English Class IX

Class VIII Curriculum for Language and Literature

Paper 1:
  • Composition writing of about 300 to 350 words.
  • Letter writing.
  • Write a notice based text and email on any specific topic
  • Unseen prose passage.
  • Functional grammar.
  • The Merchant of Venice
    Drama:
    • Act 1: Scene 1, 2 and 3
    • Act 2: Scene 1 to 9
    • Act 3: Scene 1 only
  • Treasure Trove – A Collection Of Icse Poems And Short Stories
    Poetry:
    • The Heart of the Tree – Henry Cuyler Bunner
    • The Cold Within – James Patrick Kinney
    • Daffodils – William Wordsworth
    • The Bangle Sellers – Sarojini Naidu
    • After Blenheim – Robert Southey
    • Television – Roald Dahl

    Prose:

    • A Face in the Dark – Ruskin Bond.
    • An Angel in Disguise – T.S. Arthur.
    • Chief Seattle’s Speech.
    • Old Man at the Bridge – Ernest Miller Hemingway.
    • A Horse and Two Goats – R.K. Narayan.
    • Hearts and Hands – O. Henry.
  •  
  1. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
  2. A Wizard of Earth Sea – Ursula Le Guin
  3. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
  4. Watership Down – Richard Adams
  5. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
  6. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas – John Boyne
  7. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
  8. Les Misérables – Victor Hugo (Abridged)
  9. Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  10. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
  11. The Pearl– John Steinbeck
  12. P.G. Wodehouse (Jeeves/Blandings Castle, etc.)
  13. The Ramayana/ Mahabharata – C. Rajagopalachari
  14. Graphic Novels (e.g., Maus – Art Spiegelman)
  15. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
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MS. SAMADRITA MALLICK

M. A. English
Loreto College, Calcutta University

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