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English SNC 2023-24 Class 7
Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board, Lahore
Bibliographic record
| Board | Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board, Lahore |
|---|---|
| Class | 7 |
| Subject | English |
| Medium | English |
| Curriculum | SNC 2022 |
| Edition | 2022-23 |
| Approval | Single National Curriculum 2022, Experimental Edition |
| Pages | 137 |
| File size | 27.5 MB |
| PDF producer | Foxit PhantomPDF Printer Version 9.7.0.2220 |
Analysis
Twelve units plus four reviews. It opens with The Last Sermon of Rasoolullah (PAGE 8-11), built wholly out of hadith with Bukhari and Muslim citations, and carries Eid-ul-Adha at Unit 7, fixing A1 at 4. A5 is 5 for Unit 2, Martyrs of Pakistan: two full martyr biographies - Major Tufail Muhammad "embraced martyrdom on 7th August, 1958" and Rashid Minhas "deliberately sacrificing his life for the honour of Pakistan" (PAGE 21-22) - with the post-reading questions and the writing task "Nishan-e-Haider and its significance" (PAGE 27) built on them. The most notable feature cuts the other way: Punjab's strongest civic passage in twelve books sits here, not in a social-studies volume - "Media is known as the fourth pillar of democracy", and a public who "interpret them and learn to intelligently participate in the political, social and economic affairs of the country" (PAGE 126) - which is why A2 is 3. A6 3: all fifteen "Hindu" hits sit inside the Quaid-e-Azam unit's Two-Nation exposition, though the Pakistani Culture unit credits "mehendi, barat from the Hindu marriage culture" (p.112). A7 3, on Samina Khayal Baig and The Wise Old Woman.
Evidence tier
scanned English OCR — quotation permitted after re-verification by exact string match.
Measured scores
Axes not listed were not scored for this book — coverage is uneven by design. All axes run 1–5, where 1 is the secular/pluralist/open pole. See the method.
Evidence recorded 5
Three kinds, deliberately styled apart. A quotation is verbatim wording and is only ever taken from English-medium text. An observation describes structure or theme — the only kind permitted for Urdu and Sindhi material, which this project never quotes. An absence is a negative result: a probe was run and returned nothing, which is the weakest claim made anywhere on this site.
observation religion lens A1 = 4 PDF p. 8 English OCR #e01
quotation civics lens A2 = 3 PDF p. 126 English OCR #e02
quotation patriotism lens A5 = 5 PDF p. 21 English OCR #e03
quotation othering lens A6 = 3 PDF p. 41 English OCR #e04
observation gender lens A7 = 3 English OCR #e05
Every passage recorded for this book is shown above — nothing is withheld or truncated. Each item has a permanent anchor, so a single piece of evidence can be linked and disputed on its own.
Findings that cite this book 2
Militarismhigh confidence
Punjab is the only board that puts military martyrdom in an English reader, and its class-6 reader carries three separate martial texts. The same Nishan-e-Haider roll appears in its Urdu reader in the same year — the board is redundant across media at age eleven. Punjab's militarism peaks at the start and falls steadily to matriculation, which is the opposite of the usual assumption that this material arrives as pupils get older.
Historyhigh confidence
Punjab's English reader delivers the Two-Nation Theory a year before the History syllabus reaches it, asking pupils at class 7 to explain how the author justifies that Hindus and Muslims were two nations. Across three passes the claim degrades from argued, to stipulated, to eternal.
A finding states and cites; it does not argue. The argument is in the studies. Where a finding has counter-evidence it is printed above, in the same block, because a finding that hides its counter-evidence is a worse finding rather than a stronger one.
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Provenance
| Local file | pctb-punjab/class-7/english-7-en.pdf |
|---|---|
| Copy retrieved | |
| SHA-256 of the analysed file | a5a647818ef9e47c03b11122b790c77a340a9f0ce87672df63758ced4d27164d |
| Source | https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1EyfyU6OAE61w2RqAQQSRx_hbvVaIm9ew |
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Identifiers and permanent link
| Record ID | pctb-english-7-en |
|---|---|
| Permanent link | /books/pctb-english-7-en/ |
| This record as data | /books/pctb-english-7-en.json · whole dataset |
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