A-Stream
Text Book : Jubilee English Reader, Jay Publishers
B-Stream Text Book : Easy English Prose, Jay Publishers
Grammar and Composition :
(a) Basic language skills : grammar and usage
The ability to fill in blanks, correct errors, choose correct forms out of
alternative choices, join clauses, sentences as directed, replace indicated
sections with single world / opposites / synonyms etc.
To be assessed by objective / multiple-choice tests : 1 x 20 = 20% credit
(b) Comprehension of an unseen passage
This should imply not only (a) an understanding of the passage in question but
also (b) a grasp of general language skills and issues with reference to world
and usage within the passage and (c) the power of short independent composition
based on themes and issues raised in the passage.
(c) Composition : Paragraph-writing
(d) Precise / summary writing
There should be formal training in composition and precise / summary writing
through instruction, discussion and written work. The students should not be
left to conduct these exercises on the strength of their general reading and
understanding of the language.
Topics of Grammar :
(1)
Primary auxiliaries do, have, be
(2) Nouns : kinds of noun; number, gender
(3) Pronouns : kind of pronouns
(4) Articles
(5) Tenses
(6) Subject-verb concord
(7) Conjunction
Part-I Reading Fiction (50% credit)
Prescribed Texts :
(1)
Chaucer, (a) The Knight's Tale } In modern English rendering
(b) The Pardoner's Tale }
(2) Henry James, The Europeans
(3) Manohar Malgonkar, The Devil's Wind
Part-II Reading Drama :
Prescribed Texts :
(1)
Aeschylus, Agamemnon
(2) Shakespeare, A Mid Summer Night's Dream
(3) Ibsen, A Doll's House
Note : Basic ideas about the genres of novel and drama as illustrated in the texts must be imparted. The aim is to compel the students to original texts. Whether they have read well or not should be tested. The question-bank must be prepared accordingly.
Format of the Questions Paper :
Questions 1 and 2 should be set on Paper-I (Fiction). Each questions must have an internal. (Marks 14 and 14)
Question 3 should seek explanation of the passage from the plays of Part-II with reference to context. (Marks 15)
Question 4 is to be an essay-type question on the plays of Part-II with an internal option. (Marks 13)
Question 5 : Two short notes out of four on the topics from both Fiction (part-I) and Drama (Paper-II) (Marks-14)
Part-I Reading poetry : Three Groups : 50% credit
Group - I Sonnet
(1)
Surrey. 'A complaint by night'
(2) Edmund Spenser, 'One day I wrote her name'
(3) Shakespeare, 'True Love'
(4) John Donne, 'Death be not proud..'
(5) John Milton, 'On his Blindness'
(6) W.Wordsworth, 'Scorn not Sonnet'
(7) Lord Byron, 'On the Castle of Chillon'
(8) John Keats, 'On First Looking into Chapman's Homer'
(9) Matthew Arnold, 'Shakespeare'
(10) G.M. Hopkins, 'No worst, there is none...'
Group - II Odes
(1)
Ben Jonson, 'An Ode. To Himself'
(2) Thomas Randolph, 'An Ode to Mr. Anthony Stafford'
(3) William Collins, 'Ode to Evening'
(4) S.T. Coleridge, 'Dejection An Ode'
(5) Wordsworth, 'Ode on the Instimations of Immortality'
(6) Wordsworth, 'Ode to Duty'
(7) P.B. Shelley, 'Ode to the West Wind'
(8) P.B. Shelley, 'Ode to a Skylark'
(9) John Keats, 'Ode to a Nightingale'
(10) John Keats, 'To Autumn'
Group - III Elegy
(1)
Milton, 'Lycidas'
(2) Gray, 'An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard.
(3) Tennyson, 'In Memorium'
(4) Arnold, 'The Scholar Gipsy'
(5) Goldsmith, 'The Deserted Village'
Note : A Short History of English Poetry by Birjadish Prasad (Macmillan India Ltd.) is recommended for background reading.
Part - II Practical criticism : 40% credit
The prescribed text book :
Thaker, P.K., Appreciating English Poetry : A Practical Course and Anthology, Orient Longman, 1999.
Part - III Prosody : 10% credit
The prescribed book : Bernard Blackstone, Practical English Prosody Longman, 1965.
Note :
1. There shall be questions on all the three parts.
2. There shall be a questions-bank for the Part-I. For the Part-II and III
unknown passage will be given for appreciation and scanning.
Format of the Questions Paper :
Q.1
Critical appreciation of a sonnet with an internal option from the same group
(Marks 12)
Q.2 Critical appreciation of an ode with an internal option from the same group.
(Marks 12)
Q.3 Critical appreciation of an elegy with an internal option from the same
group. (Marks 12)
Q.4 (A & B) Critical appreciation of two unseen passages with no internal
options. (Marks 14 and 14)
Q.5 Scanning (one out of three passage) (Marks 7)
SECOND SUBSIDIARY ENGLISH
Text Book :
(1)
George Orwell, Animal Farm 50 Marks
(2) Composition : 50 Marks
1. Precise or Summary 2. Comprehension
3. Report Writing
4. Practical Translation 5. Advertisement Writing
6. Dialogue-Writing
Objectives :
(I)
To consolidate the students' knowledge of composition that they have
acquired in the H. S. C.
(II) To teach them all the factual details of the twentieth
century poetry and drama.
(III) To cultivate in-Depth study of the prescribed texts.
(IV) To develop taste for literature and ability for critical
appreciation.
(V) To teach the concerned literacy forms in practical
application to the extent their peculiar features are illustrated in the prescribed texts. The definitions of the following should be covered
in the objectives questions :
Plot, Character, Setting, Humor, Wit, Pathos, Irony, Surprise, Farce, Rhyme,
Rhythm Stress, Pause, Simple, Metaphor, Personification, Alliteration, Rhetorical question, Parallelism, Contrast,
Repetition, Inversion, Ellipsis, Collocation, Theme, Dramatic irony Dramatic monologue, Metonymy, Imagery,
Synecdoche, Apostrophe,
Soliloquy, Aside, Enjambment, End-stopped line, Onomatopoeia, Meter, Iamb, Trochee, Spondee,
Anapest, Dactyl, Amphibrach, Amphimacer, Syllable, Assonate, Consonance, Synesthesia Antithesis, Oxymoron, Transferred
epithet, Euphemism, Bathos, Anticlimax, Climax, Hyperbole, Monometer, Demeter,
Trimester, Tetrameter, Pentameter,
Hexameter, Heptameter, Octometre etc.
(VI)
To develop skill in recitation of poetry.
(VII)
To develop reading skill in dramatic dialogues.
(VIII)
To develop oral and written communication skills.
Structure :
There
shall be in this paper
(a) One twentieth century play
(b) Fifteen selected poems from the twentieth century.
Format of the question paper :
There
shall be two selections of the question paper :
(a) Objectives and one line answer questions (15 Marks)
(b) Essay type questions (40 Marks)
(c) Viva voce (5 Marks)
Details of (a) above :
(I) Objectives questions :
The
part (1) will be a printed question paper with blanks and spaces. It has to be
completed and returned within ten minutes. There shall be ten objective questions with blanks to be filled
in, each carrying one mark. The exhaustive list of all possible questions covering factual details of
twentieth century poetry and drama, chiefly British, should be made available to the students . the list is conceived as a
part of the syllabus. The questions must be chosen from the list. The paper-setter is not free to frame his own
questions.
(II) There
shall be in this section also five one line answer questions, each carrying
one mark The questions will be printed. Below each question some space must be left. In the blank
space the candidate must write out his/her answer. The answer must be in one sentence only. An exhaustive list of
all possible question will be a part of the syllabus and it should be made available to the students along
with the syllabus has to They must to choose questions only from this list S/ he is not free to make his own
Questions.
Details of (b) above :
Question 1 : This
will be a question to test the students skill in the composition of
(I) Letter (personal) (5 Marks)
(II) Précis Writing (5 Marks)
that they have acquired in the H. S. C. This need not be
taught.
Question 2
:
This
must test literary critical knowledge of the prescribed play (10 Marks)
Question 3 :
This
must test literary critical knowledge of the prescribed play &
poems (10
Marks)
Question
4 :
This
question asks for critical appreciating of one of the prescribed poems. one
must be attempted out of three. The critical appreciation should include at least the following points.
(1) General modern temper.
(2) Individual characteristics of the concerned poet.
(3) Brief summary of the poem.
(4) Paragraph wise discussion of each of the poetic
excellences and peculiar ties of style and content in the poem.
(5) Conclusion. (10 Marks)
The exhaustive list of all possible question on the prescribed play &
poems of the questions 2 and 3, must from a part of the syllabus and be made available to the student. The paper
setter has to chose question from the list only. She is not free to frame his/her own internal option.
Question
5 :
This shall be a question of short notes on both the tests-one play and fifteen
poems. Students must write two short notes out of four. An exhaustive list of all possible topics for short
notes shall be a part of the syllabus and made available to the students. (10 Marks)
Details
of (c) above :
Five
marks are reserved for viva. There shall be a common viva voca for both the
papers. Paper I and Paper II. The following items be tested in the viva.
(1) Skill in recitation of poetry.
(2) Skill in reading dramatic dialogues
(3) Skill in reading simple prose.
(4) Competence in oral communication.
Instruction
:
For
testing skill in the recitation of poetry students should be asked to recite
lines from the prescribed poems. For testing skill in reading dramatic dialogues the students should be asked
to read from the prescribed plays.
For testing reading skill in simple prose. they must be asked to read from the
tests prescribed in Paper. I. For testing competence in oral communication the exhaustive list of all possible
questions with answer regarding communication situation in our day to day living, should be worked out. This
must be made available to the students in advance. It from a part of the syllabus. (5 Marks)
Background reading for Critical
Guidance :
1. Marjorie
Bolton The
Anatomy of Poetry (Rutledge and Keg an Paul)
2. C. B. Cox & A. E. D The Practical
Criticism of Poetry (Edward ArnoldDyson Ltd., London.)
3.
Marjorie
Bolton The
Anatomy of Drama (Rutledge & Keg an Paul,
London)
4. Robert
Gordon How to study a play (Macmillan, London)
5. Elizabeth
Drew Enjoyment of Literature (Dent & Co,
London)
6.
B.
Parsed A
Background to the study of English literature (Macmillan,
India)
7. H. B. L.
Moody Literary Appreciation (Long man, London)
8. Logouts &
Castalia History of English
Literature (Macmillan India Ltd.)
9. A. S. Horn
by An
Advance Learners Dictionary of Current English
OUT & ELBS.
1. (a) Use of dictionary (elementary), and
(b) Expression of future, purpose, ability, permission
possibility, obligation and condition.
2. Rapid Reading (Elementary) One abridged and simplified
prose text-book shall be prescribed for the purpose of teaching this skill. Rapid reading comprehension shall be tested through an unseen
passage of narrative prose of about 300 words. There shall also be one question of a general nature on
the comprehension of the prescribed text book.
3. Social and Personal letter - writing.
4. Elements of conversation English.
5. Translation of sentence from Gujarati or Hindi into
English and Vice-vers a or paraphrasing a short simple poem.
Note : All the topics
listed above shall carry equal marks. A suitable grammar book will be
prescribed.
Text : Gore-
Rabindranath Tagore (McMillan 'Stories to remember) Simplified and abridged.
BOOKS RECOMMENDED FOR LANGUAGE WORK.
An intermediate
General English course by K. N. Divides and M. L. Tickoo (Orient
Legman's)