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KS3 · Year 9 - Mastery · Term 1 - Autumn · Week 12
Pages: Whole novella; assessment-focused revisiting
Lesson 1
What students do
Question-deconstruction drills on past sample questions.
Task
Annotate 5 questions for focus, command word, conceptual angle.
Success criteria
Identifies question type and conceptual angle in under 2 minutes.
Lesson 2
What students do
Peer-mark Week 11 practice essays using a Y9 mastery-band rubric.
Task
Identify one strength and one precise improvement per essay.
Success criteria
Peer feedback is specific, actionable, criteria-anchored.
Lesson 3
What students do
Teacher live-models a 3-paragraph essay opening with metacognitive commentary.
Task
Annotate the model for the moves that earn top-band marks.
Success criteria
Identifies 5 transferable moves from the model.
Lesson 4
What students do
Rewrite weakest paragraph from Week 11 essay using model strategies.
Task
Rewrite with explicit application of 3 modelled moves.
Success criteria
Rewrite demonstrably stronger than original; moves identified.
Lesson 5
What students do
Write a strong opening (intro + first body paragraph) in 15 mins.
Task
How does Stevenson use Hyde to represent Victorian fears?
Success criteria
Opening shows thesis, conceptual framing, embedded evidence.
AI marking - try this with the English Hub feedback engine
Students can submit their independent paragraph to the AI feedback engine for AO-aligned commentary. Their teacher sees the same feedback alongside their own marking. The task is auto-loaded into the practice surface - students just write and submit.
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