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ENGLISH AND MEDIA ENGLISH

YEAR 7 – SIXTH FORM
BRILLIANCE CURRICULUM
ART AND DESIGN

IDENTITY Cultivating a INFLUENCE BEYOND

healthy mind
Understanding Harnessing language
Linking concepts
who you are The power of words
The power of your mind How can I write
authoritatively?
How can I construct an How can I research
Exploring worlds Finding your voice original argument? literary texts?
Discovering new Creating infinite worlds
perspectives The power of creativity
The power of ideas
INSPIRATION IMAGINATION
What is my view of critical
How is complexity
stances on a text? of meaning achieved
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by a text?
How can I gain knowledge
and understanding of a How can I develop my
literary text? response to literary texts?
Why is the study of literary What tools does a writer How can I use
texts important? use to create meaning? language cogently?
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How can I deepen my How do poems connect
knowledge of texts? with each other?
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How can I develop mastery How can I use my How does a modern
of the skills I have acquired? voice influentially? novel teach us about
the world?
How does non-fiction What tools does a
communicate different playwright use to affect How can I use the written
How does a poet use cultures and perspectives? the audience? word influentially?
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What is the How can I use the
written word to
relationship between What is a film poem? How do poems or Where do the meanings create a new world?
poetry and the short stories create in Shakespeare’s plays
other arts? powerful meanings? come from?
How can we explore
Shakespeare’s work What was the world like How are stories told in
What is a poem? creatively? in Shakespeare’s time? other media? How does fiction
connect with culture?
How can I use fiction
What forms can to communicate
poetry take? my ideas and
How does a 21st How do drama, art and Why do we study How does an author use perspectives?
century audience music work together? Shakespeare? language powerfully?
engage with drama?
Where does a poem’s How does an author create How can I turn What forms can
meaning come from? a world with words? Shakespeare into film? fiction take?
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communicate ideas
How can I create a How can I speak and perspectives?
world with my words? persuasively?
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What is media
language? How can I write vividly? How is a poem made?
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How does How is information How did the English How can I speak
Shakespeare’s work conveyed? language develop? powerfully?
enchant us?

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