Hugo
James Joyce
Rudyard Kipling
C.S. Lewis
Edgar Allen Poe
Mary Shelley
Robert Louis Stevenson
Bram Stoker
Mark Twain
Oscar Wilde
Laura Ingalls Wilder