The English Connection Literature Reader - 7

The English Connection, an integrated skills course, highlights the holistic approach to language teaching and learning. The underlying principles of language learning advocated by the CBSE, i.e., learner autonomy, reflective thinking, creativity, and interactive learning, have been incorporated into the pedagogy that is embedded in the course content of the series.

1. A wide range of poetry and prose from different literary genres to develop comprehension skills.

2. A carefully graded grammar syllabus with structures, comprehensive rules, and tasks that lead to its usage.

3. A study skills section on spelling, pronunciation, dictionary research, and punctuation

4. Writing tasks to promote creative, imaginative, and critical thinking skills

5. Projects to develop interpersonal and reference skills as well as the ability to process information

Table of Contents:

1. Story - My Childhood—APJ Abdul Kalam

2. Drama- The Book that Saved the Earth—Claire Boiko

Poem- My Grandmother’s House—Kamala Das

3. Story- The Conjurer’s Revenge—Stephen Leacock

4. Story Mowgli’s Brothers— Rudyard Kipling

Poem - On Killing a Tree —Gieve Patel

5. Story- A Day's Wait—Ernest Hemingway

6. Drama - The Invisible Man —H G Wells

Poem -The Road of Life —Homer Harrison

7. Story - A Chameleon—Anton Chekhov

8. Story - The Ransom of Red Chief —O Henry

Poem - Confessions of a Born Spectator—Frederic Ogden Nash