The Individual and Society

Poetry’s a
voice to talk with
and a language
for the voice to speak
in nearest words to net the dream
and hold it long enough to see.

Choosing The Individual and Society as your English programme for Year 7 will allow you a chance to expand on your personal voice. The London Nautical School draws students from all over London who represent an extraordinary range of ethnicities and cultures. In English this year you will be given a number of opportunities to show us who you are, and to learn more about the powerful relationships between language, literature and our society.

We’ll be reading and writing a wide range of self-expressive texts and poetry, all of which will expand our appreciation of the power our language affords to the individual. We will read Ender’s Game and Two Weeks with the Queen. We’ll explore society through the lense of poetry and learn how to write high quality literary analysis of creating our own. We’ll also delve into the notion of individual responsibility through the study of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s epic Rime of the Ancient Marriner. We’ll keep an acute focus on the grammar and accuracy of your formal and personal writing and learn how to speak with precision and use grammar for effect. We’ll watch short film and create our own. In parallel to this everyone will be completing for homework their own longitudinal reading inquiry into their own personal history.