SUBJECT: ENGLISH
CLASS: VIII
BOOK TITLE: 1. NEW GEM’S ENGLISH READER 8
2. CONQUER GRAMMAR AND COMPREHENSION
AUTHOR: FRANCIS FANTHOME, DOROTHY FANTHOME
2. D.A. TRESSLER
PUBLISHER: 1. PUBLISHER: RATNASAGAR
2. SUBASH-BENCHMARK BOOKS.
EDITION: 2011
TERM 1
APRIL
SYLLABUS
English Reader
1.How Pleasant to know Mr.Lear(poem)
-Edward Lear
2. Einstein’s Compass (UT1)
- S.L.Oppenheim
3. The Gift Of The King(UT2)
- Tara Ali Baig
Conquer Grammar
2. Sentences
3. Imperative Sentences
4. Exclamatory Sentences
Writing skill
Notice Writing
MAY
English Reader
4. I Remember, I Remember(poem)(ut2)
-Thomas Hood
5. After Twenty Years
- O Henry
Conquer Grammar
6. Simple Sentences: Subject-Predicate
8. Nouns
9. Nouns: Number
JUlY
H.HW: .Read a book by O Henry or Jane Austen.
2. Make an information booklet on authors and poets.
English Reader
6. Where the Mind is Without Fear(poem)
- Rabindranath Tagore
7. A Delightful Evening
-Jane Austen
Conquer Grammar
10. Determiners
12. Pronouns
13. Adjectives
15. Verbs
Writing skill
Article writing
AUGUST
English Reader
9. Ozymandias(poem)
-P.B.Shelley
10. The World in a Wall
-Gerald Durrell
11. Fire
- Charlotte Bronte
Conquer Grammar
16. Verbs :Tense
17. Compound Verbs
Writing skill
Informal Letter
Activity: Creating a story
(Individual)
SEPTEMBER
Revision for SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT I
TERM II
OCTOBER
English Reader
12. Lines Written in Early Spring
- William Wordsworth
15. Adolf
-D.H.Lawrence
Conquer Grammar
18. Transitive and intransitive verbs
19. Verbs: Active and Passive Voice
22. Non finite verbs
Writing skill
Message writing
NOVEMBER
English Reader
16. A Grain Of Sand(poem)
- Tabish Khair
17. Macbeth(play)
- W. Shakespeare
18. Scout Shows the Way
- Harper Lee
Conquer Grammar
23.Gerunds
24. Infinitive
25. Phrasal Verbs
26. Adverbials
Writing skill
Formal letter Writing
Activity-Speak for one minute on any of the following topics:Nelson
Mandela- his life, Mahatma Gandhi-his principles, Untouchability in
India, Obama- The first Black American President
DECEMBER
English Reader
19. If (poem)
-Rudyard Kipling
20. India’s Heroes
21. My Only Cry: Close the Arm’s factories(poem) -L.I Semaan
Conquer Grammar
28. Adverbs: Forming the Comparative and Superlative
Editing/Omission
29. Prepositions and Prepositional phrases
31. How to report what people say or think
H.HW
JANUARY
Subject based worksheet: Practice
worksheets
FEBRUARY
Revision for SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT II
SYLLABUS FOR YEAR 2013-14
SUBJECT:SCIENCE
CLASS:VIII
BOOK TITLE:Science Ahead
AUTHOR:E D James
PUBLISHER:Orient Blackswan
EDITION:5th
TERM I
APRIL
TERM II
OCTOBER
Lesson 1:Crop production and Lesson 13: Sound
management
Lesson 2: Micro-organisms
Lesson 14: Chemical effect
Lesson 3: Synthetic fibres
MAY
NOVEMBER
Lesson 4: Metals and non- Lesson 15: Some natural phenomenon
metals
Lesson 9: Reproduction
Lesson 6: Combustion and Lesson 10: Reaching the age of
flame
adolescence
JULY
Lesson 8: The cell
Lesson 11: Force and Pressure
AUGUST
DECEMBER
Lesson 16: Reflection
Lesson 17: Refraction and dispertion
JANUARY
Lesson12: Friction
Lesson 18: The universe
Lesson 19: Pollution of air and
water
SEPTEMBER
Revision- SA1
FEBRUARY
Revision- SA2
CLASS: - VIII
SUBJECT: - MATHEMATICS
BOOK: - Maths Ahead for class VIII
PUBLISHER: - Orient Black Swan
S
MONTH
TOPIC/CHAPTER
.NO
1
APRIL
Ch - 2: Rational Numbers
2
MAY
Ch - 3: Operations on Rational numbers
Ch - 4: Power
3
JULY
Ch - 5: Squares and Square Roots
.
.
.
Ch - 6: Cubes and cube Roots
4
Ch - 7: Playing with Numbers
Ch - 8: Algebraic Expressions
AUGUST
.
Ch - 10: Linear Equations in one
variable
5
SEPTEMBER
Ch- 14: Properties of Quadrilaterals
Revision
6
OCTOBER
Ch- 9: Identities and Factorization
.
.
Ch – 11: Percentage and its application
I
7
NOVEMBER
.
Ch - 12: Percentage and its application
II
Ch - 13: Direct and Inverse variation
8
DECEMBER
.
Ch – 17: Area
9
.
Ch - 15: Representing 3D in 2D
Ch- 16: Constructions of Quadrilaterals
JANUARY
Ch – 18: Volume and Surface Area
Ch – 19: Data and its representation
Ch - 20: Probability
SUBJECT: History, CLASS: 8th
BOOK TITLE: CCE Edition of Social Science – History
AUTHOR: Ratna Sagar
TERM 1
SYLLABUS
APRIL
MAY
JULY
AUGUST
Lesson 1
The Modern Period
Lesson 2
The Expansion of British Power
Lesson 3
Life in the Rural Areas
Lesson 5
Crafts and Industries
Lesson 6
The Greta Uprising
Lesson 7
Education and British Rule
SEPTEM
Revision - SA1
OCTOBE
BER
Lesson 8
Reforms in Indian Society
Lesson 9
Colonialism and Urban Change
BER
Lesson 11
The National Movement: First Phase
Lesson 12
The National Movement: Second Phase
BER
R
NOVEM
DECEM
JANUAR
Lesson 13
India after Independence
FEBRUA
Revision – SA2
Y
RY
Note: Lessons 4 and 10 are not in the syllabus.
SUBJECT: Geography
CLASS: 8th
BOOK TITLE:SOCIAL SCIENCE(CCE edition)
AUTHOR: R.K.Jain
PUBLISHER: Ratna Sagar
EDITION: 2011
TER
M1
SYLLABUS
APR
Chap 1 : Resources
Chap 2 : Natural Resources-Land, Soil & Water
MA
Chap 2 : Natural Resources-Land, Soil & Water
IL
Y
Natural Resources – Natural Vegetation and Wildlife
JULY
Mineral and Power resources
AUGUST
SEP
TEMBER
OCT
OBER
SA - 1
Agriculture
OCT
Major Crops & Agricu- ltural Development
OBER NOVEMBER
NO
VEMBER
Major Crops & Agricu- ltural Development
Manufacturing Industries
DEC
EMBER JAN
UARY
FEB
RUARY
Industries- Comparitive Studies
Revision for SA 2
SUBJECT: Civics, CLASS: 8th
BOOK TITLE: CCE Edition of Social Science – Civics
AUTHOR: Ratna Sagar
TERM
SYLLABUS
1
APRIL
Lesson 1
The Constitution and the Need for Laws
MAY
Lesson 2
Ideals of our Constitution
JULY
Lesson 3
The Parliamentary system
AUGUS
Lesson 4
The Judiciary
SEPTE
Revision - SA1
OCTOB
Lesson 5
The Police and the Courts
Lesson 6
Marginalisation and Social Justice
T
MBER
ER
NOVE
MBER
DECEM
Lesson 7
Untouchability – a Social Evil
JANUA
Lesson 8
Government for Development
FEBRU
Revision – SA2
BER
RY
ARY
SOMERVILLE SCHOOL, VASUDHARA ENCLAVE, DELHI-96
SYLLABUS FOR THE YEAR 2013-2014
CLASS: VIII
SUBJECT: COMPUTER SCIENCE
BOOK: Live Wire Interactive Computer Science Book 8
PUBLISHER: Britannica Educational Publishing
Author: Vaishali Gupta
S.N
MONTH
TOPIC/ CHAPTER
O.
1.
APRIL
Ch-2 HTML An Introduction
2.
MAY
Ch-3 More on HTML
3.
JULY
Ch-1 About a Computer
4.
AUGUST
Ch- 4 HTML : Forms and
Frames
5.
SEPTEMBER
Revision
6.
OCTOBER
Ch-5 Flash
7.
NOVEMBER
Ch-8 Communication on the
net
8.
DECEMBER
Ch-6 Visual basic 6
9.
JANUARY
Ch- 7 VB : Control Structures
10.
FEBRUARY
Revision