HOLIDAY HOMEWORK 2015-16
CLASS VIII
SOCIAL SCIENCE
OBJECTIVE: To raise awareness about the various disasters that keep on striking
one part of the world or the other and cause huge loss of life and property. The
students will learn several techniques to mitigate the effects of natural disasters.
TOPIC: TSUNAMI
 Prepare a project file on any two major landslides/tsunami that have
occurred in the last 10 years.
 Collect information and pictures from websites, newspapers and magazines
about these landslides/tsunami.
 The project report should be handwritten.
 The project should cover the following areas:
INTRODUCTION:
 What is a landslide/tsunami?
 Causes of the disaster.
 Various warning systems in the world.
SPECIFIC DETAILS ON:
 Name any two countries hit by a Tsunami/landslides recently.
 Locate the place and the country, where they have occurred, on the world
political map.
 Areas that were affected.
 Extent of loss of property and life.
CONCLUSION AND SUMMARY
 What measures were taken by the government to reduce the
impact of the disaster?
 Mitigation measures taken after the disaster.
 Your suggestions on how we can bring awareness among the
students.
MARKS DISTRIBUTION:




Total Marks-10
Content and originality-4 marks
Use of pictures, sketches and maps-4 marks
Presentation and research work done-2 marks
ENGLISH
1. Create your own cover page for any one of the plays of William Shakespeare.
(Refer to the long reading text)
Rubrics to assess cover pageTheme
Illustration/Graphics
Creativity
Neatness and presentation
2. Write a short autobiography about your early school days. You can focus on
one particular day or on general memories of your first weeks. You can touch
following points to write auto iography entitled My Early S hool Days .
Paragraph 1- Introduce the topic and explain where your school was.
Paragraph 2- Explain the kind of things you learned and the kind of teachers you
had.
Paragraph 3- Describe any struggles or challenges you had and how you tackled
them. Describe your feelings and give examples.
Paragraph 4- Conclude by describing the impact your early school days have had
on you.
To add more life to your autobiography and make it attractive you can use idioms,
phrases and relevant pictures/ photographs.
MATHS
1. Mr. Johns was hired by Mrs. Sharma to tile her square-shaped bathroom.
Mr. Johns is laying 676 square feet of tile. What is the length of one side of
Mrs. Sharma’s bathroom?
2. Ramesh wants to fence in his square backyard. He measures his backyard
to be 875 square feet. Fencing is sold by the foot, how many feet of fencing
will Ramesh need?
3. What is the smallest number by which 1323 must be multiplied so that the
product is a perfect cube?
4. Construct a parallelogram ABCD using only ruler and compass, such that
°
AB=6cm, BC=3cm and
 angle B=45 . Write the steps of
construction in brief.
5. 40 students of a class scored the given marks out of 25.
17, 5, 20, 15, 11, 20, 8, 10, 0,22, 3,12, 10, 14,16, 21, 6, 5,11, 2,13, 16, 22, 1,
9, 4,19, 20, 3,15, 7,24, 2,20, 0,23, 17, 18, 5, 19
a) Make a Group Frequency Distribution Table using class intervals 0-5, 510,10-15,15-20,20-25
b) Which class interval has highest number of students?
c) How many studnets have scored less than 15 marks?
d) Represent the data using a histrogram.
6.
All questions of chapter innings of Exponents & Power (Page No. 28)