📚 SLST ENGLISH SYLLABUS (CLASS XI–XII)

THE SYLLABUS

POETRY

• Loving in Truth – Sir Philip Sidney

• One Day I Wrote Her Name – Sir Philip Sidney

• Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day – William Shakespeare

• The Good Morrow – John Donne

• Virtue – George Herbert

• The Rape of the Lock (Cantos I & II) – Alexander Pope

• The Tyger – William Blake

• The Lamb – William Blake

• Tintern Abbey – William Wordsworth

• Christabel – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• Kubla Khan – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• 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

• My Last Duchess – Robert Browning

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

• Strange Meeting – Wilfred Owen

• The Hollow Men – T.S. Eliot

DRAMA

• Macbeth – William Shakespeare

• She Stoops to Conquer – Oliver Goldsmith

• Arms and the Man – George Bernard Shaw

• Riders to the Sea – J.M. Synge

NOVELS

• Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

• David Copperfield – Charles Dickens

SHORT STORIES

• The Lagoon – Joseph Conrad

• Araby – James Joyce

• The Lotos Eater – W. Somerset Maugham

• The Fly – Katherine Mansfield

ESSAYS

• Dream Children – Charles Lamb

• The Superannuated Man – Charles Lamb

• Freedom – J.B. Priestley

• Of Studies – Francis Bacon

GRAMMAR AND USAGE

• Common Errors

• Subject–Verb Agreement

• Tenses

• Active and Passive Voice

• Articles

• Prepositions

• Adverbs

• Adjectives

• Simple Sentences

• Compound Sentences

• Complex Sentences

• Relative Clauses

• Joining of Sentences

• Splitting of Sentences

• Direct Speech

• Indirect Speech

COMPOSITION

• Paragraph Writing (50–60 words on a given topic)

LITERARY DEVICES

• Rhetoric

• Prosody

SLST ENGLISH SYLLABUS (CLASS IX–X)