HBSE Class 11 Syllabus 2025 English Elective

Haryana Board
Syllabus
2024-25

BOARD OF SCHOOL EDUCATION HARYANA
Syllabus Design (2024-25)
Class - 11 Subject: English (Elective) Code: 520
General Instructions:
1. There will be an Annual Examination based on the entire syllabus.
2. The Annual Examination will be that of 80 marks and 20 marks
weightage will be given for Internal Assessment.
3. For Internal Assessment:
The Periodic Assessment will include:
i) For 6 marks- Three SAT exams will be conducted and will have a
weightage of 06 marks towards the final Internal Assessment.
ii) For 2 marks- One half yearly exam will be conducted and will have a
weightage of 02 marks towards the final Internal Assessment.
iii) For 2 marks- Subject teacher will assess and give maximum 02 marks for
CRP (Class Room Participation towards the final Internal Assessment.
iv) For 5 marks- A project work will be given to the students and a weightage
of 05 marks will be given towards the final Internal Assessment.
v) For 5 marks-Students will be awarded 05 marks for attendance as per the
following criteria:
75% to 79 % - 01 mark
Above 80% to 84 % - 02 marks
Above 85% to 89% - 03 marks
Above 90% to 94% - 04 marks
Above 95% - 05 marks

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Course Structure (2024-25)
Class - 11 Subject: English (Elective) Code: 520

Sr. No. Section Skill Content Marks Total
1. A Reading Unseen 5 10
Skills Comprehension
Passage
Unseen 5
Comprehension
Poem
2. B Writing Paragraph 5+5=10 10
Skills Writing., Debate
Writing
3. C Grammar Integrated 10 10
grammar

4. D Textbooks Woven Words 50

Total 80
Internal Assessment 20
Grand Total 100

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Contents
Class : 11 Subject – English Elective Code- 520

LITERATURE TEXTBOOK – WOVEN WORDS
SHORT STORIES
1. The Lament Anton Chekhov
2. A Pair of Mustachios Mulk Raj Anand
3. The Rocking-horse Winner D.H.Lawrence
4. The Adventure of the Three Garridebs Arthur Conan Doyle
5. Pappachi’s Moth Arundhati Roy
6. The Third and Final Continent Jhumpa Lahiri
7. Glory at Twilight Bhabani Bhattacharya
8. The Luncheon William Somerset Maugham
POETRY
1. The Peacock Sujata Bhatt
2. Let me Not to the Marriage of True Minds William Shakespeare
3. Coming Philip Larkin
4. Telephone Conversation Wole Soyinka
5. The World is too Much With Us William Wordsworth
6. Mother Tongue Padma Sachdev
7. Hawk Roosting Ted Hughes
8. For Elkana Nissim Ezekiel
9. Refugee Blues W. H. Auden
10. Felling of the Banyan Tree Dilip Chitre
11. Ode to a Nightingale John Keats
12. Ajamil and the Tigers Arun Kolatkar
ESSAY
1. My Watch Mark Twain
2. My Three Passions Bertrand Russell
3. Patterns of Creativity S.Chandrasekhar
4. Tribal Verse G.N.Devy
5. What is a Good Book? John Ruskin
6. The Story E.M.Forster
7. Bridges Kumudini Lakhia
GRAMMAR
Integrated Grammar
READING SKILLS
1. Unseen Passage
2. Unseen Poem
WRITING SKILLS
1. Paragraph Writing
2. Debate Writing

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Class - 11 Subject: English (Elective) Code: 520
Month- wise Teaching Plan

Month Section Topic Sub Topic Period Period
for for
Reading Revision
April A Reading Unseen passage (literary or 4 3
Comprehension discursive)

B Creative Essay (on an Argumentative/ 2
Writing Skills Discursive topic)

Literary-Prose/Poetry-MCQs to
test for comprehension, literary
appreciation and inference
Literature
C Book-Woven Words- Short 4
Stories
• The Lament -Anton
Chekhov 3
(Misery as main theme)
Book-Woven Words-Poetry
• The Peacock- Sujata Bhatt
(Magnificence of the 2
National Bird)
Book-Woven Words-Essays
• My Watch- Mark Twain
(Deliberate exaggeration
and personification)

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May B Creative Essay (on a 4 4
Writing Skills Reflective/Descriptive topic )

C Literature Literary-Prose/Poetry-MCQs to
test for comprehension, literary
appreciation and inference
5
Book-Woven Words- Short
Stories
• A Pair of Mustachios -
Mulk Raj Anand 5
(Categorical
Classification)
Book-Woven Words-Poetry
Let me Not to the 4
Marriage of True Minds -
William Shakespeare
(Love as lighthouse)
Book-Woven Words-Essays
• My Three Passions-
Bertrand Russell
(Autobiographical Note)
D Integrated Grammar-Articles
Grammar
3
1. Introduction to Project Work
Project Work highlighting theme of Inter-
disciplinary projects.
2. Assigning different topics
from the syllabus to students
for Project Work.
3. Guiding the students for
cutting from newspaper and
magazines related to the
chapters and poems and paste
them in project file.

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June Summer Vacation

Activities to be done during Summer Break:

• Presentation – book review /a play /a short story/a
novel/novella (tale, fable, parable) to be followed by a
question answer session.
• Poetry reading to be followed by interpretative tasks based
on close reading and literary analysis of the text.
• Critical review of a film or a play.
• Conducting a theatre workshop to be followed by a
discussion

July A Reading Unseen passage (literary or 2 3
Comprehension discursive)

C Literature Literary-Prose/Poetry-MCQs to
test for comprehension, literary
appreciation and inference
Book-Woven Words- Short 6
Stories
• The Rocking-horse
Winner- D.H. Lawrence
(Obsession with money and
Other recurring themes)
3
Book-Woven Words-Poetry
• Coming- Philip Larkin
(Grief in greenness) 4
Book-Woven Words-Essays
• Patterns of Creativity - S.
Chandrasekhar
(Supremacy of Science
over literature)
D Grammar Integrated Grammar-Modals
2

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August B Creative Essay (on an Argumentative/ 2 4
Writing Skills Discursive topic)
C Literature Literary-Prose/Poetry-MCQs to
test for comprehension, literary
appreciation and inference
Book-Woven Words- Short
Stories
• The Adventure of the Three 5
Garridebs – Arthur Conan
Doyle (Plot Construction
Comedy or tragedy)
Book-Woven Words-Poetry
4
• Telephone Conversation -
Wole Soyinka
(Racism and Prejudices)
Book-Woven Words-Essays
• Tribal Verse - G.N.Devy 4
(Tribal Communities-
Sacred or Secular)
D Grammar Integrated Grammar - 2
Tenses

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September A Reading Unseen passage (literary or 4 6
Comprehension discursive)
C Literature Literary-Prose/Poetry-MCQs to
test for comprehension, literary
appreciation and inference

Book-Woven Words-Poetry
• The World is too Much 2
With Us – William
Wordsworth
(Materialistic Concern over
Nature)
• Mother Tongue - Padma
Sachdev 2
(Personification, Symbolism,
Emotional Elements)
Literary Terms: Simile, 4
Metaphor, Alliteration, Sonnet,
Ode, Irony, Pathos, Satire, Lyric,
Ballad, Refrain, Sarcasm,
Allegory, Fable, Dramatic
Monologue)
Half Yearly Exams

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October B Creative Essay (on a 2 4
C Writing Skills Reflective/Descriptive topic )

Literature Literary-Prose/Poetry-MCQs to
test for comprehension, literary
appreciation and inference
Book-Woven Words-Short
Stories 8
Pappachi’s Moth - Arundhati Roy
(Find relationship among
characters)

Book-Woven Words-Poetry
Hawk Roosting- Ted Hughes 6
(Dramatic Monologue)

Book-Woven Words-Essays 2
What is a Good Book?- John
Ruskin
(Role of good book in life)
D Grammar Integrated Grammar – Voice 2

November B Creative Essay (on an Argumentative/ 3 3
Writing Skills Discursive topic)

C Literature Literary-Prose/Poetry-MCQs to
test for comprehension, literary
appreciation and inference
Book-Woven Words-
Short Stories 5
• The Third and Final
Continent- Jhumpa Lahiri
(Struggle for survival and
contrast between two societies)
Book-Woven Words-Essays 3
• The Story- E.M.Forster
(Difference between story and
plot)
Book-Woven Words-Poetry 4
• For Elkana-Nissim Ezekiel

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• Refugee Blues-W. H. Auden

Grammar Integrated Grammar- 2
D Narration

December A Reading Unseen passage (literary or 4 4
Comprehension discursive)

C Literature Literary-Prose/Poetry-MCQs to
test for comprehension, literary
appreciation and inference
Book-Woven Words-Short
Stories 6
• Glory at Twilight Bhabani
Bhattacharya
• The Luncheon William
Somerset Maugham
Book-Woven Words-Essays
• Bridges- Kumudini Lakhia
(Motivation in comparison to
innate ability)
Book-Woven Words-Poetry
Felling of the Banyan Tree
- Dilip Chitre
January C Literature Literary-Prose/Poetry-MCQs to 2
test for comprehension, literary
appreciation and inference
Book-Woven Words-Poetry
• Ode to a Nightingale- 4
JohnKeats
(Escapism and transience of life)
• Ajamil and the Tigers-Arun
Kolatkar
February Revision of syllabus and problem solving
March Examination

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QUESTION PAPER DESIGN (2024-25)
Class: 11th Subject: English (Elective) Code: 520

Sr. Section Textbook Content No. of Description Marks
No. Question
s
1 A Reading Comprehension 1 1 question having 2 MCQ and 3 5
Skills Unseen objective questions of 1 mark
Passage each
Comprehension 1 1 question having 2 MCQ and 3 5
Unseen objective questions of 1 mark
Passage for each
critical
appreciation of
a poem
2 B Creative Debate 1(with Do any one of given questions 5
writing skills internal
and Choice)
Grammar Paragraph 1(with Do any one of given questions 5
writing internal
Choice)
Integrated 1 1 question having 10 MCQs of 1 10
Grammar mark each
(Modals,
Articles,
Tenses, Voice,
Narration)
3 C Literature Comprehension 1 1 question having 2 MCQs and 3 5
Woven Passage from Very Short Answer Type
Words Short Stories questions of 1 mark each
(Short Comprehension 1 1 question having 2 MCQs and 3 5
Stories, Passage from Very Short Answer Type
Poetry and Poetry questions of 1 mark each
Essays) Comprehension 1 1 question having 2 MCQs and 3 5
Passage from Very Short Answer Type
Essays questions of 1 mark each
Essay Type 1(with Do any one of given questions 5
Question internal
from Short Choice)
Stories

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Essay Type 1(with Do any one of given questions 5
Question internal
from Poetry Choice)
Essay Type 1(with Do any one of given questions 5
Question internal
from Essays Choice)
Short Answer 1(with 5 Do any four out of the given five 8
type sub sub questions of two marks each.
Question from question) Do
Short Stories any two from each part
Short Answer 1(with 5 Do any four out of the given five 8
Type sub sub questions of two marks each.
Question from question)
Essays
Short Answer 1 Do any two out of the given 4
Type Question three of two marks each
from Poetry
Total 14 80

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