ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE (CODE NO. 184) SYLLABUS CLASS 10 (2018-19) SECTION WISE WEIGHTAGE
Section | Weightage | |
A | Reading Skills | 20 |
B | Writing Skills with Grammar | 30 |
C | Literature Textbook and supplementary text | 30 |
Total | 80 |
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TERM WISE SYLLABUS
FIRST TERM (APRIL 2018 TO SEPTEMBER 2018)
TEXT BOOK | SUPPLEMENTARY | LANGUAGE SKILLS | GRAMMAR |
FIRST FLIGHT | READER: FOOTPRINTS WITHOUT FEET | ||
Ch. 1: A Letter Of God Poems: Dust Of Snow Fire And Ice | Ch.1: A Triumph OF Surgery | WRITING : Story based on verbal and visual input. LISTENING: A variety of exercises such as spotting the error , oral compression exercise, vocabulary (word replacement) Exercise using paragraph form the lesson. | Verb in the indefinite tense (Present and past ) |
Ch.2: Nelson Mandela : Long walk to freedom POEM: Tiger in the Zoo | SPEAKING: Holding conversation in pairs/groups. (WH questions could be reinforced by talking about surroundings.) | Use of Can/Could , Shall /Should, Will/Would, integrated exercise for error correction ( With grammar |
SUMMER VACATION
Read The Prescribed Novel Diary Of A Young Girl 1947 (June 12, 1942 to March 14, 1944) Or The Story of My Life 1903 (Chapter 1-14) | |||
Ch.3: Two Stories about Flying
Ch.4: From the Diary of Anne Frank Animals | Ch.2: The Thief’s Story Ch.3: The Midnight Visitor Ch.5: Footprint Without Feet | WRITING: Letter to Editor- complaining about shortage of water in your area and need to raise public awareness about the need to save water. | Usage of must, ought to, need to, have to , had to, and their negative forms. Determiners and conjunctions integrated grammar practices with all topics covered so far. Clauses: noun, adverbs of time and condition , relative clause. Reported Speech: Statements, commands and requests, interrogative sentences. Integrated grammar practice Jumble sentences from the text for practices. |
Revision of writing skills and syllabus covered | |||
Mid Term Exams | |||
SECOND TERM (OCTOBER 2018 TO NOVEMBER 2018) | |||
TEXT BOOK | SUPPLEMENTARY | LANGUAGE SKILLS | GRAMMAR |
FIST FLIGHT | READER; FOOTPRINTS WIHOUT FEET | ||
Ch.7 Glimpses of India Ch.8 : Mijbil the otter | Ch.6: The making of a scientist | Writing Skills– Article Writing : Tourism in India | Use of a , an ,the make meaningful sentences. |
CH.9: Madam Rides The Bus POEMS: Trees Fog | Ch. : Bholi saved the Earth | Taking care of Animals Listening Skills: Short Passage read out loudly followed by questions to be done in hand-outs. | Practice of Determiners |
December 2018 to February 2019 | |||
Revision of Chapters done through Reference to context, short and long questions to promote creativity, imagination and extrapolation beyond the text. | Revision of Chapters though short questions and long questions to promote creativity, Imagination and extrapolation beyond the text | Listening Skills: Listening to pieces of conversation and answering multiple choice questions. Writing Skills: Letter to the Commissioner of Municipal Corporation about potholed and broken roads in the colony. Article Writing: Education and Health: Keys to development. | Transformation of sentences: Active-Passive voice, Reported Speech, Gap Filling exercise |
Revision of Chapters through very short questions | Revision though short questions | Revision of Writing Skills on Current Topics of social relevance | Integrated grammar practice. |
Revision of syllabus form text book and support material for Periodic Tests. | |||
March 2019 | Boards Exams |