Syllabus for Classes XI & XII
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Syllabus for Classes XI & XII |
| This course aims at preparing students for- the study of English as an academic discipline at the college level. Students who opt for this course will be expected to have attained a reasonable mastery over the essentials of the English language i.e. | |
| (i) | they would have an active vocabulary of about; 2000 to 2500 words; and |
| (ii) | they would have acquired the ability of using the basic grammatical, patterns. The course will, therefore, be pitched at a level which the student can find challenging. |
| One Paper | 3 Hours | 100 Marks |
| Unitwise Weightage | ||
| Units | Marks. | |
| 1. | Text for detailed study | 45 |
| 2. | Text for non-detailed study | 20 |
| 3. | Fiction (Unabridged) | 15 |
| 4. | Drama | 20 |
| A. | Text for detailed study | 45 Marks | |
| (i) Prose | 30 | ||
| (ii) Poetry | 15 | ||
| Text Book Prescribed | |||
| An Anthology of English Prose and Poetry ( Class XI) published by PBS Publication, Delhi for the Council of Higher Secondary Education, Manipur. | |||
| B. | Text for non-detailed study | 20 Marks |
| One Friday Morning, (A Collection of Short Stories) edited by Jain and Jain; Published by Wiley Eastern Ltd., New Delhi. (Barring Lesson- The Cow of the Barricades). | ||
| C. | Fiction (Unabridged) | 15 Marks |
| Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne | ||
| D. | Drama | 20 Marks |
| 'Five one Act Plays' published by the NCERT. | ||
| E. | Selected Pieces for Elective English C]ass XI |
| Prose | ||
| 1. | The Prize poem | - P.G. Woldehouse |
| 2. | Animals in Prison | - J.L. Nehru |
| 3. | A Piece of String | -Guy de Maupassant |
| 4. | The Vision of Mirzah | -Joseph Addison |
| 5. | How Mr. Pickwick Undertook to Drive | - Charles Dickens |
| Poetry | ||
| 1. | A Robin Redbreast in a Cage | - William Blake |
| 2. | To Steep | - William Wordsworth |
| 3. | There is a Pleasure in the pathless Wood | - Lord Byron |
| 4. | The River of Life | -T. Campbell |
| 5. | Tears, Idle Tears | -Lord Alfred Tennyson |
| 6. | The Lake Isle of Innisfree | -W.B. Yeats |
| 7. | Thy Presence | -Rabrindranath Tagore |
| 8. | Night of the Scorpion | -Nissim Ezekiel |
| One Paper | 3 Hours | 100 Marks |
| Unitwise Weightage | ||
| Units | Marks | |
| 1. | Text for detailed study | 60 |
| 2. | Text for non-detailed study | 40 |
| A. | Text for detailed study | 60 Marks |
| (a) Prose | 40 | |
| (b) Poetry | 20 |
Text Book prescribed
An Anthology of English Prose and Poetry (For Elective English-Class XII),published by PBS Publications, Delhi, for the Council of Higher Secondary
Education, Manipur.
| B. | Text for non-detailed study | 40 Marks |
| (i) | ‘Arms and the Man’ by George Bernard shaw | 20 |
| (ii) | Novel-(Unabridged) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by R.L. Stevenson |
20 |
| C. | Selected Pieces of Elective English for Class XII |
Prose
| 1. | El Dorado | -R.L. Stevenson |
| 2. | The Tiust Property | -R. Tagore |
| 3. | The Verger | -W.S. Maugham |
| 4. | Fear | -Robert Lynd |
| 5. | A Sleepless Night | -Mark Twain |
Poetry
| 1. | Death Be Not Proud | -John Donne |
| 2. | The Retreat | - H.vaughan |
| 3. | The Education of Nature | - W.Wordsworth |
| 4. | The Terror of Death | -Jonh Keats |
| 5. | Two in the Campagna | - R.Browning |
| 6. | Dover Beach | - M.Arnold |
| 7. | Pied Beauty | - G.M. Hopkins |
| 8. | Poetry | - Maarriane Moor |
| 9. | Preludes | - T.S. Eliot |
| 10. | Prayer Before Birth | -L.Macneice |