ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

(Code No. 184)

CLASS - X

Syllabus 2023-24

SECTION A: READING SKILLS                                                                       (20 MARKS)

SECTION B: WRITING AND GRAMMAR                                                        (20 MARKS)

SECTION C: LITERATURE                                                                              (40 MARKS)

Section A - Reading Skills

   Reading Comprehension through Unseen Passage

1. Discursive passage of 400-450 words. (10 marks)

2. Case-based factual passage (with visual input- statistical data, chart etc.)                                          (10 marks)

QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice Questions / Objective Type Questions, and Short Answer Questions (to be answered in 30-40 words) will be asked to assess comprehension, interpretation, analysis, inference, evaluation and vocabulary

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Section B Writing Skills and Grammar

       GRAMMAR

o    Determiners

o    Tenses

o    Modals

o    Subject - verb concord

o Reported speech  - Commands

                                  Requests

                               Statements

                                  Questions

QUESTION TYPE: Accurate use of spelling, punctuation and grammar in context will be assessed through Gap filling/ Editing/Transformation exercises. Ten out of 12 questions will have to be attempted.

WRITING SKILLS (10 marks)

Formal Letter based on a given situation, in 100-120 words. One out of two questions is to be answered.  5 marks

Writing an Analytical Paragraph in 100-120 words on a given Map / Chart/Graph /Cue/s. One out of two questions is to be answered.    (5 marks)

SECTION C LITERATURE

  Reference to the Context

1.     One extract out of two from Drama / Prose.

2.     One extract out of two from poetry.

QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice Questions / Objective Type Questions Very Short Answer Questions (one word/ One sentence), Short Answer Questions (to be answered in 30-40 words) will be asked to assess inference, analysis, interpretation, evaluation and vocabulary.

Short & Very Long Answer Questions

Four out of Five Short Answer Type Questions to be answered in 40-50 words from the book FIRST FLIGHT to assess interpretation, analysis, inference and evaluation.                                                           (4×3=12 marks)

Two out of Three Short Answer Type Questions to be answered in 40-50 words each from FOOTPRINTS WITHOUT FEET to assess interpretation, analysis, inference and evaluation.                                  (2x3=6 marks)

One out of two Long Answer Type Questions from FIRST FLIGHT to be answered in about 100-120 words each to assess creativity, imagination and extrapolation beyond the text and across the text. This can-be a passage-based question taken from a situation/plot from the text.                (6 marks)

One out of two Long Answer Type Questions from FOOTPRINTS WITHOUT FEET, on theme or plot involving interpretation, extrapolation beyond the text and inference or character sketch to be answered in about 100-120 words. (6 marks)

FIRST FLIGHT

Prose

1. A Letter to God

2. Nelson Mandela - Long Walk to Freedom

3. Two Stories About Flying

4. From the Diary of Anne Frank

5. Glimpses of India

6. Mijbil the Otter

7. Madam Rides the Bus

8. The Sermon at Benares

9. The Proposal (Play)

Poems

1.     Dust of Snow

2.     Fire and Ice

3.     A Tiger in the Zoo

4.     How to Tell Wild Animals

5.     The Ball Poem

6.     Amanda!

7.     The Trees

8.     Fog

9.     The Tale of Custard the Dragon

10.                        For Anne Gregory

FOOTPRINTS WITHOUT FEET

1.     A Triumph of Surgery

2.     The Thief's Story

3.     The Midnight Visitor

4.     A Question of Trust

5.     Footprints Without Feet

6.     The Making of a Scientist

7.     The Necklace

8.      Bholi

9.     The Book that Saved the Earth