CBSE 12th English Elective (Term 2) Syllabus 2022: CBSE 12th Board Exam 2021-22

Term II

Reading Comprehension:

- Unseen passage (literary or discursive)

- Unseen Poem

- Case Based Unseen (Factual) Passage

10 marks (5+2+3)

Creative Writing Skills

- Speech (on a contemporary/topical issue)

- Report Writing (on a contemporary/topical issue)

10 marks (5+5)

Applied Grammar:

Transformation of Sentences(Voice/Speech/ Clauses/Change of sentence types)

4 marks

Literature

MCQs (from Kaleidoscope) -from short stories/poetry /non-fiction/drama

Book- Kaleidoscope-Short Stories

- A Wedding in Brownsville- ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER

Book- Kaleidoscope-Poetry

- Trees - EMILY DICKINSON

- The Wild Swans of Coole- W.B.YEATS

- Time and Time Again -

A. K. RAMANUJAN

Book- Kaleidoscope- Non fiction

- Film-making -INGMAR BERGMAN

- Why the Novel Matters D.H. LAWRENCE

11 marks

(2+3+3+3)

Fiction :

A Tiger for Malgudi ( R K Narayan)

OR

The Financial Expert ( R K Narayan)

Part III,

IV & V

05 marks

Total

40 Marks

SEMINAR

- Presentation – book review/a play /a short story/a novel/novella (tale, table, parable) to be followed by a question-answer session.

- Poetry reading to be followed by interpretative tasks based on close reading

and literary analysis of the text.

Critical review of a film or a play.

Conducting a theatre workshop to be followed by a discussion.

10 Marks

Grand Total

40 + 10 = 50 Marks