HBSE Class 11 Syllabus 2023 English Elective

Class: 11th
Subject: English (Elective)
Month Name of Books Content Period for Period for
Reading Revision
April Woven Words 1 Short Stories 3
The Lament ( Misery as main 6
theme)
The Peacock( Magnificence of the 3
National Bird)
My Watch(Deliberate exaggeration 4
and personification)
Reading Skills Unseen passage for comprehension 4
May Woven Words 1 Short Stories 4
A Pair of Mustachios (Categorical 5
Classification)
Let me Not to the Marriage of True 5
Minds (Love as lighthouse)
My Three Passions 4
(Autobiographical Note)
Reading Skills Unseen passage for comprehension 4
June Summer Vacation
July Woven Words 1 Short Stories
The Rocking Horse Winner 10 03
(Obsession with money and other
recurring themes)
Coming ( Grief in greenness) 3
Patterns of Creativity 4
( Supremacy of Science over
Literature)
August Woven Words 1 Short Stories 04
The Adventure of the Three 08
Garridebs (Plot Construction:
Comedy or Tragedy)
Telephone Conversation 04
(Racism and Prejudices)
Tribal Verse
(Tribal Communities: Sacred or 04
Secular)

Sept. Woven Words 1 Poetry 6
The World is Too Much With Us 2
(Materialistic Concern over Nature)
Mother Tongue(Personification, 2
Symbolism, Emotional Elements)
Literary Terms: 4
Simile, Metaphor, Alliteration,
Sonnet, Ode, Irony, Pathos, Satire,
Lyric, Ballad, Refrain, Sarcasm,
Allegory, Fable, Dramatic
Monologue)
Reading Skills Unseen Passage 4
October Woven Words 1 Short Stories 04
(Pappachi ‘s Moth (Find 12
relationship among characters )
Hawk Roosting- (Dramatic 02
Monologue)
Essays
What is a good book? 06
(Role of good Book in life)
Nov. Woven Words 1 Short Stories
The Third and final 10 03
Continent(Struggle for Survival and
contrast between two societies)
For Elkana (Imagery and Family 03
Relationship)
The Story 04
(Difference between story and plot)
Dec. Woven Words 1 Short Stories
Glory at Twilight (Character 06 04
Delineation)
Refugee Blues (Plight of rejoices ) 04
Bridge 04
(Motivation in comparison to innate
ability)
Unseen comprehension 02
January Woven Words 1 Short Stories
Luncheon (False motive with 04 02
humorous touch)
Filling of Banyan Tree (The 03

Mythological aspects of Banyan
Tree)
Ode to a Nightingale 03
(Escapism and transience of life)
Ajamil and the Tigers( A political 04
Satire)
Feb. Revision of syllabus and problem
solving
March Examination

Note: Project work must be given to the students as per the convenience of the teacher. (preferably in the
month of December)

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