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Year 8
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Keep progressing through Key Stage 3 English with our Year 8 English course.

Eleanor St John Sutton will cover everything from Shakespeare and women of the Elizabethan era to writing and developing a horror story.

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Unit 1

Shakespearean women and daughters

  • Contextual review: Shakespeare and women of the Elizabethan era
  • Defiant daughter: Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • Defiant daughter: Juliet in Romeo and Juliet
  • Defiant daughter: Desdemona in Othello
  • Outspoken woman: Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew
  • Outspoken woman: Portia in The Merchant of Venice
  • Outspoken woman: Lady Macbeth in Macbeth

Unit 2

Shakespearean villains, outsiders and power

  • Context: Who or what is a villain in Elizabethan England?
  • Villains are evil: The witches in Macbeth
  • Villains are tricky: Brutus in Julius Caesar
  • Villains are outsiders: Don Jon in Much Ado about Nothing
  • Villains are vengeful: Shylock in The Merchant of Venice
  • Villains are power-hungry: Macbeth
  • Villains are manipulative: Iago
  • Villains are monstruous: Caliban as a villain
  • Villains are justified?: Caliban as a victim

Unit 3

Gothic and horror: origins, context and classic texts

  • Introduction to the Origins of Horror, the Gothic
  • Conventions and context of the Gothic and Horror genres
  • The horrors of creation: Mary Shelley and Frankenstein
  • The horrors of guilt: Edgar Allan Poe and 'The Tell-Tale Heart'
  • The horrors of the superhuman: Bram Stoker and Dracula
  • The horrors of time: Oscar Wilde and 'The Picture of Dorian Grey'
  • The horrors within: Robert Louis Stevenson and 'Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'
  • The horrors of society: Shirley Jackson and 'The Lottery'
  • The horrors of disguise: Stephen King and IT

Unit 4

Writing horror: characters and stories

  • Writing and developing a horror story
  • Crafting a horrific character

Unit 5

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’: reading the ballad

  • Introduction to Coleridge, Ballads and Lyric Poetry
  • The Age of Exploration and Romanticism
  • Plot and poetic structure of 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'
  • Part I of 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'
  • Part II of 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'
  • Part III of 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'
  • Part IV of 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'
  • Part V of 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'
  • Part VI of 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'
  • Part VII of 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'
  • The Mariner: The Voice of Experience and Warning
  • The Wedding-Guest: The Listener

Unit 6

Writing ballads and journey narratives

  • Writing: Planning a Ballad about a Journey
  • Writing: Writing Journey Ballads

Unit 7

Protest songs and resistance

  • How are protest songs used as a form of resistance? 'We Shall Overcome' and the storytelling roots of protest songs
  • Billie Holiday's 'Strange Fruit' and the Civil Rights movement
  • Bob Marley:'s 'Redemption Song', 'Get Up, Stand Up' and Rastafarian resistance
  • Bob Dylan and 'The Times They are A'Changing': Vietnam War resistance
  • The Smiths' 'Meat is Murder' and the vegetarian movement
  • Paris Paloma's 'labour' and feminist resistance
  • Kendrick Lamar and Beyonce's 'Freedom', Common's 'Glory' and the future of protest songs
  • Writing: Imagining a better world through John Lennon's 'Imagine'

Unit 8

Action scenes in modern fiction

  • What is the purpose of action scenes in literature?
  • Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games
  • Philip Pullman's Northern Lights
  • Louis Sachar's Holes
  • Alan Gibbons' Shadow of the Minotaur
  • Angie Thomas' The Hate You Give
  • S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders
  • Yann Martel's Life of Pi
  • Andy Mulligan's Trash
  • Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
  • Writing: Planning an action scene
  • Writing: Writing an action scene

Unit 9

Grammar and language for effective writing

  • Grammar review: Cementing the basics
  • Prepositional phrases
  • Past, present and future tense usage
  • Conditional and nuanced language in writing

Unit 10

Non-fiction and the world of reporting

  • Introduction to non-fiction and the world of reporting
  • Fact-finding in non-fiction
  • Sources of information: Primary sources
  • Sources of information: Secondary sources
  • Inference and synthesis
  • Formal versus informal writing
  • Writing: Planning a non-fiction report
  • Writing: Developing a non-fiction report
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