Comprehensive Literary Curriculum and Reading Selection Guide

Unit 1: Adventure

• Page Number: $8$
• Text Classifications:
  • Contemporary fiction (adventure)
  • Non-fiction (travel writing)
  • Thematic poetry
  • Novel (spy story)
• Reading Selections:
  • 'Beware Low-Flying Girls'
  • Around India in 80 Trains
  • 'Hard is the Journey'
  • Silverfin

Unit 2: 'Hey, You Down There'

• Page Number: $32$
• Text Classifications:
  • Short story (science fiction)
• Reading Selections:
  • 'Hey, You Down There'

Unit 3: Film and Fame

• Page Number: $57$
• Text Classifications:
  • Contemporary fiction
  • Non-fiction (informative article)
  • Non-fiction (film review)
• Reading Selections:
  • Film Boy
  • 'Hrithik Roshan says he practises every day to overcome stammering' in the Hindustan Times
  • The Incredibles film review
  • 'Thai cav rescue boys meet hero' in the Guard

Unit 4: Small but Perfect

• Page Number: $82$
• Term Identifier: Term
• Text Classifications:
  • Flash fiction
  • Haiku poetry
  • Imagist poetry
  • Non-fiction (informative article)
  • Non-fiction (explanatory text)
  • Non-fiction (magazine article and interview)
• Reading Selections:
  • 'One in Twenty-Three'
  • Haiku poems
  • Imagist poems
  • 'The tiny world of Willard Wigan' in the Telegraph
  • Explanation of shabtis
  • 'Micro-artist Willard Wigan' in WhatsonTV

Unit 5: Unusual Education

• Page Number: $108$
• Text Classifications:
  • Non-fiction (descriptive accounts)
  • Non-fiction (blogs)
  • Non-fiction (discussion article and account)
  • Contemporary fiction
  • Contemporary drama
• Reading Selections:
  • Two accounts of different schools
  • Blog about school uniform
  • Homeschooling article and account
  • Wonder
  • The Last Class

Unit 6: Life Stories

• Page Number: $136$
• Text Classifications:
  • Thematic poetry
  • Non-fiction (autobiographies)
  • Non-fiction (diary)
  • Persuasive speech
• Reading Selections:
  • 'Lullaby'
  • 'The Song of the Old Mother'
  • Biography of Malala Yousafzai
  • As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
  • Letter to Daniel
  • Captain Robert Scott's diary
  • Speech by Nelson Mandela

Unit 7: 'The Travel Agency'

• Page Number: $163$
• Text Classifications:
  • Short story (fantasy)
• Reading Selections:
  • 'The Travel Agency'

Unit 8: Urban Threats

• Text Classifications:
  • Contemporary fiction
  • Non-fiction
  • Classic fiction
  • Thematic
• Reading Selections:
  • The White Tiger
  • Doha artic
  • Neverwhere
  • A Christmas Care
  • Of Four
  • 'City Jungle'
  • Last Night