The Perse School Cambridge

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What will your child study?

Year 7

Set Texts

• Prose – The Diary of Anne Frank and Boy (Roald Dahl)
• Poetry – The Lady of Shalott and The Charge of the Light Brigade (Tennyson) and The Ballad of Charlotte Dymond (Causley)
• Drama – A Midsummer Night’s Dream (William Shakespeare)

Additional Texts

• Prose – Walkabout (James Vance Marshall) and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (John Boyne)
• Poetry – The Rattle Bag (ed. Heaney and Hughes)
• Drama – The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer – dramatic adaptation)

Year 8

Set Texts

• Prose –  Sherlock Holmes short stories (Conan Doyle) and The Old Man and the Sea (Hemingway)
• Poetry – The Ancient Mariner (Coleridge)
• Drama – The Merchant of Venice (William Shakespeare)

Additional Texts

• Prose – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (Haddon) and The Voices of Silence (Bel Mooney)
• Poetry – Poems on Childhood (Heaney, Duffy, Causley, McGough)
• Drama – Frankenstein (Mary Shelley – dramatisation)

Years 7 and 8

English in Years 7 to 8 also incorporates:

• Literacy skills
• Drama
• Library studies
• Speaking and listening skills
• Theatre trips, workshops and other visits
• Inter-school linking projects
• ICT and multimodality
• Knowledge about Language
• Preparation for IGCSE English/English Literature

Lower School Reading List

How will they be assessed?

Assessment is continuous and terminal.