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SYLLABUS

ENGLISH-A (ENGA)
CLASS - XI
Full Marks – 100

LITERATURE: 40 Marks
1. Prose – 20 marks
2. Verse – 20 marks

LANGUAGE : 40 Marks
1. Textual Grammar – 16 marks
2. Essay writing [350-400 words] – 12 marks
3. Rhetoric – 12 marks

PROJECT – 20 Marks

LITERATURE : 40 Marks
Prose
1. One of these Days-Gabriel Garcia Marquez
2. The Sunder-bans Inheritance- Bittu Sehgal
3. Making Writing Simple- J.B. Priestley
4. Through the Tunnel- Dorris Lessing

Verse
1. Stolen Boat – William Wordsworth
2. You who never arrived – Rainer Maria Rilke
3. Snake - D H Lawrence
4. The Monkey and the Crocodile – Vikram Seth

LANGUAGE : 40 Marks

Textual Grammar –
Questions will be set on the following grammatical items from the prescribed pieces:
Tense, Voice, Group verbs, Preposition, Relative clause, Participle, Gerund, Subject- verb
agreement.

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Essay writing (350-400 words)


Essays on current Social/Academic topics should be practiced.

Rhetoric
4 questions (out of 6) of 3 marks each (1 mark for identifying the figure of speech
and 2 marks for explaining) will be set from the following figures of speech:
Simile, Metaphor, Metonymy, Synecdoche, Alliteration, Hyperbaton, Epigram, Anti-thesis,
Irony, Innuendo, Transferred epithet, Oxymoron, Interrogation, Exclamation, Epanaphora,
Chiasmus, Litotes, Onomatopoeia.

Project (1000-1500 words)


Topics for project: (any one)
1 The Canterbury Tales
2 Elizabethan Drama
3 Eighteenth century Novel
4 Romantic Poetry

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ENGLISH-A (ENGA)
Class - XII
Full Marks: 100

LITERATURE: 50 Marks
a) Prose:20 Marks
b) Verse: 20 Marks
c) Drama: 10 Marks

LANGUAGE: 30 Marks
a) Textual Grammar: 10 Marks
b) Substance with Critical Analysis—10 Marks
c) ESP—10 Marks

PROJECT:20 Marks

LITERATURE : 50 Marks

Prose:
1. Michael Angelo – Gulzar
2. Debut on Stage – Charles Chaplin
3. War – Luigi Pirandello
4. A Chameleon – Anton Chekov

Verse
1. Let me Not – William Shakespeare
2. Song Offerings # 63 – Rabindranath Tagore
3. Dulce et Decorum – Wilfred Owen
4. Tonight I can write – Pablo Neruda

Drama
Cathleen in Houlihan – W.B Yeats

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LANGUAGE: 30 Marks

Textual Grammar
i Synthesis and splitting of sentences
ii Change of narration
iii Correction of Errors
Substances with critical analysis
Students have to write substances either from a prose passage (200-250 words) or from a
poem (14 lines).

ESP [business letter, article writing]


Either business letter (120-150 words) or article writing (150-200 words)

Project : (1000-1500 words)


Topics for project: (any one)
I. Victorian Novel
II. Victorian Poetry
III. Modern Drama
IV. Modern Poetry

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ALTERNATIVE ENGLISH (ALTE)


Class - XI
Full Marks: 100

LITERATURE: 40 Marks
a) Prose:15 Marks
b) Verse: 15 Marks
c) Rapid Reader: 10 Marks

LANGUAGE: 40 Marks
a) Textual Grammar: 10 Marks
b) Writing—15 Marks
c) ESP—15 Marks

PROJECT:20 Marks

LITERATURE : 40 Marks
Prose
1. Home to Heaven – Pearl S Buck
2. Kabuliwallah – Rabindranath Tagore
3. The Man with a scar – Maugham
4. I became an Author – W B Yeats

Verse
1. Bright Star – John Keats
2. A dog has Died – Pablo Neruda
3. Coromondel Fishers - Sarojini Naidu
4. Everyone Sang – Seigfried Sassoon

Rapid Reader
Three Blind Mice – Agatha Christie

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LANGUAGE: 40 Marks

Textual Grammar
Questions will be set on the following grammatical items from the prescribed pieces:
Tense, Voice, Group verbs, Preposition, Relative clause, Participle, Gerund.

Writing
Essay on any Social/Academic Topic (350-400 words)

ESP (150-200 words)


Letter writing- (formal/informal)/Diary writing

Project (1000-1500 words)

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ALTERNATIVE ENGLISH (ALTE)


Class - XII
Full Marks: 100

LITERATURE: 40 Marks
a) Prose: 15 Marks
b) Verse: 15 Marks
c) Drama: 10 Marks

LANGUAGE: 40 Marks
a) Textual Grammar 10 Marks
b) Reading Comprehension—15 Marks
c) ESP—15 Marks

PROJECT: 20 Marks

LITERATURE : 40 Marks
Prose
1. Sparrows – K Abbas
2. The Disk – Jorge Luis Borges
3. Mask of Vishnu – Khushwant Singh
4. Science and Religion – Albert Einstein

Verse
1. A bird came Down the walk – Emily Dickinson
2. Break, Break, Break – Alfred Tennyson
3. The World is too much with us – William Wordsworth
4. Lotus – Toru Dutt

Drama
The Rising of the Moon – Lady Gregory

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LANGUAGE: 40 Marks

Textual Grammar
I. Synthesis and splitting of sentences
II. Change of narration
III. Correction of Errors

Reading Comprehension
Unseen Prose Passage (200-250 words)

ESP
Business Report writing, Précis writing

Project : (1000-1500 words)

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