NEW ERA PUBLIC SCHOOL, DWARKA
Holiday Homework
Session: 2017-18
Class: VIII
ENGLISH
1.) Create your picture biography, including any five most important moments of your life. Write why these
were significant to you, in about 100-150 words. Collect photographs or make drawings related to these
moments.
2.) Read the ‘editorial section’ of a newspaper, in your holidays. Write a short summary/analysis of any two
interesting articles you come across, in about 100 words. Remember, it should be your interpretation and not
simply copied and pasted text. Use A4-size, ruled sheets for the same.
3.) Make a beautiful bookmark for your Literature reader. Decorate it and write a famous quotation by a
well-known author/poet who inspires you.
4.) Choose an author of your choice and read any work(short story/ novella/ novel) by him/her.
Find 20 difficult words from the book. Refer to the dictionary and find the meaning, synonym and antonym
of each word. Write them down in your English notebook.
Be prepared to give a presentation of the book read by you after the holidays.
MATHEMATICS
Roll no. 1-7
Prepare a colourful and attractive mathematical dictionary in a scrapbook, based on
Rational numbers, Polygons, Probability and Algebraic Expressions. Use definitions, figures, solved
examples or paste paper cutouts as illustrations to explain each term.
Roll no. 8-14
Make a beautiful pen stand using ice cream sticks / cardboard cutouts / straw pipes / used pens / other
decorative materials in any one of the following shapes : hexagonal prism, pentagonal prism, cuboid,
cube or triangular prism.
Roll no. 15-21
Bring any 5: articles / amazing facts / riddles / cross-words / recent discoveries in the field of
Mathematics.
Do the following assignment questions in your Mathematics notebook.
Square and Square Roots
1. Which are the digits the square number can have at units place?
2. How many 2’s are there in the prime factors of 300?
3. How many 5’s are there in the prime factors of 13000?
4. How many digits will be there in the square root of 12321?
5. How much is 452 - 442 ?
6. Find the value of (39 + 21)2
7. What is the missing digit in (37) 2 = 136 - ______ ?
8. Find the value of 1212- 1202
9. Simplify and give the answer : √(62 ×28)
10. How many natural numbers lie between 562 and 572?
11. Find the square of (3.1)
12. How much is (0.1)2 ?
13. Find the value of √(0.0081)
14. Give the square number between 36 and 64.
15. Find the least number which when added to 599 to make it a perfect square.
16. In a cinema hall 729 people are seated in such a way that the number of people in a row is equal to number of
rows. Then how many rows of people are there in the hall?
17. Find the square root of 6.0516.
18. Find the square root of 7921 using long division method.
SCIENCE
Roll no. 1-7
Draw the periodic table on a chart paper/ thermocol / cardboard highlighting metals, non metals,
metalloids and inert gases with different colours.
Roll no. 8-14
Prepare a report/ collage on the harmful effects caused by chemical fertilisers and pesticides to the crop
field and living organisms.
Roll no. 15-21
Prepare a project report/ scrap file on the 5 major pollutants in air of Delhi and the harm caused by them
to the living organisms. Suggest some measures to reduce the pollution level in Delhi.
Answer the following questions in your Science notebook.
1) How does organic farming help to reduce air and water pollution?
2) Ratna cultivates sugarcane in her field year after year. Hira cultivates different kinds of crops
every couple of years. Which do you think is a better cultivation practice?
3) How are sprinkler and drip irrigation methods different?
4) Define the following terms- weeding, ploughing, irrigation, mixed cropping, crop rotation.
5) What are lichens? How do lichens act as indicators of pollution?
6) What do you mean by symbiosis? Give an example.
7) How are bacteria useful and harmful to us? Give three examples for each.
8) How can bacteria be classified on the basis of i) shape ii) no. of flagella ?
9) Draw well labelled diagrams of a prokaryotic and a eukaryotic cell.
10) Why are viruses considered as living as well as non living ?
11) How are protozoa classified?
12) Name two water borne bacterial diseases.
13) Explain two commercial uses of bacteria.
14) Learn the symbols of elements till Atomic No. 20 from the periodic table.
SOCIAL STUDIES
PROJECT WORK
Guidelines for the project:
a) First page will be the Title page
b) Second page of the scrap book will be the Index page
Roll no. 1-7
Make a project on topic” Tribals, Dikus and the vision of a golden age” using the following guidelines:
a) Tribal occupation
b) Tribal life under the British rule
c) Tribal revolts (in British rule)
d) Role of Birsa Munda
Project should be made in a project file. Paste pictures relevant to the topic.
Roll no. 8-14
Study the “ Revolt of 1857” and make a project. Focus should be laid upon the following:
a) Causes of revolt
b) Outbreak of the revolt
c) Why the revolt failed?
d) Result of the revolt.
Make it in a project file and paste pictures relevant to the topic. Presentation should be neat.
Roll no. 15-21
Refer to the internet and your history textbook of and study the topic “Marginalized groups and Social justice”.
Make a project using the following points:
a) Forms of social inequality- Caste system, untouchability, gender inequality etc.
b) How social status affects economic status?
c) Social justice and the Indian constitution.
d) Laws to help the marginalized.
Use a project file for this and also paste the relevant pictures.
Roll no. 22-28
Make a project on ‘changes in art and architecture under the Colonial rule:
a) Art, painting, literature, theatre, music, dance etc.
b) Architecture- grand structures made by the British ( Commercial centers, monuments etc.)
This is to be done in a project file, with pictures relevant to the topic.
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