CBSE Class 11 English syllabus 📘 2026

CBSE Class 11 English syllabus 📘

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📘 CBSE Class 11 English Syllabus

CBSE Class 11 English (Core – 301) is based on three prescribed books:

• Hornbill (Prose & Poetry)

• Snapshots (Supplementary Reader)

• Writing & Grammar

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📗 Hornbill – Prose

1. The Portrait of a Lady – Khushwant Singh

2. We’re Not Afraid to Die… If We Can All Be Together – Gordon Cook & Alan East

3. Discovering Tut: The Saga Continues – A. R. Williams

4. Landscape of the Soul – Nathalie Trouveroy

5. The Ailing Planet: The Green Movement’s Role – Nani Palkhivala

6. The Browning Version – Terence Rattigan

7. The Adventure – Jayant Narlikar

8. Silk Road – Nick Middleton

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📜 Hornbill – Poetry

1. A Photograph – Shirley Toulson

2. The Laburnum Top – Ted Hughes

3. The Voice of the Rain – Walt Whitman

4. Childhood – Markus Natten

5. Father to Son – Elizabeth Jennings

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📙 Snapshots – Supplementary Reader

1. The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse – William Saroyan

2. The Address – Marga Minco

3. Ranga’s Marriage – Masti Venkatesha Iyengar

4. Albert Einstein at School – Patrick Pringle

5. Mother’s Day – J. B. Priestley

6. The Ghat of the Only World – Amitav Ghosh

7. Birth – A. J. Cronin

8. The Tale of Melon City – Vikram Seth

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✍️ Writing Skills

• Notice writing

• Poster designing

• Speech writing

• Debate writing

• Article writing

• Creative writing (short compositions)

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🧠 Grammar

• Tenses

• Modals

• Subject–verb agreement

• Determiners

• Active & passive voice

• Reported speech

• Editing & omission

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📖 Reading Skills

• Unseen factual passage

• Unseen literary passage

• Case-based comprehension

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