ENGLISH PROJECT – Class XII

The Project-Portfolio/Project Report is a compilation of

the work that the students produce during the process
of working on their ALS Project.
The Project-Portfolio may include the following:
● Cover page, with title of project, school
details/details of students.
● Content
● Certificate of completion under the guidance of the
teacher.
● Acknowledgement
● Statement of purpose/objectives/goals
● Materials such as scripts for the theatre/role play,
questionnaires for interviews, written assignments,
essays, survey reports, Photographs and other
material evidence of learning progress and academic
accomplishment.
● The 800-1000 words essay/Script/Report.
● Student/group reflections.
● List of resources/bibliography.

TO SUM IT IN BRIEF -THE PROJECT SHOULD INCLUDE

 COVER PAGE

 INDEX

 CERTIFICATE

 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

 INTRODUCTION

 CONTENT——-ATLEAST 15 TO 20 PAGES

 WRITE UP

 QUESTIONNAIRE
  SURVEY SAMPLE

 LEARNING OUTCOME

 BIBLIOGRAPHY

HERE ARE THE SUGGESTIVE TOPICS FOR YOUR

REFERENCE

TOPIC :1 Gender issues (Take any one Issue)

 -Highlight the plight of oppressed Gender– inequality,
injustice, deprivation, agony, and pain faced by them
(Infographics / Data).
 -Women's ideology towards gender inequality.
 -Movements against Gender inequality.
 -Discrimination at different places (home, job, school
etc.)
 -Kamala Das – an 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.
 -# Me too movement.
 -How can the change be brought in the mindset 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 a Resilient person.
 How personal choices help or hinder our resilience.
 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 Components 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 0 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
 – 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
 intergenerational violence
 effects
 causes
 prevention

types of abuses
legal way to approach
Satyamav Jayate (Episodes)

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
  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 at least 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
 History of the Union Carbide India Limited
 Establishment
 History and ownership of Bhopal plant
 What is MIC gas?
 Storage of MIC gas at Bhopal Plant
 Causes of Bhopal gas tragedy
 Effect of the gas leak
 Governments response to the tragedy
 UCIL response to the tragedy
 Movement and protest led by the victims of the tragedy
 Repercussion of the tragedy
 Media/articles/movie/—–cuttings and reviews
 Lesson learnt from the tragedy

TOPIC -12
‘The Name of the Rose’ -Novel
 about the author,
 plot, setting, themes
 genre of fiction
 narrative style of writing/ realism/naturalism
 character sketch,
 critical appreciation,
 awards
 message- legacy
TOPIC-13
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
 What is hero worshipping for adolescent?
 Is hero worshipping/fantasising good or bad?
 Meaning of adolescent fantasising
 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 is India is too big. Why?
 What are some potential dangers of hero worship?

TOPIC-14
Callousness of human beings towards wildlife
 What should be our attitude towards animals?
 Reasons why we need to save wildlife
 Attitude of human–destruction/fragmentation/
modification caused by human led activities
 Danger of development
 Instance of game hunting
 Animals who have extinct and the ones on the verge
of extinction (reason)
 Data collection /images
 Involvement of affluent people (ANY BOLLYWOOD
CELEBRITY ETC)
 Earth’s fate and the devastation of the natural world
were recently put under the microscope with the
release of Sir David Attenborough’s Netflix
documentary A Life On Our Planet.
 Steps taken /needs to be taken to preserve wildlife
TOPIC-15
1. GONDWANA
1. Gondwana ?
2. Is India part of Gondwana
3. When did India separate from Gondwana?
4. Why Gondwana is so named?
5. The break up history of Gondwana and its impact
6. Pictorials showing the break up
7. Reference of the chapter- Journey to the end of the
earth
2. RACISM
1. MEANING OF RACISM
2. Types
3. Consequences (Social, Physical, Mental)
4. Racism between humans is the worst kind of Racism
because…steps to stop/reduce it
5. How stopping racism can bring equality and peace
6. Racism in India/ world/LGBT community
7. Steps taken till now to stop /reduce it / awareness
spread
8. Celebrities and activists’ participation in spreading
awareness
1. Read the stories ‘Jamaican Fragment’ and ‘Boyhood
Days’.
All of the above deal with racial prejudices and the struggle of coloured
people to rise above unruly bias, unemployment, poor healthcare,
inadequate schools, and unresponsive government.
 What is the message conveyed
 Make a comparative analysis of the texts keeping in
mind the following-
 The story of misfortune and agony
 Difference in the situation
 How do individuals combat the situation of
adversity and how should the present hard
time be fought