Appendix I INDIAN SCHOOL CERTIFICATE (YEAR-12) EXAMINATION MARCH 2015 LIST OF PRESCRIBED TEXTBOOKS ENGLISH (Compulsory) IV. ISC Collection of Short Stories (Inter University Paper 1. Language Press Pvt. Ltd.). No specific book is being recommended for 1. The Lost Jewels: Rabindranath Tagore background reading. 2. Lamb to the Slaughter: Roald Dahl Paper 2. Literature in English: Prescribed Texts (For 3. The Drover’s Wife: Henry Lawson Classes XI & XII) Candidates will be required to answer five questions 4. The Stolen Bacillus: H.G. Wells as follows: 5. Old Love: Jeffrey Archer One textual question (compulsory) on Much Ado 6. A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings: About Nothing or on Arms and the Man, together with G.G. Marquez four other questions on at least three texts, which may include Much Ado About Nothing or Arms and the 7. A Real Durwan: Jhumpa Lahiri Man. 8. The Lumber Room: H.H. Munro (Saki) I. Much Ado About Nothing: Shakespeare 9. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: Washington Irving OR Arms and the Man: Bernard Shaw 10. One Thousand Dollars: O. Henry II. Ivanhoe: Sir Walter Scott V. ISC Collection of Poems (Frank Bothers and III. ISC Collection of Essays (Inter University Press Company (Publishers Ltd.)). Pvt. Ltd.). 1. The Eve of Waterloo: Lord Byron 1. The Spirit of Freedom: Rabindranath Tagore 2. The Last Ride Together: Robert Browning 2. On Running After One’s Hat: 3. Mending Wall: Robert Frost G.K. Chesterton 4. Dulce Et Decorum Est: Wilfred Owen 3. The Art of Conversation: Sir Richard Steele 5. Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night: 4. Reading for Pleasure: L.A.G. Strong Dylan Thomas 5. The Writing of Essays: H.G. Wells 6. Enterprise: Nissim Ezekiel 6. Unbirthday and Other Presents: E.V. Lucas 7. Five Ways to Kill a Man: Edwin Brock 7. Go to the Ant: Grant Allen 8. Phenomenal Woman: Maya Angelou 8. The Inward Light: Dr. S. Radhakrishnan 9. Breaking Out: Marge Piercy 9. On Going on a Journey: William Hazlitt 10. Father Returning Home: Dilip Chitre 10. The Rule of the Road: A.G. Gardiner 288 ELECTIVE ENGLISH (Optional) The following poets and poems are to be studied: CLASS XI D.H. Lawrence: Discord in Childhood, Piano, Snake, Bavarian Gentians, The Ship of Death. Prescribed Books (Any three of the following): 1. Lord of the Flies: William Golding (Novel) Edward Thomas: October, March, As the Team’s Head Brass, Beauty, The Signpost. 2. Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard: Kiran Desai (Novel) Seamus Heaney: Digging, Follower, At a Potato Digging, Casualty, Punishment. 3. Silence! The Court is in Session: Vijay Tendulkar (Play) Ted Hughes: The Thought Fox, Pike, Crow Tyrannosaurus, Ravens, The Stag. 4. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Tennessee Williams (Play) 5. Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Verse (An Philip Larkin: Church Going, Dockery and Son, anthology of sixteen poets. Edited by Chris The Building, The Whitsun Weddings, Wild Oats. Woodhead) (OUP) W.H. Auden: Refugee Blues, The Shield of The following poets and poems are to be studied: Achilles, The Unknown Citizen, Musee des Beaux Arts, As I Walked out One Evening. William Wordsworth: Lucy Poems (4 poems), Upon Westminster Bridge, Resolution and INDIAN LANGUAGES Independence, Nutting. FOR CLASSES XI & XII Alfred Tennyson: Mariana, The Lady of Shalott, Ulysses, In Memoriam (3 extracts). 1. ASSAMESE (817) John Keats: On First Looking into Chapman’s (Any three of the following): Homer, On the Sea, La Belle Dame Sans Merci, Ode to a Nightingale, To Autumn, The Last 1. Pragviswavidyalay Kavita Chayan Sonnet. (University of Gauhati) William Blake: The Lamb, The Tiger, London, The following are to be studied: Nurse’s Song, Chimney Sweeper, On Another’s (i) Dadhi-mathan Sorrow. (ii) Kankhowa Gerard Manley Hopkins: God’s Grandeur, Spring, (iii) Dhanbar Aru Ratani Hurrahing in Harvest, Binsey Poplars, No Worst (iv) Tejimala there is None. (v) Padum Robert Browning : My Last Duchess, Porphyria’s (vi) Keteki Lover, A Light Woman, A Woman’s Last Word, Two in the Campagna. (vii) Ei Bate Nahiba Dunai (viii) Urmila CLASS XII (ix) Sesh Arghya Prescribed Textbooks (Any three of the following): (x) Devadasi 2. Phul by Dandinath Kalita 1. To Kill A Mocking Bird – Harper Lee (Novel) 2. The Hungry Tide: Amitav Ghosh (Novel) 3. Gaonburha by Padamanath Gohainbarua 4. Anandaram Barua by Dr. Surya Kumar 3. use: Henrik Ibsen (Play) A Doll’s Ho Bhuyan 4. Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller (Play) – Note: Essay-type questions will be set on all 5. Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Verse (An books. anthology of sixteen poets. Edited by Chris Woodhead) (OUP) 289 2. BENGALI (803) (viii) Maha-ummagga Jataka - Ishan Chandra Ghose (Any three of the following): (ix) Sekaler Sukh-Duhkha - Aksay Kumar 1. Kavyavichitra 2 (Ed. Ghose and Devi, OUP) Maitreya Only the following selection is to be studied: (x) Sabhatar Sankat - Rabindranath Tagore (i) Ramer Kaikeyi Sambodhan - Krittibas (xi) Bartaman Bharat - Swami Vivekananda (ii) Draupadi - Judhisthir Sambad - Kashiram (xii) Phuler Mulya - Prabhat Kumar Das Mukhopadhyaya (iii) Annadar Bhabananda Bhabane Jatra - (xiii) Bangla Sahitya O Chhatra Samaj - Md. Mukundaram Shahidulla (iv) Swadhinata - Rangalal Bandyopadhyaya (xiv) Punya Sariti - Seeta Devi (v) Bangabhumir Prati - Michael M. Dutt 3. Sarat Chander: Nishkriti (vi) Mohanlaler Khed - Nabinchandra Sen 4. Rabindranath Tagore: Rajshri (vii) Shobujer Abhijan - Rabindranath Tagore 5. D.L. Roy: Chandra Gupta (viii) Jiban Bhiksha - Karunanidhan Note: Essay-type questions will be set on all Bandyopadhyaya books. (ix) Aboltabol - Sukumar Ray (x) Banalata Sen - Jibananananda Das 3. DZONGKHA (819) (xi) Paraparer Kamana - Golam Mustafa Recommended for background work: (xii)Jiban Bandana - Kaji Najrul Islam Keayad Dang Yeakguye Jorya – Language and Grammar. (xiii) Asia - Nirendranath Chakravarti Any three of the following textbooks are to be (xiv) Agami - Sukanta Bhattacharya studied: 1. Shething Tsadrel (Prose) 2. Gadyavichitra (OUP) 2. Chushingi Tenchoed (Proverbs) Only the following selection is to be studied: 3. Biography of Khando Dowa Zangmo (i) Swapnadarshan - Vidyabishayak - 4. Lhakreg Dang Tshromreg Aksoy R. Dutta (i) Essay – Detsham (ii) Aihikata - Bhudeb Mukhopadhyaya (ii) Nyealtshom – Poem (iii) Alaler Ghare Dulal - Tek Chand Thakur (iii) Sung – Story (iv) Palamau - Sanjib Chandra (iv) Chyetam – Proverbs Chattopadhyaya (v) Damling – Culture (v) Babu - Bankim Chandra (vi) Chelug – Religious Chattopadhyaya Publisher of all the above books: (vi) Shabek Manushyatva O Haler Shine CAPSD Publications, Ministry of Education, Kara - Haraprasad Shastri Thimpu, Bhutan. Phone: 009758271226, (vii) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya - Email: [email protected]. Shibnath Shastri Note: Essay-type questions will be set on all books. 290 4. GUJARATI (804) 3. Divya Chakshu (Novel) by Ramanlal V. Desai, (Any three of the following): Published by R.R. Sheth & Co. Mumbai/Ahmedabad. 1. Gujarati (Pratham Bhasha) – Standard 12: Published by Gujarat Rajya Shala Patyapustak 4. Yuvakbharti – Standard 12: Published by Mandal, Vidhyayan, Sector 10 A, Gandhinagar Maharashtra Rajya Secondary and Higher - 382010. Secondary Mandal, Pune – 411005. The following are to be studied: The following are to be studied: Padhya Vibhag (Poems): Padhya Vibhag (Poems): (i) Chhappa by Akho. (i) Mahidu Mathvaane Udtya Jashodaraani (ii) Rang Morli (Lok Sahitya) Lok Geet. (Poetry – Pad) by Narshinha Mehta. (iii) Varshani Ek Sundar Saanj (Sonnet) by (ii) Kaunvarbai Nu Maameru (Akhyaan) by Balvantrai Thakore. Premanand. (iv) Kasumbi no rang (Shaurya Geet) by Jhaverchand Meghani. (iii) Viraat No Hindolo (Song) by Nhanalal. (v) Aavo (Prayer) by Markand Dave. (iv) Rato Kari Jawaana (Ghazal) by Amrut (vi) Ghadik Sangh (Song) by Niranjan Bhagat. “Ghayal”. (vii) Duniya Amaari (Song) by Bhanuprsad (v) Nen Naa Ulalo (Song) by Harindra Dave. Pandya. (vi) Gandhne Honkaaro to Kangraaye Deshe (viii) Chitra Vilopan (Khand Kaavya) by (Song) by Ramesh Parekh. Narsinharao Divetia. (vii) To Ame Aveviye (Song) by Vinod Joshi. Gadhya Vibhag (Prose): Gadhya Vibhag (Prose): (i) Dim Light (Ekaanki) by Raghuveer Chaudhary. (i) Kashta Pinjar (Part of Novel) by (ii) Paani ni Diwaal (Part of novel) by Dhruv Kanaiyalal Munshi. Bhatt. (ii) Jamnanu Pur (Short Story) by (iii) Maatu Nu Smaarak (Short Story) by Ramnarayan V. Pathak. Mohammed Mankad. (iii) Nepali Deevi (Travel Essay) by Ramanlal (iv) Maaro Asbaab (Short Story) by Saroj C Shah. Pathak. (iv) Umashanker Joshi (Introduction of (v) Eenton Na Saat Rang (Short Story – litterateur) by Vinod Bhatt. Fantasy) by Madhu Rai. (v) Hisaab (Short Story) by Mahanbhai Patel. (vi) Cricket Naa Kaaman (Comedy) by Bakul Tripathi. (vi) Maanas (Short Story) by Ramesh Trivedi. (vii) Bhavaan Bhagat (Character essay) by Vishesh Vaanchan (Rapid Reader): Joseph Mekvaan. (i) Deshgaman (One incidence) by Gandhiji. (viii) Mohan Ne Mahadev (Charitra Khand) by (ii) Laambu Jivvaani Kalaa (Essay Lalit) by Naryan Desai. – Jyotindra Dave. 2. Sapna Bhara (Social Dramas) by Umashankar Joshi, Published by Gurjar Granthratna Note: Essay-type questions will be set on all Karyalya, Ahemedabad - 380001 books. 291 5. HINDI (805) (iii) Harakegalu Recommended for background work: (iv) Kleeshapraveenara sakshya Vyakaran Manjusha (I.U.P.) (v) Vyaghra geethe Any three of the following books are to be (vi) Car ripairy madi nodu studied: (vii) Telephone 1. Kavya Tarang Ed: R.P. Vishvendu (Evergreen (viii)Sahitiya chahare Publications) (ix) Sannakatheya havali (i) Saakhi – Kabirdas (x) Nillivadakke neralagi sannadongu (ii) Vinay Aur Bhakti Surdas – gudisalu (iii) Sachchi Mitrta - Tulsidas