ARMY PUBLIC SCHOOL

CLEMENT TOWN , DEHRADUN

SUMMER HOLIDAY HOMEWORK
CLASS – VIIII
(2022-23)

ENGLISH
Project- 1
•Art Integrated Project- Search newspapers, browse through Internet to find
information about children’s authors three each from Karnataka and Uttarakhand
•Pen down the information or paste in your author’s journal.
•Based on your reading of this information, write a comparative study in your
own words, telling about language, genre, style of writing of any one author each
from Karnataka and Uttarakhand.
• Feel free to paste or draw relevant pictures.
• Now read a book of any one author out of these and write its book review
covering the following points:-
o Author’s life and achievements
o Chief Characters of the book under the headings- protagonists, antagonists and
supporting characters. Your favourite character of the book.
o Summary/plot and values highlighted in the book.
o The culture and social life of the characters of the book.
o Feel free to paste or draw relevant pictures.
• While reading the book you may come across new words and phrases, find their
meaning from dictionary and note them down in the Vocabulary Book in which
you write your word of the day at school.
Project-2- Read all the titles of the lessons given in your books- ‘Honeydew’ and ‘It so
happened…...’ then choose anyone lesson out of the two books. Now, give your chosen
lesson, the form of a comic strip by using dialogue clouds and pictures. Create the comic strip
on light colour A- 4 size sheets. Make it colourful and interesting.
Project -3-Diary Entry – Do you remember children on 21st April 2022 you attended an
Inter House E- Newspaper Designing Competition held at your school? Write a Diary Entry
about the competition. Share with your diary what you liked the most about the event, your
learning from the event, your inspiration if any. Brief it on everything that you remember
about the event. Now, write a Diary Entry daily, sharing with it, all your sweet and sour
experiences of the day.
Project- 4- Select any one topic from your grammar book of grade- VII or VIII and make a
working grammar game for it. You may use Led bulbs and electric circuits or any other
material of your choice.
OR
See the video in this link- https://youtu.be/kT1hts5U52g and make the model of idioms
shown in it. Note- Avoid taking the same idioms as shown in video.

ह द
िं ी

(1) समाचार पत्र या किसी मैगजीन से िोई एि चचत्र िाटिर चचपिाए उस चचत्र िो शीर्षि
दे िर उसी िे आधार पर िोई एि स्वलिखित िहानी अथवा िववता लिखिए ।

(2)अपने लमत्र िो यह बताते हुए कि आपने अविाश िे समय में अपने स्वास््य िा ध्यान
रिते हुए पढाई िे लिए समय प्रबंधन िैसे किया ?अनौपचाररि पत्र लिखिए।

नोट :-पत्र रं गीन िागज पर ििात्मिता िे साथ लििना है और लिफाफा भी बनाना है।

(3)हहंदी वसंत िी पस्

ु ति से ध्वनन ,लाख की चडू ़ियािं तथा बस की यात्रा नामि पाठों िे पीछे
हदए गए शब्दों िो लिििर याद िीजजए तथा उत्तर पुजस्तिा में िराए गए प्रश्न उत्तर भी
याद िीजजए।

(4) व्यािरण ननिंु ज पस्

ु ति से भाषा बोली तथा वर्ण ववचार नामि पाठ िो पढिर उनिी
िायष पत्रत्रिाओं िो भररए।

MATHEMATICS
I) Activity Based On Locating Concave and Convex Polygons By Paper Folding
Method: -

Locate the Convex and Concave Polygons by paper folding method. Write the
procedure to perform this activity. Also draw the observation table to derive the conclusion.
https://youtu.be/YSr2qVl1Vew
II) Paper Weaving Craft Activity based on Origami:- Make a paper mat using
strips of paper.
https://youtu.be/84d1LcWmdqg

III) Activity On Representation of Rational Numbers :- Why do we use a

thermometer? Draw a clinical thermometer and represent the following temperature in
Fahrenheit (℉).

98.6°F , 94.2°F , 104.4℉

https://youtu.be/J157oziu3zQ

IV) Based On Real Life Situations : -Write your and your parents’ present age. Taking
‘x' as your present age, answer the following questions in the form of linear expressions.
 ❖ How old are your parents than you?
❖ How old are your parents than twice of your present age?
❖ How old you will be after fifteen years?
❖ How old were you five years ago?
V) Based On Building Maths Vocabulary:- Write the meaning of at least six new
terms that you have learnt in each of the following chapters:
❖ Rational Numbers
❖ Understanding Quadrilaterals
VI) Practice Work: Do examples of the following chapters:
➢ Rational Numbers
➢ Understanding Quadrilaterals
SCIENCE
1. Activity 1.
To observe the growth of a seed in two different conditions.
A. When soil is mixed with dung manure.
B. When plain soil is used
2. Activity 2
Make a list of crops grown by farmers in different seasons with their geographical
requirement and distribution.
3. ART INTEGRATED LEARNING -Prepare a chart /poster indicating the categories
of microorganism which are human friendly and non-friendly by using household
goods only .
4. Prepare a question bank of 20 question each from chapter

i) Crop Production and Management ii) Microorganism- friends or foe

iii) Synthetic Fibre and Plastics iv) Metals and Non Metals

5. Portfolio work- Make a picture gallery depicting at least 10 food

Preservative techniques with examples like Sun drying (picture),
Dry Mango powder (picture)

Note-Learn all the work done before summer vacations and for portfolio work make a separate
file

SOCIAL SCIENCE
1.Bhasha Sangam
Make a PPT on festival of their religion/ culture in their local language.
OR
Make a PPT on temple representing their religion in their local language.
2. Draw Sustainable Development Goal No.7-‘Affordable And Clean Energy’ along with it
sub-parts on a chart paper or A4 colour sheet and label it.
3. Prepare a question bank of 20 questions from the following chapters:
i) The Indian Constitution ii) Resources
iii) From Trade To Territory: The Company Establishes Power iv) Understanding
Secularism
 संस्िृत
1.'त्रबिस्य वाणी न िदावप मे ‘श्रुता' पाठ िा सारांश अपने शब्दों में लिखिए तथा संबंचधत
चचत्र भी िगाएँ।
2.मद्र
ु ा िे त्रबना िेन-दे न िरने में जो एप्स (app) सहायि होते हैं, उनिे ववर्य में जानिारी
एित्र िरिे लििें तथा संबंचधत चचत्र भी चचपिाएँ।
3.अपने बारे में पाँच वाक्य संस्िृत में लििें।
4.संस्िृत िे िोई पाँच मंत्र/श्िोि लििें व याद िरें ।
5.अस ् धातु िे रूप पाँचों ििारों में लििें व याद िरें ।
समस्त िायष स्रेब बुि में िरें ।
COMPUTER SCIENCE
Q.1 With respect to Information Technology hub in India, answer the following questions in
the following sequence and format, in your Computers Notebook only.

a) Which is the biggest IT hub in India?

b) Who made that city an IT Hub?

c) Why is it considered the biggest IT hub in India?

d) With respect to the different types of Computer Network on the basis of geographical
area, complete the following table:(Note: One is done for example)

S. NAME OF NAME OF TYPE & NAME OF TOPOLOGY NETWORK PROTOCOL

No COMPUTER PLACES COMMUNICATION THAT CAN ARCHITECTURE THAT CAN
. NETWORK WHERE IT CHANNEL USED BE USED THAT CAN BE BE USED
CAN BE USED
USED
1 LOCAL SCHOOL WIRED BUS PEER/CLIENT TCP/IP
AREA /OFFICE/ (TWISTED PAIR
NETWORK HOME CABLE)

e) From the data you have written above in the table, which is the software component
used in Computer Network?

Q.2 Draw any three wired Communication Channel clearly.

Q.3 Explain any five Networking Protocols.

Q.4.Who is known as Father of Artificial Intelligence? What is his contribution in the field of
AI?

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