Curriculum and Syllabus for Classes XI & XII |
One Paper | 3 Hours | 100 Marks |
Units | Unitwise Weightage | Marks |
1. | Texts for detailed study | |
(a) Prose | 25 | |
(b) Poetry | 20 | |
(c) Comprehension | 20 | |
(d) Usage and Composition:- | ||
(i) Tense | 2 | |
(ii) Passive | 2 | |
(iii) Clauses | 4 | |
(iv) Modal | 2 | |
(v) Phrase structures | 4 | |
(v) Mechanics of writing, punctuation, etc. | 5 | |
(vii) Organisation of a paragraph | 6 | |
(viii) Précis writing | 10 | |
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35 ------ 100 |
A. | Text Books for Class XI | |
(i) | An Anthology of English Prose and Poetry for Class XI.- published by PBS Publications, Delhi, for the Council of Higher Secondary Education, Manipur. | |
(ii) | Supplementary Reader for Classes XI and XII, published by the Council of Higher Secon. dary Education, Manipur. | |
(iii) | A Guide to Pattern and Usage in Enplish by A.S. Hornby. | |
(iv) | A Remedial English Grammar for Foreign Students by F.T. Wood. | |
(v) | A Practical English Grammar by A.J.Thomson and A.V. Martinet. | |
(vi) | English Work Book 1 published by the Central Board of Secondary Education. | |
B. | Selected Pieces of General English for Class XI | |
Prose |
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1. | Relative Duties of Young Men - H.W. Beecher | |
2. | Exploring Space - Navin Sullivan | |
3. | The Image R,K. Narayan | |
4. | No Time for Fear Philip Yancey | |
5. | Paul Julius Reuter Harry Menicol | |
Poetry |
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1. | Seven Ages of Man | -William Shakespeare |
2 | Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening | -Robert Frost |
3. | No Men are Foreign | -James Kirkup |
4. | The Echoing Green | -William Blake |
5. | La Belle Dame Sans Merei | -John Keats |
6. | Written in Early Spring | -William Wordsworth |
7. | Ozymaijdias of Egypt | -P.B. Shelley |
8. | Death the Leveller | -James Shirley |
Supplemenlary Reader |
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1. | What is Science | -George Orwell |
2. | The Child's Return | -Rabindranath Tagore |
3. | The Three Students | -A. Conan Doyle |
4. | The Man with the Scar | -W. Somerset Maugbam |
5. | A Scone from Abraham Lincon | - John Drinkwater |
Note : Students are often clumsy in sentence constructions. Keeping this view in rnind certain phrases/structure items should be taught along with the other grammatical items.
The Suggested Items
Class XII
Factual descriptions (objects, instruments, processes); Reporting (events, experiments); Paragraph writing; Letter writing; Note-making; Summarising; Abstracting; Recording (observations, findings, conclusions); Telegram writing; Notice writing; Advertising and Essay writing. |