CBSE Class 11 English Elective Syllabus 2024-25

CBSE Class 11 English Elective Syllabus 2024-25

The CBSE Class 11 English Elective syllabus for the 2024-25 academic session is designed to foster students’ writing, reading, and analytical skills. This syllabus emphasizes creative and critical thinking, empowering students to express their ideas coherently and effectively. It introduces a variety of writing styles, including argumentative, discursive, reflective, and descriptive essays, and challenges students with different types of reading comprehension tasks such as discursive and factual passages. Students must follow the updated CBSE syllabus to ensure they are aligned with the official curriculum. With the most recent syllabus, students can focus on important topics, manage their study time effectively, and prepare for their exams with confidence using myCBSEGuide App.

Key Components of the Class 11 English Elective Syllabus:

1. Essay Writing:
   • Argumentative/Discursive/Reflective/Descriptive Topics: In this section, students are encouraged to write essays on diverse topics that require them to form and defend opinions, reflect on ideas, or describe experiences and events. These types of essays help develop critical thinking and creativity in writing.
2. Discursive Passage:
   • Students will analyze discursive passages that present different viewpoints on a subject. The task involves understanding the various arguments and being able to discuss them intelligently and critically.
3. Factual Passage:
   • Factual passages require students to identify and interpret factual information, including statistics, facts, and real-life events. This section improves students’ comprehension skills and ability to analyze detailed content.

Importance of the Updated Syllabus:

To perform well in CBSE Class 11 English Elective, it is essential to follow the updated syllabus. The 2024-25 syllabus helps students stay aligned with the latest curriculum, ensuring they cover the most relevant topics and prepare efficiently. Keeping up with the syllabus ensures that students focus on critical areas, understand the exam format, and improve their chances of excelling in their exams.

How to Prepare for Class 11 English Elective:

1. Develop Strong Writing Skills: Practice writing essays on a variety of topics, focusing on argumentative, descriptive, reflective, and discursive styles. This will not only improve your writing but also help you better express your opinions.
2. Enhance Reading Comprehension: Regularly practice with discursive and factual passages. Focus on understanding the main ideas, identifying supporting arguments, and drawing inferences.
3. Strengthen Vocabulary and Grammar: Building a strong vocabulary and mastering grammar will make your writing more precise and impactful. Focus on expanding your vocabulary and ensuring proper use of sentence structures.
4. Time Management and Exam Practice: Solve sample question papers and mock tests to familiarize yourself with the exam pattern. Practicing under timed conditions will help improve speed and accuracy during the actual exam.
5. Revise Regularly: Ensure you revise key concepts and practice different types of writing and reading comprehension regularly. This will reinforce your understanding and boost your confidence during exams. Download the syllabus from our website myCBSEguide now to start preparing and ensure success in your exams.

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CBSE Class 11
English Elective (Code No. 001)
Syllabus (2024-25)

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Section A

Reading Comprehension (25 Marks)
Two unseen passages and a poem

1. 12 out of 15 multiple choice questions / Objective Type Questions, from a literary or discursive passage of about 950-1000 words to assess comprehension, interpretation, inference, analysis, appreciation and vocabulary. (1×12=12 marks)
2. 8 out of 9 multiple choice questions / Objective Type Questions to test interpretation, inference and appreciation of a poem of about 10-12 lines. (1×8=8 marks)
3. 5 out of 7 multiple choice questions / Objective Type Questions from a case-based passage (with visual input- statistical data, chart etc.) of 100-120 words to test interpretation, analysis and evaluation. (1×5=5 marks)

Section B

Creative Writing Skills (15 Marks)

4. An Essay on an argumentative/discursive/reflective/descriptive topic, leading to creative rendering, forming and defending of opinions, to be answered in 120-150 words. (5 marks)
5. Article on one out of two topics to be answered in 120-150 words pertaining to contemporary topical issues. (5 marks)
6. Speech on one out of two topics to be answered in 120-150 words pertaining to contemporary topical issues. (5 marks)

Section C

This section will have variety of assessment items including Multiple Choice Questions, Objective Type Questions, Short Answer Type Questions and Long Answer Type Questions to assess comprehension, analysis, interpretation and extrapolation beyond the text.

Textbook (20 Marks)

7. Reference to the context
   1. One Prose extract, out of two, to assess comprehension, literary, appreciation and inference.
   2. One Poetry extract, out of two, to assess comprehension, literary, appreciation and inference. (5+5=10)
8. Two Short Answer Question out of three, to be answered in 30-40 words to assess understanding, analysis and critical appreciation. Questions should elicit inferential responses through critical thinking. (2×2=4 marks)
9. Two Short Answer Question, out of three, to be answered in 50-60 words to assess understanding, analysis and critical appreciation. Questions should elicit inferential responses through critical thinking. (3×2=6 marks)

Arms and the Man- [Drama] (10 Marks)

10. Two Long Answer Questions, out of three, to be answered in 80-100 words to appreciate characters, events and episodes. Questions to provide analytical responses using incidents, events, themes as reference points. (5×2=10 marks)

Fiction (10 Marks)

11. One Short Answer Question, out of two, to be answered in 30-40 words to critically appreciate characters, events, episodes and interpersonal relationships and formation of personal points of view, with reference to content, events and episode. (2 marks)
12. One Short Answer Question, out of two, to be answered in 50-60 words to assess understanding, analysis and critical appreciation. Questions should elicit inferential responses through critical thinking. (3 marks)
13. One Long Answer Question, out of two, to be answered in 120-150 words to test literary appreciation and to draw inferences. Questions should elicit creative responses and develop ability to form personal points of view. (5 marks)

Seminar (20 marks)

• Presentation – book review /a play /a short story/a novel/novella (tale, table, and parable) to be followed by a question-answer session.
• Poetry reading to be followed by interpretative tasks based on close reading and literary analysis of the text.
• Critical review of a film/ documentary or a play.
• Conducting a theatre workshop to be followed by a discussion

Note: Teachers may develop their own rubrics to assess the performance of students objectively
The parameters for assessing Speaking skills, as given in the curriculum for English Core, may be referred to.

Prescribed Books:

1. Text book: Woven Words published by NCERT
2. Fiction: The Old Man and the Sea (Novel unabridged) by Ernest Hemingway
3. Drama: Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw

Book-Woven Words- Short Stories

• The Lament
• A Pair of Mustachios
• The Rocking-horse Winner
• The Adventure of the Three Garridebs
• Pappachi’s Moth
• The Third and Final Continent

Book-Woven Words-Poetry

• The Peacock
• Let me Not to the Marriage of True Minds
• Coming
• Telephone Conversation
• The World is too Much With Us
• Mother Tongue
• Hawk Roosting
• Ode to a Nightingale

Book-Woven Words-Essays

• My Watch
• My Three Passions
• Patterns of Creativity
• Tribal Verse
• What is a Good Book?
• The Story
• Bridges

Question Paper Design

Marks: 80 + 20 = 100

Section	Competencies	Total Marks	% Weightage & Suggestive no. of Periods
Reading Comprehension	Conceptual understanding, decoding, analyzing, inferring, interpreting, appreciating, literary, conventions and vocabulary	25	31.25% 35 Periods
Creative Writing	Reasoning, appropriacy of style and tone, use of appropriate format and fluency	15	18.75% 15 Periods
Textbook	Recalling, reasoning, appreciating literary conventions illustrating with relevant quotations from the texts, giving opinions and justifying with fluency	20	25% 25 Periods
Drama	Recalling, reasoning, appreciating literary conventions, illustrating with relevant quotations from the texts, giving opinions and justifying with fluency	10	12.50% 40 Periods
Fiction	Recalling, reasoning, appreciating literary conventions, illustrating with relevant quotations from the texts, giving opinions and justifying with fluency	10	12.50% 30 Periods
	Total	80	100%
Seminar	Seeking information and clarifying, illustrating with relevant quotations from the texts, reasoning, diction, articulation clarity of pronunciation, using appropriate language conventions Addressing participants using appropriate titles or nomenclatures and overall fluency	20	–
	Grand Total	100

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