HSA English

PART A
Module I : Renaissance and freedom movement
Module II: General Knowledge and current affairs
Module III: Methodology of teaching the subject
♦ History/conceptual development. Need and Significan ce, Meaning Nature and Scope of the Subject.
♦ Correlation with other subjects and life situations .
♦ Aims, Objectives, and Values of Teaching - Taxonomy of Educational Objectives - Old and revised

♦ Pedagogic analysis- Need, Significance and Principl es.
♦ Planning of instruction at Secondary level- Need an d importance. Psychological bases of Teaching the subject - Implications of Piaget, Brun er, Gagne, Vygotsky, Ausubel and Gardener - Individual difference, Motivation, Maxim s of teaching.
♦ Methods and Strategies of teaching the subject- Mod els of Teaching, Techniques of individualising instruction. 
♦ Curriculum - Definition, Principles, Modern trends and organizational approaches, Curriculum reforms - NCF/KCF.
♦ Instructional resources- Laboratory, Library, Club, Museum- Visual and Audio-Visual aids - Community based resources - e-resources - Text book , Work book and Hand book. 
♦ Assessment; Evaluation- Concepts, Purpose, Types, P rinciples, Modern techniques - CCE and Grading- Tools and techniques - Qualities of a good test - Types of test items - Evaluation of projects, Seminars and Assignments - Achievement test, D iagnostic test – Construction, Characteristics, interpretation and remediation.
♦ Teacher - Qualities and Competencies - different ro les - Personal Qualities - Essential teaching skills - Microteaching - Action research
PART B
Module 1. Poetry 

1. Shakespeare :- Sonnet 121 
2. Donne :- A Valediction Forbidding Mourning 
3. Milton :- On His Blindness 
4. Gray :- Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard 
5. Wordsworth :- Tintern Abbey 
6. Shelley :- To A Skylark 
7. Keats :- Ode On A Grecian Urn 
8. Tennyson :- Ulysses 
9. Browning :- My Last Duchess 
10. Arnold :- Dover Beach 
11. W.B.Yeats :- A Prayer For My Daughter 
12. Sylvia Plath :- Daddy 
13. Tagore :- Where The Mind Is Without Fear 
14. Nissim Ezekiel :- Night Of The Scorpion 
15. Kamala Das :-  An Introduction 
16. A.K.Ramanujan :- Obituary 
17. Robert Frost :- Home Burial Emily 
18. Dickinson :-  Because I Could Not Stop For Death 
19. Wole Soyinka :- A Telephone Conversation 
20. Meena Alexander :- House Of A Thousand Doors 
21. Margaret Atwood :- This Is A Photograph Of Me 
22. David Diop :- Africa 
23. Jack Davis :- Aboriginal Australia 

Module 2. Drama 
1. Shakespeare :- Macbeth 
2. Sheridan :- School For Scandal
3. Oscar Wilde :- The Importance Of Being Ernest 
4. Ibsen :- A Doll's House 
5. Shaw :- Pygmalion 
6. J.M.Synge :- Riders To The Sea 
7. Samuel Beckett :- Waiting For Godot 
8. Arthur Miller :- Death Of A Salesman 
9. Tennessee Williams :- The Glass Menagerie 
10. Girish Karnad :- Nagamandala 
Module 3: Prose and Fiction 
1. Francis Bacon :- Of Studies 
2. Steele :- The Trumpet Club 
3. A.G. Gardiner :- On The Rule Of The Road 
4. E.M. Forster :- On Tolerance 
5. Bertrand Russel :- Functions Of A Teacher 
6. Dr.Radhakrishnan :- Humanities vs Science 
7. Emily Bronte :- Wuthering Heights 
8. George Orwell :- Animal Farm 
9. Hemingway :- The Old Man And The Sea 
10. Shashi Deshpande :- Roots and Shadows 
11. Arundati Roy :-  The God Of Small Things 
12. Toni Morrison The Bluest Eye 
Module 4: .Literary Criticism/ Terms 
1.Rasa 
2.Dhwani 
3.Aristotle: Poetics 
4.Wordsworth: Preface To Lyrical Ballads 
5.Coleridege: Biographia Litereria Chapter 14 
 6.Arnold: Study of Poetry 
7.Eliot:Tradition And The Individual Talent 
8.Saussure: Nature Of The Linguistic Sign 
9.Showalter:Towards A Feminist Poetics 
Terms and Movements ( Based on the latest edition of M.H.Abrams-A Glossary Of Literary Terms Classicism, Neo-Classicism, Romanticism, Humanism, Realism, Magical Realism, Naturalism, Symbolism, Russian Formalism, Marxism, Structuralis m, Post Structuralism, Deconstruction, Psychoanalytical Criticism, Feminism, Post Colonial ism, Modernism and Post Modernism 
Module 5: Linguistics, Phonetics and History of Language 
1.Phonology 
2. Morphology 
3.Syntax 
4.Semantics 
5.Langue and Parole; Competence and Performance 
6.Organs of Speech 
7.Classification Of Speech Sounds 
8.Stress, Rhythm, Intonation 
9.Transcription 
10.Indo-European Family of languages 
11.Loan Words-Latin, Scandinavian, French, Indian 
12.Englishes-American, Australian, Indian, and Afri can 
Module 6: Modern English Usage 
1.Sentence Correction 
2.Vocabulary 
3.Synonyms and Antonyms 
4.Give one word 
5.Commonly confused words 
6.Language Functions such as agreeing, complaining etc. 
7.Appropriate word order 
8.Appropriate sentence order 
9.Idioms 
10.Passage for comprehension 
Module 7: Basic Grammar 

1.Article 
2.Prepositions 
3.Clauses 
4.Tenses 
5.Phrasal Verbs 
6.Conjunctions 
7.Reported Speech 
8.Voice 
9.Question Tag 
10.Transformation of sentences 
Module 8: Teaching of English 
1.Schools-Behaviourism, Cognitivism, Constructivism 
2.Skills and subskills of Listening, Speaking, Rea ding and Writing 
3.Language Acquisition and Learning, Krashen 
4.Methods and Approaches: Grammar Translation; Audi o-lingual; Direct Method; Structural-Oral- Situational Approach; Communicative Approach; Bilin gual Method; Humanistic Approaches 
5.Use of AV aids and ICT 
6.Teaching of Prose, Poetry and Grammar 
7.Testing and Evaluation 
8.Learner Types 
9.Teaching learners with disability 
10.NCF, KCF on teaching of English 
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