CLASS XI~SEMESTER TWO SYLLABUS

Class XI Semester 2 Topics

Marks: 40

UNIT 1: PROSE

Topics	Marks	Hours
1. “The Garden Party” – Katherine Mansfield	02	05
2. “Alias Jimmy Valentine” – O Henry	02	05
3. “Of Studies” – Francis Bacon	02	04
4. “Nobel Lecture - Mother Teresa”	02	06
5. “The Fly” – Katherine Mansfield	02	05
(Select any three prose topics from the five options)		Total: 20 Hours
Short Answer Type Questions	2 x 2 = 4 (any 2 out of 4 questions)
Descriptive Type Questions	1 x 6 = 6 (any 1 out of 3 questions)

UNIT 2: VERSE

Topics	Marks	Hours
1. “My Last Duchess” – Robert Browning	02	05
2. “And Still I Rise” – Maya Angelou	02	05
Total: 10 Hours
Short Answer Type Questions	2 x 2 = 4 (any 2 out of 4 questions)
Descriptive Type Questions	1 x 6 = 6 (any 1 out of 2 questions)

UNIT 3: RAPID READER

Topics	Marks	Hours
1. “The Ghost Brahman” – Folk Tales of Bengal by Lalbehari Dey	05	07
2. “A Ghostly Wife” – Folk Tales of Bengal by Lalbehari Dey	05	07
3. “The Man Who Wished to be Perfect” - Folk Tales of Bengal by Lalbehari Dey	05	06
4. "At School" - Extract from Netaji's Life and Writings - Part -I - Autobiography of Subhas Chandra Bose	05	07
5. "The Parrot's Tale" by Rabindranath Tagore	05	07
(Select any three Rapid Reader Texts from the five options)
Descriptive Type Questions	1 x 5 = 5 (any 1 out of 3 questions)	Total: 5 Hours

NON-TEXTUAL GRAMMAR

Topics	Marks	Hours
(i) Tense (ii) Voice (iii) Phrasal Verbs (iv) Preposition (v) Clause (vi) Participle (vii) Gerund (viii) Transformation of Sentences	05	15
Fill in the blanks:		6 x 0.5 = 3 + 1 x 2 = 2
(1 question to be attempted out of two questions from Transformation of sentences or Correction of errors)

WRITING SKILL

Topics	Marks
Paragraph Writing OR Formal Letter Writing & Event Report Writing	10
Descriptive Type Questions	1 x 10 = 10 OR 2 x 5 = 10