Year 9 Wider Reading Unit

Looking at the world through a new lens

This term our Year 9 English students you will be completing a Wider Reading unit culminating in a multi-modal presentation in which they reflect upon their reading of at least two novels or biographies and the new or clearer understandings they have developed from this reading.

The books had to come from the reading list I provided. I loosely grouped the titles into the following categories: Class sets, War and Conflict, Other Cultures, History, Classics and Biographies and Autobiographies.

Below is a photo of the display we created of the class sets pertinent to the set theme, Looking at the world through a new lens. I purposely didn't display all the individual books from the Wider Reading List as it gave me an opportunity to teach each of the six classes how to use our Oliver Catalogue to find out whether the books were on loan or available, how many copies were in our collection, whether it was available as an eBook or Audiobook on Overdrive and how to read the abstract and record the classification before going to the shelves themselves.