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WEEK WISE SYLLABUS 2013-2014CLASS–IX

SUBJECT - ENGLISH (CODE - 184)

Month/Dates Content

1/4/13-6/4/13 Beehive-Poem. ‘The Road not taken’

Comprehension and Appreciation of the poem.

Reading skills - Reading poem aloud and silently.

Writing skill: Picture composition(scene of Railway station)

Paragraph -The first day in my School

8/4/13-12/4/13 Moments- ‘The Lost Child’

Writing skill - a letter to a friend congratulating him/her on suc-cess in examination

Discussion among students on their shopping experiences

15/4/13-20/4/13 Beehive-‘The fun they had’

Writing skill - Informal letter (to father requesting him to sendmoney for buying books)

22/4/13-27/4/13 Moments- ‘The Adventures of Toto’ ; Writing task on ‘My Pet’ ;

Grammar- Preposition

29/4/13-4/5/13 Beehive- The sound of music ; Reading skill - A seen passagefrom text ; Writing skill - Paragraph (The actor/singer I like most) ;Grammar- Modals ; Group Activity – How Music Can Be UsedAs A Soothing Agent

6/5/13-10/5/13 Grammar – Tenses;Reading skills- Prescribed Novel for longreading

FA-II Project: Book Review (TO BE ASSESSED FOR FA-II)

11/5/13-30/6/13 SUMMER VACATIONS

1/7/13-6/7/13 Beehive- ‘The Little Girl’

Group activity-staging the lesson ,Yuva session 9.1- themouse and the lion

8/7/13-12/7/13 Moments-‘Ishwaran the story Teller’ ,

Writing skill - Application (To the Principal for starting Extraclasses for Maths and English); Grammar - Passive Voice; StoryTelling Activity

15/7/13-20/7/13 Beehive Poem ‘The Wind’ ; Reading skill – Prescribed Novel forlong reading ;

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Month/Dates Content

Grammar - Reporting (Statements); Project On Indian PoetsIn English Language

22/7/13-27/7/13 Beehive – ‘A Truly Beautiful Mind’ ; Grammar - Reporting (State-ments, commands)

Discussion on role of Science & Technology in our life

29/7/13-3/8/13 Moments - ‘In the Kingdom of Fools’ ; Writing skill - Informalletter; Quiz

5/8/13-8/8/13 Beehive - Poem ‘Rain on the Roof’

Writing skill : Paragraph Writing (Based on verbal stimulus)

12/8/13-17/8/13 Beehive - ‘The Snake and the Mirror’ ; Grammar - Reporting(Questions)

19/8/13-24/8/13 Beehive-Poem ‘The Lake Isle of Inn is free. Grammar SubjectVerb Concord

Yuva session 3.3-my principles are my strength!

26/8/13-31/8/13 Moments - ‘The Happy Prince’ ; Grammar - Relative Clause

2/9/13-7/9/13 Beehive – ‘A legend of the Northland’ ; Grammar - Adverb Clause.

9/9/13-13/9/13 Writing Skill - Letter of Complaint; Revision; 11-09-2013 -1st

C.C.E.P.EXAM

16/9/13-26/9/13 SA-I

27/9/13-28/9/13 Discussion of question papers SA-1

30 /9/13-7/10/13 Beehive-’My Childhood’ & ‘Packing’ ; Discussion on ‘Religiousdiversity in India’

8/10/13-11/10/13 Autumn Break

14/10/13-19/10/13 Moments-‘Weathering the storm in Ersama’

Writing skill - Letter to Editor (about the insanitary conditions inyour area)

21/10/13-26/10/13 Moments - ‘The Last Leaf’ ;Grammar – Clauses

28/10/13-2/11/13 Grammar - Determiners and Preposition.

Writing skill - Writing a short paragraph on a given outline (Pol-lution / Book Fair)

4/11/13-8/11/13 Beehive- Poem ‘No Men are Foreign’

11/11/13-16/11/13 Beehive-‘Reach for the Top’; yuva Session-9.8- My Friend IsSpecial

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Month/Dates Content

18/11/13-23/11/13 Beehive-Poem ‘The Duck and the Kangaroo’;Grammar - Prac-tice Tenses

25/11/13-30/11/13 Beehive-’The Bond of Love’

2/12/13-7/12/13 Writing skill - Letter of complaint,; Grammar - Sentence Reor-dering

9/12/13-13/12/13 Grammar - Passive Voice

Informal letter (To friend for winning scholarship)

12-12-2013- C.C.E.P. - II

16/12/13-21/12/13 Moments - ‘A House is not a Home’ ; Grammar - DialogueCompletion

Yuva Session-9.13: Looking Positively At Ourselves

23/12/13-24/12/13 Beehive - Poem ‘On Killing A Tree’

25/12/13-15/01/14 WINTER BREAK

16/01/14-18/01/14 Beehive-‘Kathmandu’

20/01/14-25/01/14 Beehive-Poem ‘A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal’ and‘The SnakeTrying’.

Writing skill - Letter to younger brother advising him how toprepare for the forthcoming examination

27/01/14-01/02/14 Beehive - ‘If I were you’ ; Writing skill - A short paragraph (Thebook I like most)

03/02/14-07/02/14 Moments – ‘The accidental tourist’;Grammar - Combining Sen-tences

10/02/14-15/02/14 Moments - ‘The Beggar’; Project: Analyzing the characters andsituations

17/02/14-22/02/14 Grammar – Editing and omission,; Revision

24/02/14-25/02/14 Revision

26/2/14-31/3/14 SA- II Declaration of Result