📚 SLST ENGLISH SYLLABUS (CLASS IX–X)

THE SYLLABUS

POETRY

• Lucy Poems – William Wordsworth

• The World Is Too Much with Us – William Wordsworth

• Ode to the West Wind – Percy Bysshe Shelley

• To a Skylark – Percy Bysshe Shelley

• Ode to a Nightingale – John Keats

• To Autumn – John Keats

• Ulysses – Alfred Lord Tennyson

• The Last Ride Together – Robert Browning

• The Darkling Thrush – Thomas Hardy

• The Wild Swans at Coole – W.B. Yeats

• Strange Meeting – Wilfred Owen

• The Listeners – Walter de la Mare

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DRAMA

• She Stoops to Conquer – Oliver Goldsmith

• Arms and the Man – George Bernard Shaw

• Justice – John Galsworthy

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SHORT STORIES

• The Lagoon – Joseph Conrad

• The Lotos Eater – W. Somerset Maugham

• The Gift of the Magi – O. Henry

• The Ox – H E Bates

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ESSAYS

• Dream Children – Charles Lamb

• Principles of Good Writing – L A Hill

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GRAMMAR AND USAGE

• Common Errors

• Number

• Gender

• Tense

• Voice

• Mood

• Agreement of Verbs

• Use of Articles

• Use of Prepositions

• Simple Sentences

• Compound Sentences

• Complex Sentences

• Relative Clauses

• Joining of Sentences

• Splitting of Sentences

• Direct Speech

• Indirect Speech

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COMPOSITION

• A single paragraph of 50–60 words on a given topic

SLST ENGLISH SYLLABUS (CLASS XI–XII)