Section B: Writing Skills

Writing Skills

• Note Making
• Summarizing
• Sub-titling
• Essay writing
• Letter writing (Formal/Informal)
• Creative writing
• Note Making based on a passage
• Notice/Advertisement/Poster making
• Creative writing skills to develop critical thinking and creative problem-solving
• Letter writing to identify elements of a letter, apply them, and compose clear, coherent writing appropriate to task, purpose, and audience
• Long Composition (Essay/Article/Paragraph) to present coherent arguments, develop research, communication skills, creative and critical thinking, and organization of thoughts

Section C: Grammar

Grammar

• Gap filling (Tenses, Prepositions, Verbs, Conjunctions, Articles, Modals, Determiners, etc.)
• Do as directed: Voices, Transformation of sentences, Clauses, etc.

Section D: Textbooks

Flamingo (Prose)

• The Last Lesson - Alphonse Daudet
• Lost Spring - Anees Jung
• Deep Water - William Douglas
• The Rattrap - Selma Lagerlöf
• Indigo - Louis Fischer
• Poets and Pancakes - Asokamitran
• The Interview (Part I: Christopher Silvester, Part II: An Interview with Umberto Eco)
• Going Places - A.R. Barton

Flamingo (Poetry)

• My Mother at Sixty-Six - Kamala Das
• Keeping Quiet - Pablo Neruda
• A Thing of Beauty - John Keats
• A Roadside Stand - Robert Frost
• Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers - Adrienne Rich

Supplementary Reader

• The Third Level - Jack Finney
• The Tiger King - Kalki
• Journey to the End of the Earth - Tishani Doshi
• The Enemy - Pearl S. Buck
• On the Face of It - Susan Hill
• Memories of Childhood: The Cutting of My Long Hair - Zitkala-Sa, We Too Are Human Beings - Bama

Assessment

• Variety of assessment items including multiple choice questions, objective type questions, short answer type questions, and long answer type questions to assess comprehension, analysis, interpretation, and extrapolation of the textbooks