English, class 8

The confound holds — Punjab SNC-2022, Sindh and KP on 2006-curriculum reprints — but this is the class where each board's design philosophy is clearest. Punjab runs twelve theme-labelled units (PAGE 3) and, uniquely in its own sequence, breaks the martyrdom chain: A5 falls to 2, Unit 11 Give to Your Country is civic-productive, there is no martyr and no Nishan-e-Haider, and the only soldier is a grammar-drill subject. A1 stays at 4 (Unit 1 Tolerance of the Rasoolullah, Unit 5 Hazrat Umar, and a devotional grammar exercise: "Mama! Why do we offer namaz?", PAGE 57), and A7 rises to 4 because this is the only Punjab reader with no gender unit at all. Sindh's seven competency units carry zero religious selections again (A1 2) and give the role-model slot to a humanitarian rather than a soldier — What shaped Edhi's Life, the fullest treatment of Edhi in the corpus. Its seventh unit, The Multiple Roles That Women Play, is a full gender unit hidden from its own contents page by a production defect that prints "UNIT 6 SPORTSMANSHIP" twice; any audit working from contents pages will miss it. KP's book is the classic anthology — 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 asks pupils to compare it with their own family's festivals, which earns A6 1. The cost is measurable: KP 8 has the longest mean sentence length in the corpus (17.2 words, FK 8.7), because classic prose was never levelled to grade, and A2 is 5 — its living-responsibly lesson is manners about bus seats and littering, with zero hits for democracy, constitution, human rights, parliament, minority or equality. KP's eighth-graders read the best literature in the corpus in the least civic book in it.