Reading In English
Y7 English Curriculum: full list of texts studied
Novels:
The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman (Form reader)
The Invisible Boy, Alyssa Hollingworth (Form reader)
The Good Thieves, Katherine Rundell
Play:
Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
Poetry:
Still I Rise, Maya Angelou
About His Person, Simon Armitage
Kid, Simon Armitage
Infant Joy, William Blake
Infant Sorrow, William Blake
Miller’s End, Charles Causeley
The Witch, Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
Tich Miller, Wendy Cope
Maggie and Milly and Molly and May, e e cummings
Mama Dot, Fred D’Aguiar
Dry August Burned, Walter De la Mare
Hope is the Thing With Feathers, Emily Dickinson
In Mrs Tilscher’s Class, Carol Ann Duffy
Fifth Grade Autobiography, Rita Dove
The Hill We Climb, Amanda Gorman
Baby Shoes, Ernest Hemmingway
A Night at a Cottage, Richard Hughes
Friends, Elizabeth Jennings
About Friends, Brian Jones
The Choosing, Liz Lochhead
In Flanders Fields, John McCrae
We Shall Keep the Faith, Moina Michael
Autobiography in Five Chapters , Portia Nelson
A Friend, Brian Olley
Everyone, Theodore Roethke
The Apple Raid, Vernon Scannell.
Sonnet 130, William Shakespeare
The Seven Ages of Man, William Shakespeare
Fifteen, William Stafford
Traveling Through the Dark, William Stafford
The Charge of the Light Brigade, Alfred Tennyson
This is Just to Say, William Carlos Williams
A Girl Named Jack, Jacqueline Woodson
Lyrics:
Blackbird, Lennon & McCartney
Eleanor Rigby, Lennon & McCartney
She’s leaving Home, Lennon & McCartney
In My Life, Lennon & McCartney
Penny Lane, Lennon & McCartney
Strawberry Fields Forever, Lennon & McCartney
Coat of Many Colors, Dolly Parton
Fiction Extracts:
The Hitch-hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
I, Ada, Julia Grey
1984, George Orwell
Short Stories:
The Built-up Sole, David Almond
The Flying Machine, Ray Bradbury
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Ambrose Bierce
The Guilty, Al Feldstein and Wallace Wood
Tickits, Paul Milenski
Spit Nolan, Bill Naughton
Rain Before Rainbows, Smriti Prasadam-Halls
Paula Brown’s New Snowsuit, Sylvia Plath
Job, Roger Robinson
Sredni Vashtar, Saki
The Open Window, Saki
When the Wasps Drowned, Clare Wigfall
The Myth of Pandora
The Bridge
Non-fiction:
The Day I Realised My Mum Was White, Akala
Commencement Speech, Chadwick Boseman
Extract from Stranger Thank Kindness, Nick Cave
Extracts from Boy Tales of Childhood, Roald Dahl:
A Drive in the Motorcar
A Visit to the Doctor
The Elephant, Geprge Orwell
Street Trash, Tony Parsons
Songteller, Dolly Parton
A letter to my younger self, Marcus Rashford
Spaghetti Bolognese from Toast, Nigel Slater
Letter about Child Prisoners, Oscar Wilde
Extract from I am Malala, Malala Yousafzai
Y8 English Curriculum: full list of texts studied
Novel:
A Monster Calls, Patrick Ness
Play:
Much Ado About Nothing, William Shakespeare
Poetry & Lyrics:
The Lamb, William Blake
The Tyger, William Blake
A Poison Tree, William Blake
Devil Inside Me, Frank Carter
Blessing, Imtiaz Dharker
Night of the Scorpion, Nissim Ezekiel
Hawk Roosting, Ted Hughes
Rain, Rain, Rain, Anoop Lokkur
The Sea, James Reeves
Evening, Percy Bysshe Shelley
A Winter Bluejay, Sara Teasdale
Daffodils, William Wordsworth
Fiction Extracts:
The Woman in Black, Susan Hill
The Little Stranger, Sarah Waters
Short Stories:
The Boy Who Cried Wolf, Anonymous
At Chrighton Abbey, Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The Signalman, Charles Dickens
Not Now Bernard, David McKee
If Only It Were True, Mark Levy
The Tell Tale Heart, Edgar Allan Poe
Here and Beyond, Edith Wharton
Non-fiction:
Britain's ancient yews: mystical, magnificent – and unprotected, Patrick Barkham
How to write a modern ghost story, Joanna Briscoe
Hillsborough Justice, speeches by Andy Burnham
The Redhand Files: Letter to Cynthia, Nick Cave
Speech, Rosie Cooper
Gothic Motifs, The British Library
The Role of ghosts in our mind, Sigmund Freud
Remarks At The Individuals With Disabilities Education Act Bill Signing Ceremony, Judith E. Heumann
Find Your Strengths, Jonathan Mooney
Speech by Bernie Sanders
Dear England, Gareth Southgate
The Disenchantment of the World, Max Weber
Speech about George Floyd, Brooke Williams
Yew Trees Helping to Fight Cancer, from The National Trust website
Media:
A selection of print and media adverts for a range of household products
Y9 English Curriculum: full list of texts studied
Drama:
Blood Brothers, Willy Russell
Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare
Novel:
Thief, Malorie Blackman
Poetry:
In Flanders Fields, John McCrae
Disabled, Wilfred Owen
Dulce et Decorum Est, Wilfred Owen
The Send-Off, Wilfred Owen
Who’s for the Game? Jessie Pope
The Falling Leaves, Margaret Postgate Cole
Suicide in the Trenches, Siegfried Sassoon
Fiction Extracts:
Gas Attack! from All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
Missing from a Child in Time, Ian McEwan
War Horse, Michael Morpurgo
Around the World in 80 Days, Jules Verne
Short Stories:
The Landlady, Roald Dahl
Lamb to the Slaughter, Roald Dahl
The Lottery, Shirley Jackson
Aesop’s fables
Non-fiction:
Notes from A Small Island – London, Bill Bryson
Inauguration Speech as President of South Africa 1994, Nelson Mandela
Hello London travel blog
The Lonely Planet: A Perfect Day in London blog
Extract from: The Lonely Planet Guide to South Africa
48 Hours in Liverpool blog
News report - Terrified diver swallowed whole by 60,000lb whale who had mistaken him for food, Daily Mirror
News report, Meghan gets twice as many negative headlines as positive, analysis finds, The Guardian, January 2020
Film Shorts:
Video to the song Happier by Marshmello ft. Bastille
French Roast
The Piano
Lou
The Jigsaw
KS4 English Curriculum: full list of texts studied
Novel:
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
Drama:
An Inspector Calls, J. B. Priestley
Macbeth, William Shakespeare
Poetry:
The Manhunt by Simon Armitage
Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
London by William Blake
The Soldier by Rupert Brooke
She Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron
Living Space by Imtiaz Dharker
As Imperceptibly as Grief by Emily Dickinson
Cozy Apologia by Rita Dove
Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy
A Wife in London by Thomas Hardy
Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney
Hawk Roosting by Ted Hughes
To Autumn by John Keats
Afternoons by Philip Larkin
Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Mametz Wood by Owen Sheers
Excerpt from The Prelude by William Wordsworth
Fiction Extracts:
Skellig, David Almond
Once in a House on Fire, Andrea Ashworth
Behind the Scenes at the Museum, Kate Atkinson
Beloved, Toni Morrison
Short Stories:
Death by Scrabble, Charlie Fisher
Let it Snow, David Sedaris
The New Boy, Geddes Thompson
Non-fiction:
Extract from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
Review: Inside Out, David Edwards
Review: The BFG, David Edwards
Ink Positive, David Robson
Article: “Mad for Manchester? Why the capital of the North is the perfect place for a family getaway”, The Guardian
Film Shorts:
Opening of film adaptation: Enduring Love, Ian McEwan,
