Requirements:

Read all the books, poems, articles in advance of studying them in the short courses. (I‘ll send them in good time hopefully!)

Interaction required and your opinions ready to share.

Cameras on.

GC consulted weekly by both parents and students.

1. 127 Hours, Between a Rock and a Hard place: Aron Ralston

2. Still I Rise, Maya Angelou

3. Disabled, Wildred Owen

4. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

5. Whistle and I’ll Come to You (from The Woman in Black), Susan Hill (self-study, resources provided).

6. Out, Out by Robert Frost

7. Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah

8. The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant

9. Significant Cigarettes ( from the Road Home) by Rose Tremain

10. Pride and Prejudice

11. Young and Dyslexic? You’ve got it going on? Benjamin Zephaniah

12. A Passage to Africa by George Alagiah

13. Night by Alice Munro

14. A Game of Polo with a Headless Goat by Emma Levine

15. The Bright Lights of Sarajevo, Tony Harrison

16. Macbeth

17. The Explorer’s Daughter by Kari Herbert

18. An Unknown Girl, Moniza Alvi

19. The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera

20. The Story of an Hour, Kate Chopin

21. The Danger of a Single Story, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

22. H is for Hawk by Helen McDonald

23. Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey into Bhutan is a memoir written by Jamie Zeppa

24. Explorers or boys messing about? Either way, taxpayer gets rescue bill, Steven Morris

25. KinderTransport

26. The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan

27. A View from a Bridge, Arthur Miller

28. Death and the King’s Horseman, Wole Soyinka

29. Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck

30. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne

31. Hamlet

32. Poetry Selection

33. Lord of the Flies

34. Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime.

35. Arthur Miller: The Crucible

36. Markus Zusak: The Book Thief

37. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Purple Hibiscus

38. Great Expectations

39. Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird

(Some of the texts we’ll be using, non exhaustive list. All the texts here are taken from different GCSE/IGCSE exam boards, we will dip into some of them more thoroughly than others. If you want to read in advance of our classes, please do as it will enrich your language and literature skills with this wide selection of texts ( regardless of how much we cover in classes).

If you managed to read your way through this list you would be a very well read student with great world knowledge! (exams aside, a great goal!)

GCSE requirements:

The aims and objectives of the English Language GCSE are to enable students to:

● read a wide range of texts fluently and with good understanding

● read critically and use knowledge gained from wide reading to inform and improve their own writing

● write effectively and coherently using Standard English appropriately

● use grammar correctly, punctuate and spell accurately

● acquire and apply a wide vocabulary alongside knowledge and understanding of grammatical terminology, and linguistic conventions for reading, writing and spoken language