Syllabus for Classes XI & XII
ELECTIVE ENGLISHIntroduction
| 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. |
CLASS XI
| One Paper |
3 Hours |
100 Marks |
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Unitwise Weightage |
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| Units |
|
Marks. |
| 1. |
Text for detailed study |
45 |
| 2. |
Text for non-detailed study |
20 |
| 3. |
Fiction (Unabridged) |
15 |
| 4. |
Drama |
20 |
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| A. |
Text for detailed study
|
45 Marks |
| |
(i) Prose |
30 |
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(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 |
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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
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| D. |
Drama |
20 Marks |
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'Five one Act Plays' published by the NCERT. |
|
| E. |
Selected Pieces for Elective English C]ass XI |
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| Prose |
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| 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 |
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|
| 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 |
CLASS XII
| 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 |
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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 |
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