The Magic of Words

English XI | Class 11 Notes

UNIT ONE : STORIES OF THE SUPERNATURAL

• The Recurring Dream
• The Lost Doll
• The House Call
• Fear
• The Loving Mother

UNIT TWO : MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN

• MY HEART LEAPS UP WHEN I BEHOLD : William Wordsworth
• SPEAKING OF CHILDREN : Barbara Holland
• LOOK AT A TEACUP : Patrica Hampl
• A WORN PATH : Eudora Welty
• THE THREE DAY BLOW : Ernest Hemingway 

UNIT THREE : ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT

• THE POPLAR FIELD : William Cowper
• THE NIGHTMARE LIFE WITHOUT FUEL : Issac Asimov
• UNCHOPPING A TREE : W.S. Merwin
• KEEPING THINGS WHOLE : Mark Strand

UNIT FOUR : HUMOUR

• CONCRETE CAT  Dorthi Charles
• OOPS! HOW’S THAT AGAIN ? : Roger Rosenblatt

UNIT FIVE : IDENTITY, GENDER AND ETHNICITY

• MALINI : Rabindranath Tagore

UNIT SIX : LIFE AND DEATH

• THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN : Harold J. Morowitz
• ON THE VANITY OF EARTHLY GREATNESS : Arthur Guiterman
• IN BED : Joan Didion
• THE GARDENER : Rudyard kipling