📘 Dev Classes | Class 11th English | CBSE Board | Session 2025-26

Class 11th English helps students build strong skills in reading, writing, grammar, and literature. This syllabus is divided into three main sections: Reading Skills, Writing Skills & Grammar, and Literature.

📖 Detailed Syllabus

✏️ Section A: Reading Skills

(20 Marks)

1. Comprehension Passages

   • One unseen passage (factual, descriptive, or literary)

   • One case-based factual passage with verbal/visual input

Skills Tested:

• Understanding main ideas, meanings of words/phrases, inference

• Interpretation, analysis, and vocabulary skills

📝 Section B: Creative Writing Skills

(20 Marks)

1. Short Writing Tasks

   • Notice writing

   • Poster making

   • Advertisement writing

2. Long Writing Tasks

   • Speech writing

   • Debate writing

   • Article writing

   • Report writing

   • Letter to editor / application for a job with bio-data or résumé

Skills Tested:

• Format, fluency, coherence, content development, and accuracy in grammar and vocabulary

📚 Section C: Literature Textbooks

(40 Marks)

📖 1. Hornbill – Textbook in English (Core)

Prose:

1. The Portrait of a Lady — Khushwant Singh

2. We’re Not Afraid to Die… If We Can All Be Together — Gordon Cook & Alan East

3. Discovering Tut: The Saga Continues — A.R. Williams

4. Landscape of the Soul — Nathalie Trouveroy

5. The Ailing Planet: The Green Movement’s Role — Nani Palkhivala

6. The Browning Version — Terence Rattigan

7. Silk Road — Nick Middleton

Poetry:

1. A Photograph — Shirley Toulson

2. The Laburnum Top — Ted Hughes

3. The Voice of the Rain — Walt Whitman

4. Childhood — Markus Natten

5. Father to Son — Elizabeth Jennings

📙 2. Snapshots – Supplementary Reader

1. The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse — William Saroyan

2. The Address — Marga Minco

3. Ranga’s Marriage — Masti Venkatesha Iyengar

4. Albert Einstein at School — Patrick Pringle

5. Mother’s Day — J.B. Priestley

6. The Ghat of the Only World — Amitav Ghosh

7. Birth — A.J. Cronin

8. The Tale of Melon City — Vikram Seth

📌 Assessment of Listening and Speaking Skills

• Listening comprehension (Internal)

• Speaking (ASL — Activities on Speaking & Listening)

• Conversation practice, discussions, recitations

✅ Internal Assessment (20 Marks)

• Assessment of Listening and Speaking Skills: 10 marks

• Project Work, Portfolio, Classroom Interaction: 10 marks

✨ At Dev Classes, You Will Get:

• Chapter summaries, important extracts, word meanings & character sketches

• Question banks for prose, poetry & drama

• Practice worksheets for reading comprehension

• Writing skill practice with proper formats & sample answers

• Regular tests and board pattern mock exams

• Doubt-clearing sessions to improve presentation skills

Master Class 11th English with Dev Classes — Understand, Practice & Excel!