Syllabus for Objective Type SAT for The Post of Lecturer School New in English -HPPSC Shimla

Syllabus for Objective Type SAT for The Post of Lecturer School New in English -HPPSC Shimla

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Syllabus for objective type Aptitude Test (SAT) for recruitment to post of Lecturer (School-New) in English, Class-lll in the Department fo higher Educatin. This paper will be of 02 hours duration of 100 Marks. The Objective type subject Aptitude Test (SAT) shall cover following topics.

PART-I (Subject) 80 marks

1.History of English Literature from Chaucer to 1800

2.Poetry from Chaucer to Pope :-

Chaucer	The Prologue, The Nun’s Priest’s Tale
Donne	The Sun-Rising, The Extasie, The Canonization, The Anniversary, The Flea, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
Milton	Paradise Lost: Book I and Lycidas, L’Allegro
Pope	The Rape of the Lock, An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

3.Shakespeare and his Contemporaries:-

Marlowe	The Doctor Faustus
Shakespeare	The Tempest
Shakespeare	The Twelfth Night
Ben Jonson	The Volpone

4.Nineteenth Century Fiction:-

Emily Bronte	Wuthering Heights
Charles Dickens	Hard Times
George Eliot	The Mill on the Floss
Thomas Hardy	Tess of the D’Urbervilles

5.History of English Literature: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

6.Romantic and Victorian Poetry:

Blake	Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience
Wordsworth	Tintern Abbey, Ode: Intimations of Immortality
Coleridge	The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan
Keats	Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on Melancholy, To Autumn
Tennyson	The Lady of Shalott, Ulysses, The Lotos-Eaters
Browning	Evelyn Hope, The Last Ride Together, MyLast Duchess, Rabbi Ben Ezra

7.Modern Fiction:-

Virginia Woolf	Mrs. Dalloway
James Joyce	A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
D.H. Lawrence	Sons and Lovers
Joseph Conrad	Heart of Darkness
E.M. Forster	A Passage to India

9.History of Language:-

A.C. Baugh – A History of English Language (Chapters 3 to 9)
Structure of Language (a) Phonemes: Consonants, Vowels, Stress and Intonation
(b) Morphemes: Roots and Affixes, Derivational and Inflectional Morphemes, Allomorphs.

10.Literary Criticism:-

Aristotle	The Poetics
Bharat Muni	Natyashastra (Chapter -6)
Dryden	Essay of Dramatic Poesy
Coleridge	Biographia Literaria (Chapters 13-18)
Arnold	The Function of Criticism in the Present Time
Eliot	Tradition and Individual Talent and The Frontiers of Criticism

10.Growth and Structure of English Language:-

11.Modern British and American Poetry:

W.B. Yeats	The Second Coming, Sailing to Byzantium, A Prayer for My Daughter, Among School Children, Leda and the Swan
T.S. Eliot	The Waste Land
W.H. Auden	The Unknown Citizen, In Memory of W.B. Yeats, The Shield of Achilles, September 1, 1939
Walt Whitman	Song of Myself (1, 5, 33), Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Rocking, A Passage to India
Robert Frost	Birches, Design, Mending Wall, AfterApple Picking, The Road not Taken, Home Burial.
William Carlos Williams	: Poems in Modern Poets One (Published by Faber and Faber), January Morning, Tract, By the Road to Contagious Hospital, A Unison, The Last Words of My English Grandmother, The Waken an Old Lady, The Widow’s Lament in Springtime, To a Poor Old Woman, The Yachts, These.

12.Modern British Drama:-

G.B. Shaw	Arms and the Man
Oscar Wilde	An Ideal Husband
T.S. Eliot	Murder in the Cathedral
John Arden	Sergeant Musgrave’s Dance

13.World Fiction:-

Dostoevsky	Crime and Punishment
Ernest Hemingway	The Old Man and the Sea
Margaret Atwood	Surfacing
Chinua Achebe	Things Fall Apart
V.S. Naipaul	A House for Mr. Biswas

African Literature

Chinua Achebe	A Man of the People
Ngugi wa Thiong’o	A Grain of Wheat
Nadin Gordimer	My Son’s Story
Bessie Head	The Collector of Treasures (Short Stories)
Wole Soyinka	A Dance of the Forests

Australian Literature

Patrick White	The Solid Mandala
David Malouf	Remembering Babylon
David Williamson	The Removalists
Jack Davis	No Sugar

Canadian Literature

Robertson Davis	Fifth Business
Sharon Pollock	The Komagata Maru Incident
M.G. Vassanji	The Book of Secrets
Lee Maracle	Sungogs

14.Contemporary literary Theory:-

Agyeya	a.Memory and Country
Ferdinand De Saussure	a. The Object of Study b. Nature of the Linguistic Sign
Jacques Derrida	a. Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Science
Terry Eagleton	a. Capitalism, Modernism and Postmadernism
Roland Barthes	a. The Death of the Author
Elaine Showalter	a. feminist Criticism in the Wilderness [Lodge, David, ed. Modern Criticism and Theory : A Reader : London: New York: Longman, 1988.For Essays :1-5]
J. Hillis Miller	a. Culture Studies and Reading [Wolfreys, Julian. Literray Theories : A Reader and Guide, Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 1997.]
Homi K. Bhabha	Dissemination : Time, Narrative and the Margins of Modern Nation” [Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin, eds. The Post Colonial Studies Reader. London and New York : Routledge, 1995.]

15.Indian Writng in English :-

Raja Rao	Kanthapura
R.K. Narayan	The Vendor of Sweets
Anita Desai	Clear Light of Day
A.K. Ramanujan	The Snakes, Obituary, The Striders Keki
N. Daruwala	Ruminaations, The Fighting Eagles, The Mistress, Boat-ride Along the Ganga
Nissim Ezekiel	Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher, Enterprise, The Visitor

16.Modern Eupopean Drama :

Bertolt Brecht	Mother Courage and Her Children
Henrik Ibsen	Ghosts
Anton Chekhov	The Cherry Orchard
Samuel Beckett	Waiting for Godot.

American Drama :-

Eugene O’Neill	Desire under the Elms
Arthur Miller	Death of a Salesman
Tennessee Williams	The Glass Mengerie
Edward Albee	Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

17.Indian Writing in Tranlation :-

Kalidas	Abhijnanshakuntalam (English translaation by M.R. Kale. Pub. Motilal Banarasidas)
Premchand	Intent of Literatute”
Bhisham Sahni	Tamas
U.R. Ananthamurthy	Samaskara
MAhasweta Devi	Rudali (English translation by Anujam Katyal. Pub.Seagull)
Shiv K. Kumar	Luna (English translation by Ish Kumar)

Literature and Gender :-

Virginia Woolf	A Room of One’s Own
Caryl Churchill	Cloud Nine
Toni Morrison	Beloved
Binodini Dasi	An Autobiography (Translated into English by Rimli Bhattacharya)

Native Writing :-

Maria Campbell	Half-Breed
Drew Hayden Taylor	Someday
Kim Scott	Benang
Sally Morgan	My Place

Part-ll (B.Ed. Portion) 20 Marks

Foundation of Education System

Concept and Nature of Knowledge, Knowledge Acquiring Process.
Indian Knowledge System; Vedic Education System, Buddhist Education System
Concept of Education; Meaning, Nature, Modes of Education, Objectives of Education, Approaches to Education.
Philosophical, Psychological, Sociological and Technological Basis of Education (Meaning and Needs)
Concept of important Variables: Personality, Intelligence, Creativity, Academic Achievement, Problem Solving Ability

Teacher Education and Related Aspects:-

Concept of Teacher Education, Historical Aspects of Teacher Education in India, Scope of Teacher
Education, Types and Levels of Teacher Education Programmes.
Teacher and Teaching related Concepts, Learner and Learning Related Concepts, Relation between Teaching and Learning, Learning Environment, Pillars of Learning.
Challenges in the field of Teacher Education (Discussion with reference to NEP 2020 also)

Pedagogy and Teaching Learning Experiences:-

Communication Skills and its Use
Models of Teaching; Advance organizer, Concept Attainment, Information Processing, Inquiry Training
Methods of Teaching
Preparation and Use of Teaching Learning Material

Information Technology in Teaching Learning Process

ICT; Its meaning and use in Teaching Learning Process
Concept of Open Educational Resources, SWAYAM and MOOCs
Digital Initiatives in School Education by Government of India

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