CBSE Class 11 English Elective Syllabus 2021-22 (Term 1 & 2 – Combined): CBSE Academic Session 2021-22
Check CBSE Class 11 English Elective Syllabus 2021-22 (Term 1 & 2 – Combined). It is applicable for the CBSE 2021-22 academic session. Students with English as one of their subjects should study this program extensively.
9th, 10th, 11th, 12th – Revised and reduced from the CBSE program Terms 1 and 2 (Combined): Science, Commerce, Arts
CBSE Class 11 English Elective Syllabus 2021-22 (Term 1 & 2 – Combined): CBSE Academic Session 2021-22
Section A: Reading comprehension (12 points = 6 + 3 + 3)
– Unpublished passage (literary or discursive)
– Invisible Poem
– Case-based invisible passage (factual)
Section B: Creative Writing Skills (08 points = 4 + 4)
– Essay (on an Argumentative / Discursive / Reflective / Descriptive subject)
– Writing of articles (on a contemporary / topical issue
Section C: Literature (10 points = 2 + 2 + 3 + 3)
Literary–
– Prose / Poetry-MCQ to test understanding, literary appreciation and inference.
Words woven into a book – Short stories
– The Lament – Anton Chekhov
– A pair of mustaches -Mulk Raj Anand
– The Rocking Horse Winner – DH Lawrence
Book-woven words-poetry
– The Peacock-Sujata Bhatt
– Let me not at the wedding of – William Shakespeare
– Upcoming phone conversation with Philip Larkin – Wole Soyink
Woven Words-Books-Essays
– My Watch-Mark Twain
– My three passions – Bertrand Russell
– Models of creativity – S. Chandrasekhar
Fiction: 05 brands
The Old Man and the Sea (E. Hemingway)
Chapter 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Drama: 05 points
Weapons and Man (GBShaw) Act I
Total: 40 points
SEMINAR 10 Brands
– Presentation – book review / a play / a short story / a novel / short story (story, table, parable) followed by a question-and-answer session.
– Reading of poetry followed by interpretative tasks based on careful reading and literary analysis of the text.
– Critical review of a film or a play.
– Animation of a theater workshop followed by a debate
Prescribed books:
- Manual: Woven Words, published by NCERT
- Fiction: The Old Man and the Sea (Full Novel) by Ernest Hemingway
- Drama: The Guns and the Man by George Bernard Shaw
