SYLLABUS, SESSION: 2017- 2018

CLASS: 6th, ENGLISH

Months Portion To Be Covered

April LIT: Ch-1 (Who did Patrick’s h-w)
Poem-A house A home
ER:- Ch-1 (Tale of 2 birds)
Lang:- Figures of speech, Noun, Pronoun, Punctuation
Writing:- Informal letter

May LIT:-Ch-2 (How the dog found new master)

Poem- The Kite (MCB)
Lang- Preposition, Conjunction , Adjectives
Writing:- Notice
Paragraph writing
July LIT-Ch-3 (Taros reward)
Ch-4 (Kalpana Chawla)
Poem- The quarrel, Beauty
ER- Ch-5 (Tansen)
Lang- Verb, subject verb agreement, determiners, articles
Writing:- Bio sketch , Jumbled sentences

August LIT:- Ch-5 (A different kind of school)

Poem:- Where do all the teachers go
Lang:- Tenses, Active Passive
Writing- Formal letter (To Principal)
Story Writing

September Revision and Term 1 Exam

October LIT : Ch 6 (Who I am ) MCB
Ch-7 (Fair play)
Poem- Wonder words
ER- Ch- 6 (Monkey and the crocodile )
Lang- Idioms and proverbs
Message writing
November LIT : Ch 8 (Game of chance)
Poem :- vocation , What if (MCB)
ER – Ch-8 (A pact with the sun )
Lang – Punctuation

December Lit:- Ch- 9 (Desert Animals)

ER: Ch-10 (A strange wrestling match)
Lang: Reported speech
Writing :- Letter to the Editor

January Lit: Ch- 10 (The banyan tree)

Lang – Editing, gap filling, jumbled sentenced
Writing – Story writing

February Revision
March Final Exam
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SESSION: 2017- 2018

CLASS: 7, ENGLISH

Months Portion To Be Covered

April Lit: Ch1 (Three questions)
Poem – rebel
ER:- Ch-2 (Bringing Up Kari)
Lang: - Figures of speech, Noun, pronoun, Adjectives,
Writing: - Notice
May Lit:- Ch2 (Gift of chappals)
Poem – Shed
Lang: Preposition, conjunction, articles
July Lit: Ch 4 (Ashes that makes trees bloom)
Poem- Chivvy
ER:- Ch- 4 (Cop and the anthem)
Lang:- Subject verb agreement , tenses
Writing: Letter to complain
August Lit: Ch- 5 (quality)
Ch- 8 (Fire Friend& foe)MCB
ER- ch-6 (I want something in a cage)
Lang: Active passive,
Writing: Story writing
Jumbled sentences
September Revision Term 1 Exam
October Lit:- Ch- 6 (expert detectives)
Poem- Trees
ER:- Ch-7 (Chandini)
Lang- Reported speech,
Writing – Story Writing
November Lit:- Ch-7 (Vita wonk) MCB
Poem :- Dad cat and tree
ER:- Ch- 9 (A tiger in House)
Lang:- Clauses and Phrases
December Lit:- Ch-9 (bicycle in good repair)
Poem: (meadow surprises)
ER- ch-10 (Alien Hand)
Lang:- Modals

January Lit:- Ch-10 (Story of cricket) MCB

LANG:- Idioms and proverbs
Writing :- Letter to Editor
February Revision
March Final Exam
 SYLLABUS, SESSION: 2017-2018

CLASS: 8, ENGLISH

Months Portion To Be Covered

April L-1. The Best Christmas Present

The Ant and The 4 Cricket (Poem)
Tsunami (MCB)
Articles, Collective and Abstract Nouns (Grammar)
Informal Letter
Punctuation
May Glimpses Of the Past
Macavity :The Mystery Cat (Poem)
Singular and Plurals, Adjectives (Grammar)
The Treasure Within (MCB)
Data Interpretation, Formal Letter, Letter to Editor (Writing Skills)
July The Last Bargain (poem)
L - Bepin Chaudhary’s Lapse Of Memory
The Fight
Degrees Of Comparison, Adverbs (Grammar)
Story Writing (Writing Skills)
August The Duck and the Kangaroo (Poem)
Notice, Article (Writing Skills)
Question Tags (Grammar)
September Term 1 Exam
October L. This is Jody’s Fawn
The Grasshopper and The Cricket (poem)
Relative pronouns and Tenses (Grammar)
November L. A Short Monsoon Diary
When I set out for Lyonesse (Poem)
E-mail writing (Writing skills)
Prepositions and Conjunctions (Grammar)
December L. The Great Stone Face I
Newspaper Report (writing skills)
Editing and Omission, Participles(Grammar)
January L. The Great Stone Face II
Active and Passive Voice, Direct and Indirect Speech (Grammar)
February The School Boy (poem)
Jumbled Sentences, Editing/ Omission (Grammar)

March Final Exam

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SESSION: 2017-2018

CLASS: 9, ENGLISH
Month Topic

April 1. How I taught my grandmother to read (Fiction)

2. The Brook (Poem)
MCB: Unit I:People

Verb Forms and Determiners

NOVEL :Three Men In A Boat by Jerome k. Jerome

May 1.A Dog named Duke (Fiction)

MCB: Unit II: Adventure

Passive Voice

July 1. Villa for sale (Drama)

2. A Dog Named Duke (Fiction)
MCB: Unit III- Environment

Reported Speech

August 1. The Man who knew too much (Fiction)

2. Solitary Reaper (Poem)
3. Lord Ullin’s Daughter (Poem)
MCB: Unit III- Environment

September Revision and Term 1 Exam

October 1. Keeping it from Harold (Fiction)

2. Seven ages (Poem)
MCB: Mystery
Tenses and modals

November 1. Best Seller (Drama)

2. Oh, I Wish I’d looked after me teeth! (Poem)
MCB: Children

Sentence re-ordering , voice

December 1. Bishops’ Candlesticks. (Drama)
MCB: Sports and games
Determiners and preposition

January 1. Song of the Rain (Poem)

Editing and Omission

February Revision and Final Exam

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CLASS 10

ENGLISH SYLLABUS (2017-18)

Month Topic
April 1. Two Gentlemen of Verona (fiction)
2. The Frog and the Nightingale (poem)
MCB: Unit –I: Health and Medicine
Determiners
Novel: The Story of My Life-Helen Keller
May: 1. Mirror (poem)
MCB: Unit -II: Education
Tenses
Novel: The Story of My Life-Helen Keller
July 1. The Dear Departed (Drama)
2. Mrs. Packletide’s Tiger (Fiction)
MCB: Unit-III: Science
Subject-Verb Agreement and Voice
Novel: The Story of My Life-Helen Keller
August 1. The Letter (Fiction)
2. Not Marble, nor the Gilded
Monuments (Poem)
MCB: Unit-IV: Environment
Reported Speech and Prepositions
Novel: The Story of My Life-Helen Keller
September Revision and Term 1 Exam
October 1. Julius Caesar (Drama)
2. Oxymandias (Poem)
MCB: Unit V: Travel and Tourism
Comparison and Avoiding Repetition
Novel: The Story of My Life-Helen Keller

November 1. A Shady Plot

2. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Poem)
MCB: Unit VI-National Integration
Nominalisation and Modals
Novel: The Story of My Life-Helen Keller
December 1. Patol Babu, Film Star (Fiction)
2. Virtually True (Fiction)
3. Snake (Poem)
Novel: The Story of My Life-Helen Keller

January Pre-boards