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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:
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
Reading
It includes two reading passages.
Writing
Grammar
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:
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
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
Reading
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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