Literature: Poetry

Covers the themes and messages of key poems from the NCERT Class 8 Honeydew textbook such as 'The Ant and the Cricket', 'Geography Lesson' and 'The Duck and the Kangaroo', along with select short stories from the supplementary reader 'It So Happened'.

9 min readWeightage: CBSE Class 8 English — 6-8 marks30-question chapter test included

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