Wider Reading Lists Want a head start on Year 8? Research and reading arranged according to: • School subjects • Key words and topics • Fiction and non-fiction *These lists are aspirational: you are not required to buy any of these for your subjects. Key words and topics: Activate 1 acids and alkalis, reproduction, electricity, magnetism, adaptions and inheritance, periodic table, health and lifestyle, energy, metal and acids, ecosystem processes, separation techniques, the Earth, motion and pressure Activate 2: Student Book by Philippa Magnet Man Gardom Hulme et al http://www.coolmagnetman.com/ma gindex.htm The Periodic Table Book: A Visual Encyclopedia of the Elements by DK Energy Explained by EasiAsPi on Youtube Magnetism (Flowchart Science) by https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y Louise Spilsbury h34BYMVTxs Puberty, Reproduction and Birth by BBC Bitesize: Oaka Books KS3>Physics>Electromagnetism and Magnetism A Journey into Adaptation with Max Axiom, Super Scientist: 4D an BBC Bitesize: KS3>Physics>Electricity Augmented Reading Science How do we separate the seemingly Experience (Graphic Science 4D) by inseparable? - Iddo Magen for TED Ed Agnieszka Biskup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q 8Ent5CXhfY Chemistry for Kids | Elements, Acid- Fiction Base Reactions and Metals Quiz Book for Kids by Dot Edu Michael Vey: The Electric Collection by Richard Paul Evans Websites The Sunlight Pilgrims by Jenni Fagan What is an ecosystem? Biology for All Breathe by Sarah Crossan FuseSchool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e GG7hyx_HlA Keywords and topics: Heroes and villians, Gothic fiction, The Tempest, Dystopian Fiction (1984, Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies extracts), dramatic monologues and soliloquys, modern novels, nature as the beast, writing to argue, opinion based articles Fiction The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman War Horse by Michael Morpurgo The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe The Tempest: The Graphic Novel by Dystopian Novels William Shakespeare (Edited by Clive Divergent by Veronica Roth Bryant) Plain British Text or original text available Forest 404 Drama Podcast on BBC Modern Novels Sounds The Trap by Alan Gibbons The Last Night of the World by Ray Bradbury (Short Story) My Sister Lives on the Mantlepiece by Annabelle Pitcher The Skin Thing by Adrian Van Young (Short Story) Teacher’s Dead by Benjamin Zephaniah Film WWI Poetry Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children Certificate 12 (also a series of The Poetry of World War One by the books by Ransom Riggs) Poetry Foundation: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/arti Websites cles/70139/the-poetry-of-world-war-i Monologue vs Soliloquy Gothic Fiction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4 qACoMK1ypE Coraline by Neil Gaiman Exploring the theme of nature versus Gothic Short Stories (Tales of Mystery & nurture in The Tempest, BBC Bitesize The Supernatural) by David Blair https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/clips/zs chfrd Key words and topics: Fractions, decimals, percentages, algebra, geometry (circles, area and 3D shapes), ratio, proportion, rates of change, statistics and data, place value, ordering and rounding. YouTube Mathematics for KS3: 10-Minute Tests - Book 1 (including Answers) (CGP KS3 MathAntics: various explanations on Maths) Paperback – 11 Sep 2015 how to solve math problems, including fractions, algebra, decimal places. Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors Kindle Edition by Matt Parker Non-Fiction Fiction The Math Inspectors: Story One - The Case of the Claymore Diamond: The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Volume 1 by Daniel Kenney, Emily Juster Boever The Square Root of Murder by Ada KS3 Maths is Easy: Ratio, Proportion & Madison Rates of Change: In-depth revision advice for the new KS3 curriculum by How2become Key words and topics: Social change in Britain, Jack the Ripper, Victorian crime, population explosion of 1750, agricultural revolution (food crises in Britain), The Great Exhibition, Industrial Revolution, slum conditions, working conditions, workhouses, cholera mystery, New Liberalism, turning points in Modern Britain, what makes an event significant, suffrage, Emily Davison, winning the vote, creation of the NHS, Margaret Thatcher, Magna Carta, international conflict causes of WW1, Balkans, trench warfare, Schleiffen Plan, Battle of the Somme, Recruitment, Home Front, WW2, Dunkirk, Blitz Spirit, D Day, Pearl Harbour, anti-Semitism, Kindertransport, Final Solution, Cold war, Berln Blockade, Truman Doctrine and Marshall Aid, Intro to Cuba, USA vs USSR A Visitor's Guide to Victorian England Girl 38: Finding a Friend by Ewa by Michelle Higgs Jozefkowicz Suffragette: The Battle for Equality by When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit (Essential David Roberts and Lauren Laverne | Modern Classics) Paperback – 15 Jun 31 May 2018 2017 by Judith Kerr (Author) The Boy at the Top of the Mountain We Were Heroes: The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins, a World War II Paperback by John Boyne Soldier by Walter Dean Myers Websites Things a Bright Girl Can Do Paperback by Sally Nicholls Holocaust survivor testimonials: https://www.holocaust.org.uk/survivors The Great Exhibition: Poem by William Makepeace Thackeray Jack the Ripper: British Library Article by Judith Flanders The Blackest Streets by Sarah Wise https://www.bl.uk/romantics-and- Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens victorians/articles/jack-the-ripper War Horse by Michael Morpurgo Diary of Anne Frank Key words and topics: flooding, drought, thirst, future, cities, climate change DVD This is What Climate Change Looks Like in Alaska—Right Now by DJ Tyson for Planet Earth - Complete Series [2006] Pacific Environment David Attenborough https://www.pacificenvironment.org/t Fiction his-is-what-climate-change-looks-like- in-alaska-right-now/ Waterlog by Roger Deakin Costing the Earth: The Future of the Websites Countryside https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/ NASA Global Change: Vitals Signs of b0b42z8w the Planet https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/ After the Flood: Kevin Crossley-Holland on BBC Young People need a seat at the Soundshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds table of UN climate change /play/b015pb04 negotiations by Kazi Ateea https://www.pacificenvironment.org/t Parched Lands- Thirsty Communities: his-is-what-climate-change-looks-like- Harvesting the Rain in Rajasthan on in-alaska-right-now/ BBC Sounds https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p ‘You did not act in time’: Greta 03gj2mf Thunberg’s full speech to MPs https://www.pacificenvironment.org/t Non-Fiction his-is-what-climate-change-looks-like- in-alaska-right-now/ Imagining Urban Futures: Cities in Science Fiction and What We Might Learn from Them by School of Urban Studies and Planning Carl Abbott Key words and topics: character styles and types (archetypes, stereotypes, genre, personification) devising (storyboard, conflict, resolution, stimulus, instillation, tableaux), fairy tales (spontaneous improvisation, in the round, morals, modernisation, interpretation), guided choices, Living with Lady Macbeth, tension, World Theatre (Brecht, Comedia Dell Arte, Noh, Stanivslavsky), Forum theatre Macbeth by William Shakespeare to Greek Theatre, The World of Commedia dell’Arte, Akira Matsui, Macbeth The Graphic Novel: Original Hanoi Water Puppet Show, An Intro to Text (Unabridged, British English) by Brechtian Theatre, Naturalism, Legs on William Shakespeare, Clive Bryant, et the Wall and Raw- Beautiful Noise al. Dance Performance) Living with Lady Macbeth by Rob John https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6 kx6mzVD7h0&list=PLnKa4- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the 2Q0drnIfuH5YXkGLF5rSleSgiHr&index=8 Night –Time (Playscript) by Mark &t=0s&safe=true Haddon Spring Concert 2018 - Y12 GCSE National Theatre: All About Theatre by Drama Students 'Living with Lady National Theatre (Author) Macbeth' by St Louis Grammar School Kilkeel Playful Plays: Plays and drama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= activities for children and young woav99plG_w&safe=true people Paperback – 23 Oct 2014 by David Farmer The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - working on the spectrum The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the by the National Gallery Brothers Grimm: The Complete First https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k Edition by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm 2bV75ITXJw&safe=true Grimm, et al. Theatre Talk: The Curious Incident with Websites the Dog in the Night-Time by CUNY TV Theatre Traditions Playlist compiled by https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s CAC Arts Programs (including An Intro vdl_ee22-w&safe=true Key words and topics: Scratch (programming and coding), animation, storyboard (linear, symbols) web making mediator, Excel, Video making and editing, algorithm, data, Networks and Binary, Hardware, Software, website design, pseudocode, pixel, frame, rendering, transition, filters, track, pitch, HTML, HTTP, Tags, URL, Web browser, web server, Banner Ad, Bookmark, Cookie, CSS, decomposition, abstraction, algorithm, pattern recognition, flow chart, logical reasoning, computational thinking, decision, terminator, process, input/ output, annotation. Non-Fiction Fiction Coding for Kids: Python: Learn to Code Girls who code: The Friendship Code with 50 Awesome Games and #1 by Stacia Deutsch, Reshma Saujani Activities by Adrienne B Tacke) Warcross by Marie Lu Build Your Own Website: A Comic Wildcard (Warcross 2) Hardcover – 20 Guide to HTML, CSS, and WordPress by Sep 2018by Marie Lu (Author) Nate Cooper and Kim Gee Guinness World Records Gamer's The Lego Boost Idea Book: 95 Simple Edition 2018 by Guinness World Robots and Hints for Making More! by Records Yoshihito Isogawa YouTube iPhone application developer... and 6th grader: Thomas Suarez TEDxManhattanBeach