Year 8 Reading List
English
- ‘The Haunting of Hill House– Shirley Jackson https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/oct/11/textbook-terror-how-the- haunting-of-hill-house-rewrote-horrors-rules
- Shakespeare’s Globe https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/ https://www.timeout.com/london/news/the-globe-is-streaming-a-shakespeare- play-for-free-every-fortnight-and-34-foreign-language-productions-033020
- https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/childrens- bookspodcast/%20id423549679?mt=2
- https://schoolreadinglist.co.uk/category/secondary-ks3-ks4-reading-lists/
- http://www.alibris.co.uk/search/books/subject/Children's-Nonfiction-Biography- Autobiography
- The Modern Classics Challenge: read at least three modern classics such as To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Animal Farm by George Orwell.
- ‘The Outsiders’ S.E. Hinton
- ‘Chinese Cinderella’ Adeline Yen Nah
- ‘The Day of the Triffids’ John Wyndham
- ‘Goggle Eyes’ Anne Fine
- ‘The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ Douglas Adams
- ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’ Arthur Conan Doyle
- ‘Bridge to Terabithia’ Katherine Paterson
- ‘The Woman in Black’ Susan Hill
- ‘The Bookwanderers Club’: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzvIAD2YAWlPcGUUInuaEcOV0ymyAOjr2
Maths
- Film - A Beautiful Mind (PG-13): After John Nash, a brilliant but asocial mathematician, accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish.
- Film - October Sky (PG): The true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner's son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father's wishes.
- Examples of mathematical paradoxes https://www.businessinsider.com/mind- blowing-paradoxes-2015-10?r=US&IR=T#theres-an-infinitely-long-horn-that-has-a- finite-volume-but-an-infinite-surface-area-5
Science
- Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWu29PRCUvQ
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhFK5_Nx9xY
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbgnlkJPga4
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_e0CA_nhaE
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMo3nZHVrZ4
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBT5EQt348
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWO-cvGETRQ
- ‘Stuff You Should Know’ https://discoverpods.com/stuff-you-should-know-sysk-episodes/
- NASA – Virtual Tours https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-at-home-virtual-tours-and-augmented-reality https://www.travelandleisure.com/trip-ideas/space-astronomy/nasa-space-virtual- tours
- The American Museum of Natural History https://www.instagram.com/amnh/
- Go to BBC iPlayer ‘Science and Nature ’section where you will find all sorts of science based programmes. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/categories/science-and- nature/highlights
- Watch some shows by Marty Jopson, the science guy from The One Show http://blog.martyjopson.co.uk/p/media.html
- Subscribe to the BBC Focus Magazine http://www.sciencefocus.com/
- Subscribe to the Whizz Pop Bang magazine; a new monthly children’s science magazine. https://www.whizzpopbang.com
- The Physics of Super Heroes’ James Kakalios
- http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/projects/saltcrystals.html
- National Museum of Natural History https://naturalhistory.si.edu/visit/virtual-tour
PE
- TED Talks
- David Epstein – Sports Science Reporter https://www.ted.com/talks/david_epstein_are_athletes_really_getting_faster_bett er_stronger?lalangua=en
- As well as subscription channels there are lots of opportunities to watch top level sport on free channels https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/categories/sport/featured
Geography
- TED Talks – available on Youtube: David Gallo - Oceanographerhttps://www.ted.com/talks/david_gallo_underwater_astonishments
- Film - The Impossible (2012)
- Book – ‘Paddle to the Sea’ Clancy Holling
History
- ‘A History of the Ancient World’ Susan Wise Bauer
- ‘Over the Edge of the World’ Laurence Bergreen
- The Smithsonian https://www.instagram.com/smithsonian/
- TED-Ed
- The World’s Most Mysterious Book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NS4CbBJQ84
- Virtual Tour of Anne Frank’s Annex https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/secret-annex/
- The British Museum www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
- Imperial War Museum https://www.iwm.org.uk/
- Surrey History Centre in Woking https://www.surreycc.gov.uk/heritage-culture- and-recreation/archives-and-history/surrey-history-centre
- Timeline History Documentaries: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC88lvyJe7aHZmcvzvubDFRg
- Biographics: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClnDI2sdehVm1zm_LmUHsjQ
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/
Art and Textiles
- The Vatican Museum http://www.museivaticani.va/content/museivaticani/en/collezioni/musei/tour- virtuali-elenco.html
- BBC iPlayer has loads of art related programmes to choose from. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/categories/arts/featured
- The Design Museum https://designmuseum.org/
- The National Portrait Gallery www.npg.org.uk
- National Gallery www.nationalgallery.org.uk
Technology
- Tech by Guff https://www.instagram.com/tech/
Computing
- TED Talks – available on Youtube: A 12 year old app developer https://www.ted.com/talks/thomas_suarez_a_12_year_old_app_developer
Philosophy and Ethics
- Watch The Big Questions programme (Sunday 10am BBC1) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007zpll
- Research the impact different pioneers for equality have had on society e.g. Gandhi, Jesus, Desmond Tutu, Oskar Schindler, Harvey Milk, Malala Yousafzai, Emily Wilding Davison, Jim Elliot, Benazir Bhutto, William Wilberforce, Elizabeth Fry.
- Research the human rights act – find examples of countries around the world where people’s rights are still not being granted, Mayanmar for example.
Music
- Check out this list of 101 musical things to do in London. There are lots of free activities for all ages https://www.visitlondon.com/things-to-do/whats- on/music/music-things-to-do-in-london
- Watch ‘Why we love repetition in music ’by Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis on the TedEd website
- Listen to a range of different musical genres through BBC Sounds. You can also access a range of podcasts and features on the different genres: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds
Citizenship
Read all or any of the books that you haven’t from the Year 7 reading list:
- His Dark Materials Trilogy Philip Pullman
- The Hunger Games Trilogy Suzanne Collins
- I am Malala Malala Yousafzai
- I Will Always Write Back Caitlin Alfirenka & Martin Ganda
- Flowers In the Gutter: The True Story of the Edelweiss Pirates, Teenagers who resisted the Nazis K.R.Gaddy
- The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas John Boyne
- The Tattoo Artist of Auschwitz Heather Morris
As well as
- The Help Kathryn Stockett
- Lies We Tell Ourselves Robin Tilley
- Fire in the Streets Kekla Magoon
- The Power of One Bryce Courtnay
- Teenagers View on Politics podcasts
- The United Nations https://unfoundation.org/
- The United Nations Youth https://www.un.org/development/desa/youth/
- The Model United Nations https://una.org.uk/get-involved/learn-and-teach/model-un-portal