Year 7: which books have your DC studied in English this year?

Thanks Elibean

How long is a lesson? Here we have one single and two double lessons - each lesson is 50'.

Ah - selective indie (if 'selective' means they have to take tests to get in).

One week in and so far in school they've been reading 'Boy' and are studying autobiographies. Macbeth is on the list, but I don't know what else yet...

I do know they expect kids to read every day from books other than those on the curriculum as well. English three times per week, but all double lessons.

Can I resurrect this very useful thread and ask posters which books/texts your new Year 7 DC are reading at school, or on school's recommendation?

DD has started off with Saki's The She-Wolf.

State comp, DD2 in yr7. Hunger Games (not sure if complete trilogy), Midsummer Nights Dream and various poetry.
When DD1 was in yr7 at same school (6 years ago), think it was Noughts & Crosses and Warhorse.

private peaceful

State comp. In year 7 they read:

Diary of Anne Frank
Boy in the striped pyjamas
Animal Farm
A range of poetry
Boy
Twelfth Night
To Kill a Mocking Bird

5 hours of English a week

Sherlock Holmes - They looked at a few, mostly watched old style Sherlock on YouTube but DD who is an avid reader has now read about 12 of the books.

A Christmas Carol.

Shakespeare - A few sonnets, A Midsummer Night Dream, Twelfth Night.

Buddy.

Poetry in various forms.

For all of the above they read snippets in class and watched film/tv versions. DD has sought actual copies of all of them and read the whole thing in her own time, plus more by the same author if she has enjoyed them.

DS' s school does Renaissance Reading scheme - they have to go online and answer questions on the books they have read. The school system also adds up the amount of reading the children do - not sure if this is counted in words or what - but they give awards to the students who have read the most outside of the set class texts.

Re repeating books they have done at primary DS did Holes both at primary and secondary and had also re-read in between time as he enjoyed the book.

Wish he would read a book now! (Y9)

my dds school has exactly same system as steppemum

Accelerated reading is by renaissance learning inc.

Dd has 4 x 1 hour lessons per week. Books this year in year 7 state comp have been Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, Holes, A Midsummer Night's Dream and a collection of poetry.

invisible Man and Darren Shan or something

accelerated reader - google it.

It is an international program, so it requires a bit of search to find the UK site.
The school has to register with it to access the tests, but anyone can go on and look at the book levels etc

At SPS, boys in year 7 were given a reading list. What they do in class depends on the teacher. In my son's form, they had to choose a book a term, often having to write a review when finished. In class they read Merchant of Venice and Orwell's Shooting an Elephant. He also studied short stories by Saki and Maupassant (He really liked those) along with various poems by Browning and Frost. They are just briefly looking at Canterbury Tales now.

What an interesting question! DD still has another year at primary but she loves English so it's good to know what kind of thing she can look forward to.

We do accelerated reader at my school too. All of KS3 do it daily.

Ah, thank you Burns.

My school does the accelerated reader scheme as well, as does the DSs'. It's good if properly administrated by the school.

I meant to say that the goal of the accelerated reading is that every child has a reading age of 16 before they do their GCSEs (which assume a reading age of 16)

Ellen- Boy with a genetic disease=Wonder (lovely book)

The only one I know he has read in class is Holes. No idea what else they did.

ds is at grammar school, and they have an accelerated reading program. This is a system where they are expected to read for 20 minutes every day at home. Once a book is read, they have to fill in an on-line quiz on the book. They need 80% plus in the quiz to have passed. The expectation is that they read 2 books per half term, and have to pass 2 quizzes per half term to prove they have done the reading. So ds has had to read 12 novels this year, as homework.

crucially, they are assessed for reading level and the books they read must be at their level. (the system ahs pretty much all books in print on it, so they can choose any book and type it in to see the level)

Once per fortnight they have a library lesson, where they just read. Also one tutor time per week is reading.

ds loves reading so this hasn't been hard for him, but has been a struggle for some.

Asked my Year 12 (private school) DD. Can't remember what they did in Year 7! But did Witch Child in Year 8. Top sets did Far From The Madding Crowd in Year 9, lower sets did Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time.