Complete Syllabus of Major English (Optional) | Class 11

Major English (Optional)
Class : 11

Full Marks: 100
Teaching hours: 150

Section A: Integrating Language and Literature

Section B: History of English Literature

Unit 1: Old English to English Renaissance

       2: The Age of Intellect and Rebellion

       3: Augustan Interlude

       4: The Romantic Poetry and Realistic Fiction

       5: English Literature of the 20^th Century

       6: Selected literary terms

Section C: Reading in the GENRES:

Unit 1: Essays

        - Bruce Dollar "Child Care in China"

        - Christy Brown " The Letter A"

        - Clifford Geertz "Of Cocks and Men"

        - Vaelav Havel "The velvet Hangover"

        - Jamaica Kincaid " A small place"

Unit 2: Stories:

        - Nicholas Mohr "A very special pet"

        - Natsume soseki "Iam  a Cat"

        - Catherine Lim " Paper"

        - Josef Skyvorecky " An Insolvable Problems of Genetics"

        - Slavomir Mrozak " The Elephant"

        - John Collier " Wet Saturday"

Unit 3: Poems:

        - e.e. commings "Buffalo Bill's"

        - W. Shakespeare "When lcicles Hang by the wall"

        - Langston Hughes "Dream Variations"

        - Richard Snyder " A Mongoloid Child Handling shells on the Beach"

        - Robert Burns " My love is like a Red Rose"

Unit 4: Plays

        - Rosalind Vallance "Pandora's Box"

        - Val Gielgud " Friday Morning"