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English 8 KPK (legacy)
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Textbook Board, Peshawar
Bibliographic record
| Board | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Textbook Board, Peshawar |
|---|---|
| Class | 8 |
| Subject | English |
| Medium | English |
| Curriculum | National Curriculum 2006 |
| Edition | 2006-curriculum reprint |
| Approval | DCTE Abbottabad, NC-2006 series |
| Pages | 207 |
| File size | 22.7 MB |
| PDF producer | A-PDF Watermark 4.7.6 |
Analysis
The class-8 reader, and the most literary and least civic book in KP's English series. Its reading list is a classic anthology rather than a themed commission: Sindbad, Grimm's Old Sultan, Rumi's The Guest House, Charles Babbage, Ibn-e-Sina, and a full unit on the Chinese New Year that opens by asking pupils to compare it with festivals their own families celebrate. That unit, a whole lesson on a non-Muslim foreign festival, is what earns A6 1. The cost of the anthology approach is measurable: this is the book with the longest mean sentence length in the entire corpus, because the classic prose was never levelled to grade. A2 is 5 because the book's living-responsibly lesson is manners about bus seats, mobile volume and littering, with zero hits for democracy, constitution, human rights, parliament, minority or equality. A1 4 comes from a Prophet-and-justice lesson opening the book and the Ibn-e-Sina unit. As with the other KP readers, roughly half the unit titles are reconstructions.
Evidence tier
scanned English OCR — quotation permitted after re-verification by exact string match.
Measured scores
Axes not listed were not scored for this book — coverage is uneven by design. All axes run 1–5, where 1 is the secular/pluralist/open pole. See the method.
Evidence recorded 5
Three kinds, deliberately styled apart. A quotation is verbatim wording and is only ever taken from English-medium text. An observation describes structure or theme — the only kind permitted for Urdu and Sindhi material, which this project never quotes. An absence is a negative result: a probe was run and returned nothing, which is the weakest claim made anywhere on this site.
observation religion lens A1 = 4 PDF p. 7 English OCR #e01
absence civics lens A2 = 5 PDF p. 194 English OCR #e02
A negative result. It records that a probe was run and found nothing — not that the thing is not in the book. Where this rests on Urdu material the correct reading is not established, never absent, because degraded Nastaliq OCR cannot tell those apart.
absence patriotism lens A5 = 1 English OCR #e03
A negative result. It records that a probe was run and found nothing — not that the thing is not in the book. Where this rests on Urdu material the correct reading is not established, never absent, because degraded Nastaliq OCR cannot tell those apart.
quotation othering lens A6 = 1 PDF p. 118 English OCR #e04
observation gender lens A7 = 4 PDF p. 88 English OCR #e05
Every passage recorded for this book is shown above — nothing is withheld or truncated. Each item has a permanent anchor, so a single piece of evidence can be linked and disputed on its own.
Availability of the book itself
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Provenance
| Local file | kptbb-kp/class-8/english-8-en.pdf |
|---|---|
| Copy retrieved | |
| SHA-256 of the analysed file | 62f86a42fb1f09f89ca4e9913e41dde3d52df53f1f0f707dff6d6b9add40c1ff |
| Source | https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1a9grRdcaMwwfyD_6cYTw7eQUQrZm8ko8 |
The checksum is of the exact file these findings were computed from, so anyone can prove they hold the same bytes. The retrieval date is when this copy was fetched to the project's own disk, not a formal web-archive capture. Boards and mirrors reprint and reorganise continuously, so a source link may not resolve, and may not serve the same edition if it does. The bibliographic record above — board, class, subject, medium, curriculum, edition, approval reference and page count — is what identifies the book; the link is a convenience. This project does not republish the PDF itself, for the copyright reasons set out in about.
Identifiers and permanent link
| Record ID | kptbb-english-8-en |
|---|---|
| Permanent link | /books/kptbb-english-8-en/ |
| This record as data | /books/kptbb-english-8-en.json · whole dataset |
The record ID is an accession number that happens to be readable. It never changes, even if the metadata encoded in it turns out to be wrong — if this book's board, class, subject or medium is corrected, the correction appears in the fields above and the ID stays as it is. That is the only way a link made today still resolves in ten years. The full rule is in the standards.
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kptbb-english-8-en, corpus version 210 records. Retrieved from /books/kptbb-english-8-en/If you are quoting a passage from the book rather than citing this record, cite the book — the bibliographic details above are what identifies it — and say that you found it here. Two citations, not one.
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