Year 9 Reading List
English
- Subway Book Reviews https://www.instagram.com/subwaybookreview/?hl=en
- ‘Brave New World’ by Aldous Huxley
- ‘1984’ by George Orwell https://www.planetebook.com/free-ebooks/1984.pdf
- ‘To Kill A Mockingbird ’ by Harper Lee
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2657.To_Kill_a_Mockingbird? ac=1&from_search=true&qid=a8fmydqVF3&rank=2
- ‘Where the Crawdad’s Sing‘ by Delia Owens
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36809135-where-the-crawdads-sing
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/21/books/where-the-crawdads-sing-delia- owens.html
- ‘Brighton Rock’ Graham Greene
- ‘Catch 22’ Joseph Heller
- ‘Collected Poems’ Philip Larkin
- ‘Dracula’ Bram Stoker
- ‘Empire of the Sun’ J.G. Ballard
- ‘Frankenstein’ Mary Shelley
- ‘I Claudius’ Robert Graves
- ‘Shakespeare: The World as a Stage’ Bill Bryson
- ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ Ernest Hemingway
- ‘One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich’ Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ Ken Kesey
- ‘Remains of the Day’ Kazuo Ishiguro
- ‘Burning Secret’ Stefan Zweig
- The Classics Challenge: read at least three classic novels by writers like Coral Island by R.M. Ballantyne, The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham and The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett over one year.
- Short stories from America http://www.selectedshorts.org/
Maths
- Watch ‘The Code ’by Marcus Du Sautoy Part 1
- Watch ‘The Imitation Game’, a film about Alan Turing.
- ‘How to Bake Pi’ Eugenia Cheng
- Mathway: https://www.mathway.com/Algebra
- Try the free app ‘Photomaths’
Science
- ‘What If? https://blog.xkcd.com/
- ‘The Theory of Everything – ’available on Netflix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Salz7uGp72c
- ’13 Minutes to the Moon’ Episode 1 – ‘We Choose to Go’ https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csz4d With no idea how to get there, the race to the moon begins – “We intend to win”.
- NASA Goddard https://www.instagram.com/nasagoddard/
- Visit the Greenwich Observatory and Planetarium for all things space related. Book to go to the various talks and courses offered. https://www.rmg.co.uk/royal- observatory
- Join the Royal Society of Chemistry for free chemistry resources and information. http://www.rsc.org/
- Join the Institute of Physics for free Physics resources and information. http://www.iop.org/
- Join the Royal Society of Biology for free resources and information. https://www.rsb.org.uk/
- The Science of Everyday Life: Why Teapots Dribble, Toast Burns and Light Bulbs Shine, by Marty Jopson
- 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/
- ‘50 Chemistry Ideas You Really Need to Know’ by Kayley Birch
- ‘In Search of the Double Helix’ by John Gribbin
- ‘Black Hole Blues: And Other Songs from Outer Space’ by Janna Levin
PE
- TED Talks
- Billie Jean King – Tennis Legend and Activis https://www.ted.com/talks/billie_jean_king_this_tennis_icon_paved_the_way_for_women_in_sports?language=en
- ‘Touching the Void’ by Joe Simpson
- Bounce - The myth of talent and the power of practice by Mathew Syed
- Use the link below to access radio programmes on all kinds of scientific topics. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01gyd7j
- 10 weird and wonderful chemical reactions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bt6RPP2ANI
https://www.nutrition.org.uk/healthyliving/an-active-lifestyle/eating-for-sport-and- exercise.html
Geography
- ‘Little Pyongyang’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46310oYFU-U
- C4 Unreported World http://www.channel4.com/programmes/unreported- world/episodeguide/series-2018
- ‘A History of the World in 12 maps’ by Jerry Brotton
- ‘Evolution of Geographical Thought’ by Majid Husain
- Megastructures: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0woBco6Dgcxt0h8SwyyOmw
History
- The British Library https://www.instagram.com/britishlibrary/
- UK virtual 360 degree museum tours https://v21artspace.com/news/2020/4/23/the-best-360-degree-uk-museum-tours- you-can-take-at-home
- ‘1619’ https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/podcasts/1619-podcast.html
- Film - Saving Private Ryan (1998)
- Film - The Kings Speech (2010)
- Check out BBC iPlayer for loads of historical documentaries and programmes. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/categories/history/featured
- ‘Did Anything Good Come out of WWII’ by Emma Marriott
- Podcast – ‘We have ways of making you talk’
- ‘A History of the 20th Century’ by Martin Gilbert
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
Art and Textiles
- Student Art Guide www.studentartguide.com
- The Illustrated Story of Art by DK
- The Saatchi Gallery https://www.instagram.com/saatchi_gallery/
- MOMA – Museum of Modern Art, New York https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/moma-the-museum-of-modern-art
- Hayward Gallery www.hayward-gallery.org.uk
- American Masters Eames: The Architect and the Painter (2011)
- Check out some of these virtual tours: https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2020/mar/23/10-of-the-worlds-best-virtual- museum-and-art-gallery-tours
Computing
- Open University http://podcast.open.ac.uk/
Philosophy and Ethics
- Watch Life and Death Row programme – BBC iPlayer. Consider how criminals should be punished? Should the death penalty ever be an option? https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/group/b071jy7p
- Read 'Never Let Me Go' by Kazuo Ishiguro and 'My Sister’s Keeper' by Jodi Picoult. Consider whether people should be allowed to choose the gender of their baby. Should people be forced to donate their organs when they die? Should we clone humans so we can use their organs to cure cancer victims? Watch Vera Drake. At what stage should the abortion of a foetus become illegal?
- Watch 'A Short Stay in Switzerland'. Should euthanasia be made legal?
- Read some of the introductory philosophy books on this reading list. https://suggestedreads.com/best-philosophy-books-for-beginners-to-start-with/
Business
Drama
- London theatre - streamed and live streamed https://www.whatsonstage.com/london-theatre/news/stage-shows-musicals- opera-free-stream-online_51198.html
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/culture
https://www.dialectsarchive.com/
https://www.digitaltheatre.com/consumer
- ‘Black Snow’ by Mikhail Bulgakov
Music
Citizenship
- ‘Catch 22’ by Joseph Heller
- ‘Freedom Writers’
- Any books from the ‘#1 Ladies Detective Agency’ by Alexander McCall Smith
- ‘First they Killed My Father’ by Luong Ung
- ‘The Persimmon Tree’ by Bryce Courtnay