CBSE Class 12 English

Class 12 English Notes & Solutions

Class 12 English Books include ‘Flamingo’ for Core Course, ‘Vistas’ the Supplementary Reader and ‘Kaleidoscope’ for Elective Course. The study material available here is based on these books. The study notes contain summary in English and Hindi, Question answers of textbook exercise and intext questions, Word Meanings.

The books ‘Flamingo’ and ‘Kaleidoscope’ contain poems. In Poetry section you would find summary, meanings, stanza wise explanations and poetic devices.

FLAMINGO: Textbook in English (Core) for Class XII

FLAMINGO – PROSE

1. THE LAST LESSON – Alphonse Daudet

2. LOST SPRING

3. DEEP WATER

4. THE RATTRAP

5. INDIGO

6. POETS AND PANCAKES

7. THE INTERVIEW
PART I – Christopher Silvester
PART II – An Interview with Umberto Eco

8. GOING PLACES

FLAMINGO – POETRY

1. MY MOTHER AT SIXTY-SIX

2. KEEPING QUIET
Summary, explanation & analysis
Textbook exercise solutions
Poetic Devices

3. A THING OF BEAUTY
Summary, explanation & analysis
Textbook exercise solutions
Poetic Devices

4. A ROADSIDE STAND
Summary, explanation & analysis
Textbook exercise solutions
Poetic Devices

5. AUNT JENNIFER’S TIGERS
Summary, explanation & analysis
Textbook exercise solutions
Poetic Devices

VISTAS: Supplementary Reader (Core) For Class 12

  1. The Third Level – Jack Finney
  2. The Tiger King – Kalki
  3. Journey to the End of the Earth – Trishani Doshi
  4. The Enemy – Pearl S. Buck
  5. On the Face of It – Susan Hill
  6. Memories of Childhood
    The Cutting of My Long Hair -Zitkala – Sa
    We too are Human Beings – Bama

KALEIDOSCOPE: Textbook in English (Elective) for Class XII

SHORT STORIES – INTRODUCTION

  1. I Sell my Dreams – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  2. Eveline – James Joyce
  3. A Wedding in Brownsville – Isaac Bashevis Singer
  4. Tomorrow – Joseph Conrad
  5. One Centimetre – Bi Shu-Min

POETRY – INTRODUCTION

  1. A Lecture Upon the Shadow – John Donne
  2. Poems by Milton John Milton
  3. Poems by Blake William Blake
  4. Kubla Khan S.T.Coleridge
  5. Trees – Emily Dickinson
  6. The Wild Swans of Coole W.B.Yeats
  7. Time and Time Again A.K.Ramanujan
  8. Blood – Kamala Das

NON-FICTION – INTRODUCTION

  1. Freedom – G.B.Shaw
  2. The Mark on the Wall – Virginia Woolf
  3. Film-making – Ingmar Bergman
  4. Why the Novel Matters – D.H. Lawrwnce
  5. The Argumentative Indian – Amartya Sen
  6. On Science Fiction – Isaac Asimov