CBSE English - Term 1 - Syllabus for IX to XII

CBSE English - Term 1 - Syllabus for IX to XII
Corona Pandemic has not allowed education to function normally. Not just the examination and assessment but the classes have not been able to start properly. However, CBSE has been trying it's hands-on developing some ways to keep the assessment in an active mode. They have divided the session into two terms now. 
The whole syllabus for English and other subjects has been rationalised. The Term 1 Final Exam for X and XII classes will be Multiple-choice based questions. For IX and XI, which have become significant in overall results now, have also been given the Term 1 and 2 mandate. The exams shall be conducted by schools for these 02 grades. CBSE has also released Sample Question Papers for X and XII. We are sharing the content given by CBSE here. This might assist students, teachers and parents in better planning and preparation. 

1. English Language & Literature
Code No. 184
Class IX (2021-22)
Term wise Syllabus
Term - I
Reading-
Question based on the following kinds of unseen passages to assess inference, evaluation,
vocabulary, analysis and interpretation:
1. Discursive passage (400-450 words)
2. Case based Factual passage (with visual input/ statistical data/ chart etc. 200-250 words)
Writing-
1. Descriptive paragraph (Person)
2. Short Story (based on beginning line, outline, cues etc.)

Grammar
1. Tenses
2. Subject-Verb Concord
3. Modals
4. Determiners
5. Reported Speech
6. Commands and Requests
7. Statements
8. Questions
Literature
Questions based on extracts / texts to assess interpretation, inference, extrapolation beyond
the text and across the texts.
Moments
1. The Lost Child
2. The Adventures of Toto
3. In the Kingdom of Fools
4. The Happy Prince

Beehive
Prose
1. The Fun They Had
2. The Sound of Music
3. The Little Girl
4. A Truly Beautiful Mind
5. My Childhood
Poems-

1. The Road Not Taken
2. Wind
3. Rain on The Roof
4. A Legend of The Northland

2. Term - II
Reading-
Question based on the following kinds of unseen passages to assess inference, evaluation,
vocabulary, analysis and interpretation:
1. Discursive passage (400-450 words)
2. Case based Factual passage (with visual input/ statistical data/ chart etc. 200-250 words)
Writing-
1. Descriptive Paragraph (Diary)
2. Story writing (based on beginning line, outline, cues etc.)
Grammar
1. Tenses
2. Subject-Verb Concord
3. Modals
4. Determiners
5. Reported Speech
6. Commands and Requests
7. Statements
8. Questions
Literature
Questions based on extracts / texts to assess interpretation, inference, extrapolation beyond
the text and across the texts.
Moments
1. Weathering the Storm in Ersama
2. The Last Leaf
3. A House is not a Home
4. The Beggar
Beehive
Prose
1. Packing
2. Reach for The Top
3. The Bond of Love
4. If I were You
Poems

1. No Men Are Foreign
2. On killing a Tree
3. The Snake Trying

3. Each Term
SECTION WEIGHTAGE (IN MARKS)
READING 10
WRITING & GRAMMAR 10
LITERATURE 20
TOTAL 40
INTERNAL ASSESSMENT 10
GRAND TOTAL 50

4. English Language and Literature
Code No. 184
Class X (2021-22)
Term wise Syllabus

Term - I
READING
Question based on the following kinds of unseen passages to assess inference, evaluation,
vocabulary, analysis and interpretation:
1. Discursive passage (400-450 words)
2. Case based Factual passage (with visual input/ statistical data/ chart etc. 300-350
words)
WRITING SKILL

1. Formal letter based on a given situation.
 Letter to the Editor
 Letter of Complaint (Official)
 Letter of Complaint (Business)
GRAMMAR

1. Tenses
2. Modals
3. Subject-Verb Concord
4. Determiner
5. Reported Speech
6. Commands and Requests
7. Statements
8. Questions
LITERATURE

Questions based on extracts / texts to assess interpretation, inference, extrapolation beyond
the text and across the texts.
FIRST FLIGHT

1. A Letter to God
2. Nelson Mandela
3. Two Stories About Flying
4. From the Diary of Anne Frank
5. The Hundred Dresses 1
6. The Hundred Dresses 2
POEMS

1. Dust of Snow
2. Fire and Ice
3. A Tiger in the Zoo
4. The Ball Poem

5. FOOTPRINTS WITHOUT FEET

1. A Triumph of Surgery
2. The Thief's Story
3. Footprints Without Feet

Term - II
READING
Question based on the following kinds of unseen passages to assess inference, evaluation,
vocabulary, analysis and interpretation:
1. Discursive passage (400-450 words)
2. Case based Factual passage (with visual input/ statistical data/ chart etc. 300-350
words)
WRITING SKILL

1. Formal letter based on a given situation
 Letter of Order
 Letter of Enquiry
2. Analytical Paragraph (based on outline/chart/cue/map/report etc.)
GRAMMAR

1. Tenses
2. Modals
3. Subject Verb Concord
4. Determiner
5. Reported Speech
6. Commands and Requests
7. Statements
8. Questions

LITERATURE

Questions based on extracts / texts to assess interpretation, inference, extrapolation beyond
the text and across the texts.

FIRST FLIGHT

1. Glimpses of India
2. Madam Rides the Bus
3. The Sermon at Benares
4. The Proposal (Play)
POEMS

1. Amanda
2. Animals
3. The Tale of Custard the Dragon

6. FOOTPRINTS WITHOUT FEET
1. The Making of a Scientist
2. The Necklace
3. The Hack Driver
4. Bholi



Each Semester
SECTION WEIGHTAGE (IN MARKS)
READING 10
WRITING & GRAMMAR 10
LITERATURE 20
TOTAL 40
INTERNAL ASSESSMENT 10
GRAND TOTAL 50

7. English Core
Code No. 301
Class XI (2021-22)
Term Wise Syllabus

SECTION TERM I WEIGHTAGE
(IN MARKS)
TERM II WEIGHTAGE
(IN MARKS)
A Reading Comprehension:
 Unseen passage (factual,
descriptive or literary/ discursive or
persuasive)
 Case Based Unseen (Factual)
Passage

8
+
5
= 13
Reading Comprehension:
 Unseen passage (factual,
descriptive or literary /discursive or
persuasive)
 Unseen passage for Note Making
and Summarising

8
+
5
= 13
B Creative Writing Skills and Grammar:

Short Writing Tasks
 Notice Writing
Long Writing Tasks
 Business or Official Letters( Making
enquiries, registering complaints, asking
for or giving information, placing orders
and sending replies)
 Speech

Grammar
 Determiners
 Tenses
 Re-ordering of Sentences
{MCQs on Gap filling/ Transformation of
Sentences}



3

+

5

+


4

= 12
Creative Writing Skills and Grammar:

Short Writing Tasks
 Posters
Long Writing Tasks
 Official Letters: e.g. to
school/college authorities
(regarding admissions,
school issues,
requirements / suitability
of courses)
 Debate
Grammar
 Determiners
 Tenses
 Re-ordering of Sentences
{MCQs on Gap filling/ Transformation of
Sentences }



3

+

5

+



4

= 12
C Literature:
Literary-prose/poetry extracts ( seen- texts )
comprehension and appreciation. (Two
Extracts)
Questions Based on Texts to assess
comprehension and appreciation, analysis,
inference, extrapolation

Book-Hornbill:
 The Portrait of a Lady (Prose)
 A Photograph (Poem)
 “We’re Not Afraid to Die… if We
Can All Be Together” (Prose)
 Discovering Tut: the Saga Continues
 The Laburnum Top (Poem)
 Landscape of the Soul (Prose)
Book-Snapshots:
 The Summer of the Beautiful White
Horse(Prose)
 The Address (Prose)
 Ranga’s Marriage (Prose)

9 Marks for
Hornbill + 6
Marks for
Snapshots =
15 Marks
Literature:
Questions based on extracts/texts to assess
comprehension and appreciation, analysis,
inference, extrapolation


Book-Hornbill:
 The Voice of the Rain
(Poem)
 The Ailing Planet: The Green
Movement’s Role (Prose)
 The Browning Version( Play)
 Childhood (Poem)
 Silk Road (Prose)

Book-Snapshots:
 Albert Einstein at School (Prose)
 Mother’s Day (Play)
 Birth ( Prose)

9 Marks for
Hornbill + 6
Marks for
Snapshots =
15 Marks
TOTAL 40 TOTAL 40
ASL 10 ASL 10
GRAND TOTAL 40 + 10 = 50
MARKS
GRAND TOTAL 40 + 10 = 50
MARKS

8. Prescribed Books
1. Hornbill: English Reader published by National Council of Education Research
and Training, New Delhi
2. Snapshots: Supplementary Reader published by National Council of Education Research and Training, New Delhi
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English Core
Code No. 301
Class XII (2021-22)
Term Wise Syllabus

SECTION TERM 1 WEIGHTAGE
(IN MARKS)
TERM II WEIGHTAGE
(IN MARKS)


A
Reading Comprehension:
( Two Passages)
 Unseen passage
(factual, descriptive or
literary/ discursive or
persuasive)
 Case Based Unseen
(Factual) Passage




14
(8+6 Marks)
Reading Comprehension:
(Two Passages)
 Unseen passage (factual,
descriptive or literary/
discursive or persuasive)
 Case Based Unseen
(Factual) Passage





14
(8+6 Marks)


B
Creative Writing Skills :

Short Writing Tasks
 Notice Writing
 Classified Advertisements
Long Writing Tasks(One)
 Letter to an Editor (giving
suggestions or opinion on
issues of public interest)
 Article Writing



3+5 marks

Total=08
Creative Writing Skills :

Short Writing Tasks
 Formal & Informal Invitation
Cards or the Replies to
Invitation/s
Long Writing Tasks(One)
 Letter of Application for a Job
 Report Writing




3+5 Marks

Total=08


C
Literature :
Literary-prose/poetry extracts
( seen- texts ) to assess
comprehension and appreciation,
analysis, inference, extrapolation

Questions Based on Texts to
assess comprehension and
appreciation, analysis, inference,
extrapolation

Book- Flamingo (Prose)
 The Last Lesson
 Lost Spring
 Deep Water
Book-Flamingo (Poetry)
 My Mother at Sixty-Six
 An Elementary School
Classroom in a Slum
 Keeping Quiet
Book-Vistas (Prose)
 The Third Level
 The Enemy






11 Marks for
Flamingo + 7
Marks for
Vistas = 18
Marks
Literature:
Questions based on extracts/texts to
assess comprehension and
appreciation, analysis, inference,
extrapolation



Book-Flamingo (Prose)
 The Rattrap
 Indigo

Book-Flamingo (Poetry)
 A Thing of Beauty
 Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers

Book-Vistas (Prose)
 Should Wizard Hit Mommy?
 On the Face of It
 Evans Tries an O Level






11 Marks for
Flamingo + 7
Marks for
Vistas = 18
Marks
TOTAL 40 TOTAL 40
ASL 10 ASL 10
GRAND TOTAL 40 + 10 = 50 GRAND TOTAL 40 + 10 = 50
Prescribed Books
1. Flamingo: English Reader published by National Council of Education Research and Training, New Delhi
2. Vistas: Supplementary Reader published by National Council of Education Research and Training, New Delhi