English Elective Class XI Syllabus

English Elective Class XI Syllabus

Course Structure

S.No.	Topic	Marks
1	Reading Comprehension	20
2	Creative Writing Skill	20
3	Literature Text	20
4	Drama	10
5	Fiction	10
6	Seminar	20

Section A

Reading an unseen passage and a poem

• Very Short and Short Answer Questions: Literary or discursive passage of about 900-950 words.
• Short Answer Questions: A poem of about 20-24 lines to test interpretation and appreciation.

Section B

Creative Writing Skills

• Long Answer Question: An essay on an argumentative/discursive/reflective/or descriptive topic.
• Very Long Answer Question: A composition such as an article, a report, a speech.

Section C

Woven Words

• Short and Long Answer Questions: To test comprehension, literary appreciation and drawing inferences in poetry and prose.

Arms and the Man - [Drama]

• Short and Long answer Questions: To test the evaluation of characters, events and episodes.

Fiction

• Short and Long Answer Questions: To test analysis of characters, events, episodes and interpersonal relationships and understanding of content, events and episodes

Seminar

• Presentation of a book review, a play, a short story, a novel, novella (tale, fable, parable) to be followed by a question answer session.
• Poetry reading to be followed by interpretative tasks based on cloze 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.

Prescribed Books

• Text book: Woven Words published by NCERT
• Fiction: The Old Man and the Sea (Novel unabridged) by E. Hemingway
• Drama: Arms and the Man by Bernard Shaw