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Harry Potter, Tintin, Asterix and The Hobbit: ICSE syllabus just became a lot more fun

Eisha Nair • November 25, 2016, 14:27:45 IST
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CISCE has decided to include popular books like the Harry Potter series for junior and middle school students with ICSE board as part of their English Literature syllabus.

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Harry Potter, Tintin, Asterix and The Hobbit: ICSE syllabus just became a lot more fun

No more will students have to hide their comic books under the desk during lectures, or snoop around to get their dose of popular literature in school. You ask why? The Council of School Certificate Examination (CISCE) has decided to include popular books like JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series for junior and middle school students as part of their English Literature syllabus starting from the academic year 2017-18, according to a Times Of India report. [caption id=“attachment_3122910” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]Representational image. Reuters Representational image. Reuters[/caption] What’s more, graphic novels like Amar Chitra Katha, Tintin, Asterix comics and Art Spiegelman’s ‘Maus’ will be a part of the syllabus from class 3 to class 8, says a report by The Economic Times. Satyajit Ray’s Feluda, Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes will also feature in the new syllabus, along with JRR Tolkien’s ‘The Hobbit’, PG Wodehouse and Charles Dickens’ classics.  A string of autobiographies of Anne Frank, Malala Yusufazai, APJ Abdul Kalam are also some new additions, with Enid Blyton’s Noddy series, for the lower classes. “This is a good idea. Having these books as a part of the syllabus would ensure that children will be able to connect with what is being taught, a lot more than they did with ‘serious’ and abridged Shakespeare. I think that children are reading less than before today because they don’t find immediate value in what they read in school anymore and this move will help them cultivate a reading habit, which is what ultimately matters,” says Sujatha Nair, an English teacher at an ICSE school in Mumbai.

Holy shit, Maus is in the ICSE syllabus! #win https://t.co/gMXbdyQQtd

— Shiva Jayashankar (@adyarite) November 24, 2016
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So apparently Harry Potter is being added to the ICSE syllabus & I NEED TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL! WHY DIDN'T THEY TEACH SUCH GOOD THINGS TO US?

— Pragati Strugs To Funcc (@pragsy_) November 24, 2016
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#harrypotter n #hobbit in icse?? Let students discover genres on their own via libraries instead of forcing make belief wizadry on them

— shwetabh mathur (@shwetabh2) November 24, 2016

A student of the Pawar Public School, Gayatri Nair, says: " I like this idea since I like fantasy and magic. Not that there’s anything wrong with Tagore and Shakespeare, but I think this is more appropriate for our age. I think that this ensures that there’s an actual scope for improvement. I would have liked John Green to be added too, though." An earlier Times Of India report showed that the very first survey of learning achievement of class 10 students conducted by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) indicated that majority of the states and Union territories are performing below the overall average score, with only 41 percent students able to correctly answer in English. “It comes as a happy change that the Board is looking at modernisation of the international curriculum and making it child-centered. It will help us teachers, who may otherwise have never read this kind of literature, to understand the viewpoint of the child better. When we were children we read about Tom Sawyer and identified with him because we were in a similar situation, and in the same way, this step is bound to help current students identify with the subject today. Yes, they might lose out on traditional literature but the focus of the subject of English in schools is not literature appreciation, but rapid reading. One can always pick up traditional literature later on,” says another teacher of an ICSE school, Sunandita Dey. CISCE chief executive and secretary, Gerry Arathoon, was quoted by the newspaper as saying: “Earlier, we were preparing curriculum for class IX till XII. But now with having our own syllabus right from pre-school will ultimately help students to prepare for ICSE examinations in a better way. Now, students will be capable of working towards the board examinations much before.” Another ICSE board student, Jaden Rodrigues welcomed the change: “Shakespeare is boring and confusing but Rowling is interesting. I love the Harry Potter series because it’s got adventure and journey. It won’t be studying anymore. This will help encourage children who do not read to pick up books. Next, they should add Percy Jackson.” This change signals one of many in what is and will be thought of as literature, ‘relevancy’ to be the key word in our mind. Just as Bob Dylan’s Nobel win brought back the relevancy of the position of the poet laureate, this could help bring back the significance of a subject competing with the likes of Math, Physics and Chemistry, in an essential way, the way it should be — for the love of it.

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