What is the WB board syllabus in English for 11th & 12th? Also tell me about the grammar section and the prescribed books.

Hii Tanushree,

here I am Enlisting the syllabus of WB class 11th Syllabus-

LITERATURE: 40 Marks

1. Prose – 20 marks

2. Verse – 20 marks

LANGUAGE : 40 Marks

1. Textual Grammar – 16 marks

2. Essay writing [350-400 words] – 12 marks

3. Rhetoric – 12 marks

PROJECT – 20 Marks

LITERATURE : 40 Marks

Prose

1. One of these Days-Gabriel Garcia Marquez

2. The Sunder-bans Inheritance- Bittu Sehgal

3. Making Writing Simple- J.B. Priestley

4. Through the Tunnel- Dorris Lessing

Verse

1. Stolen Boat – William Wordsworth

2. You who never arrived – Rainer Maria Rilke

3. Snake- D H Lawrence

4. The Monkey and the Crocodile – Vikram Seth

LANGUAGE : 40 Marks

Textual Grammar –

Questions will be set on the following grammatical items from the prescribed pieces: Tense, Voice, Group verbs, Preposition, Relative clause, Participle, Gerund, Subject- verb agreement.

Essay writing (350-400 words) Essays on current Social/Academic topics should be practiced

Rhetoric

4 questions (out of 6) of 3 marks each (1 mark for identifying the figure of speech and 2 marks for explaining) will be set from the following figures of speech: Simile, Metaphor, Metonymy, Synecdoche, Alliteration, Hyperbaton, Epigram, Anti-thesis, Irony, Innuendo, Transferred epithet, Oxymoron, Interrogation, Exclamation, Epanaphora, Chiasmus, Litotes, Onomatopoeia.

Project (1000-1500 words) Topics for project: (any one)

1 The Canterbury Tales

2 Elizabethan Drama

3 Eighteenth century Novel

4 Romantic Poetry

CLASS XII-

LITERATURE: 50 Marks

a) Prose:20 Marks

b) Verse: 20 Marks

c) Drama: 10 Marks

LANGUAGE: 30 Marks

a) Textual Grammar: 10 Marks

b) Substance with Critical Analysis—10 Marks

c) ESP—10 Marks

PROJECT:20 Marks

LITERATURE : 50 Marks

Prose:

1. Michael Angelo – Gulzar

2. Debut on Stage – Charles Chaplin

3. War – Luigi Pirandello

4. A Chameleon – Anton Chekov

Verse

1. Let me Not – William Shakespeare

2. Song Offerings # 63 – Rabindranath Tagore

3. Dulce et Decorum – Wilfred Owen

4. Tonight I can write – Pablo Neruda

Drama Cathleen in Houlihan – W.B Yeats

LANGUAGE: 30 Marks

Textual Grammar

i Synthesis and splitting of sentences

ii Change of narration

iii Correction of Errors

Substances with critical analysis

Students have to write substances either from a prose passage (200-250 words) or from a poem (14 lines).

ESP [business letter, article writing]

Either business letter (120-150 words) or article writing (150-200 words)

Project : (1000-1500 words) Topics for project: (any one)

I. Victorian Novel

II. Victorian Poetry

III. Modern Drama

IV. Modern Poetry

Hope you understand

thank you

Thank you for your question.

• One of these Days-Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• The Sunder-bans Inheritance- Bittu Sehgal
• Making Writing Simple- J.B. Priestley
• Through the Tunnel- Dorris Lessing

Poetry

• Stolen Boat – William Wordsworth
• You who never arrived – Rainer Maria Rilke
• Snake- D H Lawrence
• The Monkey and the Crocodile – Vikram Seth

• Tense
• Voice
• Group verbs,
• Preposition
• Relative clause
• Participle
• Gerund
• Subject- verb agreement

Essay writing/ Rhetoric / Project

• The Canterbury Tales
• Elizabethan Drama
• Eighteenth century Novel
• Romantic Poetry

In 12th class

Prose

1. Michael Angelo – Gulzar

2. Debut on Stage – Charles Chaplin

3. War – Luigi Pirandello

4. A Chameleon – Anton Chekov

Poetry

1. Let me Not – William Shakespeare

2. Song Offerings # 63 – Rabindranath Tagore

3. Dulce et Decorum – Wilfred Owen

4. Tonight I can write – Pablo Ner

There is also a play- Cathleen ni houlihaan

Good luck