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Class 11 - English Notes
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Letter-writing | CBSE Class 11 English Notes
CBSE Class 11 English notes on Letter-writing: formal and informal letters, planning a message, letter layout and salutations and endings.
24 min read →The Ailing Planet: the Green Movement’s Role | CBSE Class 11 English Notes
CBSE Class 11 English notes on The Ailing Planet by Nani Palkhivala: summary, the Green Movement, the earth's biological systems, population and development.
24 min read →The Tale of Melon City | CBSE Class 11 English Notes
CBSE Class 11 English notes on The Tale of Melon City: Vikram Seth and the poem, its couplet-by-couplet summary and the king and his officials.
27 min read →Birth | CBSE Class 11 English Notes
CBSE Class 11 English notes on Birth: the author and text, the sequence of events in Birth, Andrew's difficult decisions, the characters and themes.
25 min read →Mother’s Day | CBSE Class 11 English Notes
CBSE Class 11 English notes on Mother's Day by J.B. Priestley: summary, the personality exchange, the characters and the value of domestic work.
26 min read →The Address | CBSE Class 11 English Notes
CBSE Class 11 English notes on The Address: Marga Minco and The Address, the story's setting and sequence, its characters and the effects of war.
25 min read →The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse | CBSE Class 11 English Notes
CBSE Class 11 English notes on The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse: William Saroyan's story, its childhood setting and the sequence of events.
26 min read →Creative Writing | CBSE Class 11 English Notes
CBSE Class 11 English notes on Creative Writing: imagination, personal responses to words, perspective, comparisons, word choice, images and tone.
24 min read →Essay-writing | CBSE Class 11 English Notes
CBSE Class 11 English notes on Essay-writing: the meaning of an essay, generating ideas, selecting points, building paragraphs and organising an argument.
25 min read →Sub-titling | CBSE Class 11 English Notes
CBSE Class 11 English notes on Sub-titling: Sub-titling, main ideas and supporting details, titles and sub-headings and shifts in sub-topics.
21 min read →Summarising | CBSE Class 11 English Notes
CBSE Class 11 English notes on Summarising: Summarising, selecting main ideas, preparing notes, paraphrasing and joining complete sentences.
24 min read →Note-making | CBSE Class 11 English Notes
CBSE Class 11 English notes on Note-making: note-making, selection of main points, questioning a passage, phrase-based writing and grouping and numbering.
23 min read →Father to Son | CBSE Class 11 English Notes
CBSE Class 11 English notes on Father to Son: Elizabeth Jennings's Father to Son, its speaker, stanza summaries and the father and son's relationship.
25 min read →Silk Road | CBSE Class 11 English Notes
CBSE Class 11 English notes on Silk Road: Nick Middleton's journey towards Mount Kailash, the section-by-section summary and mountain travel.
24 min read →The Adventure | CBSE Class 11 English Notes
CBSE Class 11 English notes on The Adventure: Jayant Narlikar's The Adventure, its section-by-section summary and Professor Gaitonde's investigation.
27 min read →Childhood | CBSE Class 11 English Notes
CBSE Class 11 English notes on Childhood: Markus Natten's Childhood, its speaker, stanza summaries, changing beliefs and adult behaviour.
25 min read →The Voice of the Rain | CBSE Class 11 English Notes
CBSE Class 11 English notes on The Voice of the Rain: Walt Whitman's The Voice of the Rain, its speaking voices and the rain's journey.
24 min read →The Laburnum Top | CBSE Class 11 English Notes
CBSE Class 11 English notes on The Laburnum Top: Ted Hughes and the poem, the four stanzas, the September setting and the goldfinch and her family.
24 min read →Discovering Tut: the Saga Continues | CBSE Class 11 English Notes
CBSE Class 11 English notes on Discovering Tut: the Saga Continues: summary, Carter's discovery, the burial objects and the scientific study of the mummy.
27 min read →We’re Not Afraid to Die... if We Can All Be Together | CBSE Class 11 English Notes
CBSE Class 11 English notes on We're Not Afraid to Die... if We Can All Be Together: the authors and text and the voyage and storm.
25 min read →A Photograph | CBSE Class 11 English Notes
CBSE Class 11 English notes on A Photograph: A Photograph: Shirley Toulson and the text, stanza-by-stanza summary and the family photograph.
24 min read →The Portrait of a Lady | CBSE Class 11 English Notes
CBSE Class 11 English notes on The Portrait of a Lady: The Portrait of a Lady: Khushwant Singh and his personal account.
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