1. Year 7 – Exploring Characters.
Term One Term Two Term Three Term 4 Term 5 and Term 6
English Topic Myths and Magic: Greek Myths and
Shakespeare’s The Tempest
Poetry: Identity The Elements of Gothic
Suggested
Reading
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
The Lost World - Arthur Conan Doyle
Gulliver’s Travels - Jonathan Swift
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Sonnet 29/130 - William Shakespeare
When I have Fears - John Keats
Solitude - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
This is a photograph of me - Margaret Atwood
Invictus - William Ernest Henley
The School Boy - William Blake
Originally - Carol Ann Duffy
Do not go gentle into that good night - Dylan Thomas
If - Rudyard Kipling
I Am - John Clare
The Road Not taken - Robert Frost
Twilight - Stephanie Meyer
The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman
I Horror series - Steve Barlow & Steve Skidmore
Cirque Du Freak (Manga & Text) - Darren Shan
Zom-B series - Darren Shan
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series - Michelle Paver
Year 8 – Characters and Themes
Term One Term Two Term Three Term 4 Term 5 and Term 6
English
Topic
Thematic links in Shakespeare: Macbeth
and the Sonnets
Detective Fiction and Villains Dystopian Fiction
Suggested
Reading
Mr. William Shakespeare’s Plays - Marcia
Williams
Shakespeare Stories - Leon Garfield
King of Shadows - Susan Cooper
Shaking Hands with Shakespeare: A Teenager's
Guide to Reading and Performing the Bard -
Allison Wedell Schumacher
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan
Doyle
Teacher’s Dead - Benjamin Zephaniah
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle
Diamond Brothers series - Anthony Horowitz
The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
The Underworld Chronicles - Suzanne Collins
Gone Series - Michael Grant
1984 - George Orwell
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
Farenheight 451 - Ray Bradbury
The Maze Runner - James Dashner
How I Live Now - Meg Rosoff
Lord of The Flies - William Golding
Year 9 – Characters, themes and a critical approach
Term One Term Two Term Three Term 4 Term 5 Term 6
English Topic War Poetry and Context 20
th
Century: Of Mice and Men & The
Struggle for Civil Rights
Writing Skills The Sign of Four
Suggested
Reading
War Horse - Michael Morpurgo
Private Peaceful - Michael Morpurgo
The Book Thief – Markus Zuzak
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne
Coram Boy - Jamila Gavin
I Capture the Castle – Dodie Smith
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Help - Kathryn Stockett
Refugee Boy - Benjamin Zephaniah