CBSE Syllabus For Class 11 English 2023 For Term 1 & Term 2 | Download PDF

CBSE Class 11 English Core Term I Syllabus

Marks

CBSE Class 11 English Core Term 1 Section A Reading Comprehension: 

13

• Unseen passage (factual, descriptive or literary/ discursive or persuasive) 

• Case-Based Unseen (Factual) Passage

8

5

CBSE Class 11 English Core Term 1 Section B Creative Writing Skills and Grammar: 

12

Short Writing Tasks 

• Notice Writing 

Long Writing Tasks 

• Business or Official Letters( Making inquiries, registering complaints, asking for or giving information, placing orders, and sending replies) 

• Speech 

Grammar 

• Determiners 

• Tenses 

• Re-ordering of Sentences 

{MCQs on Gap filling/ Transformation of Sentences}

3

5

4

CBSE Class 11 English Core Term 1 Section C Literature: 

15

Literary prose/poetry extracts (seen-texts) comprehension and appreciation. 

(Two Extracts) 

Questions Based on Texts to assess 

comprehension and appreciation, analysis, inference, extrapolation 

Book-Hornbill: 

• The Portrait of a Lady (Prose) 

• A Photograph (Poem) 

• “We’re Not Afraid to Die… if We Can All Be Together” (Prose) 

• Discovering Tut: the Saga Continues 

• The Laburnum Top (Poem) 

• The Landscape of the Soul (Prose) 

Book-Snapshots: 

• The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse(Prose) 

• The Address (Prose) 

• Ranga’s Marriage (Prose)

Total

40

ASL

10

Grand Total

50

CBSE Class 11 English Elective Term I Syllabus

Marks

CBSE Class 11 English Elective Term 1 Section A Reading Comprehension: 

• Unseen passage (literary or discursive) 
• Unseen Poem 
• Case-Based Unseen (Factual) Passage

12

CBSE Class 11 English Elective Term 1 Section B Creative Writing Skills: 

• Essay (on an Argumentative/Discursive/Reflective/ Descriptive topic) 
• Article Writing (on a contemporary/topical issue)

8

CBSE Class 11 English Elective Term 1 Section C Literature

Literary-Prose/Poetry-MCQs to test for comprehension, literary appreciation, and inference.

Book-Woven Words– Short Stories 

• The Lament -Anton Chekhov 
• A Pair of Mustachios -Mulk Raj Anand 
• The Rocking-horse Winner- D.H. Lawrence

Book-Woven Words– Poetry

• The Peacock- Sujata Bhatt 
• Let me Not to the Marriage of True Minds William Shakespeare 
• Coming- Philip Larkin 
• Telephone Conversation – Wole Soyinka 

Book-Woven Words-Essays 

• My Watch- Mark Twain 
• My Three Passions- Bertrand Russell 
• Patterns of Creativity – S. Chandrasekhar 

10

Fiction:

The Old Man and the Sea ( E. Hemingway) Chapter 1,2,3,4,5

5

Drama: Arms and the Man (G.B Shaw) Act I

5

Total

40

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

40

Grand Total

50

CBSE Class 11 English Elective Term II Syllabus

Marks

Reading Comprehension: 

• Unseen passage (literary or discursive) 
• Unseen Poem 
• Case-Based Unseen (Factual) Passage

12

Creative Writing Skills: 

• Essay (on an Argumentative/Discur sive/ Reflective/Descriptive topic) 
• Speech ( on a contemporary/topical issue)

8

Literature:

Literary-Prose/Poetry-MCQs to test for comprehension, literary appreciation, and inference. Book-Woven Words- Short Stories 

• The Adventure of the Three Garridebs – Arthur Conan Doyle 
• Pappachi’s Moth – Arundhati Roy 
• The Third and Final Continent- Jhumpa Lahiri 

Book-Woven Words– Poetry 

• The World is Too Much With Us – William Wordsworth 
• Mother Tongue – Padma Sachdev 
• Hawk Roosting- Ted Hughes 
• Ode to a Nightingale- John Keats 

Book-Woven Words-Essays 

• Tribal Verse – G.N.Devy 
• What is a Good Book?- John Ruskin 
• The Story- E.M.Forster 
• Bridges- Kumudini Lakhia

10

Fiction:

The Old Man and the Sea ( E. Hemingway) Chapter 6,7,8,9,10

5

Drama: Arms and the Man (G.B Shaw) Act II & III

5

Total

40

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

40

Grand Total

50