NCERT English Class 10 Scorer Guru Publications

Book excerpt: Section A : First Flight (Prose and Poetry) FIRST FLIGHT : A. Prose 1. A LETTER TO GOD —G.L. Fuentes 2. NELSON MANDELA : LONG WALK TO FREEDOM —Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela 3. TWO STORIES ABOUT FLYING I. HIS FIRST FLIGHT–Liam O'Flaherty II. BLACK AEROPLANE –Frederick Forsyth 4. FROM THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK —Anne Frank 5. THE HUNDRED DRESSES-I —El Bsor Ester 6. THE HUNDRED DRESSES-II —El Bsor Ester 7. GLIMPSES OF INDIA 8. MILBIL THE OTTER —Gavin Maxwell 9. MADAM RIDES THE BUS —Vallikkannan 10. THE SERMON AT BENARES —Betty Renshaw 11. THE PROPOSAL —Anton Chekhov FIRST FLIGHT : B. POETRY 1. DUST OF SNOW —Robert Frost 2. FIRE AND ICE —Robert Frost 3. A TIGER IN THE ZOO —Leslie Morris 4. HOW TO TELL WILD ANIMALS —Carolyn Wells 5. THE BALL POEM —John Berryman 6. AMANDA —Robin Klein 7. ANIMALS —Walt Whitman 8. THE TREES —Adrienne Rich 9. FOG —Carl Sandburg 10. THE TALE OF CUSTARD THE DRAGON —Ogden Nash 11. FOR ANNE GREGORY —William Butler Yeats Section B : Footprints Without Feet (Supplementary Reader) 1. A TRIUMPH OF SURGERY —James Herriot 2. THE THIEF’S STORY —Ruskin Bond 3. THE MIDNIGHT VISITOR —Robert Arthur 4. A QUESTION OF TRUST —Victory Canning 5. FOOTPRINTS WITHOUT FEET —H. G. Wells 6. THE MAKING OF A SCIENTIST —Robert W. Peterson 7. THE NECKLACE —Guy De Maupassant 8. THE HACK DRIVER —Sinclair Lewis 9. BHOLI —K. A. Abbas 10. THE BOOK THAT SAVED THE EARTH —Claire Boiko Section C : Grammar (Reading and Writing) 1. READING SECTION 2. GRAMMAR (Tenses, Modals, Passive Voice, Subject-Verb Concord, Reporting, Clauses, Determiners, Preposition) 3. LETTER WRITING Appendix : Chapterwise Multiple Choice Questions Board Examination Paper (With Solved & OMR Sheet)