English syllabus
UPESSC PGT · English
Part A — Pedagogy / teaching aptitude
Pedagogy
Teaching aptitude focuses
- Child development foundations
- Piaget cognitive development
- Vygotsky social constructivism
- Behaviourist learning theories
- Bloom taxonomy and lesson planning
- Teaching methods
- Assessment and evaluation
- Classroom management
- Inclusive education
- Motivation and interest
- Guidance and counselling
- Teaching aids and classroom ICT
- NEP 2020
- RTE Act 2009
Part B — Subject knowledge (English)
English language
Language and grammar
- Unseen passage comprehension
- Parts of speech
- Tenses
- Spellings
- Punctuation
- Narration
- Voice
- Prepositions
- Transformation of sentences
- Subject-verb agreement
- Vocabulary
- Synonyms
- Antonyms
- Homonyms
- Idioms and phrases
- One-word substitution
- Prefixes and suffixes
- Sentence correction
- Sentence rearrangement
Literary forms and criticism
Stanza forms figures and periods
- Renaissance and Reformation
- Restoration period
- Neo-classical period
- Romantic period
- Victorian period
- Modern period
- Sonnet
- Ballad
- Elegy
- Ode
- Epic
- Mock epic
- Figures of speech
- Rhetoric and prosody
- Types of novel
- Forms of drama
Literary criticism
- Aristotle as critic
- Dr Johnson as critic
- Wordsworth as critic
- Coleridge as critic
- Matthew Arnold as critic
- T.S. Eliot as critic
Authors and works
Authors and works
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- William Shakespeare
- William Wordsworth
- John Keats
- P.B. Shelley
- Charles Lamb
- Charles Dickens
- Matthew Arnold
- Alfred Tennyson
- Thomas Hardy
- T.S. Eliot
- Kamala Das
- Mulk Raj Anand
- Nissim Ezekiel
- Robert Frost
- Walt Whitman
- Ernest Hemingway
- William Faulkner
- George Eliot
- Arthur Miller
- Toni Morrison