CBSE Class 9 Annual Assessment
Annual assessment for Class 9 students under CBSE, serving as a preparatory stage for Class 10 board exams with emphasis on core subjects.
Class 9 English — Chapter-wise Notes & Quizzes
Chapter 1: How I Taught My Grandmother to Read
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This autobiographical prose lesson by Sudha Murty is narrated by the writer as a twelve-year-old girl living with her grandparents in a village in north Karnataka. Every week she reads aloud a serialised Kannada novel, Kashi Yatre by the popular writer Triveni, to her grandmother Krishtakka, who cannot read because she never went to school. The grandmother follows the story with intense interest and discusses each episode with friends. When the narrator goes away to a wedding for a week, the grandmother is left helpless: she cannot read the new instalment herself and is too embarrassed to ask a neighbour. The narrator returns to find her in tears. That night the grandmother resolves, at the age of sixty-two, to learn the Kannada alphabet, setting Saraswati Puja during Dassara as her deadline. Though the narrator childishly laughs at her, the old lady works with remarkable discipline and learns to read. On the festival day she touches her granddaughter’s feet, honouring her as a teacher. The story celebrates the dignity of self-reliance, the idea that learning has no age limit, and the deep respect owed to a teacher regardless of age or gender.
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