APSB - English - Grade 8

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Dear Volunteer Teacher,

Kindly find below the topics to be covered for IEC 2(Textbook Based Teaching).

Term 1 Instructional hours - 26 along with 1 Instructional hour for Assessments.
Term 2 Instructional hours - 30 along with 1 Instructional hour for Assessments.

eV Recommended Chapters: Term 1 - Instructional Details

Lessons

Chapter Number	Chapter Link	Instructional Hours
Chapter 1	Prose - Glimpses of the Past	2
	Poem - Macavity: The Mystery Cat	1
Chapter 2	Prose - Bepin Choudhury’s Lapse of Memory	2
	Poem - The Last Bargain	1
Chapter 3	Prose - The Summit Within	2
	Poem - The School Boy	1

Grammar

Grammar Topic Link	Instructional Hours
The Sentence	2
The Noun Kinds	1
The Pronoun	2
The Determiner	1
The Adjective	2
The Verb - Special Finite Verbs	1
The Verb - Non Finite Verbs	1
The Verb - Agreement of Verbs	1

Assessment

Mid Year Assessment

Assessment Link

2

eV Recommended Chapters: Term 2 - Instructional Details

Lessons

Chapter Number	Chapter Link	Instructional Hours
Chapter 1	Prose - This is Jody’s Fawn	2
	Poem - The Duck and the Kangaroo	1
Chapter 2	Prose - A Visit to Cambridge	2
	Poem - When I set out for Lyonnesse	1
Chapter 3	Prose - A Short Monsoon Diary	2
	Poem - On the Grasshopper and Cricket	1

Grammar

Grammar Topic Link	Instructional Hours
Tenses	2
The clause	1
The Adverb	2
The preposition	1
The conjunction	2
Letter Writing	1
Story writing	1

Assessment

Term End Assessment

Assessment Link

2

Additional Chapters

Chapter Number	Chapter Link	Instructional Hours
Chapter 1	The Best Christmas Present in the World	2
	The Ant and the Cricket	1
Chapter 2	The Tsunami	2
	Geography Lesson	1
Chapter 3	The Great Stone Face - 1	2
	The Great Stone Face - 2	1