Part II - Language Through Literature I, 2nd Year 3rd Semester syllabus for all B.A Degree, UG Degree, University of Madras 2021

 UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS

               Part II - Language Through Literature 

        Second Year | Third Semester|

 

	All BA (except BA English) and BCom. (Corporate Secretaryship & B.Com. Cooperation) Programmes
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Unit - I Prose		15 Hours
Unit - II Poetry		12 Hours (including all worksheets to be done in class in the textbook)
Unit - III Short Story		15 Hours (including all worksheets to be done in class in the textbook)
Unit - IV Non-fiction		14 Hours (including all worksheets to be done in class in the textbook)
Unit - V One-act Play		14 Hours (including all worksheets to be done in class in the textbook)
Formative Assessment		05 Hours (Unit-end assessment tasks given in the textbook to be done, detached and submitted for evaluation)

II UG SEMESTER 3 | PART II ±LANGUAGE THROUGH LITERATURE

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All II BA Programmes (Except BA English) &

II BCom ±Corporate Secretaryship & B.Com. Cooperation 

 

UNIT : PROSE [15 Hours ]
Theme	TEXT	ENGLISH LANGUAGE SKILLS
Language	1.1 Toasted English by R K Narayan	VOCABULARY Etymology of Common Words
		GRAMMAR TENSES - Simple present vs present continuous -Simple past vs present perfect tense
Attitude	1.2 The Money Box	VOCABULARY Etymology of common words
	by Robert Lynd	GRAMMAR
		Combining sentences - (While, When etc.)
Ethics	1.3 Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren by John Maynard Keynes	VOCABULARY Etymology of common words,
		Words related to a topic
		GRAMMAR Error identification (the use of articles, punctuation, word classes, subject Verb agreement, etc.) Wh questions , Yes/ No Questions

UNIT 2: POETRY [12 Hours ]
Theme	TEXT	ENGLISH LANGUAGE SKILLS
Environment	2.1	VOCABULARY Content words and Function words, Compound words GRAMMAR Punctuation
	The World Is Too
	Much with Us
	by William
	Wordsworth
Endurance	2.2 Hope is the thing with feathers by Emily Dickinson	VOCABULARY COMMONLY CONFUSED WORDS ±Spelling Pronunciation Mismatch, Silent Letters, Prefixes and suffixes, negative prefixes GRAMMAR Word class conversions ±nouns ±verbs/ adjectives Conversion of sentences ± Active/ Passive, Reported speech
Culture	2.3 Sita by Toru Dutt	VOCABULARY Homophones, homonyms, homographs   GRAMMAR Gerunds and participles
Motivation	2.4	VOCABULARY Completing words with incomplete spelling, One-word substitutes / meanings of expressions (textual)
	If
	by Rudyard Kipling	GRAMMAR Phrasal verbs Conditional Clauses
Social Justice	2.5 If We Must Die by Claud McKay	VOCABULARY   Figures of Speech: simile, metaphor, metonymy, personification, paradox, antithesis, oxymoron GRAMMAR Integrated grammar activities / cloze test

UNIT 3 : SHORT STORY [15 Hours ]
Theme	TEXT	ENGLISH LANGUAGE SKILLS
Contentm ent	3.1 How Much Land does a Man Need	PRONUNCIATION Tongue Twisters, -Pronouncing words of foreign origins, -Referring to a dictionary to understand pronunciation
	by Leo Tolstoy
Gender	3.2 The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman	Filling forms and Letter Writing
Entrepre	3.3	Converting a story into a play
neurship	Verger
	by Somerset
	Maugham
Humour	3.4	Descriptive and narrative writing, Writing long essays
	Milk Account by SVV
	Translated by
	Subhashree

UNIT 4 : NON FICTION [14 Hours ]
Theme	TEXT	ENGLISH LANGUAGE SKILLS
New World	4.1 The Collapse of Meaning in a Post-Truth World by Chi Luu	Writing Blogs Creating Vlogs
Sports	4.2 Way to Mental Health by K C Vijaya Kumar	Writing emails (With inputs on email etiquette)
Heritage	4.3 Ootacamund by S Muthiah	Cover Letter and Resume Writing Introduction to Job Interviews
Arts	4.4 Is this Art, too? by Anjana Premchand	Expressing opinions on contemporary issues/ Argumentative Essays

UNIT 5: ONE ACT PLAY [14 Hours ]
Theme	TEXT	ENGLISH LANGUAGE SKILLS
Interper	5.1
sonal Relation ship	A Marriage Proposal by Anton Chekov	Role play
		Create webpage (Google sites)
Worksheets		Texts 1-18
Formative Assessment [5 Hours ]		Unit I-V

II UG – SEMESTER 3 | Part II –LANGUAGE THROUGH LITERATURE- I

Internals – 50 Marks                                                  Externals- 50 Marks

 

II UG – SEMESTER 3| Part II –LANGUAGE THROUGH LITERATURE- I INTERNALS (50 marks)
	i. Attendance	- 5 marks
	ii. Continuous Assessment Tests	-10 marks
	iii. Summative Internal Assessment *	- 35 marks

ii.  Continuous Assessment Tests                                   -10 marks

¾ Continuous Assessment Tests to be given as per University Specifications.  

iii.   Summative Internal Assessment*                            -35 marks

(To be conducted by the respective institutions at the end of the semester according to the Question Paper Pattern and Model Question Paper given)

II UG – SEMESTER 3| Part II –LANGUAGE THROUGH LITERATURE- I

Summative Internal Assessment -Question Paper Pattern (35 Marks)

II UG SEMESTER III

[except BA English]

 Part II - LANGUAGE THROUGH LITERATURE I 

QUESTION PAPER PATTERN

INTERNAL EXAMINATION ±35 Marks

 I.  PART A (5 Marks) Speaking Skills: (5 Marks)

Any of the following

¾ Pronunciation -Tongue Twisters-Pronouncing words of foreign origins -referring toa dictionary to understand pronunciation

¾ Reading aloud of prescribed texts/poems with right pronunciation and intonation.

¾ Introduction to Interviews - Expressing opinions on contemporary issues

II.   PART B (20 Marks)

[Frame Text-based questions similar to/from Each Unit-end Formative Assessment Tasks]

1.  Unit 1 (4 marks)

2.  Unit 2 (4 marks)

3.  Unit 3 (4 marks)

4.  Unit 4 (4 marks)

5.  Unit 5 (4 marks)

 III.   PART C (10 Marks)

1.  Filling Forms (5 marks)

2.  Cover Letter and Resume (5 marks)

UG – SEMESTER 3| Part II –LANGUAGE THROUGH LITERATURE- I

EXTERNALS- End Semester University Examination (50 marks)

Question Paper Pattern

II UG SEMESTER III

[except BA English]

 Part II - LANGUAGE THROUGH LITERATURE I QUESTION PAPER PATTERN

EXTERNAL- UNIVERSITY EXAMINATION

Time: 3 Hours                                                                                         Maximum Marks: 50

1.   a) Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow ( 5 marks) (Passage from Unit 1 Prose Texts)

b) Questions based on any of the following (5 marks)

[Etymology - Simple present vs present continuous -Simple past vs present perfect tense One- word substitutes / meanings of expressions- Combining sentences - (While, When etc.)- Conditional Clauses - Paradox, antithesis, oxymorons - Words related to a topic -Error identification - use of articles, punctuation, word classes, subject Verb agreement - Wh  questions, Yes/ No Questions]

2.   a) Read the following lines and answer the questions that follow (5 marks) (Lines from Unit 2 Poems)

b) Questions based on any of the following (5 marks)

[Content words and Function words, Compound words Punctuation - Conversion of sentences ± Active/ Passive, Reported speech Commonly Confusing words ±(spelling ±pronunciation mismatch)-Prefixes and suffixes, negative prefixes- word class conversions ±nouns ±verbs/ adjectives  etc    homophones, homonyms, homographs- Gerunds and participles Completing words with incomplete spelling - phrasal verbs -metonymy] 

 3.   a) Write a brief essay on the following in 200 words (5 marks) (Questions from Unit 3 Short Stories)

b)   Questions based on any of the following (5 marks)

[Letter Writing/Converting a story into a dialogue/conversation/ Descriptive and narrative paragraph writing]

4.   a) Write a brief essay on the following in 200 words (5 marks)

(Questions from Unit 4 Non-fiction)

b)  Questions based on any of the following (5 marks)

[Writing blogs/Writing emails]

5.   a) Write a brief essay on the following in 200 words (5 marks) (Questions from Unit 5 Scenes from Shakespeare))

b)     Questions based on any of the following (5 marks)

¾ Create webpage

¾ Dialogue writing

6.   Write an Essay in 300 words on any of the following topics (10 marks) [Choose any 1 of the 2 General Topics on contemporary interest]

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