Y9 Recommended Reading - Dystopian fiction

Y10 Recommended Reading - Creative Writing

Year 10 suggested reading list: Writing Controlled Assessments

Below are some suggestions for reading which may help with your work this half term. In order to write well, you must be well-read. Many of the books listed below are available in the school library.

Short stories

Author/Editor	Title
Clive King	Adventure Stories
Tony Bradman	Amazing Adventure Stories
Saul Bellow	Collected Stories of Saul Bellow
Edgar Allen Poe	The Complete Stories
David Almond	Counting Stars
Philip Pullman	Detective stories
Steven King	Different Seasons
Miriam Hodgson	Family Tree
Tom Watt	Football shorts
Tony Bradman	Give me shelter
Sonia Nimr	Ghaddar the Ghoul and Other Palestinian Stories
Selim Ileri	Ilkgenclik Cagina Oykuler
Ernest Hemingway	Men Without Women
Kemal Ozer	Kaleidoscope
Guy de Maupassant	The Necklace and Other Short Stories
Roald Dahl	Roald Dahl Collected Short Stories
Kevin  Crossley-Holland	Short! A book of very short stories
Michael Morpurgo	The White Horse of Zennor and Other Stories from Below the Eagle's Nest
Rehana Ahmed	Walking A Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain

Travel writing

Author/editor	Title
Bill Bryson	Down Under Made in America Notes from a Big Country Notes from a Small Island
Orhan Pamuk	Istanbul: Memories of a City
Graham Green	Journey without Maps
Benjamin Zepheniah	Kung Fu Trip
Tony Hawks	Playing the Moldovans at Tennis
Roger Deakin	Waterlog: A Swimmer's Journey Through Britain

Writing guides

Author/Editor	Title
Shaun McCarthy	Write That Story
Tony Bradman	So you want to write fiction
Robyn Gee	The Usborne Guide to Better English - Grammar, Spelling and Punctuation
Simon Basher	Basher Basics: Grammar
Don Shiach	Basic Grammar
Bahire Serif	English Grammar (for Turkish Speakers)
CGP	GCSE English Grammar
Angela Burt	Grammar Repair Kit
Carolyn Humphries	Really Simple English Grammar

Useful websites:

http://www.midlandit.co.uk/education/index.htm -

http://englishplus.com/grammar/index.htm

	http://hollylisle.com/fm/Workshops/honing-talent.html

http://www.dushkin.com/online/study/studymain.mhtml

	http://www.englishbiz.co.uk/

Of Mice and Men - extra reading and research

Hi Year 10,

As well as the additional reading list I spoke about in class the other day (it's also on this post), I would recommend listening to this Radio programme about Steinbeck's life.

BBC Radio 4 - Great Lives, John Steinbeck

There are some useful (and challenging) things to read on Google Scholar:

http://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=mY98rl2LiuEC&oi=fnd&pg=PR9&dq=of+mice+and+men+steinbeck&ots=Fa_SxsV0zk&sig=qyGUN84w4E5SgvoNlAb_0mFFDbA#v=onepage&q=of%20mice%20and%20men%20steinbeck&f=false

 

(Conversations with Steinbeck)

 

 

http://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=oXsX-RAPNAUC&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq=of+mice+and+men+steinbeck&ots=xprpijTd4U&sig=heGavupDOG3PwqVLkP8kJ_p7hyE#v=onepage&q=of%20mice%20and%20men%20steinbeck&f=false

 

(Contemporary Reviews of the Novel)

 

 

http://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=h9sujGBX070C&oi=fnd&pg=PR9&dq=of+mice+and+men+steinbeck&ots=uR1oGR25kt&sig=htLHpdh6W3_kf9ioIhdD8aZKL-w#v=onepage&q=of%20mice%20and%20men%20steinbeck&f=false

Framing the Story - what makes a good narrative

Here is an interesting radio show created by NPR from talks by Ted.com (an amazing website for inspiring talks and presentations on loads of interesting topics). This is about what makes a great story an is well worth listening to - particularly for A-Level and GCSE students.

Enjoy!

Year 7's favourite TV advertisement

Tell us about your favourite TV advertisement of all time!

Visit our wall here.

• You must upload a link to your favourite TV advertisement and explain why you like it (writing at least a paragraph).
• You should identify techniques (e.g. slogans, rhetorical questions, humour) used in this ad and explain how they are effective.
• You could comment on other people's posts.

 

American Literature - introductory reading

Hi Year 12,

Please see below a list of links to US short stories available to read online. They've been carefully selected by Mr Lakin and make a really good list of introductory reading to American Literature.

Enjoy!

Ms Cook

• Hermann Melivlle (Bartleby) http://www.bartleby.com/129/
•  Baldwin (Sonny's Blues) http://www.scribd.com/doc/7086554/Sonnys-Blues-by-James-Baldwin
•  Hemingway (White Elephants) http://www.jamesrament.com/a-short-story—hills-like-white-elephants-by-ernest-hemingway/
• John Cheever (The Swimmer) http://202.121.96.130/Download/20091207184417_734640623434.pdf
• Salinger (Collected) http://moodle.tbaisd.org/pluginfile.php/64355/mod_resource/content/1/Nine%2BStories%2Bby%2BJ.D.%2BSalinger.pdf
•  Barthelme (The School) http://www.npr.org/programs/death/readings/stories/bart.html
•  O'Connor (A Good man is hard to find) http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~surette/goodman.html
•  Carver (Cathedral) http://www.misanthropytoday.com/cathedral-by-raymond-carver-weekend-short-story/
•  Updike (A&P) http://www.tiger-town.com/whatnot/updike/
•  Bukowski (Most Beautiful Woman in Town) http://allpoetry.com/poem/8509505-The_Most_Beautiful_Woman_In_Town-by-Charles_Bukowski
•  Proulx (Brokeback) http://nothing-rhymes-with-ianto.tumblr.com/post/8947836831/brokeback-mountain-by-annie-proulx
•  Foster Wallace (Good Old Neon) http://kalamazoo.coop/sites/default/files/Good%20Old%20Neon.pdf

GCSE World War One poetry - life in the trenches

Hi Year 10,

Here's a presentation to give you information about the historical context of WW1 poetry. This will help you understand what the soldiers were going through and the events that influenced the poetry we are about to study. On the prezi you will find writing tasks you need to complete to demonstrate you can empathise with the troops on the front line.

Good luck!

Ms Cook

You can also find out more about WW1 here.