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Wider Reading: English

Wider Reading: English

Key Stage 3

The Curious Disappearance of Agatha Christie (historic-uk.com) – A famous detective/crime genre writer went missing – Is her life imitating her art?

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets

https://schoolreadinglist.co.uk/reading-lists-for-ks3-pupils/suggested-reading-list-for-year-7-pupils-ks2-age-11-12/

https://schoolreadinglist.co.uk/reading-lists-for-ks3-pupils/suggested-reading-list-for-year-8-pupils-ks3-age-12-13/

https://schoolreadinglist.co.uk/reading-lists-for-ks3-pupils/suggested-reading-list-for-year-9-pupils-ks3-age-13-14/

A Monster Calls – Patrick Ness

Refugee Boy – Benjamin Zephania

Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck

A Midsummer Night’s dream – William Shakespeare

Macbeth – William Shakespeare

Extracts from the following novels:

Dracula, Frankenstein, Lamb to the Slaughter, Jane Eyre, Nicholas Nickleby, DotheBoys hall, The Landlady, The Canterville ghost, The Monkey’s paw.

Non-fiction extracts:

Newspaper articles – workhouses in the 19th century, refugees and asylum seekers,

Leaflets – refugees, grief counselling

Research documents – the gothic

Key Stage 4

https://www.uniadmissions.co.uk/application-guides/how-to-start-wider-reading/

https://www.englishandmedia.co.uk/cpd-and-consultancy/our-projects/what-jobs-do-people-with-an-english-degree-end-up-doing?fbclid=IwAR35Qh9Tt6tLUkcZ-wn0H14nvIInYvUiP8Jl813qS87PqkReJ0ryuKGbt5c&fs=e&s=cl

Year 10 recommended reading list for pupils aged 14-15 in KS4 (schoolreadinglist.co.uk)

Year 11 suggested reading list for pupils in KS4 age 15-16 (schoolreadinglist.co.uk)

https://www.cloud9englishclub.com/?fbclid=IwAR0AY8m_xW2g-ZtnuL7Bsd-u0zRTIJ9-u0fIaQT5lZNUoHZ8Fu4gUlSKYiI  

An Inspector calls – J B Priestley (including context information from various sources, newspaper, video’s research pages)

A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens (including context information from various sources, newspaper, video’s research pages)

Rome and Juliet – WIlliam Shakespeare

Anthology of conflict poetry

Variety of fiction and nonfiction extracts for Language exploration

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