1. Prose

• Themes: The stories often explore complex themes like societal issues, human relationships, moral dilemmas, and historical contexts.
• Skills: Students focus on critical analysis of the text, understanding the author’s perspective, identifying themes, and exploring characters’ motivations.
• Activities: Writing detailed summaries, analyzing key themes, discussing character development, and responding to interpretative questions.

2. Poetry

• Themes: Poetry may cover a wide range of topics including nature, life, death, human emotions, and philosophical thoughts.
• Skills: Emphasis on analyzing poetic techniques such as metaphor, simile, alliteration, personification, and understanding the deeper meaning behind the poems.
• Activities: Poetry analysis, identifying poetic devices, interpreting the poet’s message, and exploring the tone and mood of the poem.

3. Drama

• Content: Introduction to plays, often with an emphasis on understanding plot structure, dialogue, and dramatic techniques.
• Skills: Students learn to analyze dramatic elements like character interactions, conflicts, and resolutions.
• Activities: Reading and performing scenes, discussing characters and themes, and understanding the playwright’s intent.

4. Grammar

• Topics Covered: Advanced grammar topics such as clauses, types of sentences, reported speech, voice (active/passive), modal auxiliaries, and complex sentence structures.
• Activities: Grammar exercises, sentence transformation, error detection and correction, and applying grammar rules in writing and speaking.

5. Writing Skills

• Types of Writing:
  • Essays: Discursive, narrative, descriptive, and argumentative essays on varied topics.
  • Letters: Formal letters (applications, letters to the editor, official letters) and informal letters (personal correspondence).
  • Articles and Reports: Writing for newspapers, magazines, and reports on events or incidents.
  • Story Writing: Crafting original stories with well-developed plots, characters, and settings.
  • Speech Writing and Debate: Writing speeches and preparing for debates on current issues.
• Activities: Writing assignments, peer reviews, guided writing practice, and developing outlines for structured writing.

6. Reading Comprehension

• Skills: Enhancing the ability to understand and interpret complex texts, including fiction, non-fiction, and informational passages.
• Activities: Answering inferential and evaluative questions, summarizing texts, identifying key ideas, and discussing various interpretations of the text.

7. Supplementary Reader

• Content: Often includes a novel, play, or collection of short stories to encourage extensive reading and provide exposure to different literary styles and genres.
• Skills: Fosters critical thinking, expands vocabulary, and improves comprehension.
• Activities: Group discussions, book reviews, creative projects, and presentations based on the reading material.

8. Speaking and Listening

• Speaking: Emphasis on developing public speaking, debate, and discussion skills, with a focus on clear articulation, persuasive language, and confidence.
• Listening: Developing active listening skills through note-taking, responding to spoken questions, summarizing spoken content, and understanding different accents and dialects.

9. Literary Appreciation

• Content: Introduction to literary devices, themes, and genres to help students appreciate and critically analyze different forms of literature.
• Activities: Analyzing literary texts, exploring the use of literary devices, and discussing the significance of various literary works.