John Milton: Paradise Lost- Book 1 (Lines 1-124 “Of Mans First
Disobedience … Tyranny of Heav’n”)
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SYLLABUS OF COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR THE POST OF
LECTURER (SCHOOL EDUCATION)
ENGLISH
PAPER – II
Part – I Senior Secondary Level
Grammer and Usage
1. Use of Articles and Determiners
2. Tenses
3. Conditional Sentences
4. Use of Prepositions
5. Modal Auxiliaries
6. Subordination and Coordination (Compound and Complex Sentences)
7. Transformation of Sentences
i. Affirmative, Negative, Interrogative and Imperative Sentences
ii. Active and Passive Voice
iii. Direct and Indirect Speech
8. Phrasal Verbs
9. Proverbs/Idiomatic Expressions
10. Phonetic Transcription and Word Stress
11. One Word Substitution
12. Synonyms and Antonyms
13. Subject Verb Agreement/Concord
14. Basic Sentence Patterns
15. Clause/Phrase Analysis (in terms of SVOCA)
16. Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary
Part – II Graduation Level
An Acquaintance with English, American and Indian Authors Poetry
1. William Shakespeare.: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day
(Sonnet 130)
2. John Milton: Paradise Lost- Book 1 (Lines 1-124 “Of Mans First
Disobedience … Tyranny of Heav’n”)
3. John Donne: Batter My Heart
4. Andrew Marwell: To His Coy Mistress
5. John Dryden: Alexander’s Feast
6. Thomas Gray: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
7. William Wordsworth: Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798
8. John Keats: Ode to a Nightingale
9. Robert Browning: Andrea Del Sarto
10. Matthew Arnold: Dover Beach
11. T. S. Eliot: The Hollow Men
12. W.B. Yeats: Sailing to Byzantium
13. Walt Whitman: Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
14. Robert Frost: After Apple Picking
15. Emily Dickinson: Because I Could not Stop for Death; I Heard a Fly
Buzz
16. Rabindra Nath Tagore: Where the Mind is Without Fear
17. Sri Aurobindo: The Pilgrim of Night
18. Nissim Ezekiel: Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S
19. Toru Dutt: Lakshman
20. Vikram Seth: The Tale of Melon City
21. Syed Amanuddin: Don’t Call me Indo-Anglian
Prose
1. Bacon: Of Truth;
2. Richard Steele: Spectator Club
3. Charles Lamb: Modern Gallantry
4. M.K. Gandhi: “What is Swaraj” (Chapter 4 from Hind Swaraj)
5. Robert Louis Stevenson: On Walking Tours
6. T.S. Eliot: Tradition and the Individual Talent
Novel
1. Charles Dickens: David Copperfield
2. Shashi Deshpande: That Long Silence
Drama
1. William Shakespeare: As You Like It
2. Girish Karnad: Tughlaq
Part – III Post Graduation Level
A. An Acquaintance with Literary Terms/ Forms/Techniques1. Simile
2. Metaphor
3. Personification
4. Hyperbole
5. Alliteration
6. Onomatopoeia
7. Sonnet
8. Ode
9. Elegy
10.Ballad
11.Soliloquy
12.Dramatic Monologue
13.Epic / Mock Epic
14.Allegory
15.Paradox
B. An Acquaintance with Major Literary Periods
1. Renaissance
2. Metaphysical
3. Jacobean
4. Neoclassical
5. Romantic
6. Victorian
7. Modern
8. Post-modern
C. An Acquaintance with Major Literary Movements
1. Romanticism
2. Gothic
3. Pre-Raphaelite Movement
4. Realism
5. Existentialism
D. Varieties of Language
1. Dialect
2. Register
3. Creole
4. Pidgin
5. Code-Switching
6. Code-Mixing
Part – IV (Pedagogy, Teaching Learning Material, Use of Computers and
Information Technology in Teaching Learning)
I. Pedagogy and Teaching Learning Material (Instructional Strategies for
Adolescent Learner)
• Communication skills and use of various verbal and non verbal classroom
communication strategies.
• Teaching models- advance organizer and inquiry training (information
processing) Group Investigation (Social Interaction) Non-Directive model
(Personal development.
• Preparation and use of teaching-learning material during teaching.
• Cooperative learning.
II. Use of Computers and Information Technology in Teaching Learning
• Concept of ICT and Digital learning
• E-learning and Virtual Classroom.
• Technology integration in teaching-learning and assessment
