WBCHSE Class 11 Syllabus for English

ENGLISH-A (ENGA)
CLASS - XI
Full Marks – 100

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
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

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 –
Tense, Voice, Group verbs, Preposition, Relative clause, Participle, Gerund, Subject- verb
agreement.

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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.

Topics for project: (any one)
1 The Canterbury Tales
2 Elizabethan Drama
3 Eighteenth century Novel
4 Romantic Poetry

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ENGLISH-B (ENGB)
Class - XI
Full Marks: 100
LITERATURE: 50 Marks
a) Prose:20 Marks
b) Verse: 20 Marks
c) Rapid Reader: 10 Marks

LANGUAGE: 30 Marks
a) Textual Grammer: 10 Marks
b) Writing—10 Marks
c) ESP—10 Marks

PROJECT:20 Marks

LITERATURE : 50 Marks
1. Leela’s Friend – R.K.Narayan
2. Karma – Khushwant Singh
3. Alias Jimmy Valentine – O Henry
4. Nobel Lecture – Mother Teresa
5. Extract from The Place of Art in Education – Nanandalal Bose (Speaking of Art ,Visa-
Bharati-1999edition), (Pages-23 to 26 upto first paragragh ending with…….’according
to the location’ on page 26)

1. Upon the Westminster Bridge – William Wordswrth
2. Meeting at night – Robert Browning
3. The Sick Rose - William Blake
4. Brotherhood – Octavio Paz
5. Daybreak - H W Longfellow

Rapid Reader (Any One)
1. Tales from Shakespeare – Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb (Edited Version)
Following Tales: Macbeth, Othello, The Comedy of Errors, As you like it, Twelfth Night

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LANGUAGE: 30 Marks

Textual Grammar
Tense, Voice, Group verbs, Preposition, Relative clause, Participle, Gerund.

Writing
Paragraph writing/story writing- 350-400 words

ESP [Newspaper Advertisement / Commercial Leaflet] (10 to 50 words)
Newspaper Advertisement: Job Vacancy, Land, House, Flat purchase and sale, Academic
Matters. Commercial Leaflet: Opening of a showroom/Institution/Training Centre,
Launching Tour Programmes by Travel Agency, Discount Sale.

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ALTERNATIVE ENGLISH (ALTE)
Class - XI
Full Marks: 100

LITERATURE: 40 Marks
a) Prose:15 Marks
b) Verse: 15 Marks
c) Rapid Reader: 10 Marks

LANGUAGE: 40 Marks
a) Textual Grammar: 10 Marks
b) Writing—15 Marks
c) ESP—15 Marks

PROJECT:20 Marks

LITERATURE : 40 Marks
1. Home to Heaven – Pearl S Buck
2. Kabuliwallah – Rabindranath Tagore
3. The Man with a scar – Maugham
4. I became an Author – W B Yeats

1. Bright Star – John Keats
2. A dog has Died – Pablo Neruda
3. Coromondel Fishers - Sarojini Naidu
4. Everyone Sang – Seigfried Sassoon

Rapid Reader
Three Blind Mice – Agatha Christie

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LANGUAGE: 40 Marks

Textual Grammar
Tense, Voice, Group verbs, Preposition, Relative clause, Participle, Gerund.

Writing
Essay on any Social/Academic Topic (350-400 words)

ESP (150-200 words)
Letter writing- (formal/informal)/Diary writing

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