English Class VII

Class VII Curriculum for Language and Literature

Reading

1) Literary/ non-literary texts on a wide range of themes covering different genres and registers. The themes may include:

  • Self, Family, Home, Friends and Pets
  • Neighbourhood and Community at large
  • The Nation – diversity (sociocultural, religious and ethnic, as well as linguistic heritage
  • Myths/legends/folktales)
  • The World – India’s neighbours and other countries (their cultures, literature and customs)
  • Adventure and Imagination
  • Sports and Yoga
  • Issues relating to Adolescence (drugs, values, life skills)
  • Science and Technology
  • Peace and Harmony
  • Travel and Tourism
  • Mass Media
  • Art and Culture
  • Health and Reproductive health
  • Famous Personalities & achievers,
  • Environmental concerns – water conservation, cleanliness and sanitation, Safety –personal safety & awareness about child abuse, conservation of energy, Sustainable development

2) Extensive and intensive reading of the texts for comprehension, inference etc.

3) Focus on choice of vocabulary/figurative language and tone/mood used in the text.

4) Deconstruct the textual piece to enhance understanding of the structure used by author.

  • Write messages, invitations, short paragraphs, letters (formal and informal) applications,
  • Simple narrative and descriptive pieces, etc.
  • Creative writing: stories, poems etc.
  • Organize and structure thoughts in writing.
  • Organise and structure meaningful sentences in a sequential manner.
  • Use of linkers such as however, therefore etc. to link sentences to indicate passage of time and provide a sense of closure.
  • Age appropriate use of words and phrases.
  • Follow process approach to writing. planning, revising, reviewing editing, rewriting.
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  • Countable and uncountable nouns
  • Simple Tense (Past, Present and Future)
  • Singular and Plural & Continuous Tense (Present, Pastand Future)
  • Adverbs & Adjective
  • Subject and Predicate
  • Punctuation
  • Preposition
  • Direct & Indirect Speech
  • Countable and uncountable nouns
  • Simple Tense (Past, Present and Future)
  • Singular and Plural & Continuous Tense (Present, Pastand Future)
  • Adverbs & Adjective
  • Subject and Predicate
  • Punctuation
  • Preposition
  • Direct & Indirect Speech
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  1. Novels by Gerard Durrell
  2. Malgudi Days – R.K. Narayan
  3. I am Malala – Malala Yousafzai
  4. Detective stories – Agatha Christie
  5. The Lost World – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  6. The Happy Prince and Other Tales – Oscar Wilde
  7. Animal Farm – George Orwell
  8. Tuck Everlasting – Natalie Babbit
  9. Short Stories (O’ Henry/ Saki/ Leo Tolstoy/Rudyard Kipling/ Guy De Maupassant/Mark Twain/ Oscar Wilde/Jorge Luis Borges/William Faulkner/Anton Chekhov/ Edgar Allen Poe/Franz Kafka/Earnest Hemingway /Flannery O’Connor/James Joyce/Ray Bradbury/Roald Dhal/ Nicolai Gogol and Translations from Indian writers like Tagore, Premchand , etc.)
  10. Something Out of nothing
  11. Marie Curie and Radium – Carl Killough
  12. Ignited minds – APJ Kalam
  13. Graphic Novels: Tintin Series/ Asterix series
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MS. SAMADRITA MALLICK

M. A. English
Loreto College, Calcutta University

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