HP TGT/PGT English Literature

General Knowledge of Himachal Pradesh

• Geography of HP
• History of HP
• Culture and Art in HP

General Knowledge of National/International Affairs

• National & International Events
• Economy and Business
• Sports and Games
• Current General Knowledge
• Science & Technology

Knowledge of Hindi Language

• Shabd Pad
• Kriya Bhed
• Mishra & Sanyukt Vakya
• Vakyo ka Rupantaran
• Swar Sandhi
• Alankar
• Samas
• Muhavare & Lokoktiyan
• Ashish Vakya Shodhan
• Apathy Gadyansh, etc.

Knowledge of English Language

• Proverbs
• Sentence Structure
• Tenses
• Verbs
• Articles
• Prepositions
• Conjunctions
• Synonyms & Antonyms
• Vocabulary
• Phrases

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 TwentiethCenturies
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

8. Growth and Structure of English Language:-
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 InflectionalMorphemes, 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

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

Or

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

Or

Australian Literature

Patrick White : The Solid Mandala

David Malouf : Remembering Babylon

David Williamson : The Removalists

Jack Davis : No Sugar

Or

Canadian Literature

Robertson Davis : Fifth Business

Sharon Pollock : The Komagata Maru Incident

M.G. Vassanji : The Book of Secrets

Lee Maracle : Sundogs

14. Contemporary Literary Theory:-
15. Agyeya
16. Memory and Country
17. Ferdinand de Saussure
18. The Object of Study
19. Nature of the Linguistic Sign
20. Jacques Derrida
21. Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the HumanSciences
22. Terry Eagleton
23. Capitalism, Modernism and Postmodernism
24. Roland Barthes
25. The Death of the Author
26. Elaine Showalter
27. Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness

[Lodge, David, ed. Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader:London: New York:

Longman, 1988. For Essays: 1-5]

7. J. Hillis Miller
8. Culture Studies and Reading

[Wolfreys, Julian. Literary Theories: A Reader and Guide, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University

Press, 1997.]

8. Homi K. Bhabha
9. Dissemination: Time, Narrative and the Margins of ModernNation”

[Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin, eds. The Post-Colonial Studies Reader.

London and New York: Routledge, 1995.]

15. Indian Writing 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

1. Daruwala : Ruminations, The Fighting Eagles, The

Mistress, Boat-ride Along the Ganga

Nissim Ezekiel : Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher, Enterprise,

The Visitor.

16. Modern European Drama:-

Bertolt Brecht : Mother Courage and Her Children

Henrik Ibsen : Ghosts

Anton Chekhov : The Cherry Orchard

Samuel Beckett : Waiting for Godot.

Or

American Drama:-

Eugene O’Neill : Desire under the Elms

Arthur Miller : Death of a Salesman

Tennessee Williams : The Glass Menagerie

Edward Albee : Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

17. Indian Writing in Translation:-

Kalidas : Abhijnanshakuntalam (English

translation by M. R. Kale. Pub. Motilal

Banarasidas)

Premchand : Intent of Literature”

Bhisham Sahni : Tamas

1. R. Ananthamurthy : Samskara

Mahasweta Devi : Rudali (English translation by Anujam

Katyal. Pub. Seagull)

Shiv K. Kumar : Luna (English translation by Ish Kumar)

Or

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)

Or

Native Writing:-

Maria Campbell : Half-Breed

Drew Hayden Taylor : Someday

Kim Scott : Benang

Sally Morgan : My Place

Part-II (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

General knowledge, including General Knowledge of Himachal Pradesh

• History
• Geography
• Polity
• Economy
• Science and Technology
• Culture and Heritage
• Sports and Games
• Environment and Ecology
• Social Issues and Developments

Current Affairs

• National and International Current Events
• Government Schemes and Initiatives
• Political Developments and Elections
• Economic Updates and Budget
• Science and Technology Advancements
• Environmental Issues and Conservation Efforts
• Social and Cultural Trends
• Sports and Achievements
• Awards and Honors
• Health and Healthcare Programs
• Important Personalities and Obituaries
• New Policies and Reforms
• Major Disasters and Relief Efforts
• Bilateral and Multilateral Agreements

Everyday Science

• Basics of Physics, Chemistry, and Biology.
• Scientific Method and Inquiry.
• Environmental Science and Conservation.
• Health and Hygiene.
• Nutrition and Food Science.
• Scientific Developments and Innovations.
• Everyday Applications of Science.
• Current Science and Technology Events.
• General Awareness in Science.

Logical Reasoning 

• Seating Arrangement
• Puzzles
• Inequalities
• Syllogism
• Input-Output
• Data Sufficiency
• Blood Relations
• Order and Ranking

Social Science

• History: Ancient, Medieval, Modern, and World History
• Geography: Physical Geography, Indian Geography, and World Geography
• Civics and Political Science
• Economics
• Sociology
• Current Affairs and Contemporary Issues
• Environmental Studies and Ecology
• Social and Cultural Diversity
• Governance and Public Policies
• Disaster Management and Sustainable Development

General English & General Hindi of Matric standard

• Cloze Test
• Reading Comprehension
• Spotting Errors
• Sentence Improvement
• Sentence Correction
• Para Jumbles
• Fill in the Blanks
• Para/Sentence Completion
• General Instructions