Project - 2023-24

CLASS : XII ENGLISH PROJECT [2023-24]
The Project-Portfolio may include the following:

● Cover page, with title of project, school details/details of students.
● Statement of purpose/objectives/goals
● Certificate of completion under the guidance of the teacher.
● Action plan for the completion of assigned tasks.
● Materials such as scripts for the theatre/role play, questionnaires for interview, written assignments,
essays,
survey-reports and other material evidence of learning progress and academic accomplishment.
●The 800-1000 words essay/Script/Report.
●Student/group reflections.
● If possible, Photographs that capture the positive learning experiences of the student(s).
● List of resources/bibliography.
TO SUM IT IN BRIEF -THE PROJECT SHOULD INCLUDE

1. 1. INDEX
2. 2. CERTIFICATE
3. 3. INTRODUCTION
4. 4. CONTENT - ATLEAST 8 TO 10 PAGES
5. 5. WRITE UP
6. 6. LEARNING OUTCOME
7. 7. BIBLIOGRAPHY
TOPIC :1 Gender issues ( Take any one Issue)

• -Highlight the plight of oppressed Gender– inequality, injustice, deprivation, agony, pain faced by them
( Infographics / Data).
• -Women ideology towards gender inequality.
• -Movements against Gender inequality.
• -Discrimination at different places ( home, job, school etc).
• -Kamala Das – and Indian writer throughout her literature career has fought for the rights of women – (
Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers) –mention the themes.
• -Kamala Das: The Voice of Indian Woman’s Quest For Liberation ( It is an autobiographical verse )
Highlight.
• -How can the change be brought in the mind set of the people.
• -Recent Supreme court decision in America- Abort Crucial Rights.
TOPIC 2: Unleash your real potential – be bold, be resilient, be strong (Importance of
a resilient attitude)
• What do you mean by Resilient Attitude.
• Traits, qualities and characteristics of Resilient person.
• How personal choices help or hinder our resilience.
1
• Tips for Building and Cultivating Resilience.
• Why is resilience important?
• Is Resilience a skill or character strength?
• What are the seven C’s of Resilience?
• Different types of resilience
• Key component and element of resilience life
• Take an example of the chapter— Deep Water
• Other examples of great personalities
TOPIC -3: Courage is not the absence of fear but triumph over it
• -Introduction
• -Origin of the quote
• -Courage – a choice to act
• -What can one learn from fear
• -Benefits of having courage over fear
• -How and why to overcome fear
• -Fighting against fear is hard but worth it ( Examples)
• -Mention some of your worst fears and how you managed to overcome them — A Questionnaire
• -Famous personalities who overcame their fear ( Their motivation podcast/speech/stories
TOPIC -4: Watch ‘CNN’s award-winning Planet in Peril series and Anderson
Cooper 360 on the environment.
Write review in 500 to 1000 words highlighting the problems dealt.
• –Like Climate change
• Vanishing habitats
• Disappearing species
• Human population growth
• Collect pictures and articles from the journals, newspaper and science magazines showing the changes
• Make a comparative report showing the changes from past 20 years.
• Mention Role of Eight year old girl Licypriya, known as Indian ‘Greta’ for her passion towards the fight
against climate change. ( Take any other example)
TOPIC-5: Watch short film “Positive all the way” ( how people with undeterred
determination face the obstacles of life and leave a mark for themselves)
• -Give examples of people in different sphere of life who have shown positive attitude and reached the
pinnacle of success
• – obstacles faced
• – their undeterred determination
• – lesson and message their efforts give to others
2
• – values learnt -can co relate it with the chapter ‘DEEP WATER’
TOPIC -6: Watch the ‘The Story of Plastic’ it is a searing expose. Make a project on “Plastic
Menace’
• – Uncover the ugly truth behind plastic pollution
• –Environmental damage created by plastic
• -Human Rights abused that occur throughout the lifecycle of plastic
• -False solution of plastic recycling.
• – Initiative launched by Union Environment Minister to stop the plastic menace
• – infographic to show the increase of the use of plastic
• – some state/ countries who are successful in reducing the use of plastic
• – cutting from Newspaper/Journals to show the impact of Plastic
• – views about plastic ban
TOPIC -7: Social Issues in India
A . GENDER ISSUES –
1. Reason/causes for disparity
• Gender gap in Education/labour force/employment
• Economic survey
• Rank of India as per World Economic Forum
• Schemes launched by Indian Government to bridge the gap
• Campaigns launched to bring in behavioural change in society
B. MIGRATION
• Changing Pattern of Migration
• women migration in India is increasing at a faster pace than men Why?
• Plight of Migrants ( even talk of the plight of the migrants during the pandemic)
• Infographic description ( No., reason, condition)
• Take incident from (lost spring) talk of the callousness of society and the political class towards the
sufferings of the poor
C. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
– INTRODUCTION
• cycle of abuse • prevention
• intergenerational violence
• effects types of abuses
legal way to approach
• causes Satyamav Jayate ( Episodes)
ex-Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers
TOPIC-8: “When a people are enslaved, as long as they hold fast to their language it
is as if they had the key to their prison.”
• Importance of Language
3
• Meaning of ‘Linguistic chauvinism’
• Find examples in history where conquered people had their language taken away from them or had a
language imposed of them—What was the result/outcome
• Problems faced by linguistic minority
• How can they keep their language alive
• Linguistic human rights
• Linguistic Chauvinism examples from English literature
TOPIC: 9
The need to develop the right attitude towards the specially challenged, the need to incorporate
them into the social mainstream and also realize the true beauty that lies within a person and not
in one’s physical appearance. “Appearances are deceptive”
• See the documentary- Forgive us Our Trespasses (Attitude towards disable people)
• Mention dehumanising way , the disabled are treated/ rather ignored in the past even today
• Extracts /real life stories
• Suggest some radical changes
• Importance of Inner beauty over outer beauty
• Relate it with chapter ’ On the face of it’
TOPIC: 10 Sacrifices and sufferings faced by the Indian unsung martyrs for gaining freedom.
Freedom fighters are epitome of bravery and their lives personify lessons of supreme struggle and
endurance (enormous impact on the children)
• Moral lesson learnt from freedom fighters
• qualities they have ( courage, independent thinking, humility, empathy, determination—)
• their contribution to Indian freedom
• mention atleast 5 unsung martyrs and their role in gaining freedom
TOPIC – 11 Choose an issue that has provoked a controversy like the Bhopal Gas Tragedy or the
Narmada Dam Project in which the lives of the poor have been affected.
• Bhopal gas tragedy • Governments response to the tragedy
• History of the Union Carbide India Limited • UCIL response to the tragedy
• Establishment • Movement and protest led by the victims of the
• History and ownership of Bhopal plant tragedy
• What is MIC gas? • Repercussion of the tragedy
• Storage of MIC gas at Bhopal Plant • Media/articles/movie/—–cuttings and reviews
• Causes of Bhopal gas tragedy • Lesson learnt from the tragedy
• Effect of the gas leak
TOPIC: 12 Hero Worshipping/ Fantasizing/Ego ideal. Are teenagers justified in their act of
hero-worship’?
• Adolescence a period of change/ transitional period/period of unrealism/ time of search for identity
4
• What is hero worshipping for adolescent?
• Is hero worshipping/fantasising good or bad?
• Meaning of adolescent fantasizing ( Flamingo lesson :Going Places)
• Hero worship is related with which stage of development
• Are teenagers justified with their hero worship?
• Purpose of ego ideal
• What attracts the child to hero worship
• Hero worshipping in India is too big.why?
• What are some potential dangers of hero worship?
TOPIC: 13 Poetic devices in the poems ( class 12)
• -meaning of poetic devices
• -why is it essential to use poetic devices?
• -important reasons for using them
• -devices used in the poems ( curriculum)
• – examples from the textual poems and other poems
–Explain them through pictorials
• -alliteration • -free verse
• -allusion • -oxymoron
• -consonance • -paradox
• – assonance • -transferred epithet
• -similes • -rhyme
• -metaphor • -hyperbola
• – onomatopoeia • -irony
• -imagery • -pun
• -personification
• -repetition
Note: Students can add other devices also
➢ CHOOSE ANY ONE TOPIC FROM THE ABOVE

➢ DO THE REQUIRED RESEARCH/ DATA COLLECTION
➢ PREPARE YOUR ROUGH PROJECT AS PER THE HEADINGS.
➢ SUBMISSION OF YOUR SELECTED TOPIC : 16 August 2023
➢ DATE TO SUBMIT YOUR ROUGH PROJECT : 20 OCTOBER 2023
➢ LAST DATE OF SUBMISSION OF THE PROJECT : 15 NOVEMBER 2023.
➢ Make your Project file neatly, add photographs/ pictures etc.

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CLASS : XII ENGLISH PROJECT [2023-24]

The Project-Portfolio may include the following:

TO SUM IT IN BRIEF -THE PROJECT SHOULD INCLUDE

TOPIC :1 Gender issues ( Take any one Issue)

➢ CHOOSE ANY ONE TOPIC FROM THE ABOVE

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