Tamil Nadu State Board · Full Year

Class 9
English

7 units · June to February · Prose, poetry, drama & supplementary — all in one place.

7 Units
6 Prose
7 Poems
4 Memoriter
7 Supplementary
1 Drama
Unit 1
June
Unit 2
July
Unit 3
August
Unit 4
October
Unit 5
November
Unit 6
January
Unit 7
February
1
Unit 1
Learning the Game & Stopping by Woods
June
📖
Prose
Learning the Game
Sachin Tendulkar
✨
Poem Memoriter
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Robert Frost
🔖
Supplementary
The Envious Neighbour
A Japanese Folk Tale
2
Unit 2
I Can’t Climb Trees Anymore & A Poison Tree
July
📖
Prose
I Can’t Climb Trees Anymore
Ruskin Bond
✨
Poem
A Poison Tree
William Blake
🔖
Supplementary
The Fun They Had
Isaac Asimov
3
Unit 3
Old Man River & On Killing a Tree
August
🎭
Drama Play
Old Man River
Dorothy Deming
✨
Poem Memoriter
On Killing a Tree
Gieve Patel
🔖
Supplementary
Earthquake
Disaster awareness text
4
Unit 4
Seventeen Oranges & The Spider and the Fly
October
📖
Prose
Seventeen Oranges
Bill Naughton
✨
Poem
The Spider and the Fly
Mary Howitt
🔖
Supplementary
The Cat and the Painkiller
Mark Twain
5
Unit 5
Water — The Elixir of Life & The River
November
📖
Prose
Water — The Elixir of Life
Sir C.V. Raman
✨
Poem Memoriter
The River
Caroline Ann Bowles
🔖
Supplementary
Little Cyclone: The Story of a Grizzly Cub
William Temple Hornaday
6
Unit 6
From Zero to Infinity & The Comet
January
📖
Prose
From Zero to Infinity
Biography of Srinivasa Ramanujan
✨
Poem Memoriter
The Comet
Norman Littleford
🔖
Supplementary
Mother’s Voice
Adapted excerpt
7
Unit 7
A Birthday Letter & The Stick-together Families
February
📖
Prose
A Birthday Letter
Jawaharlal Nehru
✨
Poem
The Stick-together Families
Edgar Albert Guest
🔖
Supplementary
The Christmas Truce
Historical account