Compulsory English (Grade 11)
अनिवार्य अंग्रेजी (कक्षा ११)
20 Language Development Units and 20 Literature Selections (Short Stories, Poems, Essays, One-Act Plays) under revised CDC Framework.
Curriculum Units & Lessons
Showing 34 LessonsEducation and Humanity
Unit 1: Education and Humanity — Lesson 1: Education First
एकाइ १: शिक्षा र मानवता — पाठ १: शिक्षा पहिलो
Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai’s historic speech at the UN Youth Assembly advocating for universal education, peace, and nonviolence.
Communication
Unit 2: Communication — Lesson 1: Freewriting
एकाइ २: सञ्चार — पाठ १: स्वतन्त्र लेखन
Peter Elbow’s influential pedagogical essay exploring the concept of freewriting, overcoming writer’s block, and developing an authentic voice.
Sports
Unit 3: Sports — Lesson 1: Euro 2020
एकाइ ३: खेलकुद — पाठ १: युरो २०२०
Sports journalism analyzing the historic UEFA Euro 2020 Final between Italy and England at Wembley Stadium, penalty shoot-out psychology, and sporting legacies.
Technology
Unit 4: Technology — Lesson 1: Hyperloop
एकाइ ४: प्रविधि — पाठ १: हाइपरलुप
An authoritative scientific exposition on ultra-high-speed vactrain transportation, pneumatic magnetic levitation pods, environmental impact, and engineering challenges.
Education
Unit 5: Education — Lesson 1: A Story of My Childhood
एकाइ ५: शिक्षा — पाठ १: मेरो बाल्यकालको कथा (एपिजे अब्दुल कलाम)
An inspiring autobiographical excerpt from Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam’s "Wings of Fire", depicting his early schooling in Rameswaram, dedicated mentors, and courage against communal discrimination.
Money and Economy
Unit 6: Money and Economy — Lesson 1: QR Code
एकाइ ६: पैसा र अर्थतन्त्र — पाठ १: क्यूआर कोड
An informative financial technology text exploring the history, mechanisms, security protocols, and socio-economic adoption of Quick Response (QR) code payments in emerging and global markets.
Humour
Unit 7: Humour — Lesson 1: Why do We Laugh Inappropriately?
एकाइ ७: हास्यव्यङ्ग्य — पाठ १: हामी किन असान्दर्भिक रूपमा हाँस्छौँ?
Cognitive neuroscientist Sophie Scott’s fascinating research on laughter as a primal social bonding mechanism, emotional contagion, and neural communication beyond pure comedy.
Human Culture
Unit 8: Human Culture — Lesson 1: Land of Plenty
एकाइ ८: मानव संस्कृति — पाठ १: प्रचुरताको भूमि
A cross-cultural anthropologic reflection comparing Japanese consumer affluence and "sodaigomi" nocturnal disposal rituals with Malaysian thrift and global resource conservation.
Ecology and Environment
Unit 9: Ecology and Environment — Lesson 1: Living in a Redwood Tree
एकाइ ९: पारिस्थितिकी र वातावरण — पाठ १: रेडउड रुखमा जीवन
The dramatic real-life environmental sit-in of Julia Butterfly Hill, who lived 738 days atop a 1,000-year-old California redwood named Luna to protect ancient forests from clear-cut logging.
Career Opportunities
Unit 10: Career Opportunities — Lesson 1: Presenting Yourself
एकाइ १०: करियरका अवसरहरू — पाठ १: आफूलाई प्रस्तुत गर्दै (बायोडाटा र आवेदन)
Essential professional development guide on drafting a curriculum vitae (CV), tailoring staying vs. leaving CVs, career credentials, job applications, and conditional grammar structures.
Hobbies
Unit 11: Hobbies — Lesson 1: On Walking
एकाइ ११: रुचिका विषयहरू — पाठ १: हिँड्नुको आनन्द
An evocative reflective essay celebrating pedestrianism as a conduit for self-discovery, mindfulness, spatial intimacy, psychological grounding, and cross-continental adaptation.
Animal World
Unit 12: Animal World — Lesson 1: The Medusa and the Snail
एकाइ १२: प्राणी जगत — पाठ १: मेडुसा र शङ्खेकिरा (लुइस थोमस)
Dr. Lewis Thomas’s renowned philosophical essay on the symbiotic entanglement between the sea snail nudibranch and the jellyfish medusa, deconstructing human notions of absolute biological individuality.
History
Unit 13: History — Lesson 1: After the World Trade Centre
एकाइ १३: इतिहास — पाठ १: वर्ल्ड ट्रेड सेन्टरको घटनापछि
A poignant historical narrative chronicling structural engineers Frank and Nicole De Martini during the September 11 terrorist attacks, courage during disaster evacuation, and personal resilience.
Human Rights
Unit 14: Human Rights — Lesson 1: “I am Sorry”- The Hardest Three Words to Say
एकाइ १४: मानव अधिकार — पाठ १: म माफी माग्छु—भन्नलाई सबैभन्दा कठिन तीन शब्द
A transformative personal memoir on childhood trauma under South African apartheid, the generational struggle for reconciliation, and the radical, healing potency of forgiveness.
Leisure and Entertainment
Unit 15: Leisure and Entertainment — Lesson 1: A Journey Back in Time!
एकाइ १५: फुर्सद र मनोरञ्जन — पाठ १: समयको यात्रा (बन्दिपुर भ्रमण)
A travel narrative exploring Bandipur as a living museum of Newar culture, 18th-century architecture, Himalayan panoramas, sustainable eco-tourism, and miscellaneous grammatical agreements.
Fantasy
Unit 16: Fantasy — Lesson 1: The Romance of a Busy Broker
एकाइ १६: कल्पना र कथा — पाठ १: व्यस्त दलालको प्रेम सम्बन्ध (ओ. हेनरी)
O. Henry’s classic short story satirizing hyper-commercial Wall Street freneticism, absent-mindedness, emotional alienation, and grammatical mastery of defining/non-defining relative clauses.
War and Peace
Unit 17: War and Peace — Lesson 1: Train to Pakistan
एकाइ १७: युद्ध र शान्ति — पाठ १: पाकिस्तान जाने रेल (खुशवन्त सिंह)
An excerpt from Khushwant Singh’s historical novel depicting the trauma of the 1947 Partition of India, communal tensions, moral complexities, borrowed Hindi loanwords, and past narrative tenses.
Music and Creation
Unit 18: Music and Creation — Lesson 1: A Life of Sound and Silence
एकाइ १८: सङ्गीत र सिर्जना — पाठ १: ध्वनि र सन्नाटाको जीवन (बिथोभेन)
A biographical study of Ludwig van Beethoven’s triumph over progressive deafness, the creation of Symphony No. 9, musical genre taxonomy, prepositions of time, and prepositional collocations.
Migration and Diaspora
Unit 19: Migration and Diaspora — Lesson 1: Dediasporization: Homeland and Hostland
एकाइ १९: बसाइँसराइ र डायस्पोरा — पाठ १: गैर-डायस्पोरीकरण: मातृभूमि र कर्मभूमि
A sociological examination of migration cycles, backward motion, generational assimilation in host countries, Non-Resident Nepali (NRN) dual citizenship debates, and habitual past structures.
Power and Politics
Unit 20: Power and Politics — Lesson 1: An Open Letter to Mary Daly
एकाइ २०: शक्ति र राजनीति — पाठ १: मेरी डेलीलाई खुला पत्र (अड्रे लर्ड)
Audre Lorde’s seminal intersectional feminist critique of racial exclusion in feminist theory, challenging white supremacy, questioning cultural dogma, and adjective order syntax.
Section II: Literature — Short Stories
Short Story 1: Neighbours — Tim Winton
कथा १: छिमेकीहरू — टिम विन्टन
Tim Winton’s celebrated Australian short story exploring cultural prejudice, European immigrant solidarity, cross-cultural empathy, and the unifying emotional triumph of childbirth.
Short Story 2: A Respectable Woman — Kate Chopin
कथा २: एक सम्मानित महिला — केट चोपिन
Kate Chopin’s psychological realist masterpiece examining Victorian societal decorum, female emotional autonomy, and the unspoken romantic conflict experienced by Mrs. Baroda during Gouvernail’s visit.
Short Story 3: A Devoted Son — Anita Desai
कथा ३: एक समर्पित छोरो — अनिता देसाई
Anita Desai’s poignant exploration of shifting generational dynamics, filial piety, and professional clinical detachment in Indian family life, detailing Dr. Rakesh’s rigid medical regimentation of his aging father Varma.
Short Story 4: The Treasure in the Forest — H.G. Wells
कथा ४: जङ्गलको खजाना — एच.जी. वेल्स
H.G. Wells’s suspenseful moral tale of colonial greed, betrayal, and fatal irony, tracing the ill-fated journey of two British fortune hunters, Evans and Hooker, pursuing stolen Spanish gold on an uninhabited tropical island.
Short Story 5: My Old Home — Lu Xun
कथा ५: मेरो पुरानो घर — लु सुन
Lu Xun’s seminal modernist Chinese short story reflecting on nostalgia, feudal class estrangement, rural impoverishment, and the philosophical search for hope through the narrator’s reunion with his childhood companion Runtu.
Short Story 6: The Half-closed Eyes of the Buddha and Slowly Sinking Sun — Shankar Lamichhane
कथा ६: बुद्धका अर्धनिमीलित आँखा र डूबिरहेको घाम — शङ्कर लामिछाने
Shankar Lamichhane’s modernist stream-of-consciousness narrative contrasting a Western tourist’s romanticized aesthetic appreciation of Kathmandu Valley’s art and architecture with a local guide’s visceral revelation of human suffering in a paralyzed child’s eyes.
Short Story 7: A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings — Gabriel García Márquez
कथा ७: विशाल पखेटा भएको धेरै बूढो मान्छे — ग्याब्रियल गार्सिया मार्खेज
Gabriel García Márquez’s canonical magical realist fable satirizing human intolerance, religious institutional hypocrisy, and commercial exploitation following the arrival of a decrepit, winged supernatural figure in a coastal village.
Section II: Literature — Poems
Poem 1: A Day — Emily Dickinson
कविता १: एक दिन — एमिली डिकिन्सन
Emily Dickinson’s lyrical nature poem contrasting the vibrant certainty of sunrise with the mystical, unknowable quietude of sunset through the innocent eyes of a child, serving as a metaphor for the human journey of life and mortality.
Poem 1: Every Morning I Wake — Dylan Thomas
कविता २: हरेक बिहान म ब्युँझन्छु — डिलन थोमस
Dylan Thomas’s tender devotional prayer from "Under Milk Wood" exploring human vulnerability, cyclical time, pastoral innocence, and unconditional divine compassion for flawed mortals.
Poem 3: I Was My Own Route — Julia de Burgos
कविता ३: म आफ्नै बाटो थिएँ — जुलिया डे बुर्गोस
Puerto Rican feminist poet Julia de Burgos’s defiant manifesto of female liberation, rejecting patriarchal gender mandates, breaking free from traditional societal bounds, and claiming radical autonomy.
Poem 4: The Awakening Age — Ben Okri
कविता ४: जागरणको युग — बेन ओक्री
Nigerian poet and novelist Ben Okri’s visionary utopian sonnet celebrating human solidarity, transnational unity, resilience against poverty, and universal awakening into an era of enlightenment.
Poem 5: Soft Storm — Abhi Subedi
कविता ५: कोमल आँधी — अभि सुवेदी
Nepali scholar and poet Dr. Abhi Subedi’s postmodern verse dramatizing empathy in the face of urban dehumanization, socio-political turmoil, poverty, and historical trauma in contemporary Kathmandu.
Section II: Literature — Essays
Essay 1: On Libraries — Oliver Sacks
निबन्ध १: पुस्तकालयहरूको बारेमा — ओलिभर स्याक्स
Renowned neurologist and author Oliver Sacks’s nostalgic autobiographical essay honoring the transformative sanctuary of physical libraries, self-directed scientific exploration, and mourning the digital purge of physical books.
Essay 2: Marriage as a Social Institution — Stephen L. Nock
निबन्ध २: विवाह एक सामाजिक संस्थाको रूपमा — स्टिफन एल. नक
Sociologist Stephen L. Nock’s analytical examination of marriage as a culturally integrated institution that restrains individual self-interest, generates social capital, and structures normative community life.