UP Board Class 9 Syllabus 2022 English

Subject- English
¼ Class &9½

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Text Book
Prose-
1-Packing – Jerome K. Jerome
2-The Bond of Love – Kenneth Anderson
3-Kathmandu – Vikram Seth
4- If I were you – Douglas James
Poetry-
1. On Killing a Tree – Gieve Patel
2. The Snake Trying – W.W.E. Ross
3. A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal – William Wordsworth
Supplementary Reader –
1. A House is not a Home – Zan Gaudioso
2. The Accidental Tourist – Bill Bryson
3. The Beggar – Anton Chekhov
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Syllabus – English
Class – IX
There will be one question paper of 70 marks. Internal Assessment will be for 30
marks.

Reading 10 marks

1. One short passage followed by three MCQs. 3x1=3
2. One passage followed by three very short answer type questions. 3x2=6
And one vocabulary based question 1

Writing Skills 10 marks

3. Letter (formal/informal)/Application . 4
4. Descriptive paragraph/Report/ Article (based on given verbal/figurative
input)in about 80-100 words. 6

Grammar 15 marks

5. Five MCQs based on parts of speech, tenses, articles, reordering of sentences,
spellings. 5x1=5
6. Three very short answer type questions based on narration, voice,
punctuation. 3x2=6
7. Translation of a short passage from Hindi to English. 4

Literature 35 marks

Beehive (23 marks)

Prose(15 marks)

8. Two MCQs based on the given extract. 2x1=2
9. Three MCQs based on lessons. 3x1=3
10. Two short answer type questions in about 30-40 words each. 2x3=6
11. One long answer type question in about 60 words. 4

Poetry(08 marks)

12.Two MCQs based on the given extract. 2x1=2

13. One short answer type question based on poetry lessons in about 30-40
words . 3

or

Four lines from any poem prescribed in the syllabus

14. Central idea of the given poem. 3

Moments (12 marks)

15. Five MCQs based on prescribed lessons. 5x1=5

16. One short answer type question in about 30-40 words. 3

17. One long answer type question in about 60 words. 4

Prescribed books and Lessons

Beehive (Text Book)
Prose –
1. The Fun They Had – Isaac Asimov
2. The Sound of Music – I. EvelynGlennie – Deborah Cowley
II. Bismillah Khan
3. The Little Girl – Katherine Mansfield
4.` A Truly Beautiful Mind
5. The Snake and the Mirror – Vaikom Muhammad Basheer
6. My Childhood – A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
7. Reach for the Top (I) Santosh Yadav (II) Maria Sharapova
Poetry –
1. The Road Not Taken – Robert Frost
2. Wind – Subramania Bharati
3. Rain on the Roof – Coates Kinney
4. The Lake Isle of Innisfree – William Butler Yeats
5. A Legend of the Northland – Phoebe Cary
6. No Men Are Foreign – James Kirkup
7. The Duck and the Kangaroo – Edward Lear
Moments (Supplementary Reader) –
1. The Lost Child – Mulk Raj Anand
2. The Adventures of Toto – Ruskin Bond
3. Iswaran the Storyteller – R.K. Laxman
4. In the Kingdom of Fools – A.K. Ramanujan
5. The Happy Prince – Oscar Wilde
6. Weathering the Storm in Ersama – Harsh Mander
7. The Last Leaf – O Henry

Words & Expression [Eng. Work book]