Curriculum and Syllabus for Classes XI & XII

Alternative English

One Paper  3 Hours 100 Marks
  Distribution of Marks  
  (i) Prose 40 Marks  
  (ii)Poetry 40 Marks  
  (iii)Composition 20Marks  

Prescribed Text Book for Classes XI and XII


"The Glittering Jewels", Published by the Council of
Higher Secondary Education , Manipujr.

Selected Pieces of Alternative English
for Class XI
( Prose )

1. Crossing the Desert -A.W.Kinglake
2. Drought - S.C Chatterjee
3. The Lesson of History - J.L. Nithru
4. The Scientific Point of View -J.B.S. Haldane
5. Student Mobs -J.B. Piestly
6. Gold in the North - Dom Moraes

Poetry

1. Remembrance -W. Shakespeare
2. A Hymn to God the Father -John Donne
3. The Solitary Reaper -W. Wordsworth
4. To a Skylark -P.B. Shelley
5. Lead Kindly Light -Cardinal Newman
6. The Patriot -Robert Browning
7. The Second Coming -W.B. Yeats
8. Design - Robert Frost

For Class XII
Prose

1. The Dying Detective -A Conan Doyle
2. The Malefactor -Anton Chekhov
3. The Last Leaf -O. Henry
4. The Man Who Could Work -H.G. Wells Miracles
5. The Sixth Century B.C and Religion -J.L. Nehru
6.  Hastinapur -J.H. Dave

 Poetry

1.  Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind -W. Shakespeare
2. To the Rose -R. Herrick
3. The Mountain Echo - W. Wordsworth
4. Patriotism -Sir Walter Scott
5. The Dragon Fly -Lord Alfred Tennyson
6. Home Thoughts from Abroad -R. Browning
7. I saw in Louisiana a Live Oak Growing -W. Whitman
8. Obituary -A.K. Ramanujan
9. The Man He Killed -T. Hardy
10. A Wind Flashes the Grass -T. Hughes