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CBSE English Syllabus

Class - IX English Annual Examination Portion
[Reading Skills] Reading Comprehension Passage (Unseen Passage)
Discursive passage
Case-based factual passage

[English Grammar]
Determiners
Editing (Error Correction)
Tenses and Modals
Reported Speech
Subject- Verb Concord

[English Writing Skills]
Diary Entry
Descriptive Paragraph
Story Writing
Article Writing


[Literature]
[Beehive- English Core Textbook]
Unit - 1: The Fun They Had by Isaac Asimov
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
Unit - 2: The Sound of Music
Wind by Subramania Bharati

Unit - 3: The Little Girl by Katherine Mansfield
Rain on the Roof by Coates Kinney

Unit - 4: A Truly Beautiful Mind
The Lake Isle of Innisfree by William Butler Yeats

Unit - 5: The Snake and the Mirror by Vaikom Muhammad Basheer
A Legend of the Northland by Phoebe Cary

Unit - 6: My Childhood by A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
No Men Are Foreign by James Kirkup

Unit - 7: Reach for the Top Part - I and Part - II
On Killing a Tree by Gieve Patel
Unit - 8: Kathmandu by Vikram Seth
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal by William Wordsworth

Unit - 9: If I Were You by Douglas James

[Moments – Supplementary Reader]
Chapter - 1: The Lost Child by Mulk Raj Anand
Chapter - 2: The Adventures of Toto by Ruskin Bond
Chapter - 3: Iswaran the Storyteller by R. K. Laxman
Chapter - 4: In the Kingdom of Fools by A. K. Ramanujan
Chapter - 5: The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde
Chapter - 7: The Last Leaf by O. Henry
Chapter - 8: A House Is Not a Home by Zan Gaudioso
Chapter - 9: The Beggar by Anton Chekhov

Class - XI English Annual Portion

[Reading Skills]
Descriptive/ Literary Passage
Case Based Factual Passage
Note Making and Summarization

[English Grammar]
Questions on Gap filling (Tenses, Clauses)
Sentence Re-ordering
Transformation of sentences

[English Writing Skills]

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Poster Making
Debate Writing
Speech Writing

[English Literature]
Hornbill (English Core Course)

Unit - 1: The Portrait of a Lady by Khushwant Singh
A Photograph by Shirley Toulson
Unit - 2: We’re Not Afraid to Die... if We Can All Be Together by Gordon Cook and Alan East

Unit - 3: Discovering Tut: the Saga Continues by A.R. Williams
The Laburnum Top by Ted Hughes (poem)
The Voice of the Rain by Walt Whitman (poem)

Unit - 4: Childhood by Markus Natten
Unit - 5: The Adventure by Jayant Narlikar
Unit - 6: Silk Road by Nick Middleton
Father to Son by Elizabeth Jennings (poem)


Snapshots (Supplementary Reader)
Chapter - 1: The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse by William Saroyan
Chapter - 2: The Address by Marga Minco
Chapter - 3: Mother’s Day by J.B. Priestley
Chapter - 4: Birth by A.J. Cronin
Chapter - 5: The Tale of Melon City by Vikram Seth

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