Projects for Class XI
Inculcating good
reading habits in children has always been a concern for all.stakeholders in
education. The purposes to create independent thinking individuals with the
ability to not only create their own knowledge but also critically interpret,
analyse and evaluate it with objectivity and fairness. This will also help
students in learning and acquiring better language skills.
Creating learners
for the 21st century involves making them independent learners who can learn,
unlearn and relearn and, if our children are in the habit of reading, they will
learn to reinvent themselves and deal with the many challenges that lie ahead
of them.
Reading is not merely decoding information or pronouncing words
correctly. It is an interactive dialogue between the author and the reader in
which the reader and the author share their experiences and knowledge with each
other. Good readers are critical readers with an ability to arrive at a deeper
understanding of not only the world presented in the book but also of the real
world around them.
Consequently, they become independent thinkers capable of
taking their own decisions in life rationally. Hence, a few activities are
suggested below which teachers may use as a part of the reading project.
1. Short review
2. Dramatization of the
story
3. Commentary on the
characters
4. Critical evaluation
of the plot, storyline and characters
5. Comparing and
contrasting the characters within the story and with other characters in
stories by the same author or by the other authors
6. Extrapolating about
the story read or life of characters after the story ends defending characters
actions in the story
7. Making an audio
story out of the novel/text to be read aloud.
8. Interacting with the
author
9. Holding a literature
fest where students role-play as various characters to interact with each other
10. Role playing as
authors/poets/dramatists, to defend their works and characters
11. Symposiums and
seminars for introducing a book, an author, or a theme
12. Creating graphic
novels out of novel or short stories they read
13. Dramatizing
incidents from a novel or a story
14. Creating their own
stories
15. Books of one genre
to be read by the whole class.
Teachers may select
books suitable to the age and level of the learners. Care ought to be taken to
choose books that are appropriate in terms of language, theme and content and
which do not hurt the sensibilities of a child.
Teachers may later
suggest books from other languages but dealing with the same themes as an
extended activity. The Project should lead to independent learning/reading
skills and hence the chosen book should not be taught in class, but may be
introduced through activities and be left for the students to read at their own
pace. Teachers may, however, choose to assess a student’s progress or success
in reading the book by asking for verbal or written progress reports, looking
at their diary entries, engaging in a discussion about the book, giving a short
quiz or a work sheet about the book/short story. The mode of assessment may be
decided by the teachers as they see fit.
These may be used for
Internal Assessments/Formative Assessments only. It may be noted that this
reading project is apart from the long reading texts which have been prescribed
for the Term-end Assessments.
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