Reading+PROSE+(KS3)

Whilst we will NOT be reading any complete novels in English this year (I expect you all to be doing that in your OWN time!), we will study a number of short extracts, in order closely to examine how they use language to create a particular effect. We will study a selection of fiction and non-fiction texts, and primarily respond to them through guided and detailed annotation. However, I also hope that a close study of these texts will improve your own writing, as you learn from their artistry with words and language.

Non-Fiction
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 * 1) 'I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings' by Maya Angelou (Click [|HERE] to go to Angelou's website, including an interview by Oprah Winfrey)
 * 1) 'Writing Home' by Alan Bennett (Click [|HERE] to read a profile of Bennett on the website of //The Guardian// newspaper)
 * 1) 'Notes from a Small Island' by Bill Bryson (Click [|HERE] to go to Bryson's website)
 * 1) 'No Name Woman' by Maxine Hong Kingston (Click [|HERE] to go the Wikipedia entry on Kingston)
 * 1) 'Fever Pitch' by Nick Hornby (Click [|HERE] to go to Hornby's website)

Fiction
'The Bird Artist' by Howard Norman ' Little Things' by Raymond Carver 'The God of Small Things' by Arundhati Roy 'Midnight's Children' by Salman Rushdie 'Feeling Sorry for Celia' by Jaclyn Moriarty 'Oranges are Not the Only Fruit' by Jeanette Winterson 'Bumface' by Morris Gleitzman __________