School Days: English Period

English was there since Kindergarten. Here we started from A to Z, two letter words (so, go, no, etc), three lettered words (hat, rat, mat, cat, etc) and so on till the sentence and Myself. My class teachers for KG were Helen teacher and Sherill teacher. Then I had English I and English II in Class I (taught by Irin teacher) and Class II (taught by Reshma teacher). There used to be small stories on value education. This was as per Convent school syllabus. Our home shifted thus shifting me from Convent to English medium and got the Balbharti textbook in hand from Class III. Shweta Patil teacher taught us then the stories of Birbal, Chanakya, etc. Supriya Valunjkar teacher taught us in Class IV and the hands fold practice continue. Class V was most interesting since we had to perform skit after each lesson taught by Sneha Kamath teacher. We really enjoyed enacting characters of the play and hence could remember the lessons well. Class VI to VIII: lessons were taught by Choula Verma teacher. The syllabus included Shakespeare stories (The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet,etc), Wordsworth poems, etc. Having used to this teaching for three consecutive years, it was a difficult switch-over to Margaret teacher in Class IX. There was a lesson 'With the photographer'; we experienced it in real during our farewell photo session. Class X had a mix of Ruskin Bond's Cherry tree, Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli and the Bandarlog, Shakespeare poems and plays. Thus the English learned for more than a decade is just a memory now.