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NAVODAYA VIDYALAYA SAMITI, NOIDA
SPLIT UP SYLLABUS FOR THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2014-2015

CLASS: IX SUBJECT: ENGLISH (LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE; Code: 184)
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English
Reader-
Beehive
Suppleme
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Reader-
Moments
Reading
Text-
A. Three
Men In A
Boat B.
Gullivers
Travels
Reading,
Writing And
Grammar

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a. The Fun
They Had
b. The Road
Not Taken
(Poem)
a. The
Lost
Child
b. The
Adventure
s of Toto
A.CHAPTER
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B.PART-1

A. Unseen
passages for
comprehension
-Poetry, factual,
literary,
discursive
B. Tenses
C. Modals
1. Assignments-
a. Things I like about my
school
b. Choices we make in our
lives.
c. Give an appropriate
ending to the story The Lost
Child.
2. Oral Activity-
a. My Pet
b. Schools of the Future will
have no books and teachers
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a. The Sound
of Music
b. Wind
(Poem)
c. Rain on the
Roof(Poem)
D. The Little
Girl
a. Iswaran
the Story
teller
A.CHAPTER
S 4,5&6
B.PART-1
A. Letter
Writing-
a. Informal-
personal, such
as to family and
friends
b. Formal-
letters to the
principal of a
school or to the
editor of a
News paper or
a magazine
c. Email-formal
or informal
1. Assignments-
a. What I like to do on a rainy
day
b. Write a report about the
elephant incident which took
place in Iswarans school for
a News paper
c. What would you have
done if you were Mahendra?
2.Oral Activity- Collect
information about your
favorite musician and speak
about him
c. My father
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a. A Truly
Beautiful
Mind
b. The Lake
Isle of
Innisfree
(Poem)
c. The Snake
and the
Mirror
a. In the
Kingdom
of Fools.
b. The
Happy
Prince
A.CHAPTER
S 7,8&9
B.PART-2
A. Article,
Speech or
Debate based
on visual Or
verbal input.
B. Passive
Voice
C. Subject-
verb concord
Assignments-
a. Biographical sketch of a
famous scientist (Group
Activity)
b. Translate a short story
from your mother tongue to
English ( Group Activity)
Oral Activity-
a. Debate- Village life
is better than city life
b. Group discussion-
How can students
help the society?
c) Role playIn the
Kingdom of Fools
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a. A Legend
of the
Northland
(Poem)
b. My
Childhood

A.CHAPTER
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B.-PART-2
A. Report for a
school
magazine
B. Story
Writing/ Notice
Writing
C. Reported
Speech-
Commands,
Requests,
Statements,
Questions
Assignments-
a. Refer and list down
various genres of poetry and
their special features(Group
Activity)
b. Collect a few quotations
of APJ Abdul Kalam
Oral Activity-
a. Talk on a popular legend
of your locality
b. Any of the activities
suggested in the curriculum
based on the book selected
for Reading Project for the
first term
e.g. dramatization of the
story, critical evaluation of
the plot and characters,
interacting with the author,
holding a literature fest
where various characters
interact with each other,
symposiums and seminars,
commentary on the
characters etc.

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a. Packing
b. No Men are
Foreign (Poem)
c. The Duck and the
Kangaroo (Poem)

a.
Weathering
the Storm
in Ersama
b. The Last
Leaf
A. Chapters
11,12&13
B.-PART-3
A. Story Writing
B. Clauses
C. Determiners
Integrated
Grammar
Practice-
Sentence
Reordering,
Editing/
Omission, Gap
filling, Sentence
completion,
Sentence
transformation

Assignments-
a. Imagine you are
going on a trip with
your friends to a
place where there
are no hotels, no
stores and the next
livable place is 10
km away. List down
the things you would
pack for a weeklong
stay there.
b. Two qualities of
Sue, Johnsy and
Behrman that
appealed to you the
most
c. Role Play-The
Duck and the
Kangaroo
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a. Reach for the
Top
b. On Killing a Tree
(Poem)

a. A House
is not a
Home
A. Chapters
14, 15 &16
B. PART-3
A. Unseen
passages-
Poetry, Factual,
Literary&
Discursive Texts
B. Prepositions

Assignment-
a. Make a list of
natural and man-
made calamities and
suggest a few
precautions to be
taken if struck by a
calamity (group
work)
b. Collect details on
sacrifices made and
challenges faced by
any one of the
famous sports icons
(group work)
Oral activity-
a) Significance
of trees
Talk about a
popular tree
of your area
b) b. Pick and
Talk on a
given topic
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a. The Bond of
Love
b. The snake Trying
(Poem)
A Slumber Did My
Spirit Seal(Poem)
c. Kathmandu
a. The
Accidental
Tourist
A. Chapters
17,18
B. PART-4
A. Articles
B. Reports
C. Integrated
Grammar
Practice


Assignments-
a. Describe a
famous pilgrim
centre of your
locality
b. Compare and
analyse the stories
Packing and The
Accidental Tourist
and draw similarities
c. Write a poem on
a crab/ a
scorpion/spider/bee
Oral activity-
a. Group discussion-
Comedies are
enjoyable only when
the characters do
silly things
b. Snakes- facts and
myths
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a. The
Beggar
A. Chapter
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B.PART 4
A. Letter Writing-
Formal Informal
&Email
B. Integrated
Grammar
Practice
Assignments-
a. Design a Wanted
Person poster
b. What would you
have done if you
were Gerrard?
Oral activity
a. If Olga and
Lushkoff met after a
few years what
would they say to
each other? Write
the dialogue and
present it in the class
with your bench
mate
b. Any of the
activities suggested
in the curriculum
based on the book
selected for Reading
Project for the
second term(e.g.
dramatization of the
story, critical
evaluation of the plot
and characters,
interacting with the
author, holding a
literature fest where
various characters
interact with each
other, symposiums
and seminars,
commentary on the
characters etc)

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NOTE: Please refer CBSE Curriculum 2014-15 for clarification, if any.


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