June 4, 2026

WESTBENGAL BOARD HIGHER SECONDARY : 11 and 12 Study Materials

UNIT 1 : PROSE
1. ‘An Astrologer’s Day’ – R. K. Narayan 04 05
2. ‘The Swami and Mother-Worship’ from The Master as I Saw Him by Sister Nivedita
3. ‘Amarnath’ from The Master as I Saw Him by Sister Nivedita

UNIT 2 : VERSE
1. ‘Composed Upon Westminster Bridge’ – William Wordsworth
2. ‘The Bangle Sellers’ – Sarojini Naidu
3. ‘The Second Coming’ – W.B. Yeats

UNIT 3 : RAPID READER
1. ‘Macbeth’ from A TextBook of English(B) Rapid Reader & A Book on ESP & Project by WBCHSE
2. ‘Othello’ from A TextBook of English(B) Rapid Reader & A Book on ESP & Project by WBCHSE
3. ‘As You Like It’ from A TextBook of English(B) Rapid Reader & A Book on ESP & Project by WBCHSE

UNIT 4 : TEXTUAL GRAMMAR
Textual Grammar from Unit 1 and Unit 2:

1. Tense,

2. Voice,

3. Indirect Speech,

4. Phrasal verbs,

5. Verbs,

6. Preposition,

7. Clause,

8. Participle,

9. Gerund,

10. Transformation of sentences

UNIT 5 : COMPREHENSION (UNSEEN)
Reading Comprehension (Unseen)

UNIT 1 : PROSE
1. ‘The Garden Party’ – Katherine Mansfield
2. ‘Alias Jimmy Valentine’ – O’ Henry
3. ‘Of Studies’ -Francis Bacon
4. ‘Nobel Lecture’ by Mother Teresa

UNIT 2 : VERSE
1 ‘My last Duchess’ – Robert Browning
2 ‘And Still I Rise’ – MayaAngelou

UNIT 3 – RAPID READER

1 ‘The Ghost Brahman’ from Folk-Tales of Bengal by LalBehariDey
2 ‘A Ghostly Wife’ from Folk-Tales of Bengal by LalBehariDey
3 ‘The Man Who
Wished to be Perfect’ from Folk-Tales of Bengal by LalBehariDey

UNIT 4 : NON TEXTUAL GRAMMAR
Non-textual Grammar:

1. Tense,

2. Voice,

3. Phrasal Verbs

4. Preposition,

5. Clause,

6. Participle,

7. Gerund,

8. Transformation of Sentences

UNIT 5 : WRITING SKILL
1. Paragraph Writing
OR
2. Formal Letter Writing and Event Report Writing

SEMESTER III and IV

PROSE
1. Night Train at Deoli by Ruskin Bond

2. Strong Roots by APJ Abdul Kalam

3. A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

4. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll

5. Three Questions by Leo Tolstoy

VERSE
1. Our Casuarina Tree by Toru Dutt

2. Ulysses by Alfred Lord tennyson

3. Hawk Roosting by Ted Hughes

4. That Time of the Year sonnet 73 by Shakespeare

5. The Green House Effect by Carl Dennis

Drama

Tara by Mahesh Dattani Act 1 and 2

UNIT 4 : NON TEXTUAL GRAMMAR
Non-textual Grammar:

1. Tense,

2. Voice,

3. Phrasal Verbs

4. Preposition,

5. Clause,

6. Participle,

7. Gerund,

8. Transformation of Sentences

UNIT 5 : WRITING SKILL
1. Paragraph Writing
OR
2. Formal Letter Writing and Event Report Writing

RECENTLY ADDED FOR CLASS 11

RECENTLY ADDED FOR CLASS 12

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