The Ethiopian Grade 11 New Curriculum Amharic textbook contains 10 units:
- ምዕራፍ አንድ: ቋንቋና ህብረተሰብ (Language and Society)
- ምዕራፍ ሁስት: ቅርሶቻችን (Our Heritage)
- ምዕራፍ ሦስት: ወግ (Traditional Literature)
- ምዕራፍ አራት: ልቦለድ (Novel)
- ምዕራፍ አምስት: የቋንቋ ስዛ (Linguistic Relevance)
- ምዕራፍ ስድስት: ግጥም (Poetry)
- ምዕራፍ ሰባት: አርበኝነት (Patriotism)
- ምዕራፍ ስምንት: ትውፊት (Tradition and Lifestyle)
- ምዕራፍ ዘጠኝ: ስኬት (Success)
- ምዕራፍ አስር: ኪነጥበብ (Art)
Unit 1: Language and Society
Students learn the nature of language and writing, distinguish between vowels and consonants, and practice phonetic and chromatic writing. They develop skills in word meaning, paragraph expansion, and following instructions accurately.
Unit 2: Our Heritage
Focuses on types, uses, and management of Ethiopian heritage. Students learn to identify parts of speech, understand word meanings, summarize texts, write reports, and conduct discussions.
Unit 3: Traditional Literature
Introduces students to traditional literary forms, word formation with suffixes, grammatical meanings, diary writing, and analyzing symbolic and paradoxical patterns in texts.
Unit 4: Conflict and Novel
Students learn to identify literal and figurative meanings, distinguish essential and ideas, and analyze novels. They also practice paragraph expansion and critical writing techniques.
Unit 5: Linguistic Relevance
Covers identifying idioms, phrases, and sentences, separating important ideas from texts, and interpreting poetry styles. Students develop analytical and writing skills through various literary exercises.
Unit 6: Poetry
Students analyze poetic forms, characteristics, and metaphors. They learn sound and language analysis, contextual meanings, and how to convert poetry into prose while following instructions.
Unit 7: Patriotism
Focuses on parts of speech, word cultivation and formation, deep reading methods, expressing ideas, autobiography writing, and analyzing syllables in poems.
Unit 8: Tradition and Lifestyle
Students explore traditional society, cultural practices, forming words using suffixes, gathering information from media, and using idiomatic and figurative expressions in writing and translation.
Unit 9: Success
Covers understanding success through media, sharing ideas, discussions, interviews, comparing ideas, summarizing texts, and analyzing metaphors and idiomatic expressions.
Unit 10: Art
Students study drama, its essence, terminology, and differences with other literary genres. They practice diary writing, parts of speech, media interpretation, and information-based idea development.
