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Year 8 English 2005
The following literature based units are offered to Year 8 Students. Each unit is supported by a wide selection of reading material including class sets of key books. Click on the unit title to link to the supporting resources.
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| Term 1 | Informative Writing Lexile Program |
| Term 2 | Thematic Unit
Narrative– Descriptive Writing * written assessment |
| Term 3 | Thematic Unit
Speaking – personal autobiography – emphasis on anecdotes |
| Term 4, | Thematic Unit
Teacher choice
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| Fantasy Unit | Fantasy Resources | Film Unit | Film Resources | Human Relations Unit | Human Relations Resources |
| Humour Unit | Humour Resources | Short Story Unit | Short Story Resources | ||
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| The Haunting (CLASS SET) | M. Mahy | The Hobbit | Tolkein |
| Forest | Hartnett | Lord of The Rings | Tolkein |
| Master of the Grove | Kelleher | Wind in the Willows | Grahame |
| Charlie & the Chocolate Factory | Dahl | Redwall | Jacques |
| The Dark is Rising | Cooper | Dracula | Stoker |
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LeGuin | ||
| To the Dark Tower | Kelleher | ||
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LITERARY
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Own The Racecourse
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Wrightson |
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Clarke |
| Hit and Run | Phipson | Spit McPhee | Aldridge |
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The Other Facts of Life
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Gleitzman |
Sun on
the Stubble |
Thiele |
| Lockie Leonard Scumbuster | Winton | Fighting Ruben Wolfe | Zusak |
| Over the Top with Jim (CLASS SET) | Lunn | When Dogs Cry | Zusak |
| Lockie Leonard Legend | Winton | First Book of Samuel | Dubosarsky |
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Lockie
Leonard Human Torpedo
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Winton | ||
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| Alex Jackson : Grommet | Flynn | Goggle Eyes | Fine |
| Misery Guts | Gleitzman | Does this School have Capital Punishment | Hentoff |
| Worry Warts | Gleitzman | The Witches | Dahl |
| Blabber Mouth | Gleitzman | The Book of the Banshee | Fine |
| The Wages of Wayne | McRobbie | Unmentionable | Jennings |
| Waxing with Wayne | McRobbie | Unbelievable | Jennings |
| The Wayne Dynasty | McRobbie | Uncanny | Jennings |
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| Bridge to Teribithia | Paterson | Captain Johnno | George |
| Listen to the Dark | Henry | The Red Pony | Steinbeck |
| Two Hands Together | Kidd | The Tankerman | Lanagan CLASS SET |
| The Bad Beginning | Snicket | Thunderwith | Hathorn |
| Fracture Zone | Harlen | Two weeks with the Queen | Gleitzman |
| Sounder | Armstrong | Momma's Gonna Buy You a Mockingbird | Little |
| Dear Mr Henshaw | Cleary | The Summer of the Swans | Byars |
| Goodnight Mr Tom | Magorian | ||
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| In a Class of their Own | Ireson (ed) | The Lottery | Sussex |
| Mates | Bailie | Dream of Stars | Caswell |
| Bizarre: Ten Wonderfully Weird Stories | Matthews | After Dark, 7 Tales to Read at Night | Rubinstein |
| Into the Future | Gascoigne et al | Badger on the Barge | Howker |
| Nude School:Stories about School | The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar | Dahl | |
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