Prescribed Books

1. Hornbill: English Reader published by National Council of Education Research

and Training, New Delhi
2. Snapshots: Supplementary Reader published by National Council of Education Research and Training, New Delhi
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English Core
Code No. 301
Class XII (2021-22)
Term Wise Syllabus

SECTION TERM 1 WEIGHTAGE TERM II WEIGHTAGE

(IN MARKS) (IN MARKS)
Reading Comprehension: Reading Comprehension:
( Two Passages) (Two Passages)
A  Unseen passage  Unseen passage (factual,
(factual, descriptive or descriptive or literary/
literary/ discursive or 14 discursive or persuasive) 14
persuasive) (8+6 Marks)  Case Based Unseen (8+6 Marks)
 Case Based Unseen (Factual) Passage
(Factual) Passage
Creative Writing Skills : Creative Writing Skills :

B Short Writing Tasks Short Writing Tasks

 Notice Writing 3+5 marks  Formal & Informal Invitation 3+5 Marks
 Classified Advertisements Cards or the Replies to
Total=08 Invitation/s Total=08
Long Writing Tasks(One)
 Letter to an Editor (giving Long Writing Tasks(One)
suggestions or opinion on  Letter of Application for a Job
issues of public interest)  Report Writing
 Article Writing
Literature : Literature:
Literary-prose/poetry extracts Questions based on extracts/texts to
C ( seen- texts ) to assess assess comprehension and
comprehension and appreciation, appreciation, analysis, inference,
analysis, inference, extrapolation extrapolation
11 Marks for
Questions Based on Texts to Flamingo + 7 11 Marks for
assess comprehension and Marks for Flamingo + 7
appreciation, analysis, inference, Vistas = 18 Book-Flamingo (Prose) Marks for
extrapolation Marks  The Rattrap Vistas = 18
 Indigo Marks
Book- Flamingo (Prose)
 The Last Lesson Book-Flamingo (Poetry)
 Lost Spring  A Thing of Beauty
 Deep Water  Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers
Book-Flamingo (Poetry)
 My Mother at Sixty-Six
 An Elementary School Book-Vistas (Prose)
Classroom in a Slum  Should Wizard Hit Mommy?
 Keeping Quiet  On the Face of It
Book-Vistas (Prose)  Evans Tries an O Level
 The Third Level
 The Enemy

TOTAL 40 TOTAL 40

ASL 10 ASL 10

GRAND TOTAL 40 + 10 = 50 GRAND TOTAL 40 + 10 = 50

Prescribed Books
1. Flamingo: English Reader published by National Council of Education Research and Training, New Delhi
2. Vistas: Supplementary Reader published by National Council of Education Research and Training, New Delhi