Syllabus 2019-20

Class VIII

Biology
UT-I
1. Transport of food and minerals in plants
2. Ecosystem

Half Yearly Exam

1. Transport of food and minerals in plants
2. Ecosystem
3. Reproduction in Plants
4. Reproduction in Humans

UT-II
1. Endocrine System in Humans
2. Reproduction in Plants
3. Reproduction in Humans

Final Exam
1. Ecosystem
2. Endocrine System in Humans
3. Circulatory System in Humans
4. Nervous System in Humans
5. Health and Hygiene

Project Work
Topic:- “Food Production and its Management”
Geography
UT-I
1. Population Dynamics
2. Migration

Half Yearly Exam

1. Population Dynamics
2. Migration
3. Urbanisation
4. Asia- The Largest Continent
Map Work
Countries: - India, China, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Russia, Japan, Turkey, Sri Lanka.
Cities: - Delhi, Colombo, Beijing, Riyadh, Bangkok, Tokyo, Ankara, Mumbai.
Water Bodies: - Arctic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Sea of Japan, Yellow Sea, Bering Sea, Red Sea,
Persian Gulf, Caspian Sea, South China Sea.
Rivers: - Ganga, Brahmaputra, Hwang Ho, Euphrates, Tigris.
Physical Features: - Himalayans, Karakoram, Hindukush, Pamir Knot, Armenian Knot, Ural Mountains, Gobi
Desert, Indo-China Peninsula, Plateau of Tibet, Plateau of Mongolia.
5. Survey Sheets: - Definitions, Signs and Symbols, Short Form, 4 Figure Grid Reference.

UT-II
1. Natural and Man-made Disasters
2. India- Its Geographical Features

Final Exam
1. Natural and Man-made Disasters
2. India- Its Geographical Features
3. India- Climate and Natural
Map Work
Cities: - Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Lucknow, Pondicherry, Thiruvananthapuram, Panaji.
Water Bodies: - Indian Ocean, Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal, Gulf of Mannar, Gulf of Khambhat, Gulf of Kutchh,
Palk Strait.
Rivers: - Yamuna, Ganga, Gomti, Ghagara, Gandhak, Kosi, Chambal, Betwa, Son, Brahmaputra, Mahanadi,
Godavari, Krishna, Kaveri, Narmada, Tapi, Indus, Satluj.
Physical Features: - Great Himalayan Range, Vindhya Range, Satpura Range, Aravali Range, Gir Range, Chota
Nagpur plateau, Malwa Plateau, Deccan Plateau, Western Ghats, Eastern Ghats, Malabar Coast, Coromandal
Coast, The Northern Plains, The Indian Desert, Lakshadweep Islands, Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
4. Survey Sheets: - Definitions, Signs and Symbols, Short Forms, 4 Figure Grid Reference.
History
UT-I
The Growth of Nationalism: The French Revolution (History)
The Organs of the Indian Government: The Legislature (Civics)
Half Yearly
History
The Growth of Nationalism: The French Revolution
The Growth of Nationalism: The American War of Independence
India in the Eighteenth Century

Civics
The Organs of the Indian Government: The Legislature
The Organs of the Indian Government: The Union Executive

UT-II
The Great Uprising of 1857 (History)
The Organs of the Indian Government: The Judiciary (Civics)

Final
History
The Great Uprising of 1857
Socio-Religious Reforms
India’s Struggle for Freedom

Civics
The Organs of the Indian Government: The Judiciary
United Nations

General Knowledge
Half Yearly
1. Indian Wildlife
2. New to the world
3. In my words
4. Deep Sea Creatures
5. Electric Science
6. Indian Mythology
7. Indian Armed Forces
 8. Animals in our life
9. Exploding Mountains
10. Women Power
11. Blood Flow
12. Chemical Trivia
13. India Spectrum
14. Strangest Insects
15. Fearful
16. Birds all around
17. Deadly plants
18. Grand Places of India
19. From the past
20. Speedsters

Final
1. Holy Guest
2. The Rio Olympics
3. Wars and battles
4. New age writers
5. Microorganism
6. In the Stadium
7. Modern day Marvels
8. Indian Platters
9. Combo Series
10. Business World
11. Indian Change-makers
12. Country Quiz
13. Spirit of the Game
14. In the South
15. Science Mix
16. Film Genre
17. Makin India Famous
18. All in the Game
19. In the cave
20. Nobel Women
21. Indian Discoveries

Physics
UT-I
Ch-1- More About Matter
Ch-2- Density
Half Yearly
Ch-1- More About Matter
Ch-2- Density
Ch-3- Force Land Pessure
Ch-2- Work and Energy

UT-II
Ch-5- Light-Refraction and Reflection
Ch-6- Transfer of Heat

Final
Ch-3- Force Land Pessure
Ch-5- Light-Refraction and Reflection
Ch-6- Transfer of Heat
Ch-7- Sound
Ch-8- Electricity

English Literature
UT-I
As you Like it (Tales from Shakespeare)

Half Yearly
The Tempest (Tales from Shakespeare)
A present for Grandfather
The Three questions
Lines written in early spring (Poem)

UT-II
The Umbrella Man
This is going to hurt just a little bit (Poem)

Final
Macbeth
The Umbrella Man
Mirror (Poem)
This is going to hurt just a little bit (Poem)
English language
UT-I
Determiners (Articles, Demonstrative, Possessives)
Word Power Ex- 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9.
Half Yearly
Grammar Structure
The Simple present tense & Continuous
The Simple past tense & Continuous
The Simple Future tense & Continuous
Adjectives-Degree of Comparison
Determiners
Word Power (Distributive, Quantifiers, Tnterrogative)
Letter Writing
Informal Letter
Letter to the Editor
Unseen comprehension Passage
Essays:
Descriptive and Narrative
Imaginative
Autobiography
Story Writing

UT-II
Preposition
Some Useful Phrases and Idioms (Pg.116, 1-15)
Final
Grammar Structure
The Present Perfect & Perfect Continuous
The Past Perfect & Perfect Continuous
The Future Perfect & Perfect Continuous
Some useful phrases and Idioms (Pg.118, 1-15)
Combination of sentences
Words followed by prepositions
(Including the syllabus of Half yearly and Unit test I & II)
Letter Writing
Informal Letter & Formal Letter
Unseen comprehension Passage
Essays:
Descriptive and Narrative
Imaginative
Autobiography
Story Writing
Argumentative
Computer
First Term
1. Computer Network (UT-I)
2. Revision of LET, PRINT, and INPUT Statement Programs (UT-I)**
3. Conditional Statements (AND and OR) (UT-I)**
4. FOR- NEXT LOOP WITH STEPS**
5. WHILE – WEND Loops**
6. HTML
7. More on HTML

Second Term
1. LET, PRINT, INPUT, IF-THEN-ELSE (with AND and OR) (UT-II)
2. FOR – NEXT LOOP with STEPS (UT-II)
3. WHILE – WEND LOOP (UT-II)
4. Introduction to MS – ACCESS 2013
5. Advance features of MS-ACCESS
6. Computer and Ethics and World OF Internet (UT-II)
7. BUILT IN FUNCTION INT, FIX, SQR, SGN, ABS, ASC, CHR$, LEN, LEFT$, RIGHT$ and STR$ **

Note: Topics with ** will be according to lesson taught in the class.

Mathematics
UT-I
Exponents & Power
Sq- Sq roots/Cube-Cube roots
Percentage

Half Yearly
1. Rational Numbers
2. Playing with Numbers
3. Profit/Loss/Discount/Tax
4. S.I/C.I
5. Fundamental Concept & Operation of Algebraic Expression
6. Algebraic Identities
7. Factorization
8. Linear In-Equation
9. Quadrilaterals
10. Construction Circles
 11. Area of Plane Figure

UT-II
Time & Work
Sets
Ratio & Proportion

Final
Direct & Inverse Variation
Symmetry
Volume & Surface Area of Solids
Probability
From First Term
SI/CI
Factorization
Algebraic Identities
Linear Equation
Linear In-Equation

French
UT-I
Pierre, Stephanie et leus familles
A l epicerie

Half Yearly
A l epicerie
A la gare
Une grande ville
Ma vie quotienne

UT-II
Souvenirs d’ enfance
Reserve rune chamber

Final
Au commissariat de Police
La mode
Projects d’avenir
Pierre, Stephanie et leurs famille
Hindi Language
UT-I
पत्र ऱेखन (औपचाररक/अनौपचाररक)
विऱोम (1-10)
पयाायिाची (1-10)
िाकयाॊश के लऱए एक शब्द (1-10)
मुहािरे (1-10)
अशुद्ध शब्दों को शुद्ध करो (1-10)
भाििाचक (1-10)
विशेषण (1-10) Pg.45
ननदे शानुसार िाकय पररिर्ान

Half Yearly
सॊक्षऺप्र्/ कहानी ऱेखन
पत्र ऱेखन (औपचाररक/अनौपचाररक)
अपठिर् गदयाॊश
विऱोम (11-30)
पयाायिाची (11-30)
िाकयाॊश के लऱए एक शब्द (11-30)
मह
ु ािरे (11-20)
अशुद्ध शब्दों को शुद्ध करो (11-30)
भाििाचक सॊऻा (11-30)
विशेषण (11-30)
ननदे शानुसार िाकय पररिर्ान

UT-II
पत्र ऱेखन (औपचाररक/अनौपचाररक)
विऱोम (31-40)
पयाायिाची (31-40)
िाकयाॊश के लऱए एक शब्द (31-40)
मुहािरे (21-40)
अशुद्ध शब्दों को शुद्ध करो (31-40)
भाििाचक सॊऻा (31-40)
विशेषण (31-40)
ननदे शानुसार िाकय पररिर्ान

Final

सॊक्षऺप्र्/ कहानी ऱेखन

पत्र ऱेखन (औपचाररक/अनौपचाररक)
अपठिर् गदयाॊश
विऱोम (41-60)
पयाायिाची (41-60)
िाकयाॊश के लऱए एक शब्द (41-60)
मह
ु ािरे (31-50)
अशद्ध
ु शब्दों को शद्ध
ु करो (41-60)
भाििाचक (41-60)
विशेषण (41-60)
ननदे शानस
ु ार िाकय पररिर्ान

Hindi Literature
UT-I
आज नया ठदन है
काचू की टोपी
पहाड़ से ऊॉचा आदमी
(शब्द-अर्ा, प्रश्नोत्र्र, अभ्यास काया, भािार्ा)

Half Yearly
ठदए का अलभमान
हड़र्ाऱ
पऺी - रऺक
कन्याकुमारी
काचू की टोपी
(शब्द-अर्ा, प्रश्नोत्र्र, अभ्यास काया, भािार्ा, एक शब्द, ररकर् स्र्ान, ककसने ककस्से कहा)

UT-II
घमॊडी मछऱी
पेट्रोऱ का विकल्प
चाऱी चैपलऱन
(शब्द-अर्ा, प्रश्नोत्र्र, अभ्यास काया, भािार्ा)

Final
बच्चा हाई स्कूऱ
समय
िीरर्ा पुरस्कारों की कहानी
जॉजा और रणजी
पेट्रोऱ का विकल्प
(शब्द-अर्ा, प्रश्नोत्र्र, अभ्यास काया, भािार्ा, एक शब्द, ररकर् स्र्ान, ककसने ककस्से कहा)