Class XI Elective

Content

Short Story

1. The Lament - Anton Chekhov
• Explore the symbolism used in "The Lament" and its significance.
• MCQs - The Lament by Anton Chekhov
2. A Pair of Mustachios - Mulk Raj Anand
3. The Rocking-horse Winner - D.H.Lawrence
4. The Adventure of the Three Garridebs - Arthur Conan Doyle
5. Pappachi’s Moth - Arundhati Roy
6. The Third and Final Continent - Jhumpa Lahiri
7. Glory at Twilight - Bhabani Bhattacharya
• Explanation and Analysis of 'Glory at Twilight'
• Summary of the Story Glory at Twilight
• Understanding the Expressions in the story Glory at Twilight
• UNDERSTANDING THE TEXT(Q&A)
• TALKING ABOUT THE TEXT(Q&A)
• APPRECIATION(short answers)
• APPRECIATION(long answers)
• Multiple Choice Questions on Glory at Twilight
8. The Luncheon - William Somerset Maugham

Poetry

1. The Peacock - Sujata Bhatt
2. Let me Not to the Marriage of True Minds - William Shakespeare
3. Coming - Philip Larkin
4. Telephone Conversation - Wole Soyinka
5. The World is too Much With Us - William Wordsworth
6. Mother Tongue - Padma Sachdev
7. Hawk Roosting - Ted Hughes
8. For Elkana - Nissim Ezekiel
9. Refugee Blues - W. H. Auden
• Extract Based MCQs on the Poem Refugee Blues by W H Auden
10. Felling of the Banyan Tree - Dilip Chitre
11. Ode to a Nightingale - John Keats
• Summary of the poem Ode to Nightingale by John Keats
• line-by-line paraphrase of John Keats' Ode to a Nightingale:
  
• UNDERSTANDING THE POEM (Q&A)
• TRY THIS OUT (Q&A)
• Important Questions on the Poem Ode to Nightingale by John Keats
12. Ajamil and the Tigers - Arun Kolatkar

Essays

1. My Watch - Mark Twain
2. My Three Passions - Bertrand Russell
3. Patterns of Creativity - S.Chandrasekhar
4. Tribal Verse - G.N.Devy
5. What is a Good Book? - John Ruskin
6. The Story - E.M.Forster
7. Bridges - Kumudini Lakhia

PLAY

1. Arms and the Man by Bernard Shaw
2. The Old Man and the Sea by Earnest Hemingway
   
   • Plot Overview
   • Themes
   • Character sketch of Santiago