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Love of Reading

Year 7 Focus Texts

If you would like to help your child start building their library and prepare for the units we are studying these are the texts we will be using.

After the set texts there is an extended reading section that includes texts from the 50 books before KS4, alongside texts specific to the units we are studying in KS3.

Autumn 1

Key Read:

  • Hormer's Odyssey by Simon Armitage. ISBM: 05712229360

Extended Reading:

  • Pandora's Jar by Natalie Haynes
  • Troy by Stephen Fry
  • Tales of the Greek Heroes by Roger Lancelyn Green
  • Eagle of the Ninth -  Rosemary Sutcliff 
 

Autumn 2

Key Read:

  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage. ISBM: 9780571223282

Extended Reading:

  • King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table by Roger Lancelyn Green
  • Beowulf by Sir Michael Morpurgo
  • The King Arthur Trilogy by Rosemary Sutcliff

 

Spring 1

Key Read:

  • You Talkin’ To Me? by Sam Leith. ISBN: 1846683165.

Extended Reading:

  • Rhetoric: A Very Short Introduction by Richard Toye
  • The Elements of Eloquence by Mark Forsyth
  • Speeches that changed the world, a celebration of the power of the spoken word by Quercus.

 

Spring 2

Key Read:

  • Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare. ISBN: 9781853260223.

Extended Reading:

  • Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff
  • Julius Caesar (Graphic Shakespeare) by Hilary Burningham
  • Animal Farm by George Orwell

 

Summer 1

Key Read:

  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare. ISBN: 9781853260308.

Extended Reading:

  • Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
  • Poetry by Jonathan Wordsworth

 

Summer 2

Key Read:

  • The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. ISBN: 0140424385.

Extended Reading:

  • Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
  • Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
  • Eragon by Christopher Paolini

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