Year 10 Reading List
English
- ‘The Color Purple ’ Alice Walker https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52892857-the-color-purple
- ‘12 Angry Men: True Stories of Being a Black Man in America Today’ Gregory S. Parks, Matthew W. Hughey https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9896752-12-angry- men?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=nT5WbaJrtL&rank=2
- ‘Mother Tongue’ by Bill Bryson
- ‘Farenheit 451’ by Ray Bradbury
- ‘Never Let me Go’ by Kazuo Ishiguro
- ‘American Gods’ by Neil Gaiman
- ‘Wuthering Heights’ by Emily Bronte
- ‘Great Expectations’ by Charles Dickens
- ‘Grapes of Wrath’ by John Steinbeck
- ‘Atonement’ by Ian McEwan
- ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep’ by Philip K. Dick
- ‘The Road’ by Cormac McCarthy
- ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ by Erich Maria Remarque
- ‘Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy’ by John le Carre
- ‘Cider with Rosie’ by Laurie Lee
- ‘Fellowship of the Ring’ by J.R.R. Tolkien
- ‘Schindler’s Ark’ by Thomas Keneally
- ‘Midnight’s Children’ by Salman Rushdie
- ‘The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde ’ by Robert Louis Stevenson
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/43/43-h/43-h.htm
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/features/audio/series/detail/74637
https://learn.org/articles/20_Free_Literary_Podcasts_Worth_Listening_To.html
Maths
- 'The Man Who Knew Infinity: Life of the Genius Ramanujan New Ed' by Robert Kanigel
- 'A History of Mathematics, Third Edition 3rd Revised edition' by Carl B. Boyer
- Watch ‘Moneyball’, about the use of statistical analysis to build a winning team.
- Find radio programmes on some mathematical topics on the link below. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01gyd7j
- Exam Solutions: https://www.youtube.com/user/ExamSolutions
Science
- Science Friday’ https://www.sciencefriday.com/
- Film - ‘Hidden Figures’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wfrDhgUMGIhttps://www.space.com/35430-real-hidden-figures.html
- Watch the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures online at http://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/watch
- Elements podcasts http://www.rsc.org/periodic-table/podcast
- Material World podcasts https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a- z/by/material%20world/all
- Crash course videos https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3EED4C1D684D3ADF
- STEM talks https://www.ihmc.us/stemtalks/
- Physics World podcasts https://physicsworld.com/l/audio/
- Nature http://www.nature.com/nature/index.html?foxtrotcallback=true
- Scientific American Magazine www.scientificamerican.com/
- Podcasts, news and interviews with scientists about recent scientific developments http://royalsociety.org
- Details of the history of the best scientific discoveries http://nobelprize.org
- Cambridge Science Podcasts www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/
- Oxford Science Podcasts http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/units/mathematical-physical-life- sciences-division
- Oxford Science Blog www.ox.ac.uk/media/science_blog/
PE
- TED Talks
- Aimee Mullins – Athlete and Actor https://www.ted.com/talks/aimee_mullins_changing_my_legs_and_my_mindset?la nguage=en
- ‘The Champion’s Mind’ Jim Afremow
- ‘What I Talk About When I Talk About Running’ Haruki Murakami https://www.mooc-list.com/countries/united-kingdom\
Geography
- TED-Ed
- How do Tornadoes work? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmWh9jV_1ac
- ‘Floodlines’
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/floodlines/
https://www.vulture.com/2020/04/the-atlantic-floodlines-podcast-review.html
https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2020/03/floodlines-podcast- introduction/607843/
- BBC’s Panorama https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006t14n
- BBC’s Horizon https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mgxf/episodes/player
- BBC Documentaries: Equator (2006) Tropic of Capricorn (2008) Tropic of Cancer (2010)
- Geographics: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHKRfxkMTqiiv4pF99qGKIw
- Book - ‘Prisoners of Geography’ Tim Marshall
- Book – ‘The Cultural Landscape: An Introduction to Human Geography’ James M. Rubinstein
- Book – ‘How to lie with Maps’ Mark Monmonier
History
- ‘Anne Frank’s Diary ’- Autobiography https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/diary/ https://archive.org/stream/AnneFrankTheDiaryOfAYoungGirl_201606/Anne-Frank- The-Diary-Of-A-Young-Girl_djvu.txt
- Film - Hotel Rwanada (2004)
- Film - Downfall (2012)
- Film - The Pianist (2002)
- ‘Sapiens, a Brief History of Humankind’ by Yuval Noah Harari
- ‘The Crusades’ by Thomas Asbridge
- ‘1491’ by Charles C. Mann
- ‘1776’ by David McCullough
Modern Foreign Languages
The BBC has a guide to watching TV in:
- French http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/tv/
- Spanish http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/tv/
- Watch one (or more) of these films: - Elle s’appelait Sarah - La rafle - Intouchables - A la folie, pas du tout - Amélie - Un long dimanche de fiançailles - L’auberge espagnol
- Watch the daily news online
https://www.newsinslowfrench.com/
Art and Textiles
- Film - The Cool School (2008)
- Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child (2010)
- Musee d’Orsay Virtual Tour m.musee-orsay.fr
- Museum of the Home https://www.museumofthehome.org.uk/
- The Artist's Guide: How to Make a Living Doing What You Love by Jackie Battenfield
Computing
Business
- The World of Business
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02nrwfk/episodes/downloads
- Financial Times https://www.ft.com/business-education
- ‘How I Built This with Guy Raz’
https://www.npr.org/2019/09/18/762035049/headspace-andy-puddicombe-and- rich-pierson
- Business Matters https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p016tl04/episodes/downloads
Drama
Music
Citizenship
Read:
- 1984 & Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Blood River by Tim Butcher
- Restless by William Boyd
- How Mumbo Jumbo Conquered the World by Francis Wheen
- Not Without my Daughter by Betty Mahmood
- Desert Flower by Waris Dirie
Watch:
- Shooting Dogs
- Hotel Rwanda
- The Shawshank Redemption
- Panorama
- Have I Got News for You
- News Night