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CBSE Class 9 English Syllabus

Literature

The numerous chapters of literature readers are taken up in accordance with the books provided by your educational board. The NCERT has produced two textbooks for CBSE Class 9 English students, Beehive and Moments.

MOMENTS

It includes the following chapters:

• The Lost Child

• The Adventures of Toto

• In the Kingdom of Fools

• The Happy Prince

• Weathering the Storm in Osama

• The Last Leaf

• A House is Not a Home

• The Beggar

BEEHIVE - PROSE

• The Fun They Had

• The Sound of Music

• The Little Girl

• A Truly Beautiful Mind

• My Childhood

• Packing

• Reach for The Top

• The Bond of Love

• If I Were You

BEEHIVE – POEMS

• The Road Not Taken

• Wind

• Rain on The Roof

• A Legend of The Northland

• No Men Are Foreign

• On killing a Tree

• The Snake Trying

Reading

It includes two reading passages.

• Factual Passage ( 300-350 words and include eight objective type questions)

• Discursive Passage ( 400-500 words include short answer types)

Writing

• Formal letter based on a given situation.

• Letter to the Editor.

• Letter of Complaint (Official) .

• Letter of Complaint (Business) .

• Letter of Order.

• Letter of Enquiry .

• Analytical Paragraph. .

• Descriptive Paragraph. .

• Story writing. .

Grammar

• Tenses.

• Modals.

• Subject-Verb Concord.

• Determiner.

• Reported Speech.

• Commands and Requests.

• Statements.

• Questions.

• Use of passive voice.

• Reporting Commands and requests (ii) Statements (iii) Questions.

• Clauses: (i) Noun clauses (ii) Adverb clauses of condition and time (iii) Relative clauses.

• Prepositions.

The above grammar syllabus is to be tested through Cloze passage, Gap Filling, Editing Dialogue Writing/ Reporting dialogue on a given theme.

ICSE Class 9 English Syllabus

The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare’s unabridged play by A.W. Verity)

Drama:

• Act 1 – Scenes 1, 2 & 3,

• Act 2 – Scenes 1 to 9,

• Act 3 – Scene 1 ONLY.

Treasure Trove – A Collection Of ICSE Poems And Short Stories (Evergreen Publications)

Poetry:

• The Heart of the Tree – Henry Cuyler Bunner

• The Cold Within – James Patrick Kinney

• The Bangle Sellers – Sarojini Naidu

• After Blenheim – Robert Southey

• Television – Roald Dahl

• Daffodils – William Wordsworth

Prose (Short Stories):

• Chief Seattle’s Speech

• Old Man at the Bridge – Ernest Miller Hemingway

• A Horse and Two Goats – R.K. Narayan

• Hearts and Hands – O. Henry

• A Face in the Dark – Ruskin Bond

• An Angel in Disguise – T.S. Arthur

Reading

• An unseen prose passage for about 400-450 words.

Writing

• Formal Letters

• Informal Letters

• E-mail

• Notice Writing

• Message Writing

• Speech

• Article

• Report Writing

Grammar:

• Articles

• Nouns

• Pronouns

• Adjectives

• Adverbs

• Verbs

• Conjunctions

• Prepositions

• Sentence, Clause, Phrase

• Tenses

• Reported Speech

• Punctuation

• Sentence Completion

• Dialogue Completion

• Sentence Reordering

• Error Correction

• Sentence Transformation

IB Syllabus For Class 9 English

Language A include covers the following chapters:

Prose - Short Fiction

Teacher-selected short stories:

• “Girl,” by Jamaica Kincaid.

• “The Cask of Amontillado,” by Edgar Allan Poe

• “There Will Come Soft Rains,” by Ray Bradbury Student-selected short story

• “A Remedy for Heartburn,” by Aurora Levins Morales

• “By Any Other Name,” by Santa Rama Rau

• “Everyday Use,” by Alice Walker

Poetry – Poets

• Walt Whitman

• Robert Herrick

• William Shakespeare

• Robert Frost

• Ocean Vuong

• Pat Mora

• Joy Harjo

• Maya Angelou

Drama:

Anchor Text: The Merchant of Venice, by William Shakespeare

• Maus, by Art Spiegelman

• Night, by Elie Wiesel

• The Diary of Anne Frank

• Born a Crime, by Trevor Noah

• The Freedom Writers Diary, by The Freedom Writers with Erin Gruwell

Prose - Novel:

The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger

Literary Theory

Student-selected Young Adult Literature (YAL) novel.

Options include:

• Children of Blood and Bone, by Tomi Adeyemi

• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie

• Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson

• Feed, by M.T. Anderson

• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon

• I Am Malala, by Christina Lamb and Malala Yousafzai

• The Astonishing Color of After, by Emily X.R. Pan

• Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, by B. Alire Sáenz

• I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, by Erika Sánchez

• The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas

State Boards Class 9 English Syllabus

All the State boards have designed the syllabus as per the guidelines and requirements. Accordingly, the textbook is prescribed. However, let us check some of the common topics among all.

Literature:

The textbook for English literature varies as prescribed accordingly to boards requirements.

Writing

• Essay Writing

• Substance and Precise Writing

Reading

• Unseen Passage

Grammar:

• Articles

• Nouns

• Pronouns

• Adjectives

• Adverbs

• Verbs

• Conjunctions

• Prepositions

• Sentence, Clause, Phrase

• Tenses

• Reported Speech

• Punctuation

• Sentence Completion

• Dialogue Completion

• Sentence Reordering

• Error Correction

• Sentence Transformation

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