English (Year 8)

See Year 8s English ‘Schedule of Learning’ for the 2025/26 academic year
Topic | Sub-topic |
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Animal Farm | Context, ch.1&2 |
Animal Farm | Ch.3&4 |
Animal Farm | Ch.5&6 |
Animal Farm | Ch.7&8 |
Animal Farm | Ch.9&10 |
Animal Farm | Reflecting on the novel |
Exploring the Natural World | Intro to unit, texts 1, 2, writing to present a viewpoint |
Exploring the Natural World | Texts 3, 4 & 5, descriptive writing |
Exploring the Natural World | Texts 6, 7 & 8 , descriptive writing |
Exploring the Natural World | Texts 9 & 10, personal nature writing |
Exploring the Natural World | Texts 11 & 12, writing to present a viewpoint |
Women’s voices | The Role of Women, ‘Phenomenal Woman’, ‘I Coming Back’ |
Women’s voices | Still I Rise’ & extracts from ‘Goblin Market’ |
Women’s voices | Mirror’, ‘Praise Song for my Mother’, ‘Catrin’ |
Women’s voices | Women’s voices in war time: ‘There Will Be Soft Rains’, ‘Children in War Time’ and ‘Perhaps’ |
Women’s voices | Fiction extracts – Austen |
Women’s voices | Fiction extracts – Austen |
Dystopian Fiction | Conventions of the genre, ‘The War of the Worlds’, ‘1984’ & start ‘The Pedestrian’ |
Dystopian Fiction | Finish ‘The Pedestrian’, ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ and ‘Vox’ |
Dystopian Fiction | Oryx and Crake’, ‘The Hunger Games’ and ‘The Time Machine’ |
Dystopian Fiction | A Sound of Thunder’, ‘Never Let Me Go” and ‘Farenheit 451’ |
Dystopian Fiction | Consolidation |
The Empress | Intro to the context of the play, Act 1 Scenes 1-3 |
The Empress | Act 1 Scenes 4-8 |
The Empress | Act 1 Scenes 9-12 |
Y8 exams (English, Maths, Science, Languages, Humanities) | |
The Empress | Act 1 Scenes 13-15 |
The Empress | Act 2 Scenes 1-4 |
The Empress | Act 2 Scenes 5-7 |
The Empress | Act 2 Scenes 8-12 |
The Empress | Act 2 Scenes 13-14 |
The Empress | Reflection and watching ‘Victoria and Abdul’ |
What will you study?
1. Novel: Animal Farm – George Orwell
2. Non-Fiction Writing – Nature Writing
3. Poetry: Women’s Voices
4. Fiction extracts: Dystopian Fiction
5. Modern Drama
6. Independent Reading Scrapbook
7. Media Unit: Whale Rider
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