Module WB Literature 9, 10, 11 & 12

CLASS 9- book “Bliss”

1. Tales of Bhola Grandpa – Manoj Das
2. All About a Dog – A.G. Gardiner
3. Autumn – John Clare
4. A Day in the Zoo – Gerald Durrell
5. All Summer in a Day – Ray Bradbury
6. Mild the Mist upon the Hill – Emily Jane Bronte
7. Tom Loses a Tooth – Mark Twain
8. His First Flight – Liam O’Flaherty
9. The North Ship – Philip Larkin
10. The Price of Bananas – Mulk Raj Anand
11. A Shipwrecked Sailor – Daniel Defoe
12. Hunting Snake – Judith Wright

CLASS 10 – BOOK “BLISS”

1. Father’s Help – R. K. Narayan
2. Fable – Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. The Passing Away Of Bapu – Nayantara Sehgal
4. My Own True Family – Ted Hughes
5. Our Runaway Kite – Lucy Maud Montgomery
6. Sea Fever – John Masefield
7. The Cat – Andrew Barton Paterson
8. The snail – William Cowper

Class 11-Alternative English

PROSE:

1. Home to Heaven
2. Kabuliwallah
3. The Man with the Scar
4. I Became an Author
5. Othello

POETRY:

1. Bright Star
2. A Dog has Died
3. The Coromandel Fishers
4. Everyone Sang

CLASS 12_ Alternative English

PROSE:

1. Sparrows
2. The Disk
3. The Mark of Vishnu
4. Science and Religion
5. Three Questions

POETRY:

1. A Bird Came Down the Walk
2. Break, Break, Break
3. The World is too Much with Us
4. Lotus

PLAY:

THE RISING OF THE MOON

CLASS 11 –ENGLISH A – PARADISE

Semester I

Prose:

1. The Last Leaf – O’ Henry
2. One of These Days – Gabriel Gracia Marquez

Verse:

1. To Autumn – John Keats
2. All the World’s a Atage – William Shakespeare
3. In The Bazaara of Hyderabad – Sarojini Naidu

SEMESTER II

Prose:

1. Shooting an Elephant – George Orwell
2. The Portrait of a Lady – Khushwant Singh
3. Araby – James Joyce

Verse:

1. The Caged Bird – Maya Angelou
2. Dover Beach – Matthew Arnold

CLASS XII – EMGLISH A-  PARADISE

Semester III

PROSE:

1. War – Luigi Pirandello
2. Debut on Stage – Charles cHaplin
3. The Boy who fell from the Sky (An adaptation from The Legend’s of Pensam) – Mamang Dal

VERSE:

1. Ode to the West Wind – P.B. Shelly
2. My Grandfather’s House – Kamala Das

PLAY:  THE GLASS MENAGERIE (Scene 1 -4 )

Semester IV

PROSE:

1. Pirzada – Jhumpa Lahiri
2. The Lamb of the Slaughter – Roald Dahl

VERSE:

1. Last Ride Together – Robert Browning
2. I Cannot Live with thee – Emily Dickenson
3. This is a Photograph of Me – Margaret Atwood

PLAY:  THE GLASS MENAGERIE (Scene 5 -7)

CLASS 11 & 12_ENGLISH B_READER

1. Macbeth
2. Othello
3. As You Like
4. Folk-Tales of Bengal – i. The Ghost Brahman – Lal Behari Dey
5.           The Man Who Wished to be Perfect – Lal Behari dey

                                 iii. A Ghostly Wife – Lal Behari Dey

5. Precis Writing

CLASS 11 & 12_ENGLISH B _ REALM

CLASS 11

SEMESTER I

PROSE:

1. An Astrologer’s Day – RK Narayan
2. ‘The Swami and Mother-Worship’ Sister Nivedita from The Master as I saw Him
3. Amarnath Sister Nivedita from The Master as I saw Him

VERSE:

1. Composed Upon Westminster – William Wordsworth Bridge
2. The Bangle Sellers – Sarojini Naidu
3. The Second Coming – W.B.Yeats

SEMESTER II

PROSE:

1. The Garden Party – Katherine Mansfield
2. Alias Jimmy Valentine – O Henry
3. OF Studies Francis Bacon
4. Nobel Lecture – Mother Teresa

VERSE:

1. My Last Duchess – Robert Browning
2. And Still I Rise – Maya Angelou

CLASS 12

SEMESTER III

PROSE:

1. The Night Train at Deoli – Ruskin Bond
2. Strong Roots -APJ Abdul Kalam

(extract from the chapter Orientation from Wings of Fire)

3. A Room of One’s Own: – Virginia Woolf

 Section on ‘Shakespeare’s Sister’

VERSE:

1. Our Casuarina Tree – Toru Dutt
2. Ulysses – Lord Alfred Tennyson

PLAY:  Tara (Act 1) – Mahesh Dattani

SEMESTER IV

Prose:

1. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Caroll

 ‘Down the Rabbit Hole’

2. Three Questions Leo Tolstoy

 Verse:

1. Hawk Roosting – Ted Hughes
2. That time of year … (Sonnet 73 ) William Shakespeare
3. The Greenhouse Effect – Carl Dennis

 Play : Tara (Act II) – Mahesh Dattani