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New Syllabus of Class 11
New Syllabus of Class 11
The proposed new syllabus of Class-XI (Eng-B) under WBCHSE from the session : 2013-2014 is as follows : Division of marks Prose : 20 marks poems : 20 marks Rapid Reader : 10 marks Textual Grammar : 10 marks Writing (paragraph/story) : 10 marks ESP (newspaper advertisement/commercial leaflet) : 10 marks Project : 20 marks Total : 100 marks Prose
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Leela's Friend -- R. K. Narayan Karma -- Khushwant Sing Alias Jimmy Valentine -- O Henry Nobel Lecture -- Mother Teresa
5. Extract from The Place of Art in Education -- Nanandalal Bose (Speaking of Art, Viswa Bharati -- 1999 edition), (Pages--23 to 26 upto first paragraph ending with......"according to the location" on page 26). Verse
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Upon the Westminster Bridge -- William Wordsworth Meeting at Night -- Robert Browning The Sick Rose -- William Blake Brotherhood -- Octavio Paz Daybreak -- H W Longfellow
Rapid Reader (Any One) 1. Tales from Shakespeare -- Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb (edited version) Macbeth, Othello, The Comedy of Errors, As You Like It, Twelfth Night. 2. Gulliver's Travels -- Simplified and abridged by Indira Jayakrishnan (Orient Black Swan ) Textual Grammar Text based grammatical questions on Tense, Voice, Group Verbs, Preposition, Relative Clause, Participle & Gerund. Writing Paragraph writing / Story writing ( about 350-400 words)
ESP Newspaper Advertisement : Job vacancy, Land house, Flat purchase and sale and Academic matters (about 10 - 50 words) Commercial Leaflet : Opening of a showroom /Institution/ Training centre, Launching tour programmes by travel agency, Discount sale (about 10 - 50 words). Project Any one :
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CLASS-XII
Full Marks : 100 LITERATURE: 50 MARKS a) Prose : 20 Marks b) Verse : 20 Marks c) Drama : 10 Marks
LANGUAGE : 30 MARKS a) Textual Grammar : 10 Marks b) Reading Comprehension : 10 Marks c) ESP : 10 Marks
PROJECT : 20 MARKS
LITERATURE : 50 MARKS Prose 1. The Eyes Have It -- Ruskin Bond 2. Extract from the chapter Orientation from Wings of Fire -- APJ Abdul Kalam 3. Thank You, Ma'am -- Langston Hughes 4. The Three Questions -- Leo Tolstoy
Verse 1. On Killing a Tree -- Gieve Patel 2. Asleep in the Valley -- Arthur Rimbaud 3. shall I Compare Thee -- William Shakespeare
LANGUAGE : 30 MARKS
Textual Grammar I. Synthesis and splitting of senteses II. Change of narration III. Correction of errors
Film/ Theatre script Changing the background/time/social cotext of a play and recording how the characters behave in a changed scenario Indianization of the writings of some English writers like Dickens, Hardy, Jane Austen, Oscar Wilde