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Key Stage 3 · Year 9 - Mastery · Term 3
GCSE-bridging term. Conflict poetry anthology (Owen "Dulce et Decorum Est", Sassoon, Brian Patten, Carol Ann Duffy, Imtiaz Dharker, Armitage "Remains") in HT1. Modern play (*Blood Brothers* or *An Inspector Calls* extracts) in HT2. Students exit KS3 GCSE-ready.
Set text
Conflict poetry anthology + Russell *Blood Brothers* or Priestley *An Inspector Calls*
Big skill jump
Students compare two texts in a structured essay AND deliver an assessed formal presentation - both core GCSE skills.
End-of-half-term assessment
Comparative poetry essay: "Compare how two poets present conflict".
Week 2
Owen, "Dulce et Decorum Est"
Owen wrote from the Western Front (1917); the Latin tag ("It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country") is exposed as "the old Lie".
futilitypropagandatrauma
Week 3
Sassoon, "Suicide in the Trenches"
Sassoon's three quatrains move from a naive boy to his suicide to a direct indictment of "smug-faced crowds" who cheer soldiers home.
indictmentnaivecontrast
Week 4
Duffy, "War Photographer"
Duffy explores the photographer's ethical paralysis: documenting suffering for readers who flip past it. The poem itself is contained, ordered.
detachedethicalgaze
Week 5
Dharker, "Honour Killing"
Dharker reframes "conflict" as internal/cultural: a woman strips off religious, national, gendered identities to declare autonomy. Anaphora ("At last…") structures liberation.
identityautonomytransformation
Week 6
Armitage, "Remains"
Armitage uses a soldier's monologue (from "The Not Dead", 2008) to dramatise PTSD: the looter "bursts again through the doors of the bank" of memory.
traumaintrusionPTSD
Week 7
Anthology revision + HT1 assessment
HT1 assessment: 45-min comparative poetry essay "Compare how two poets present conflict". GCSE-style.
comparativemethodseffect
End-of-half-term assessment
Spoken language presentation (graded) + short analytical response on the modern play.
Week 8
An Inspector Calls Act 1
Priestley sets the play in 1912 (Titanic, complacent capitalism) but writes in 1945 (post-war socialism). Dramatic irony exposes Birling's "fact" claims.
capitalismcomplacencyhubris
Week 9
An Inspector Calls Act 2
Eva's story unfolds via each Birling. Sheila ("we really must stop these silly pretences") emerges as Priestley's generational hope.
responsibilitysolidarityconscience
Week 10
An Inspector Calls Act 3
The Inspector's final speech ("fire and blood and anguish") is a socialist prophecy. The final phone call cycles the moral lesson.
socialismallegorydidactic
Week 11
Spoken Language prep
Plan GCSE-style spoken language presentation: argue a position, build rhetorical structure, rehearse.
rhetoricaudienceregister
Week 12
Spoken Language assessment
Deliver GCSE-style spoken language presentation. Assessed on fluency, structure, range, Q&A response.
fluencyrhetoricanalytical
Week 13
An Inspector Calls full play + end-of-KS3 assessment
End-of-KS3 assessment: 45-min analytical response on Inspector Calls. Students are now GCSE-ready, with thesis-driven essay habits.
responsibilitysocialismallegory