MP Board Syllabus (English) Class XII

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English (General) Time - 3 hours M.M.50

Distribution of Marks

Topics Marks Remarks
Prose Text 12
Poetry 06
Vocabulary 04
Grammar 10
Unseen 05
Essay- writing 08
Letter- writing 05
50
Subject : Book prescribed for Prose & Poetry

General English Reader (class XII) published by M.P. Text Book Corporation M.P. 1. PROSE : The following lessons are to be taught:- (1) Fight against Malaria. (2) The Trust Property. (3) Australia's Rabbit Problem.

(4) I am John's Heart. (5) Tight Corners. (6) The Ant and the Grasshopper.

(7) Ideas That Have Helped Mankind. (8) God Sees the Truth But Waits. (9) Hiroshima.

(10) Testament.

2. POETRY- The following poems are to be taught :- (1) The Psalm of Life. (2) Indian Weavers. (3) Sindhu. (4) Daffodils.

(5) Where the Mind is Without Fear. (6) Leisure.

3. VOCABULARY Words and phrases related to Text. 4. GRAMMAR- (1) Articles. (2) Determiners. (3) Verbs. (4) Preposition.

(5) Conjunctions. (6) Voices- Active/ Passive. (7) Narration Direct/ Indirect.

(8) (A) Complex sentences with finite clauses.

(a) Relative clauses.

(b) Adverb clauses.

(c) Nominal clauses.

(d) Appositive clauses.

(e) Coordinate clauses.

(B) Complex sentences with the following non-finite phrases

(a) to.................ing.

(b) ...................ing.

(c) ..................ed.

5. UNSEEN passage. 6. ESSAY- Descriptive & Current problems.

7. LETTER- Formal & Non-Formal.

English (Special) CLASS-XII M.M. 100

Unit-wise weightage :- Marks
1. Prose 20
2. Poetry 14
3. Drama 10
4. Grammar 12
5. Vocabulary 08
6. Unseen 08
7. Precis 06
8. Essay 15
9. Letter-writing 07
100
Subject: English (Special)

Time 3 Hours M.M.100

1. PROSE : Textual Material for Detailed Study : Dear to All the Muses ( An Anthology of contemporary Prose) Published by M.P.Text Book Corporation Bhopal

1. The Horse. 2. Warrior Against Weeds. 3. A Most Forgiving Ape. 4. A Young Turkish Catastrophe. 5. A Tiny Sanctuary. 6. Mano Majra.

7. A Jamaican Fragment. 8. The Heritage of India. 9. Gold in the North. 10. My Greatest Olympic Prize. 11. The Green Revolution. 12. The Snob.

13. Most Dear to All the Muses. 14. The Case For the Defence. 15. On My Seventieth Birthday.

2. POETRY (Detailed Study)---- Textual Material------- "ETERNAL LINES" Published by CBSE New Delhi. All the poems to be taken up alongwith relevant notes on literary forms of poetry, figures of speech, Simile, Metaphor, alliteration, hyperbole, allegory, fable, parable, sonnet, metaphor, ode, ballad, lyric. (Specially prepared notes to be given)

3. DRAMA- (Non-detailed)

Arms and the Man. By George Bernard Shaw (Unabridged) (Published by Orient Longman).

Textual Material to be studied in details. Characterisation and essential camponents of the play to be taught, like-climax, etc.

4. GRAMMAR- All the exercises given at the end of every lesson of prose book to be taken up in the class. However special emphasis to be given to-

(1) Kinds of sentences-Simple, Compound Complex. Transformation of sentences.

(2) Tenses-Indefinite, Continuous Perfect, Perfect Continuous.

(3) Articles and Determiners.

(4) Preposition-Prepositional Phrases.

(5) Modals.

(6) Non-finites (i) Infinitives (ii) Gerunds (iii) Participles

(7) Transformation (without changing the meaning of the given sentences). of (a) Degrees (b) Negative sentence (c) Interrogative sentence

(8) Punctuation.

(9) Phrasal Verbs

(10) Clauses (i) Nominal (ii) Relative (iii) Coordinate (iv) Adverbial (All Type)

(11) Reported speech

(i) Assertive (ii) Interrogative (iii) Imperative (iv) Exclamatory

(12) Voices - Active to Passive and Vice/ Versa

5. VOCABULARY - Usage of words from and related to the prescribed detailed study prose book.

6. PRECIS - A passage of about 250 words- Practice should be given in class- room

7. UNSEEN - An Unseen passage of about 250 words meant for comprehension

8. ESSAY - Current Topics, Generalised Topics, Extension of given ideas. Example : ' Prevention is better than cure' (200 words).

9. LETTER - Formal and Informal Letters.

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