Curriculum Guide for Christmas Term

Letter Writing

• Friendly Letter/Formal letter eg. complaint, apology
• Verb Tenses
• Punctuation
• Parts of Speech(preposition, conjunction)
• vocabulary (prefix, suffix)

Report Writing

• newspaper
• the simple past tense
• fact vs. opinion
• paragraphing

*The syllabus is in the process of being changed, so this is as far as I can go with certainty.

The Novel- Sixty Five

• elements of the novel
• themes eg. family relationship, love, heroism etc.
• social context
• historical background/relevance
• character development (comparison and contrast)
• author's identity and his era

*This is for Term One