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Class -VII Syllabus

 Class - VII (Term - I Portion) 

[Reading Skills]  

Reading comprehension  

(Unseen Passage and Poem)  


[English Grammar]  

Chapter - 1: Noun  

Chapter - 2: Pronoun  

Chapter – 3: Sentences   

Chapter – 4: Transformation of Sentences    

Chapter - 5: Verbs   

Chapter - 6: Adjectives    

Chapter – 7: Adverbs  

Chapter - 11: Determiners  

  

[Writing Skills]  

Diary Entry  

Notice Writing  

Summary Writing  

Formal and Informal Letter Writing  


[Literature- Raintree Coursebook]  

Unit -1  

Chapter - 1: Hanuman and I by Rupa Gupta  

Chapter - 2: The Outlaws' Report by Richmal Crompton    

Hero by Rabindranath Tagore  


Unit - 2 

Chapter - 3: Wildlife in a City Pond by Ashish Kothari    

Chapter - 4: Playing with Gorillas by Oliver Graham - Jones    

Blake's Tyger - Revisited by Michaela Morgan    


Unit - 3 

Chapter - 5: The Quarrel by Louisa May Alcott  

Friends and Flatterers by William Shakespeare


Term - II Portion 

[Reading Skills]  

Reading comprehension  

(Unseen Passage and Poem)  


[Writing] 

Essay Writing 

Email Writing 

Book Review

News Report


[English Grammar]

Chapter - 8,9 & 10: Tenses - Past, Present and Future Tense

Chapter - 12: Active and Passive Voice 

Chapter - 13: Direct and Indirect Speech

Chapter - 14: Conjunctions

Chapter - 15: Synonyms and Antonyms

Chapter - 16: Idioms

Chapter - 17: Vocabulary


[English literature]

[Raintree Coursebook Theme - 3: All You Need is Love] 

Chapter - 6: The Regimental Myna by Ruskin Bond 


[Raintree Coursebook Theme - 4: Who Dares Wins!] 

Chapter - 7: A Race to Remember

Chapter - 8: Wrestling with the Phogats

Life is a Game (poem)


[Raintree Coursebook Theme - 5: For the Love of Books] 

Chapter - 9: Maggie's First Reader by Bill Naughton 

Chapter - 10: The Girl Who Ate Books by Nilanjana Roy

 Alphabet Stew by Jack Prelutsky


[Raintree Coursebook Theme - 6: Tales of Magic and Wonder] 

Chapter - 11: The Magical Picture by C S Lewis

Chapter - 12: Kidnapped by Goblins! by JRR Tolkien 

The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert Browning


Final Syllabus for Class VII SA- 2 (after including Term - I Portion)


Term - II Portion 

[Reading Skills]  

Reading comprehension  

(Unseen Passage and Poem)  


[Writing] 

Diary Entry  

Notice Writing 

Essay Writing 

Email Writing 

Book Review

News Report


[English Grammar]

Chapter – 4: Transformation of Sentences    

Chapter - 5: Verbs 

Chapter - 8,9 & 10: Tenses - Past, Present and Future Tense

Chapter - 11: Determiners  

Chapter - 12: Active and Passive Voice 

Chapter - 13: Direct and Indirect Speech

Chapter - 14: Conjunctions

Chapter - 15: Synonyms and Antonyms

Chapter - 16: Idioms

Chapter - 17: Vocabulary


[English literature]

[Raintree Coursebook Theme - 3: All You Need is Love] 

Chapter - 5: The Quarrel by Louisa May Alcott  

Chapter - 6: The Regimental Myna by Ruskin Bond 

Friends and Flatterers by William Shakespeare


[Raintree Coursebook Theme - 4: Who Dares Wins!] 

Chapter - 7: A Race to Remember

Chapter - 8: Wrestling with the Phogats

Life is a Game (poem)


[Raintree Coursebook Theme - 5: For the Love of Books] 

Chapter - 9: Maggie's First Reader by Bill Naughton 

Chapter - 10: The Girl Who Ate Books by Nilanjana Roy

 Alphabet Stew by Jack Prelutsky


[Raintree Coursebook Theme - 6: Tales of Magic and Wonder] 

Chapter - 11: The Magical Picture by C S Lewis

Chapter - 12: Kidnapped by Goblins! by JRR Tolkien 

The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert Browning




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