Reading — Grade 8
The full course, month by month: 144 lessons, the Weekly Checks woven through, and 10 Monthly Exams plus the Year-End Final — all inside the one Family Pass.
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Month 1 — British Literature in Depth
🔒 Shakespeare — A Midsummer Night Dream Glimpse · week 1 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Shakespeare — A Midsummer Night Dream Glimpse — Reading Skill · week 1 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Shakespeare — A Midsummer Night Dream Glimpse — Words and Response · week 1 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Julius Caesar — Study One, Honour and Conspiracy · week 1 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Julius Caesar — Study One, Honour and Conspiracy — Reading Skill · week 2 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Julius Caesar — Study One, Honour and Conspiracy — Words and Response · week 2 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Julius Caesar — Study Two, the Funeral Speeches · week 2 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Julius Caesar — Study Two, the Funeral Speeches — Reading Skill · week 2 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Julius Caesar — Study Two, the Funeral Speeches — Words and Response · week 3 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Shakespeare — the Sonnets Studied · week 3 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Shakespeare — the Sonnets Studied — Reading Skill · week 3 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Shakespeare — the Sonnets Studied — Words and Response · week 3 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Shakespeare Craft and the King James Era of English · week 4 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Shakespeare Craft and the King James Era of English — Reading Skill · week 4 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Shakespeare Craft and the King James Era of English — Words and Response · week 4 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Bunyan in Depth — Pilgrim Progress Part Two Glimpse · week 4 · about 25 minutes
Month 2 — British Literature in Depth
🔒 Bunyan in Depth — Pilgrim Progress Part Two Glimpse — Reading Skill · week 5 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Bunyan in Depth — Pilgrim Progress Part Two Glimpse — Words and Response · week 5 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Bunyan — Grace Abounding Simply · week 5 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Bunyan — Grace Abounding Simply — Reading Skill · week 5 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Bunyan — Grace Abounding Simply — Words and Response · week 6 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Milton — a Glimpse of Paradise Lost · week 6 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Milton — a Glimpse of Paradise Lost — Reading Skill · week 6 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Milton — a Glimpse of Paradise Lost — Words and Response · week 6 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Swift and Satire — a Gulliver Glimpse · week 7 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Swift and Satire — a Gulliver Glimpse — Reading Skill · week 7 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Swift and Satire — a Gulliver Glimpse — Words and Response · week 7 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Swift — a Modest Proposal Explained as Satire · week 7 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Swift — a Modest Proposal Explained as Satire — Reading Skill · week 8 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Swift — a Modest Proposal Explained as Satire — Words and Response · week 8 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Defoe, Johnson and Boswell — an Augustan Prose Glimpse · week 8 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Defoe, Johnson and Boswell — an Augustan Prose Glimpse — Reading Skill · week 8 · about 25 minutes
Month 3 — British Literature in Depth
🔒 Defoe, Johnson and Boswell — an Augustan Prose Glimpse — Words and Response · week 9 · about 25 minutes
🔒 The Romantics — Wordsworth and the Poetry of Memory · week 9 · about 25 minutes
🔒 The Romantics — Wordsworth and the Poetry of Memory — Reading Skill · week 9 · about 25 minutes
🔒 The Romantics — Wordsworth and the Poetry of Memory — Words and Response · week 9 · about 25 minutes
🔒 The Romantics — Coleridge and the Ancient Mariner · week 10 · about 25 minutes
🔒 The Romantics — Coleridge and the Ancient Mariner — Reading Skill · week 10 · about 25 minutes
🔒 The Romantics — Coleridge and the Ancient Mariner — Words and Response · week 10 · about 25 minutes
🔒 The Romantics — Shelley and Keats, Carefully Chosen Poems · week 10 · about 25 minutes
🔒 The Romantics — Shelley and Keats, Carefully Chosen Poems — Reading Skill · week 11 · about 25 minutes
🔒 The Romantics — Shelley and Keats, Carefully Chosen Poems — Words and Response · week 11 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Dickens in Depth — Great Expectations, Study One · week 11 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Dickens in Depth — Great Expectations, Study One — Reading Skill · week 11 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Dickens in Depth — Great Expectations, Study One — Words and Response · week 12 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Dickens in Depth — Great Expectations, Study Two · week 12 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Dickens in Depth — Great Expectations, Study Two — Reading Skill · week 12 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Dickens in Depth — Great Expectations, Study Two — Words and Response · week 12 · about 25 minutes
Month 4 — British Literature in Depth
🔒 Dickens — a Hard Times Glimpse · week 13 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Dickens — a Hard Times Glimpse — Reading Skill · week 13 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Dickens — a Hard Times Glimpse — Words and Response · week 13 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Tennyson and the Brownings · week 13 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Tennyson and the Brownings — Reading Skill · week 14 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Tennyson and the Brownings — Words and Response · week 14 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Lewis Studies — Narnia Revisited and Screwtape with Discernment · week 14 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Lewis Studies — Narnia Revisited and Screwtape with Discernment — Reading Skill · week 14 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Lewis Studies — Narnia Revisited and Screwtape with Discernment — Words and Response · week 15 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Tolkien Studies — Hobbit and Rings as Myth-Making · week 15 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Tolkien Studies — Hobbit and Rings as Myth-Making — Reading Skill · week 15 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Tolkien Studies — Hobbit and Rings as Myth-Making — Words and Response · week 15 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Don Quixote — a Glimpse of the Knight of La Mancha · week 16 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Don Quixote — a Glimpse of the Knight of La Mancha — Reading Skill · week 16 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Don Quixote — a Glimpse of the Knight of La Mancha — Words and Response · week 16 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Hugo — Les Misérables, Law and Grace · week 16 · about 25 minutes
Month 5 — World Literature
🔒 Hugo — Les Misérables, Law and Grace — Reading Skill · week 17 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Hugo — Les Misérables, Law and Grace — Words and Response · week 17 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Hugo — Les Misérables, the Hunter and the Hunted · week 17 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Hugo — Les Misérables, the Hunter and the Hunted — Reading Skill · week 17 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Hugo — Les Misérables, the Hunter and the Hunted — Words and Response · week 18 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Dostoevsky — a Careful Glimpse of Crime and Punishment · week 18 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Dostoevsky — a Careful Glimpse of Crime and Punishment — Reading Skill · week 18 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Dostoevsky — a Careful Glimpse of Crime and Punishment — Words and Response · week 18 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Tolstoy Tales — What Men Live By, a Study · week 19 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Tolstoy Tales — What Men Live By, a Study — Reading Skill · week 19 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Tolstoy Tales — What Men Live By, a Study — Words and Response · week 19 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Tolstoy Tales — How Much Land Does a Man Need · week 19 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Tolstoy Tales — How Much Land Does a Man Need — Reading Skill · week 20 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Tolstoy Tales — How Much Land Does a Man Need — Words and Response · week 20 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Andersen — Tales Read as Literature · week 20 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Andersen — Tales Read as Literature — Reading Skill · week 20 · about 25 minutes
Month 6 — World Literature
🔒 Andersen — Tales Read as Literature — Words and Response · week 21 · about 25 minutes
🔒 The Little Prince — a Glimpse with Discernment · week 21 · about 25 minutes
🔒 The Little Prince — a Glimpse with Discernment — Reading Skill · week 21 · about 25 minutes
🔒 The Little Prince — a Glimpse with Discernment — Words and Response · week 21 · about 25 minutes
🔒 African Classics — a Respectful Glimpse · week 22 · about 25 minutes
🔒 African Classics — a Respectful Glimpse — Reading Skill · week 22 · about 25 minutes
🔒 African Classics — a Respectful Glimpse — Words and Response · week 22 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Asian Classics — a Respectful Glimpse · week 22 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Asian Classics — a Respectful Glimpse — Reading Skill · week 23 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Asian Classics — a Respectful Glimpse — Words and Response · week 23 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Chapter One — the Night the Wires Sang · week 23 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Chapter One — the Night the Wires Sang — Reading Skill · week 23 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Chapter One — the Night the Wires Sang — Words and Response · week 24 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Chapter Two — the Preacher with No Horse · week 24 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Chapter Two — the Preacher with No Horse — Reading Skill · week 24 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Chapter Two — the Preacher with No Horse — Words and Response · week 24 · about 25 minutes
Month 7 — The Telegraph Line — an Original Novel
🔒 Chapter Three — a Warning about the Bridge · week 25 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Chapter Three — a Warning about the Bridge — Reading Skill · week 25 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Chapter Three — a Warning about the Bridge — Words and Response · week 25 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Chapter Four — Sabbath on the Prairie · week 25 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Chapter Four — Sabbath on the Prairie — Reading Skill · week 26 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Chapter Four — Sabbath on the Prairie — Words and Response · week 26 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Chapter Five — the Message That Was Never Sent · week 26 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Chapter Five — the Message That Was Never Sent — Reading Skill · week 26 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Chapter Five — the Message That Was Never Sent — Words and Response · week 27 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Chapter Six — Ruth Learns the Key · week 27 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Chapter Six — Ruth Learns the Key — Reading Skill · week 27 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Chapter Six — Ruth Learns the Key — Words and Response · week 27 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Chapter Seven — Fire on the Line · week 28 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Chapter Seven — Fire on the Line — Reading Skill · week 28 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Chapter Seven — Fire on the Line — Words and Response · week 28 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Chapter Eight — the Circuit Widens · week 28 · about 25 minutes
Month 8 — The Telegraph Line — an Original Novel
🔒 Chapter Eight — the Circuit Widens — Reading Skill · week 29 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Chapter Eight — the Circuit Widens — Words and Response · week 29 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Florence Nightingale in Depth · week 29 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Florence Nightingale in Depth — Reading Skill · week 29 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Florence Nightingale in Depth — Words and Response · week 30 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Abraham Lincoln as Writer · week 30 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Abraham Lincoln as Writer — Reading Skill · week 30 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Abraham Lincoln as Writer — Words and Response · week 30 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Harriet Tubman in Depth · week 31 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Harriet Tubman in Depth — Reading Skill · week 31 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Harriet Tubman in Depth — Words and Response · week 31 · about 25 minutes
🔒 George Müller in Depth · week 31 · about 25 minutes
🔒 George Müller in Depth — Reading Skill · week 32 · about 25 minutes
🔒 George Müller in Depth — Words and Response · week 32 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Gladys Aylward — a Glimpse · week 32 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Gladys Aylward — a Glimpse — Reading Skill · week 32 · about 25 minutes
Month 9 — Biography and History Reading
🔒 Gladys Aylward — a Glimpse — Words and Response · week 33 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Wartime Letters and Diaries as Primary Sources · week 33 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Wartime Letters and Diaries as Primary Sources — Reading Skill · week 33 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Wartime Letters and Diaries as Primary Sources — Words and Response · week 33 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Metre and Form Analysis · week 34 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Metre and Form Analysis — Reading Skill · week 34 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Metre and Form Analysis — Words and Response · week 34 · about 25 minutes
🔒 The Romantics Lyrics Analysed · week 34 · about 25 minutes
🔒 The Romantics Lyrics Analysed — Reading Skill · week 35 · about 25 minutes
🔒 The Romantics Lyrics Analysed — Words and Response · week 35 · about 25 minutes
🔒 American Voices — Longfellow Mastery and an Early Frost Glimpse · week 35 · about 25 minutes
🔒 American Voices — Longfellow Mastery and an Early Frost Glimpse — Reading Skill · week 35 · about 25 minutes
🔒 American Voices — Longfellow Mastery and an Early Frost Glimpse — Words and Response · week 36 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Writing about Poetry — the Capstone Essay · week 36 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Writing about Poetry — the Capstone Essay — Reading Skill · week 36 · about 25 minutes
🔒 Writing about Poetry — the Capstone Essay — Words and Response · week 36 · about 25 minutes
The Exams
🔒 Reading — Weekly Check, Week 1
🔒 Reading — Weekly Check, Week 2
🔒 Reading — Weekly Check, Week 3
…all 36 Weekly Checks, 9 Monthly Exams and the Year-End Final stand inside the course, on their weeks and months.