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WITH REDUCED SYLLABUSFor the Academic Year 2020-21

ENGLISH PAPER- 2 (LIT.)The Merchant of Venice Treasure Trove

SYLLABUSFOR 2021 EXAM

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Reduced SYLLABUS For theAcademic Year (2020-21)

ENGLISH PAPER- 2(LITERATURE)CLASSES 9 & 10

Aims:

1. To develop and integrate the use of the four

language skills i.e. listening, speaking, reading and

writing for the purpose of effective communication.

2. To develop a functional understanding of the

grammar, structure and idiom of the language.

3. To develop the capacity to read efficiently and

access information effectively.

4. To develop an appreciation of good literature.

5. To experience, through literature, the thoughts and

feelings of the people of the world.

There will be two papers :

Paper 2. Literature in English.

These papers will be of two hours duration.

PAPER 2 - LITERATURE IN ENGLISH (80 Marks)

INTERNAL ASSESSMENT (20 Marks)

PAPER 2 - LITERATURE IN ENGLISH

(Two hours) - 80 Marks

Candidates will be required to answer five questions

from the prescribed textbooks, which include Drama,

Prose (Short Stories) and Poetry.

Prose and Drama (Short Stories)

Questions set will be central to the text. Candidates

will be required to show that they have understood the

passage and are able to clearly give their interpretation

of the questions set, which should be in their own

words and relevant to the text.

Excerpts may be given from the drama and prose texts

leading to questions on the specific book.

Poetry

A poem, or passages from poems, will be given and

questions will be set to test the candidates’ response

to the poem. The questions will focus on the content,

understanding and the personal response of candidates

to the poem as a whole.

1. THE MERCHANT OF VENICE (Shakespeare’s

unabridged play by A.W. Verity - Complete Play)

2. TREASURE TROVE - A collection of ICSE Poems

and Short Stories (Evergreen Publications)For Class - IX

POETRY: (All poems to be studied)

1. The Cold Within – James Patrick Kinney

2. The Bangle Sellers – Sarojini Naidu

3. After Blenheim – Robert Southey

4. Television – Roald Dahl

5. Daffodils – William Wordsworth

PROSE (Short Stories): (All short stories to be studied)

1. Old Man at the Bridge – Ernest Miller Hemingway

2. A Horse and Two Goats – R.K. Narayan

3. Hearts and Hands – O. Henry

4. A Face in the Dark – Ruskin Bond

5. An Angel in Disguise – T.S. Arthur

For Class - X

POETRY: All poems to be studied.

1. The Heart of the Tree – Henry Cuyler Bunner

2. The Cold Within – James Patrick Kinney

3. The Bangle Sellers – Sarojini Naidu

4. After Blenheim – Robert Southey

5. Television – Roald Dahl

6. Daffodils – William Wordsworth

7. The Patriot – Robert Browning

8. Abu Ben Adhem – Leigh Hunt

9. Nine Gold Medals – David Roth

PROSE (short stories): All short stories to be studied.

1. Chief Seattle’s Speech

2. Old Man at the Bridge – Ernest Miller Hemingway

3. A Horse and Two Goats – R.K. Narayan

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4. Hearts and Hands – O. Henry

5. A Face in the Dark – Ruskin Bond

6. An Angel in Disguise – T.S. Arthur

7. The Little Match Girl – Hans Christian Andersen

8. My Greatest Olympic Prize – Jesse Owens

9. All Summer in a Day – Ray Douglas Bradbury

* Please note that the Class X - ICSE Examination paper

will be set on the entire syllabus prescribed for the

subject.

Note: For list of prescribed text-books see Appendix- I.

INTERNAL ASSESSMENT

PAPER 2. (Literature in English)

Schools will set, assess and record written assignments

by the candidates as given below :

Two or three assignments of reasonable length (not exceeding

1500 words in total).

SUGGESTED ASSIGNMENTS

Assignments should be based on the prescribed textbooks on the following lines :

(i) Character/thematic analysis;

(ii) Socio-economic, cultural, historical relevance / background;

(iii) Summary / paraphrase.

(iv) Appreciation of literary qualities.

(v) Identifying with a character. Putting oneself in the place of a character in given circumstances and explaining one’s actions.

(vi) Imagine alternative outcomes or endings in a literary piece and the effect on all concerned.

EVALUATION

The assignments/projects are to be evaluated by the subject teacher and by an external examiner. (The External Examiner may be a teacher nominated by the Head of the school, who could be from the faculty, but not teaching the subject in the section/class. For example, a teacher of English of Class VIII may be deputed to be an External Examiner for Class X, English projects.)

The Internal Examiner and the External Examiner will assess the assignments independently.

(Award of marks) (20 Marks)

Subject Teacher (Internal Examiner) 10 marks

External Examiner 10 marks

The total marks obtained out of 20 are to be sent to the Council by the Head of the school.

The Head of the school will be responsible for the online entry of marks on the Council’s CAREERS portal by the due date.

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