Meghalaya Board English Core Syllabus for Class 11

Total Marks : 100

Prose :

Selected Pieces To Be Read:

 

• ‘We’re Not Afraid to Die … If We Can All Be Together’ – by Gordon Cook and Alan Frost

• The Ailing Planet: The Green Movements’ Role – by Nani Palkhivala

• Giant Despair – by John Bunyan

• The Portrait of a Lady – by Khushwant Singh

• The White Seal Adapted and Abridged from The Jungle Book – by Rudyard Kipling

Poetry :

Selected Pieces To Be Read:

 

• The Kingfisher – by W. H. Davies

• The Striders – by A. K. Ramanujan

• To The Pupils of Hindu College – by H. L. V. Derozio

• Childhood – by Marcus Nattan

• In Paths Untrodden – by Walt Whitman
  
   

* Textbook Prescribed for Prose & Poetry - Resonance Class XI (Published by - Macmillan India Ltd., S. C. Goswami Road, Pan Bazar, Guwahati)

Supplementary Reader :

Selected Pieces To Be Read (Any two)

 

• On Doing Nothing – by J. B. Priestly

• A Devoted Son – by Anita Desai

• Talking of Space – Report on Planet Three – by Arthur C. Clarke

Textbook Prescribed: Voices Classes XI & XII (Published by - Macmillan India Ltd.)

The Prescribed Portions are:

Reading: Unseen Passages for (Comprehension and note taking in various

topics and situations)

Writing: Reports/Essays/Letters

Grammar & Usage (Used in objective format)

a) Determiners

b) Tenses

c) Active & Passive Constructions

d) Use of Idioms and Phrases

e) Transformation of Sentences

Textbook Prescribed: English Grammar & Composition (Published by - Pearson Education, 482 F. I. E. Patparganj, New Delhi – 110092)