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Class 9

English: Kaveri

78 lessons in 8 chapters, explained in plain words.

How I Taught My Grandmother to Read / Bharat Our Land

  1. Avva and Kashi Yatre
  2. For learning there is no age bar
  3. Reading character and theme
  4. Pairs of words and prefixes
  5. Idioms about learning
  6. Which happened first?
  7. Writing to the editor
  8. Bharat Our Land
  9. How the poem works
  10. Endings that change words

The Pot Maker / Gifts of Grace: Honouring Our Vocations

  1. Sentila's secret dream
  2. A new pot maker is born
  3. Craft, character and theme
  4. Words of the workshop and the market
  5. Clauses that name and describe
  6. Words before nouns
  7. Quality
  8. Gifts of Grace
  9. Appreciating a free-verse poem
  10. Naming vocations and making a poster

Winds of Change / Canvas of Soil

  1. The story of the pankha
  2. Fans of many regions
  3. Reading an essay critically
  4. Pairs that stick together
  5. Past actions that matter now
  6. The Last Leaf
  7. Canvas of Soil
  8. Metaphor, allegory and sound
  9. Painting with words

Vitamin-M / I Cannot Remember My Mother

  1. Grandpa comes to the city
  2. Ravi the detective
  3. Who needs Vitamin-M?
  4. Words that move and sound
  5. Where and which way
  6. Asking and reporting questions
  7. The Lost Child
  8. I Cannot Remember My Mother
  9. Senses, refrain and symbol
  10. Writing with the senses

The World of Limitless Possibilities / Nine Gold Medals

  1. Choosing limitless possibilities
  2. Ability beyond disability
  3. Facts, opinions, causes, effects
  4. Phrases of triumph and words of motion
  5. Could, should, would
  6. Reporting what was said
  7. Interviews and notices
  8. Nine Gold Medals
  9. How the poem moves us
  10. Slogans, posters and the games

Twin Melodies / A Friend Found in Music

  1. A secret rehearsal
  2. The dinner-table clash
  3. Each bay, its own wind
  4. Conflict, character and theme
  5. How a play script works
  6. The language of music
  7. Reporting exclamations
  8. A Friend Found in Music
  9. Feelings and phrasal verbs
  10. Invitations and India's music

Carrier of Words / Words

  1. The postman of the Thar
  2. Trust in a torn envelope
  3. Reading between the lines
  4. Desert words and devices
  5. What the present perfect can do
  6. Who does it, or what is done
  7. Letters of feeling, stamps of heritage
  8. Words
  9. Simile, metaphor, hyperbole, metre
  10. Beyond words

Follow That Dream / Believe in Yourself

  1. A mother's letter on dreams
  2. Encouragement with caution
  3. Scenes and strong expressions
  4. If you can, do it
  5. Writing a formal email
  6. Believe in Yourself
  7. Antithesis, metaphor, symbol
  8. Latin phrases and rhetorical questions
  9. Turning challenges into opportunities