SECTION –A (20 marks)

Reading

An unseen passage and a poem

1. The section will have 12 questions including 6 Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ),

i.e. 6 MCQs from a Literary or Discursive passage of about 900-950 words, and 6 Objective Type questions (1×12=12marks)

2. 04 Short Answer Questions to be answered in 50-60 words. It shall be asked from a poem of about 20-24 lines to test interpretation and appreciation. (2×4=8marks)

SECTION –B (20 marks)

Creative Writing Skills

1. One Very Long Answer Question out of two to be answered in 150-200 words.

An essay on an argumentative/discursive/reflective/descriptive topic. (10×1=10marks)

2. One Very Long Answer Question out of two to be answered in 150-200 words.

A composition such as an article / a report /a speech. (10×1=10marks)

SECTION – C (30 marks)

A. Literature

1. Eight Objective type Questions out of 09 to test comprehension, literary appreciation and drawing inferences in poetry and prose.

(1×8=8marks)

2. Three Short Answer Questions out of 04 to be answered in 50-60words to test understanding, appreciation and analysis. (2×3=6marks)

3. One Long Answer Questions out of 02 to be answered in 120-150 words to test literary appreciation and drawing inferences. (1×6=6marks)

B. Arms and the Man – [Drama] (10marks)

Two Long Answer Questions out of three to be answered in 80-100 word to test the evaluation of characters, events and episodes. (5×2=10marks)

C. Fiction (10marks)

1. Two Short Answer Questions out of three to be answered in 50-60 words to test analysis of characters, events, episodes and interpersonal relationships and understanding of content, events and episodes (2×2=4marks)

2. One Long Answer Question out of 02 to be answered in 120-150 words to test literary appreciation and drawing inferences. (6×1=6marks)

Section -D (20 Marks)

Seminar 

• Presentation – book review /a play /a short story/a novel/novella (tale, table, and parable) to be followed by a question-answer session.]
• Poetry reading to be followed by interpretative tasks based on close reading and literary analysis of the text. Critical review of a film or a play.
• Conducting a theatre workshop to be followed by a discussion

CBSE Syllabus for Class 11 English (Hornbill)

• Chapter 1: The Portrait of lady
  Poem:        A Photograph
• Chapter 2: We are not afraid to die… if we can all be together
• Chapter 3: Discovering Tut: The saga continues
  Poem:        The Laburnum Top
• Chapter 4: Landscape of the soul
  Poem:        The Voice of the rain
• Chapter 5: The Ailing planet: The Green Movement’s Role
• Chapter 6: The Browning version
  Poem:        Childhood
• Chapter 7: The adventure
• Chapter 8: Silk road
• Poem:       Father to son

CBSE Syllabus for Class 11 English (Snapshots)

• Chapter 1: The summer of a beautiful white horse
• Chapter 2: The address
• Chapter 3: Ranga’s Marriage
• Chapter 4: Albert Einstein at school
• Chapter 5: Mother’s Day
• Chapter 6: The Ghat of the only world
• Chapter 7: Birth
• Chapter 8: The tale of a melon city

CBSE Syllabus for Class 11 English (Woven Words)

Chapters

• Chapter 1:  Lament
• Chapter 2: A Pair Of Mustachios
• Chapter 3: The Rocking-Horse Winner
• Chapter 4: The Adventure of the Three Garridebs
• Chapter 5: Pappachi’s Moth
• Chapter 6: The Third and Final Continent
• Chapter 7: Glory at Twilight
• Chapter 8: the Luncheon

Essay

• Essay 1: My watch
• Essay 2: My three passions
• Essay 3: Patterns of creativity
• Essay 4: Trivial verse
• Essay 5: What is good book?
• Essay 6: The story
• Essay 7: Bridges

Poem

• Poem 1: The peacock
• Poem 2: Let me not to the marriage of True Minds
• Poem 3: Coming
• Poem 4: Telephone Conversation
• Poem 5: The World Is Too much with us
• Poem 6: Mother Tongue
• Poem 7: Hawk Roosting
• Poem 8: For Elkana
• Poem 9: Refugee blues
• Poem 10: Felling of The Banyan Tree
• Poem 11: Ode To a nightingale
• Poem 12: Ajamil and the tigers