Year 8 English

Unit 1 Introduction to Tragedy Unit 2 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' Unit 3 Julius Caesar, Shakespeare, Act 2 Unit 4 Julius Caesar, Shakespeare, Act 3 Unit 5 Victorian childhood: non-fiction reading and writing Unit 6 Romantic poetry and paired texts: Introduction to the Romantics Unit 7 Gothic poetry Unit 8 A history of language Unit 9 Romantic poetry and paired texts: Romanticism and Revolution Unit 10 Romantic poetry and paired texts: Revolutionary and Protest poetry Unit 11 Oliver Twist: Oliver and the Workhouse Unit 12 Oliver Twist: Oliver Heads to London Unit 13 Oliver Twist: Oliver is Caught Unit 14 Oliver Twist: Oliver, Bill & The Maylies Unit 15 Oliver Twist: Oliver and the Consequences Unit 17 Creative writing: memoir Unit 18 Rhetoric: Introduction to rhetoric Unit 19 Rhetoric: Injustice: Pankhurst & Sojourner Truth Unit 20 Rhetoric: Change: Michelle Obama & Lennie James Unit 21 Rhetoric: Motivate: Churchill & Gandhi Unit 22 Rhetoric: Writing rhetoric Unit 23 Recapping the basics: simple sentences, statements, paragraphs, capital letters and past simple verbs Unit 24 Complex sentences, avoiding fragments and run-ons, capital letters Unit 26 Writing accurate, correctly punctuated and paragraphed dialogue, using personal pronouns