JSS3 SCHEME OF WORK FOR 2024/2025 ACADEMIC SESSION

 

JSS 3 SCHEME OF WORK FOR 2024/2025 ACADEMIC SESSION

WEEK	TOPIC	SUB-TOPIC
1.	a. Revision b. Grammar c. Reading Comprehension d. Composition   e. Literature-in-English   f. Words for the week	v Revision of last term’s examination questions v Revision of parts of speech v Read a selected passage and skim for main points. v Informal letter. A letter to my best friend on my plans for this academic session v Introduction to fiction and non-fiction   v Atheist, difference, twelfth, pronunciation, perseverance, dilemma, site, recommend, colonel, controversy.
2.	a. Speech work:   b. Grammar   c. Reading Comprehension d. Composition e. Literature: Poetry Analysis f. Prose g. Words for the week	v The Schwa /ꝺ/ sound: about, puncture, porous, police.   v Expressing/describing emotions e.g lash out, calm down, choke up, bottle up, bell off     v Read a selected passage and scan for specific information   v Writing to a pen-pal     v Selected poem from BECE pack. Theme, rhyme, style, poetic devices in the poem v Selected Prose text   v Forfeit, ghastly, genuine, inflammation, interrupt, khaki, lambaste, questionnaire, hierarchy, grammar.
3.	a.  Speech Work   b. Grammar c. Reading Comprehension D. Composition E.Literature F.Literature g. Words for the week	v Stress and intonation v Adverbs of frequency- often, always, occasionally, daily, rarely. v A selected passage from NECO/BECE pack. v Write a story on “ All that glitters are not gold”. v BECE prose text v Characterization, Theme, plot in the prose text. v Consensus, mischievous, misspell, pastime, soliloquy, fascinate, auxiliary, inoculate, hierarchy, fiery.
4.	a.  Speech Work   b. Grammar   c. Reading Comprehension   d. Composition   E.Literature   F.Literature    G.Words for the week	v Contrast consonants /3/ and /d3/ (leisure/ledger,garage/large). v Changing positive statements to negative statements using not, never, nothing, none, no one or verbs- isn’t, can’t, won’t, etc. v Read a selected passage, practise skimmimg, scanning and normal rate reading. v Expository essay-How to care for a motor vehicle. v Comprehensive study of the prose text “The clock” by Ngozi Chima -Uzosike. v Introduction to rhymes, types of rhyme scheme. The mirror by Obinna Augus Chukwuka. v Playwright, schedule, superintendent, forty, twelfth, tyranny, continuum, corps, paradigm, separate, assessment.
5.	a. Speech Work   b. Grammar   C. Reading Comprehension   D. Composition E. Drama Text: F. Literature   G. Words for the Week	v Consonant Contrast /ꝺ/ and /o/ (bathe/both, loathe/mouth v Direct and Indirect forms of modal verbs (may-might, can-could, shall-should, etc.) v Reading to differentiate between facts and opinions. v Distinguish between the features of formal letters and informal letters. v The Thinking Head by Akeem Ajibade v Differentiate types of rhyme schemes ABAB, AABBCC, ABBA, ABCD. v Possession, camouflage, carribbean, committed, omission, pastime, conceive, occasionally, secede, apologize.
6.	a. Speech Work   b. Grammar     c. Reading Comprehension   d. Composition e. Literature f. Literature   g. Words for the week	v Contrast vowel /c/ and /c:/   v Adverbs and adverbials expressing willingness and unwillingness using modals-verbs+ adverbial (will, won’t, would, wouldn’t). v Reading to make inferences from a given passage.   v A semi-formal letter. Write a letter to your class teacher stating why you were absent from school. v Recommended Drama text. v Elements of drama- characterization, dialogue, plot, setting, diction. v Maintenance, february, grateful, grateful, argument, knickers, hierarchy, indispensable, disastrous, drunkenness, vicious.
7.	Mid- Term	v Open Day
8.	a. Speech Work   b. Grammar c. Reading Comprehension D. Composition E. Literature F. Literature     g. Words for the week	v Contrast consonants /s/, /s/, /ts/ (ceiling, short, machine, cheque) v Adverbs of place and adverbs of manner. v A selected NECO passage v Debate- Corruption is worse than Armed Robbery. v Poetry analysis: A selected poem from NECO past questions. v Identification of costumes and pros in a drama text. v Phlegm, foreign, assassination, committee, truly, pamphlet, liaise, pneumonia, triumph, genuine.
9.	a. Speech Work   b. Structure c. Listening Comprehension d. Vocabulary Development e. Words for the Week	v Contrasting consonants /s/ and /ts/ (sheep/chip, fish/pitch) v Prepositions, uses, examples. v Listening to lectures and taking notes. v Words associated with law and order v Cupidity, mundane, cadence, censure, partisan, petulance, licentious, fastidious, forbearance, linchpin.
10.	a. Structure b. Summary c. Oral   d. Vocabulary Development e. Words for the week	v Sentence, types, features v Read a summary passage and answer the summary questions. v Exercise on Argumentative or Expository Essay v Differences between British and American Spellings v Meddlesome, mediaeval, acquaintance, cabal, saboteur, infuriate, ingenuous, insolent, loophole, overweening.
11.	a. Oral: Reading Comprehension b. Structure c. Composition d. Words for the week	v Reading to take note of main points. v Adjuncts: Forms or types, functions v Review of letter writing v Usurp, transmute, timorous, non-descript, malevolent, iridescent, cultivate, corrosive, coup, arable.
12.	Revision	v Revision
13.	Examination	v Examination
14.	Examination	v Examination