Guidelines for Practice Papers

Final terms are around the corner. Your understanding of the entire year's syllabus is being tested. You may find the volume daunting after the semester-wise breakup under CCE. However, do not underestimate yourself. You will be able to ace the exams. The key is timely and sincere revision.

The next few posts will contain practice papers for all chapters of Snapshots and Hornbill. Train yourself to resolve these papers in the time limit and space specified. Feel free to take prints of the papers given. 

Students of Bluebells would get these papers in class. However, if they miss any of the tests, they may complete the practice papers in soft copy and email them to me for feedback.

Beginning of the End

With that last post, we come to the end of the class XI syllabus. The remaining posts would consist of practice papers based on each chapter. Revise each chapter and attempt the corresponding practice paper in one go. These papers would help you to polish your understanding of the course content and also, to learn how to write answers within a given word and time limit. Good luck!

 

RESEARCH BASED ESSAY : JAN - FEB

You may use the following web charts for the Jan-Feb essay. Class XI A and D to submit the essay on the deadline given by ma'am Sakshi. Classes XI B and C to submit their last essay on Feb 15, 2013:

Topic 1: The Partition cleaved more than just the two nations…Analyse the literary representations of this harrowing event which otherwise is usually glossed over in documented records. Study the Indian and Pakistani writers who have written on the Partition and analyse the pain and anguish which the two nations should never forget.

Vocabulary to be used: Caesura, Insulation, Fissure, Cleft, Incision, Rupture, Disjunctive, Reft, Deacon, Forgery, Varnish, Belie, Mirage

 

Topic 2: Compare and contrast the use of fantasy in a children’s fiction and a science fiction novel of your choice (You may refer to the movie versions as well). For e.g. The Chronicles of Narnia and The Time Machine/The Invisible Man.

 

Vocabulary to be used: Figment, Reverie, Bizarre, Aerial, Verve, Romanticism, Utopia, Envisage, Surmise, Chimera, Collate, Analogy, Similitude, Commensurate, Foil, Variance, Draughtsman, Etcher

 

Topic 3: Western art has generally been classified as portrait, landscape and still life. Choose any one of these realms and chart how they developed (thematically, technically and aesthetically) with time. (From the Renaissance in the 16^th Century - the 21^st century.)

 

Vocabulary to be used: Chiaroscuro, Fresco, Lithograph, Murals, Cubism, Dadaism, Expressionist, Surrealist, Impressionist, Tone, Mosaic, Tableau, Daub, Silhouette, relievo