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Year 8
Units are groups of lessons that relate to one another.

Choose a unit (9)

1
Myths, legends and stories that inspire
28 lessons
2
'A Midsummer Night's Dream'
28 lessons
3
Participating in effective debates
4 lessons
4
Taking a stand
14 lessons
5
Single poet study: Maya Angelou
20 lessons
6
Victorian childhood: non-fiction reading and writing
8 lessons
7
A monster within: reading and writing Gothic fiction
32 lessons
8
Gothic poetry
6 lessons
9
A history of language
8 lessons

Choose a previously released unit (5)

Year 8 • English

These lessons were made for lockdown learning during the pandemic

We've made brand-new and improved lessons for you.
1
Recapping the basics: simple sentences, statements, paragraphs, capital letters and past simple verbs
7 lessons
2
Complex sentences, avoiding fragments and run-ons, capital letters
7 lessons
3
Past simple tense, subordinate clauses, punctuating conjunctions and lists
6 lessons
4
Writing accurate, correctly punctuated and paragraphed dialogue, using personal pronouns
6 lessons
5
Avoiding fragments, fused sentences and comma splices. Using capital letters and writing in the past tense. Using multiple subordinate clauses, punctuating lists correctly when in a complex sentence.
5 lessons