English syllabus, dot point by dot point

Aesthetic features and stylistic devices (voice, sentence shape, imagery, motif, rhythm, focalisation, dialogue) and their effect on the reader

The structure, conventions and language of an analytical response to a text, building the habits required for Year 12 IA2 and the EA

Identify and analyse the ways texts construct intended audiences and reading positions, including how readers can accept, negotiate or resist these positions

Analyse how the social, cultural and historical contexts of production and reception, and the purpose of a text, shape the construction of meaning in QCE Year 11 English texts

Cultural assumptions, attitudes, values and beliefs implicit in texts, and how these shape both the perspectives a text constructs and the way audiences engage with the text

Identify and analyse the conventions of literary, non-literary and multimodal genres, including how genre choices shape audience expectations and the construction of meaning in QCE Year 11 English texts

Construct imaginative responses (short fiction, monologue, poetry, multimodal text) that demonstrate control of voice, structure, language features and an explicit perspective

Analyse the use of language features (vocabulary, syntax, modality, cohesion, tense, person) and grammatical choices in QCE Year 11 English texts, and account for the effects of those choices on meaning

Perspectives in texts, including who is speaking, whose perspective is foregrounded or marginalised, and how perspectives shape representations of concepts, identities, times and places

Identify and analyse persuasive techniques (ethos, pathos, logos) and rhetorical strategies (repetition, parallelism, rhetorical question, anecdote, statistics) in QCE Year 11 English non-literary texts

Analyse and construct spoken and multimodal texts, understanding how voice, body language, image, sound and editing interact with language to construct meaning

Select and use textual evidence (direct quotation, paraphrase, reference) to support analytical claims about meaning, technique and effect in QCE Year 11 English texts

Construct an analytical essay in QCE Year 11 English with a clear thesis, body paragraphs that develop the argument through TEEL or PEEL structures, and a conclusion that synthesises rather than summarises

Analyse the construction of characters in literary texts, including how narrative perspective (first person, limited third, omniscient, free indirect) shapes the reader's access to characters

Practise close reading as a method of analysis, attending to word choice, syntax, image, and structure to construct interpretations of QCE Year 11 English texts

The structure, conventions and language of a comparative analytical response that brings two texts into dialogue, building habits for Year 12 IA1 and EA

Comparing texts from different periods, cultures or genres, and the concept of intertextuality (how texts speak to and through other texts)

Imaginative texts (creative writing in various modes and genres) and persuasive texts (texts arguing a position), and the craft choices that characterise each

Literary texts (novels, plays, poetry, short stories, screenplays) and their engagement with cultural context, including the relationship between the text's context of production and its context of reception

Analyse and construct voice in literary writing, including the distinctive vocabulary, syntax, rhythm and tonal qualities that mark a character or speaker as recognisable

Analyse the structural features of narrative texts (Freytag's pyramid, in medias res, framing devices, foreshadowing, pacing), and how structural choices shape reader experience

Identify and analyse the use of symbolism and motif in QCE Year 11 English literary texts, including conventional, cultural and contextual symbols

Analyse how literary texts engage with their historical and cultural contexts, including political events, social movements, and intellectual traditions

Identify and analyse the construction of theme in literary texts, distinguishing topic, idea, and theme, and showing how multiple textual elements work together to construct meaning

Analyse the aesthetic features and stylistic devices used in literary texts and how they shape meaning, perspective and representation

Establish, develop and sustain an analytical thesis across an extended response, supported by selection of textual evidence and effective sequencing of analysis

Establish, develop and sustain a persuasive thesis across an extended response, supported by selection of subject matter and effective sequencing of ideas

Apply a critical perspective to a literary text to analyse how cultural assumptions, perspectives and representations are constructed and conveyed

Analyse and evaluate the cultural assumptions, attitudes, values and beliefs that underpin texts and how these are conveyed

Use and analyse the patterns and conventions of genres, modes and mediums, and the textual features that suit particular purposes and audiences

Examine and analyse how perspectives of concepts, identities, times and places are constructed in literary and non-literary texts

Examine and analyse representations of concepts, identities, times and places in texts, including how representations are constructed and how attitudes, values and beliefs are conveyed

Examine and analyse the relationships between writer, text, audience, purpose and context, and how these relationships shape meaning

Build an arguable analytical thesis for the External Assessment, responding directly to the prompt and supported by a sequence of body paragraphs that develop and complicate the thesis

Sustain close engagement with the source text in a creative response, carrying across characters, settings, aesthetic features and concerns while shaping the transformation for purpose, audience and context

Read a literary text closely to identify how language, structure, voice and aesthetic features construct meaning, in preparation for the External Assessment analytical essay on a study text

Establish and sustain a controlling idea in a creative response, ensuring purpose, audience and context shape every selection of voice, structure, image and rhythm

Construct creative responses that transform, extend or re-imagine literary texts, applying the conventions of the imaginative genre while sustaining close engagement with the source text's concepts, characters, settings or aesthetic features

Manage the structure of an EA analytical essay (introduction, three body paragraphs, conclusion) and the 2-hour exam time so that every section is complete and the central thesis is developed across the essay

Integrate textual evidence (short embedded quotations) and precise metalanguage into the EA analytical essay, ensuring every quotation is followed by analysis that names a feature and argues its effect

Apply stylistic and aesthetic features (voice, sentence shape, imagery, motif, rhythm, focalisation, dialogue) to construct a creative response whose craft choices serve the controlling idea