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My English VI (2020-21)

Sindh Textbook Board, Jamshoro

Bibliographic record

BoardSindh Textbook Board, Jamshoro
Class6
SubjectEnglish
MediumEnglish
CurriculumNational Curriculum 2006
Editionportal-listed
ApprovalSTBB portal edition year
Pages127
File size9 MB
PDF producerWondershare PDFelement

Analysis

My English VI is a six-unit SPELT-developed reader whose units are competency themes rather than topics — cleanliness, physical well-being, patience, the value of labour, other nations, hobbies — each running the same six-part spine of reading, speaking, language practice, writing, study skills and a closing Fun section. It carries zero religious selections; religion survives only as everyday texture ("I go for my Quran classes", "Insha'Allah, one day I will have my own shop"), with Eid, Christmas and Diwali sharing a single grammar frame at PAGE 96, which is what holds A1 at 2. A2 is 5 because the whole civic lexicon returns nothing: no constitution, citizen, democracy, election or vote anywhere in the book. The A6 of 1 rests on Unit 5, Knowing Children from Other Nations — first-person diaries from Brazil, Ghana and Thailand whose Ghanaian narrator Kofi is also non-speaking (printed p.81), the most globally oriented unit in the corpus. A7 4 records the absence of any gender unit; girls appear only as classmates. The file is native digital without page markers, so cite by printed folio; its Flesch-Kincaid of 5.5 is the corpus's easiest entry point.

Evidence tier

native   Machine-readable text — supports direct quotation.

Measured scores

A1 Religious saturation 2
A2 Civic thickness 5
A5 Militarism 1
A6 Othering 1
A7 Gender conservatism 4

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.

absence religion lens A1 = 2 printed p. 96 native text #e01

Zero religious selections. Religion appears only as everyday texture — "I go for my Quran classes", "Insha'Allah, one day I will have my own shop", "Have faith in Allah. Respect your parents" (native text, Units 5 and 8); Eid, Christmas and Diwali given in one grammar frame · PAGE 96.

A negative result. It records that a probe was run and found nothing — not that the thing is not in the book. Where this rests on Urdu material the correct reading is not established, never absent, because degraded Nastaliq OCR cannot tell those apart.

absence civics lens A2 = 5 native text #e02

Zero hits on the whole civic lexicon (constitution/citizen/democracy/election/rights/vote/parliament). Only civic-adjacent line is "It's against the law!" in a road-safety dialogue · english-6-en

A negative result. It records that a probe was run and found nothing — not that the thing is not in the book. Where this rests on Urdu material the correct reading is not established, never absent, because degraded Nastaliq OCR cannot tell those apart.

observation patriotism lens A5 = 1 native text #e03

No national-martial content of any kind. The most "national" unit is a Sindh diary entry from Badin; unit 5 is Brazil/Ghana/Thailand

quotation othering lens A6 = 1 printed p. 81 native text #e04

Unit 5, Knowing Children from Other Nations — first-person diaries from Brazil, Ghana and Thailand, e.g. "I'm Kofi. It means Friday… The Ghanans celebrate the Bakatue Festival for a good fishing year ahead." (printed p.81)

observation gender lens A7 = 4 native text #e05

No gender unit; girls appear as classmates only

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 1

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.

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.

Availability of the book itself

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Provenance

Local filestbb-sindh/class-6/english-6-en.pdf
Copy retrieved
SHA-256 of the analysed file9aa8c6e4eeab865adbf169c759aefc4aee425a36336b1c9564b3b1596d2cdfb9
Sourcehttps://portal.stbb.edu.pk/ebooks/pdf_proxy.php?id=143&download=1

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Identifiers and permanent link

Record IDstbb-english-6-en
Permanent link/books/stbb-english-6-en/
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Sindh Textbook Board, Jamshoro, My English VI (2020-21), portal-listed. Catalogued by the Textbook Evidence Project as stbb-english-6-en, corpus version 210 records. Retrieved from /books/stbb-english-6-en/

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