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English Language
Unit 1: Reading Comprehension & Analysis
- 1.1: Identifying Main Ideas & Supporting Details
1.2: Inference & Interpretation
1.3: Understanding Tone, Mood & Attitude
1.4: Analyzing Language Devices (imagery, simile, metaphor, irony, personification)
1.5: Comparing Texts (purpose, audience, viewpoints, style)
Unit 2: Writing Skills
- 2.1: Directed Writing (letters, reports, articles, speeches, reviews)
2.2: Narrative Writing (character, setting, conflict, plot development)
2.3: Descriptive Writing (imagery, sensory details, atmosphere)
2.4: Argumentative & Discursive Writing (balanced discussion, persuasive essays)
2.5: Writing for Purpose & Audience (formal vs informal register, tone, cohesion)
Unit 3: Grammar & Language Use
- 3.1: Sentence Types & Variety (simple, compound, complex, balanced structures)
3.2: Tenses & Consistency (verb forms, sequence of tenses, conditionals)
3.3: Punctuation & Mechanics (colons, semicolons, quotation marks, dashes, paragraphing)
3.4: Vocabulary Precision & Word Choice (synonyms, antonyms, nuance)
3.5: Cohesion & Coherence (connectors, linking ideas, transitions)
Unit 4: Summary & Note-Making
- 4.1: Identifying Key Points in a Passage
4.2: Paraphrasing & Rewriting in Own Words
4.3: Organizing Notes into Logical Order
4.4: Condensing to Word Limit (content vs repetition)
4.5: Summarizing for Different Purposes (argument, sequence, explanation)
English Literature
Unit 1: Prose
- 1.1: Novel Study (themes, characters, setting, narrative techniques)
1.2: Short Stories (style, moral lessons, structure, symbolism)
1.3: Contextual Links (historical, cultural, social influences)
Unit 2: Drama
- 2.1: Shakespeare (language, themes, dramatic techniques, soliloquies)
2.2: Modern Drama (20th/21st century plays, realism, stage directions)
2.3: Performance & Stagecraft (dialogue, dramatic tension, audience impact)
Unit 3: Poetry
- 3.1: Unseen Poetry (themes, tone, mood, imagery, symbolism)
3.2: Prescribed Anthologies (close reading, comparing poems)
3.3: Poetic Forms & Structures (sonnet, free verse, narrative poems)
3.4: Sound & Rhythm (rhyme, rhythm, alliteration, assonance, onomatopoeia)
3.5: Themes in Poetry (love, war, identity, nature, society)
Unit 4: Literary Analysis Skills
- 4.1: Understanding Author’s Purpose & Reader’s Response
4.2: Quotation Analysis (PEE – Point, Evidence, Explanation)
4.3: Comparing Texts (similarities, differences, themes, techniques)
4.4: Critical Perspectives (feminist, postcolonial, psychoanalytic approaches)
