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


Anonymous 6th Mar, 2019
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Nandini Gupta 30th Mar, 2019

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

Arpit pandey 29th Mar, 2019

Thank you for your question.

In Prose, they have-
  • 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
In Textual Grammar-
  • 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

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