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NAVODAYA VIDYALAYA SAMITI- NOIDA
SPLITUP OF SYLLABUS FOR THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2014-15

CLASS: X SUBJECT: ENGLISH (Language and Literature (Code: 184)


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ACTIVITIES/PROJECTS/
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PROSE:A Letter to God, Nelson Mandela :Long
walk to Freedom
POETRY : Dust of Snow ,Fire and Ice
SUPPLEMENTARY READER : a Triumph of
Surgery
*Language skills*
LISTENING: The teacher will read a passage
and photocopies of worksheet be given to
students to answer. Task:Mob Fury
SPEAKING: Variety of speaking activities will be
organized for each student for 2-3 minutes.
Activities to be judged by the Descriptors as per
Spoken English Band each month. Activity
:Description/Picture Description
READING: Printed Reading Passages will be
given to students for 15 minutes to read;
followed by worksheet to be filled in for
evaluation.
Passage: LOINEL
WRITING: Writing Bio-Sketch(Short Writing)-
A.R.Rahman-Musician
GRAMMAR: Choosing suitable word/options to
fill a passage.






Textual Activities /Assignments:
1. Pre Reading Activity:
Discussion: Individual/pair on
A tough year for farmers in
IndiaTime:15 minutes
2. Post Reading Activity: Had
you been the post master
how would you have reacted
to Lenchos second letter?-
Group discussion
3. Lenchos character sketch



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PROSE:His First Flight
POETRY : A Tiger In The Zoo, How To Tell Wild
Animals
SUPPLEMENTARY READER : The Thiefs
Story, The Midnight Visitor
*Language skills*
LISTENING: Task : Parachute Jumping
SPEAKING: Story prompts / unit 2 /page
no.25(teachers manual)
Ex: I thought I saw../I used to think.
READING:
Passage: Adventure Sports
WRITING: Article: How students violent
tendency can be curbed.
GRAMMAR: Sentence completion with right
options in MCQ, Reported speech, preposition,
determiners etc.

Textual Activities /Assignments:
1. Pre R.A.: Poem: Why are
tigers extinct? Discuss.
2. Your first experience in
learning
swimming/cycling etc.
(sharing of experience)

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PROSE: Black Aeroplane, From the Diary of
Anne Frank
POETRY : The Ball Poem
SUPPLEMENTARY READER :A Question of
Trust
*Language skills*
LISTENING: Task:Born free/Story of griffin
page no. 8(T.M)
SPEAKING: Speaking Prompts/unit 2/page
no.26(T.M)
Ex. If I were a hanger /Wallet. Etc.
READING: Passage: Whitewashing a fence
Pg.Np. 41(T.M.)
WRITING: Composing e-mails to promote /To
appreciate /to condemn /to protest/to favour any
burning issue of today.
GRAMMAR: Rearranging jumbled words to
form meaningful sentences
Textual Activities /Assignments:
1. Pre R.A.:Prepare a diary enty
after the celebration of your
birth day.
2.Post R.A: Write a mystery
story on your own


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PROSE: Hundred Dresses I &II
Poetry: Amanda
SUPPLEMENTARY READER :Foot Prints
Without Feet
*Language skills*
LISTENING: Task: Child Relief: Child Rights
page No.9(T.M)
SPEAKING: Roll play/Just a minute: page
No.27/28(T.M)
Ex: Strangers on a train/save electricity :save
water: JAM
READING: passage: A green cornfield unit
3/page no.43
WRITING: Writing letters to the editor offering
suggestions to tackle hoarding/corruption/black
money adopted by crooks in 150 words.
GRAMMAR: subject verb agreement in editing
/omitting sentences .
Conduct of SA-I
Scholastic Activities/ Assignments:
How would you go about if you
become invisible like Griffin-group
discussion
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PROSE:A Baker from Goa Coorg, Tea from
Assam
POETRY : Animals, The Trees, Fog
SUPPLEMENTARY READER :The making of a
scientist
*Language skills*
LISTENING: Task: Cycling Page No:10
SPEAKING: Enact An advertisement page
no.28(T.M)
Ex. Advertise : A pen ,luxury soap
/toothpaste/cell phone etc.
READING: passage the pyramids of Egypt/a
village school master
WRITING: write a debate for the motion or
against on are children being crippled for profit
in films/Mafia gang /beggary or shows
GRAMMAR: completion of passage in passive
voice construction , clause, dialogues in indirect
speeches etc.
Textual Activities /Assignments
2. Pre Reading Activity:You are
planning a tour to Assam.
Collect necessary
information on places of
tourist interest from the
library/Internet
3. Post reading Activity: write a
paragraph in passive voice
on how to prepare
sandwich/any dish- pair work
It is best time for assigning research
based/scientific and interactive
projects such as conducting
interviews with eminent personalities
of the locality.
Book/film reviews, preparing talks for
morning assembly or articles may
also be incorporated.



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PROSE: Mijbil the Otter
POETRY : The Tale of Custard the Dragon
SUPPLEMENTARY READER : The Necklace,
The Hack Driver
*Language skills*
LISTENING: As usual teacher can take any task
with worksheets
SPEAKING: Group Discussion/unit-2/Page
No.:29(T.M)
READING: Passage:A Lady Who thinks She Is
Thirty Pg No:46-47
WRITING: Changing slogan Garibi Hatao:
Khushahali Lao into action. Write an
awareness write up for your display board on
the occasion of World Population Day.
GRAMMAR: grammar integrated practice.
Textual Activities /Assignments:
1. Pre R. A: Esseentials of
Happiness-Discuss(The
Necklace)
2. Develop a conversation with
your friend about your pets.

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PROSE: Madam Rides the Bus, Sermon at
Benares
POETRY :For Anne Gregory
SUPPLEMENTARY READER :Bholi, The Book
that saved the Earth *Language skills*
LISTENING: As usual teacher can take any task
with worksheets.
SPEAKING: Speech/Unit 2/Page No.31(T.M)
Ex: Advertisements are misleading/education for
all/Generation Gap.
READING: Passage:Fences in Africa.. pg
No.50
WRITING: Write an article on the importance of
educating a girl child.
GRAMMAR: Modals
Textual Activities /Assignments:
1. Post R.A.: What difference
do you notice in Vallys
journey to the town as
compared to her return
journey.(Madam Rides.)
2. Post R.A.: How does Kisa
Gotami come to terms with
her grief? group
discussion(Sermon at
Benares)

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PROSE: The Proposal
:FOLLOWS REVISION:..till SA-2 ends
*Language skills*
LISTENING:As usual teacher can take any task
with worksheets .
SPEAKING: Turncoat /unit-2/page no:30(TM)
Ex: Working mothers are better./Examinations
are to be kept away.
READING: Passage:Heredity is very strange
Unit:3/pg no.57
WRITING: Letter writing: Practice Official
letter(format, content, relevance, language etc
may be taken care of)
GRAMMAR: non finites
Textual Activities /Assignments:
1. Post R.A.: Comment on the
quarrelsome nature of the
characters in the lesson The
Proposal.




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Revision and SA-2
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Note: Novel teaching: Since division of chapters differ from publishers to publisher
teacher can conveniently divide the chapters monthwise so as to complete the entire in
two terms.

EXAMINATION SPECIFICATIONS
English Language and Literature
Code No. 184
CLASS-X
From the Academic Year 2013 - 14


Division of Syllabus for Term I (April-September) Total Weightage Assigned

30% Summative Assessment I
Section Marks

Reading 15
Writing 15
Grammar 15
Literature

Long Reading Text

Listening and Speaking
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Formative Assessment

20%
TOTAL 90 marks 50%


Division of Syllabus for Term II (October -March) Total Weightage Assigned

30% Summative Assessment II
Section Marks

Reading 15
Writing 15
Grammar 15
Literature

Long Reading Text/Fiction/Drama

Listening and Speaking
25

10

10
Formative Assessment 20%
TOTAL 90 marks 50%

Note:

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assigned to Formative Assessment (FA1, 2, 3 & 4) is 40%. Out of the 40% assigned to
Formative Assessment, 10% weightage is assigned to conversation skills (5% each in Term I
&II) and 10% weightage to the Reading Project (at least 1 Book is to be read in each term and
the Project will carry a weightage of 5% in each term)
2. The Summative Assessment I and Summative Assessment II are for ninety marks each. Ten
marks of listening and speaking test will be added to the 80 marks
SummativeAssessment paper ie 80+10=90 marks in each semester. The weighatge
assigned to Summative Assessment I is 30% and the weightage assigned to Summative
Assessment II is 30%.

SECTION A: READING
15 Marks

Qs 1-3 This section will have three unseen passages of a total length of 600 words. The arrangement
within the reading section is as follows:

Q 1&2: Five Multiple Choice Questions on each passage carrying 5 marks 1 mark for each
questions. Q 3: Five Supply Type Questions carrying 5 marks on each passage.
Out of the 15 marks, 3 marks will be for vocabulary. The questions will test inference,
evaluation and analysis. The passages may be extracts from poetry/ factual/ literary/ discursive
texts.

At least one passage will be an extract from a poem.

SECTION B: WRITING
15 Marks

Q 4 Letter Writing: One out of two letters (formal/informal/email) in not more than 120-150 words
based on verbal stimulus and context provided.

Types of letter:

Informal - personal, such as to family and friends etc.

Formal - letters to the principal of a school or to the editor of a Newspaper or a Magazine
etc

Email - formal or informal 6
Marks

Q 5 Writing an article, speech or debate based on a visual or verbal stimulus in not more than 120
words (One out of two).
6 Marks

Q 6 Writing a short composition in the form of story or report for a school magazine of
minimum 80 words (One out of two).
3 Marks

SECTION C: GRAMMAR: 15 Marks
This section will assess Grammar items in context for 15 marks.

v This section will carry five questions of three marks each

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three marks each .The test types for MCQs include:

Q. 7. Gap filling
Q. 8. Sentence completion

Questions 9, 10 and 11(carrying 3 marks each ie total 9 marks) will be based on
response supplied by students. (Supply Type Questions)

These test types which will not be tested as MCQs include

Q. 9. Sentence reordering
Q. 10. Editing / Omission
Q. 11 Sentence transformation (including combining sentences)


The Grammar syllabus will include the following areas in class IX:

1. Tenses
2. Modals (have to/had to, must, should, need, ought to and their negative forms)
3. Use of passive voice
4. Subject - verb concord
5. Reporting
(i). Commands and requests
(ii). Statements
(iii). Questions

6. Clauses:
(i) Noun clauses
(ii) Adverb clauses of condition and time
(iii) Relative clauses
7. Determiners, and
8. Prepositions
Note: No separate marks are allotted for any of the grammar items listed above.

SECTION D: TEXT BOOKS: 25 Marks

First Flight and Footprints without Feet (NCERT)

Q12 and Q13 Two extracts for reference to context (based on prose or play). These
extracts would require effort on the part of the students to supply the responses.

Up to one mark in each extract will be for vocabulary. At least one question will be used for testing
local and global comprehension and one question will be on interpretation.

The extracts will carry 3 marks each. 3+3=6
Marks

Q 14 One out of two reference to context stanzas (based on poetry) followed by three questions
to test local and global comprehension of the set text. These extracts will carry 3 marks.
6 Marks

Q15. Five out of six short answer type questions based on First Flight and Footprints
without Feet (three questions each) to test local and global comprehension of theme and
ideas - 2 marks each. 2x5=10 Marks



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Q16. One out of two long answer type questions extrapolative in nature from First Flight and
Footprints without Feet (Upto 80 words). 6 Marks
NOTE: Teachers are advised to:
i. encourage classroom interaction among peers, students and teachers through activities
such as role play, group work etc,
ii. reduce teacher-talking time and keep it to the minimum,
iii. take up questions for discussion to encourage pupils to participate and to marshal their ideas
and express and defend their views, and
iv. use the scale of assessment for conversation skills to test the students for continuous
assessment.
Besides measuring attainment, texts serve the dual purpose of diagnosing mistakes and areas of
non-learning. To make evaluation a true index of learners' attainment, each language skill is to be
assessed through a judicious mixture of different types of questions. In addition to the summative
tests, formative assessment is essential to measure the level of attainment in the four language
skills and the learners' communicative competence. Formative assessment should be done
through 'in class' activities throughout the year.

Novel/Long Reading Text
5+5=10 Marks
Q 17 Types of Questions:
Global question on theme, plot involving interpretation and inference 5
Marks

Q 18 One out of two character sketches in 100 words 5Marks
Prescribed Books:

1. First Flight - Textbook for Class X Published by
NCERT

2. Foot Prints without Feet - Supplementary Reader for Class X Sri Aurobindo
Marg, New Delhi

Novel/Long Reading Text

3. Diary of a Young Girl - 1947 (unabridged edition) Anne Frank

4. The Story of My Life - 1903 (unabridged edition) Helen Keller

Reading Section:

Reading for comprehension, critical evaluation, inference and analysis is a skill to be tested
formatively as well as summatively.

Writing Section:

All types of short and extended writing tasks will be dealt with in both I and II Term
Summative as well as in
Formative Assessment.

Grammar:

Grammar items mentioned in the syllabus will be taught and assessed formatively over a period of
time. There will be no division of syllabus for Grammar in the summative assessments for the two
terms.





Syllabus for Terms

S.No. Text Books
First Term (April -
September)
Second Term(October
- March)

FA 1 10 FA2 10 SA I 30 FA3 10 FA4 10 SA II 30
Literature Reader
(First Flight)-PROSE


1. A Letter to God *

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2. Nelson Mandela:
Long Walk to Freedom
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3. His First Flight *

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4. Black Aeroplane

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5. From the Diary of
Anne Frank

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6. The Hundred Dresses-I

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7. The Hundred Dresses-II

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8. A Baker from Goa

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9. Coorg

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10. Tea form Assam

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11. Mijbil the otter

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12. Madam Rides the Bus

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13. The Sermon at Benares

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14. The Proposal

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POETRY

1. Dust of Snow * *
2. Fire and Ice *
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3. A Tiger in the zoo *

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4. How to tell Wild
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5. The Ball Poem

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6. Amanda

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7. Animals

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8. The Trees

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9. Fog

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10. The Tale of Custard the Dragon

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11. For Anne Gregory

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Supplementary Reader
(Footprints without Feet)

1. ATriumph of Surgery *

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2. The Thief's Story *

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3. The Midnight Visitor *

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4. A Question of Trust

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5. Footprints without feet

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6. The Making of a Scientist

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7. The Necklace

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8. The Hack Driver

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9. Bholi

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10. The Book that saved the Earth

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Long Reading Text
Diary of a Young Girl - 1947 (unabridged edition) Anne Frank
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The Story of My Life - 1903 (unabridged edition) Helen Keller
Note:

1. Formative Assessment is assessment 'for' learning. Thus schools may adapt the above
break-up as per their convenience.

2. All activities related to Formative Assessment such as language games, quizzes, projects, role plays
dramatisation, script writing etc must be done as 'in class' and 'in school' activities. In case, a field
survey or visit is taken up, it must be under the direct supervision of the teacher.
NOTE:
Teachers must strictly refer to English Formative Assessment: Manual for Teachers published
by CBSE for class IX & X for an expected excellent outcome please.
Please refer CBSE Curriculum 2014-15 for clarification, if any.
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