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English SNC 2023-24 Class 8
Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board, Lahore
Bibliographic record
| Board | Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board, Lahore |
|---|---|
| Class | 8 |
| Subject | English |
| Medium | English |
| Curriculum | SNC 2022 |
| Edition | 2022-23 |
| Approval | Single National Curriculum 2022, Experimental Edition |
| Pages | 129 |
| File size | 28.5 MB |
| PDF producer | Foxit PhantomPDF Printer Version 9.7.0.2220 |
Analysis
Twelve units with SNC theme labels printed against them (PAGE 3). A1 stays at 4: Unit 1 is Tolerance of the Rasoolullah, Unit 5 is Hazrat Umar, and a devotional dialogue is a grammar exercise: "Mama! Why do we offer namaz?" / "Because we have to thank Allah Almighty for his blessings... It's an obligation" (PAGE 57). The distinctive thing is what the book does not do. A5 drops to 2, the only break in Punjab's class-6-to-9 martyrdom sequence: Unit 11, Give to Your Country, is civic-productive, there is no martyr and no Nishan-e-Haider, and the only soldier is a grammar-drill subject. A2 4: "Participatory Citizenship" is realised as traffic-law obedience plus a poem whose comprehension question, "How do the laws of our country keep us happy and well?" (PAGE 117), makes benign law a premise. A6 2, helped by "the green colour represents the Muslim majority, the white colour represents minorities" (p.113). A7 rises to 4 because this is the only Punjab reader with no gender unit at all, and its ratio (0.34) is among the lowest in the corpus.
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.
quotation religion lens A1 = 4 PDF p. 9 English OCR #e01
Unit 1 Tolerance of the Rasoolullah ﷺ opens the book (english-8-en · PAGE 9); Unit 5 Hazrat Umar (· PAGE 54–58); and a devotional dialogue set as a grammar exercise — "Mama! Why do we offer namaz?" / "Because we have to thank Allah Almighty for his blessings… It's an obligation" (· PAGE 57).
quotation civics lens A2 = 4 PDF p. 3 English OCR #e02
"Participatory Citizenship" is realised as traffic-law obedience PAGE 3, 40–42 plus the poem Give to your country: "All the laws that are made / Are laws to keep us happy and well" and "Under the name of citizenship / Give your country her due" PAGE 115. The comprehension question presupposes benign law: "How do the laws of our country keep us happy and well?" PAGE 117
quotation patriotism lens A5 = 2 English OCR #e03
Unit 11 Give to Your Country (theme "Patriotism / National Pride") is civic-productive — "We should work for our country as a nation" (english-8-en · line 1780). No martyr, no Nishan-e-Haider. The only soldier is a grammar-drill subject (· line 4329)
quotation othering lens A6 = 2 PDF p. 113 English OCR #e04
"the green colour represents the Muslim majority, the white colour represents minorities" (p.113); the Seerah unit notes "life and property of the non-Muslims were also given protection" (p.56).
observation gender lens A7 = 4 English OCR #e05
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Provenance
| Local file | pctb-punjab/class-8/english-8-en.pdf |
|---|---|
| Copy retrieved | |
| SHA-256 of the analysed file | ead45e267925cb202ac7dda09a0960842a72a13c4bbe554a58642f324539f986 |
| Source | https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1VjslGe1d421x--q0gxAn2l4tYx3zAKF3 |
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Identifiers and permanent link
| Record ID | pctb-english-8-en |
|---|---|
| Permanent link | /books/pctb-english-8-en/ |
| This record as data | /books/pctb-english-8-en.json · whole dataset |
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