Contents

1. The Haircut 1

2. I Keep Six Honest Serving Men 14

3. The Bullfight 18
4. The Pied Piper Of Hamelin 28
5. The Lonely Heart 33

6. The Blind Boy 42

7. Setting off Around the World 46
8. Scrooge's Christmas 58

9. The Village Schoolmaster 70

10. Pot Luck 76

11. Street Cries 85

12. How Fear Came 90
13. The Lark and the Rook 99
14. The Wizard of Oz 104

Assessment 123
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1. Unce Podger Hangs a Picture

2. Dear Aum
10
3. The Prince and the Swallow
15
4. The Hay Through the Woods
24
5. Life with Uncle Ken 29
6. The Miller of the Dee 39
7. Chief Seathl's Message 44
8. His First Flight 51
9. The Old Brown Horse
60
10. Bird-Watcher
65
11. Where the Mind Is Without Fear 75
12. The Bishop's Dream 80

13. Songs of lnnocence 87

14. The Gift of the Magi 91
15. A Matter of Honour 101
16. Eureka! 109

17. An Adventure in the Himalayas 116

18. Travel 123

19. Heaven Lake 130

20. Fifth Form Justice 139

21. The Chocolate-Cream Soldier 151
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Preface 4
Detailed Contents
10
Acknowledgements 12

Unit 1 Sharing and Caring 13

Section I About Grandfathers and Trees-AprTHI AND CHATURA RAO 14
Section I Tom Comes Home-GEORGE ELioT
27
Section III My Sister
Betty-GARETH OWEN 37

Unit 2 Jest for Fun 41

Section I Frogs in the Fountain-RuskN BoND 42
Section II Zigzag-AsHA NEHEMIAH 50
Section II Dear Mum-BRIAN PATTEN 62

Project 1 Sharing Humour 65

Unit 3 Shaping Lives 67

Section I Dronacharya's Brigade-SaNJAY SHARMA AND SHACHI SHARMA 70
Section II The Song of Songs-SwaPNA DUTTA 79
Section II Metamorphosis-SusAN K. HANSEN 86

Unit 4 Tales for All Times 90

Section I Grateful Animals, Ungrateful Man-A.K. RAMANUJAN 92
Section II The Gifts of Wali Dad-AARON SHEPARD 100
Section II King Solomon and the Bees-JOHN GoDFREY SAXE 112

Project 2 Save the Sparrow 117

Unit 5 Feathered Friends 120

Section I Birdwatcher-ANIL ExBOTE 122
Section II The Kakas of New Zealand-GERALD DURRELL 130
Section II Bird Sanctuary-RoBERT WLLIAM SERVICE 137

Unit 6 The Other World 141

Section I The King's Palace-RABINDRANATH TaGoRE 143
Section II Mystery of the Missing Parrot-JovEETA DUTTA RAY 155
Section III Dreaming the Unicorn-TONY MITTON 165
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Introduction iv
What is CCE? vi
CCE in Maple Tree vii
Map of the Book vii

Acknowledgements X

0 Heroes, Kings and Queens k Sports 87

Orpheus and Eurydice h e MAyY One Big Shot 87
The Trojan War 6 Riding the River Rapids 94
An Elephant Saves the Flag 12 The Sportsman 100

School Days 17 7 Of Tourist Interest 103

Homesickness 17 Poovar-The Pleasure lsland 104
On Strike 25 Toy Train to Darjeeling 107
The School Boy 30 The Taj Mahal 114

Mystery 33 People and their Lives 117

A Face in the Dark 33
The Face on the Wal 41
Jhe Islanders 118

The Listeners 47
AShowcase of Culture 125

Formative Assessment 3 131

Formative Assessment 1 51

Early Years 55 9 Respecting Nature 135

Little Children Wiser than Men 56 Dragonfly Dilemma 136
TheLost Child- M a 62 The Farmer and the Tree-Fairies 142
The Story of FidgetyPhilip 66 To the Cuckoo 148

5 Humour 69 Formative Assessment 4 151

Say the Right Thing 70
Summative Assessment 2 152
Formative Assessment 2 81

Summative Assessment 1 82
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ORAL SKILLS FOR ASL
UNIT 1 78
3. When Sachin walks out to bat 80
BEST FRIENDS, FOREVER TASKS FOR FA
82
.Viji'sfriend
2. Walls between friends 11
ORAL SKILLS FOR ASL 20 UNIT 5
22
The best
offriends FOOD FOR THOUGHT 85
TASKS FOR FA 23 1. Learning to cook 86

2. Dal delight 92
ORAL SKILLS FOR ASL 100
UNIT 2
3. It's fun to cook! 102
LEARNING IS FUN 25 TASKS FOR FA 104
1. The classroom in the train 26
A pretty good job! 31
ORAL SKILLS FOR ASL 38 UNIT 6
3. A teacher for all seasons 40 ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL 106
TASKS FOR FA 42 107
1. No room for a leopard
2. Where is my mother? 112

ORAL SKILLS FOR ASL 119

UNIT 3 120
3. Birds of paradise
FAMILY FUN 45 122
TASKS FOR FA
1. Younguncle goes to his village 46
2. Building a shelter 51
ORAL SKILLS FOR ASL 58 UNIT 7
3. An information bureau OTHER WORLDS, OTHER TIMES 125
60
126
TASKS FOR FA 61 1. The joke
131
ACTIVITIES FOR PSA 1 63
2. The fun they had
138
ORAL SKILLS FOR ASL
TEXT FOR OTBA1 65 140
3. The comet
141
TASKS FOR FA
UNIT 4 ACTIVITIES FOR PSA 2
144
146

SPORTSMANSHIP 66 TEXT FOR OTBA 2

147
. The marathon story 67 LISTENING TEXT FOR THE TEACHER
150
2. The unbreakable 72 DETAILED CONTENTS
 TABLE OF CONTENTS
The One You Don't See Coming 111
Harold Courlander and George Herzog
The Cow Tail Switch And Other West African Stories
The Contest Between Fire And Rain 118
Translated by Jack Berry West African Folk-tales
Ra And His Children 120
Roger Lancelyn Green Tales Of Ancient Egypt
How Birbal Saved His Life 127
Retold by Romila Thapar
Who Is The Greatest Magician! 133
Edited by Jack Berry- West African Folk-tales
The Clever Boatman 133
Edited by Jack Berry- West African Folk-tales
The Crocodile And The Monkey 134
Vikram Seth Beastly Tales
How The Rhinoceros Got His Skin 143
Rudyard Kipling The Just So Stories
Teevee 146
Eve Merriam - Junior Voices, The Second Book
Nonsense Verse 147
Limericks
Hello Mr. Python 148
Spike Milligan
On The Ning Nang Nong 148
Spike Milligan
 1. Down the Rabbit-hole Lewis Carroll
01
The Lotu8 Toru Dutt
11
2. The Starting Point Milkha Singh 14
3. Wild Duck Romesh Gunesekera 24
After the Storm William Wordsworth 32
Reader 4. Tabby's Tablecloth Louisa May Alcott 35
5. Brown Wolf
6 Her Head
Jack London
Joan Murray
45
56
6. Arthur and the Sword
59
7. The Village School 69
Contents The Fountain
James Russell Lowell 79
8. Resting Hill
Griffin Ondaatje 82
The Fog WH Davies 92
9. The Mask
Satyajit Ray 95
Vocation
Rabindranath Tagore 106
10. Brighter Still
Graeme MacQueen 109
11. Saving the Tiger Shekar Dattatri 119
Cows on the Beach
Matthew Sweeney 127
12. The
Canterville Ghost Oscar Wilde 130
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Introduction
3
Detailed Contents
8
1. The Miracle by Roald Dahl
(Modern British fantasy) 11
Poem: Summer Sun by Robert Louis Stevenson
(Western classic) 22
2. The Cherry Tree by Ruskin Bond (Contemporary Indian-English fiction) 26
3 A Turkish Judge
(Turkish folktale) 38
Poem: Vocation by Rabindranath Tagore (Indian classic) 52
A. Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne by Upendrakishore Roychoudhury
(Modern Indian fiction)
56
Isaac Newton (Biographical
graphic story) 67
Poem: The Rum Tum Tugger by Thomas Stearns Eliot (Modern Western classic) 78
6. On the Trail (Travelogue set in Nepal)
82
7.
7. The All-American Slurp by Lensey Namioka
(Contemporary Chinese-American autobiographical narrative) 92
Poem: f1 Were a Giant by Jackie Hosking
(Contemporary African fantasy) 102
8. Monday Morning by Mark Twain (Classic American fiction) 107
9. Play: Dusk by Saki (Western classic) 117
Poem: Habits by Carol Beachy Wenger (Modern American poetry) 127
10. Fly Like an Eagle by Elizabeth Van Steenwyk(Contemporary American fction) 131
11. Escape to the Island byJohann David Wys (Clossic Swiss adventure fiction) 145
Poem Tiger by Leslie Norris (Contemporary British poetry) 158
12.
12 The Cowardly Lion by Lyman Frank Baum (Classic American fantasy) 162
Grammar at a Glance 175
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Detailed Contents 3
Acknowledgements
On the
8
10
Grasshopper
1. The Ant-Lion
and Cricket
11
Where the Mind is
15
2 Without Fear 23
The Silver
Lining 27
Why 1 Am Not a
Painter
3 The 35
4
World-Renowned Nose 40
Siachen: The Forgotten War
50
Night of the Scorpion 60
5.
5 The Chowgarh
Tigers 67
Last Lesson of the
Afternoon 75
6 The Open Window
81
The West Wind
89
7 A
Boy's Best Friend 94
The Solitary Reaper
102
8. B. Wordsworth
107
Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat 18
9. ATravel Blog 125
If 136
10 A Helpless Situation 141
The Inchcape Rock 152 W
1. Twelfth Night (or What You Will) 159
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Preface 4
UNIT 1: HUMAN BONDS Language Study 2 106
Section 1: My Big Brother-Premchand 11
Section 2A Most Important Person UNIT 5: CIRCLE OF PEACE
-Margaret Weymouth Jackson 22 Secion 1: One Thousand Cranes 108
Section 3: Mending Wall-Robert Frost 33 Sectien 2: Something He Shouldn't Have Done
-John Boyne 116
UNIT 2: NURTURING NATURE Sectipn 3: Night of the Scorpion
Section 1: Jungle in Jeopardy -Nissim Ezekiel 126
-Arup Kumar Dutta 35 Project 2 129
Section2: Elephants Raid the Kitchen UNI: BEYOND THE VEIL
-Cynthia Moss 47
Section 3: I Think Could Turn and Live with Section: The Red-Headed League
Animals-Walt Whitman 55 Arthur Conan Doyle 130
Project 1 57 Section 2:The Star Ducks-Bill Brown 140
Language Study 1 59 Section 3: The Old Wife and the Ghost
-JamesReeves 149
UNIT 3: CONFLICT AND HOPE Life Skills 2 152
Section 1: I Have a Dream-Dr Martin Language Study 3 153
Luther King Jr 61
UNIT 7: CITIZENS OF THE WORLD
Section2: Can We Change This?-Bama 70
Section 3: Sympathy-Paul Laurence Dunbar 79 Section 1:AThe Barber-William Saroyan 155
81
Section 2ang the Youngest
Life Skills 1
83
Lensey Namioka 165
Critical Thinking and Analysis
Section Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two
Beautiful People in a Mercedes
UNIT 4: PUSHING THE LIMITS
-Lawrence Ferlinghetti 174
Section The Beginnings of a Miracle 87
Assessment of Speaking 177
-Hellen Keller, Anne Sullivan
Assessment of Listening 179
Section:Into the Snake Pit-Gerald Durrell 94
Section Be the Best-Douglas Malloch 104
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