Reading

1) Literary/non-literary texts on a wide range of themes covering different genres and registers. The themes may include:

• Self, Family, Home, Friends, etc.
• Neighbourhood and Community.
• The Nation – diversity (sociocultural, religious and ethnic, as well as linguistic), heritage
• Myths/legends/folktales
• The World – India’s neighbours and other countries (their cultures, literature and customs)
• Adventure and Imagination
• Sports and Yoga
• Issues relating to Adolescence
• Science and Technology
• Peace and Harmony
• Travel and Tourism
• Mass Media
• Art and Culture
• Health and Sanitation
• Famous Personalities & achievers
• Environmental concerns – water conservation, cleanliness and sanitation, Safety – personal safety & awareness about child abuse, conservation energy, sustainable development.

2) Extensive and intensive reading of the texts for comprehension, inference, etc.

3) Focus on the choice of vocabulary/figurative language and tone/mood used in the text.

4) Deconstruct the textual piece to understand the

• Central theme
• Point of view
• Character
• Plot
• Dialogue/incident
• Structure
• Suspense
• Humour
• Points of view

5) Evaluate and analyse the text from the point of view of its

• Production
• Drama
• Film content

Writing

• Paragraph (250 -300 words)
• Letter (formal, informal)
• Advertisement
• Diary
• Journal
• Notice
• Poster
• Articles
• Report
• Personal narrative
• Anecdote
• Story
• Poem
• Feature
• Dialogues
• Write across disciplines
• Use of technology as a resource to enhance research work.
• Process approach to writing by planning, writing, revising, editing, and rewriting

Grammar and Vocabulary in Context

• Phrases and clauses and their function in specific sentences
• Sentenced Analysis
• Main clause and subordinate clause (s).
• Sentence transformation from simple to complex /compound sentences.
• Use phrases, idioms figure of speech in context

Literature

• Lord of the Flies – William Golding
• A Wizard of Earth Sea – Ursula Le Guin
• The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
• Watership Down – Richard Adams
• To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
• The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas – John Boyne
• A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
• Les Misérables – Victor Hugo (Abridged)
• Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
• The Pearl– John Steinbeck
• P.G. Wodehouse (Jeeves/Blandings Castle, etc.)
• The Ramayana/ Mahabharata – C. Rajagopalachari
• Graphic Novels (e.g., Maus – Art Spiegelman)
• David Copperfield – Charles Dickens