CLASS XII – English

WORKSHEET ON: Project - Portfolio

General Instructions: Following are the guidelines forwarded by board, do adhere to it, you
even have the rubrics for the assessment too.
Class XII ENGLISH PROJECTS
BELOW ARE THE CBSE GUIDELINES FOR ENGLISH PROJECT 2022-23
CBSE–Project-Portfolio/ Project Report –10 MARKS (5 PROJECT+5 VIVA)
The Project-Portfolio/Project Report is a compilation of the work that the students
produce during the process of working on their ALS Project.

The Project-Portfolio includes the following:

● Cover page, with title of project, school details/details of students.
● Statement of purpose/objectives/goals
● Certificate of completion under the guidance of the teacher.
● Action plan for the completion of assigned tasks.
● Materials such as scripts for the theatre/role play, questionnaires for
interview, written assignments, essays, survey-reports and other material
evidence of learning progress and academic accomplishment.
● The 800-1000 words essay/Script/Report.
● Student/group reflections.
● If possible, Photographs that capture the positive learning experiences of the
student(s).
● List of resources/bibliography.

The following points must be kept for consideration while assessing the
project portfolios:
● Quality of content of the project
● Accuracy of information
● Adherence to the specified timeline
● Content in respect of (spellings, grammar ,punctuation)
● Clarity of thoughts and ideas
● Creativity
● Contributions by group members
● Knowledge and experience gained
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 TO SUM IT IN BRIEF -THE PROJECT SHOULD INCLUDE
1. INDEX
2. CERTIFICATE
3. INTRODUCTION
4. CONTENT——-ATLEAST 15 TO 20 PAGES
5. WRITE UP
6. LEARNING OUTCOME
7. BIBLIOGRAPHY
HERE ARE THE SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS FOR ENGLISH PROJECT
WORK CAN BE TAKEN UP BY CLASS XII STUDENTS.

TOPIC :1
Gender issues ( Take any one Issue)
 -Highlight the plight of oppressed Gender– inequality, injustice, deprivation,
agony, pain faced by them ( Info-graphics / Data).
 -Women ideology towards gender inequality.
 -Movements against Gender inequality.
 -Discrimination at different places ( home, job, school etc).
 -Kamala Das – and Indian writer throughout her literature career has fought for the
rights of women – ( Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers) –mention the themes.
 -Kamala Das: The Voice of Indian Woman’s Quest For Liberation ( It is an
autobiographical verse ) Highlight.
 -# Me too movement.
 -How can the change be brought in the mind set of the people.
 -Recent Supreme court decision in America- Abort Crucial Rights.

TOPIC 2
: Unleash your real potential
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 – be bold, be resilient, be strong (Importance of a resilient attitude)
 What do you mean by Resilient Attitude.
 Traits, qualities and characteristics of Resilient person.
 How personal choices help or hinder our resilience.
 Tips for Building and Cultivating Resilience.
 Why is resilience important?
 Is Resilience a skill or character strength?
 What are the seven C’s of Resilience?
 Different types of resilience
 Key component and element of resilience life
 Take an example of the chapter— Deep Water
 Other examples of great personalities
TOPIC -3:
Courage is not the absence of fear but triumph over it
 -Introduction
 -Origin of the quote
 -Courage – a choice to act
 -What can one learn from fear
 -Benefits of having courage over fear
 -How and why to overcome fear
 -Fighting against fear is hard but worth it ( Examples)
 -Mention some of your worst fears and how you managed to overcome them — A
Questionnaire
 -Famous personalities who overcame their fear ( Their motivation
podcast/speech/stories

TOPIC -4-
KARMA- THE INFINITE LOOP
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 Is Karma an infinite loop?
 What is karma?
 Karma- a matter of faith
 Doctrine of Karma
 Law of causation/ action and reaction/retribution
 Philosophy of Karma
 Theories about Karma
 The subtle cause and effect of Karma
 Reincarnation
 Delusion
 Power of karma in relation to destiny
 The Rational of spiritual healing
 Bhagvad Geeta- ( reference)
 Duty or motive of karma


TOPIC -5:
Watch ‘CNN’s award-winning Planet in Peril series and Anderson Cooper 360 on
the environment.
Write review in 800 to 1000 words highlighting the problems dealt.
 –Like Climate change
 Vanishing habitats
 Disappearing species
 Human population growth
 Collect pictures and articles from the journals, newspaper and science magazines
showing the changes
 Make a comparative report showing the changes from past 20 years.
 Mention Role of Eight year old girl Licypriya, known as Indian ‘Greta’ for her
passion towards the fight against climate change. ( Take any other example)

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 TOPIC-6:
Watch short film “Positive all the way” ( how people with undeterred
determination face the obstacles of life and leave a mark for themselves)
 -Give examples of people in different sphere of life who have shown positive
attitude and reached the pinnacle of success
 – obstacles faced
 – their undeterred determination
 – lesson and message their efforts give to others
 – values learnt -can co relate it with the chapter ‘DEEP WATER’
TOPIC -7:
Watch the ‘The Story of Plastic’ it is a searing expose. Make a project on “Plastic
Menace’
 – Uncover the ugly truth behind plastic pollution
 –Environmental damage created by plastic
 -Human Rights abused that occur throughout the lifecycle of plastic
 -False solution of plastic recycling.
 – Initiative launched by Union Environment Minister to stop the plastic menace
 – infographic to show the increase of the use of plastic
 – some state/ countries who are successful in reducing the use of plastic
 – cutting from Newspaper/Journals to show the impact of Plastic
 – views about plastic ban
TOPIC -8:
Social Issues in India
A, GENDER ISSUES
1. Reason/causes for disparity
 Gender gap in Education/labour force/employment
 Economic survey

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 Rank of India as per World Economic Forum
 Schemes launched by Indian Government to bridge the gap
 Campaigns launched to bring in behavioural change in society
B. MIGRATION
 Changing Pattern of Migration
 women migration in India is increasing at a faster pace than men Why?
 Plight of Migrants ( even talk of the plight of the migrants during the pandemic)
 Infographic description ( No., reason, condition)
 Take incident from (lost spring) talk of the callousness of society and the political
class towards the sufferings of the poor
C. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
– INTRODUCTION
 cycle of abuse
 intergenerational violence
 effects
 causes
 prevention

types of abuses
legal way to approach
Satyamav Jayate ( Episodes)
ex-Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers

TOPIC-9:
“When a people are enslaved, as long as they hold fast to their language it is as if
they had the key to their prison.”
 Importance of Language
 Meaning of ‘Linguistic chauvinism’

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 Find examples in history where conquered people had their language taken away
from them or had a language imposed of them—What was the result/outcome
 Problems faced by linguistic minority
 How can they keep their language alive
 Linguistic human rights
 Linguistic Chauvinism examples from English literature

TOPIC -10:
Navarasas ( Nine Rasas)
 What are the Nine rasas?
 The Chemistry behind Emotions
 Colours that represent Nine rasas
 Are emotions good or bad? Should we embrace all emotions?
 How to overcome bad moods?/ What happens when the emotions are supressed?
 Life experience of dealing with emotions ( Grief, Sorrow, Anger, Fear)
 Professions and skills which include learning about emotions
 Make a Google form (atleast 10 questions )/make a questionnaire= to assess your
as well as your friends Emotional State

TOPIC-11
The need to develop the right attitude towards the specially challenged, the need to
incorporate them into the social mainstream and also realize the true beauty
that lies within a person and not in one’s physical appearance. “Appearances
are deceptive”
 See the documentary- Forgive us Our Trespasses (Attitude towards disable people)
 Mention dehumanising way , the disabled are treated/ rather ignored in the past even
today
 Extracts /real life stories
 Suggest some radical changes
 Importance of Inner beauty over outer beauty
 Relate it with chapter ’ On the face of it’
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 TOPIC-12

 Should criminals in prison be given the opportunity of learning and education? Can
education bring any reform ?
 Should prisoners be allowed access to education?
 Why should they be educated?
 Do prisoners have the right to education in India?
 CRIME AND ILLITERACY
 Crime reduction through better education
 Benefits of education for criminals in prison
 Survey to show the change

TOPIC-13

 Conduct an interview of the people of slum –

FOLLOW THESE POINTS;
 Find the harsh realities of life faced by them
 Do they understand the value of #education
 Find the pathetic condition of the slum children
 Talk of the theme of social injustice and class inequalities prevailing in the society,
effect of social disorder, confusion, chaos and poverty
 What can be genuinely done for them
 Some questions-
 how do feel living in slum?
 For how long have you been here
 What’s the area of the house and how many people live?
 What is the source of Income?
 Are your children going to school?
 What basic facilities do you get?
 Why have you migrated to city?
 Do you want to go back to your own village?
Etc……

TOPIC- 14
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 Sacrifices and sufferings faced by the Indian unsung martyrs for gaining freedom.
Freedom fighters are epitome of bravery and their lives personify lessons of
supreme struggle and endurance (enormous impact on the children)
 Moral lesson learnt from freedom fighters
 qualities they have ( courage, independent thinking, humility, empathy,
determination—)
 their contribution to Indian freedom
 mention atleast 5 unsung martyrs and their role in gaining freedom

TOPIC -15
Choose an issue that has provoked a controversy like the Bhopal Gas Tragedy or the
Narmada Dam Project in which the lives of the poor have been affected.
 Bhopal gas tragedy
 History of the Union Carbide India Limited
 Establishment
 History and ownership of Bhopal plant
 What is MIC gas?
 Storage of MIC gas at Bhopal Plant
 Causes of Bhopal gas tragedy
 Effect of the gas leak
 Governments response to the tragedy
 UCIL response to the tragedy
 Movement and protest led by the victims of the tragedy
 Repercussion of the tragedy
 Media/articles/movie/—–cuttings and reviews
 Lesson learnt from the tragedy

TOPIC -16
‘The Name of the Rose’ -Novel
 about the author,
 plot, setting, , themes
 genre of fiction
 narrative style of writing/ realism/naturalism
 character sketch,
 critical appreciation,
 awards
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 message- legacy

TOPIC-17
Hero Worshipping/ Fantasizing/Ego ideal. Are teenagers justified in their act of hero-
worship’?
 Adolescence a period of change/ transitional period/period of unrealism/ time of
search for identity
 What is hero worshipping for adolescent?
 Is hero worshipping/fantasising good or bad?
 Meaning of adolescent fantasising
 Hero worship is related with which stage of development
 Are teenagers justified with their hero worship?
 Purpose of ego ideal
 What attracts the child to hero worship
 Hero worshipping is India is too big.why?
 What are some potential dangers of hero worship?

TOPIC-18
Callousness of human beings towards wildlife
 What should be our attitude towards animals?
 Reasons why we need to save wildlife
 Attitude of human – destruction/fragmentation/modification caused by human led
activities
 Danger of development
 Instance of game hunting
 Animals who have extinct and the ones on the verge of extinction (reason)
 Data collection /images
 Involvement of affluent people (ANY BOLLYWOOD CELEBRITY ETC)
 Earth’s fate and the devastation of the natural world were recently put under the
microscope with the release of Sir David Attenborough’s Netflix documentary A
Life On Our Planet.
 Steps taken /needs to be taken to preserve wildlife

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 TOPIC-19
Poetic devices in the poems ( class 12)
 -meaning of poetic devices
 -why is it essential to use poetic devices?
 -important reasons for using them
 -devices used in the poems ( curriculum)
 – examples from the textual poems and other poems
–Explain them through pictorials
 -alliteration
 -allusion
 -consonance
 – assonance
 -similes
 -metaphor
 – onomatopoeia
 -imagery
 -personification
 -repetition
 -free verse
 -oxymoron
 -paradox
 -transferred epithet
 -rhyme
 -hyperbola
 -irony
 -pun
Students can add other devices also

TOPIC-20
1. Gondwana India
1. Where is Gondwana region in India?
2. What countries were in Gondwana ?
3. Is India part of Gondwana
4. When did India separate from Gondwana?
5. Why Gondwana is so named?
6. The break up history of Gondwana and its impact
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7. Pictorials showing the break up
8. Reference of the chapter- Journey to the end of the earth

RACISM
 MEANING OF RACISM
 Types
 Consequences ( Social, Physical, Mental)
 Racism between humans is the worst kind of Racism because…steps to stop/reduce
it
 How stopping racism can bring equality and peace
 Racism in India/ world/LGBT community
 Steps taken till now to stop /reduce it / awareness spread
 Celebrities and activists participation in spreading awareness
1. Read the stories ‘Jamaican Fragment’ and ‘Boyhood Days’.
All of the above deal with racial prejudices and the struggle of coloured people to rise
above unruly bias, unemployment, poor healthcare, inadequate schools, and
unresponsive government.
 What is the message conveyed
 Make a comparative analysis of the texts keeping in mind the following-
 The story of misfortune and agony
 Difference in the situation
 How do individuals combat the situation of adversity and how should the present
hard time be fought

NOTE-Pointers have been provided for students’ reference. It is strongly

recommended that students prepare the project on their own.

HERE’S CBSE SAMPLE RUBRICS TO ASSESS PROJECT WORK FOR CLASS

XII

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