St.

Mary’s Convent Inter College

R.D.S.O Lucknow
Syllabus for 2020-2021
Class- VIII
1st TERM EXAMINATION

SUBJECT SYLLABUS

Book: Collins English Grammar and Composition 8

Chapter
1. Noun
2. Pronouns
3. Adjectives
4. Determiners
7. Agreement of Subject and Verb
ENGLISH LANGUAGE 9. Modals
10. The Present Tense
11. The Past Tense
12. The Future Tense
* Essay: Narrative, Descriptive , Autobiography
* Letter Writing- Formal- (Application to Principal/Class
Teacher , Librarian.) and Informal letter.
* Comprehension- (Unseen passage)

Book- Fragrance English Reader

• The Day of The Bare Feet
• Abraham Lincoln
ENGLISH LITERATURE
• A Boy’s Best Friend
• Coromandel Fishers
• Forest Fires
Chapter 3- SQUARE ROOTS AND CUBE ROOTS
Chapter 5- SETS
Chapter 6- PERCENTAGE
Chapter9- RATIO AND PROPORTION
MATHEMATICS Chapter 10- DIRECT AND INVERSE VARIATION
Chapter 11- TIME AND WORK
Chapter 12- FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS AND OPERATION ON
ALGEBRIC EXPRESSIONS
Chapter 13- ALGEBRIC IDENTITIES
Chapter 2- Population
Chapter 3- Migration
GEOGRAPHY
Chapter 4-Urbanization
Chapter 7- Asia-Location, Extent, Political and Physical Features
 Maps of Asia ( political and physical )
Book – The Trail – History & Civics for ICSE Middle School
History
1. The Beginning of the Modern World
2. The Industrial Revolution and The Rise of Imperialism
3. The Age of Revolution
4. Decline of the Mughal Empire
HISTORY AND CIVICS 5. Rise of British Power in Bengal
6.
Civics
1. The Union Legislature
2. The Union Executive
3. The Judiciary
Chapter 2- Refraction of Light
Chapter 3- Heat
PHYSICS Chapter 5-More About Energy

Chapter 1- Life Processes: Transport of Food and Minerals in Plants

and Animals
Chapter 2- Life Processes: Growth, Development and Reproduction in
BIOLOGY Plants
Chapter 3- Life Processes: Growth, Development and Reproduction in
Animals

Chapter 1.Matter and its Composition

Chapter 2. Physical and chemical Changes
CHEMISTRY Chapter3: Elements, Compounds and Mixtures
Chapter 4: Atomic Structure
Chapter 5: Language of Chemistry

Chapter 1- उड़ चल हारिल (कविता)

Chapter 3-विल्लू
Chapter 5-हाई स्कूल में महात्मा िााँ धी(आत्मकथा)
Chapter9- विद्धाथथ का िृहत्याि (एकाां की)
Chapter 10-तालनिमी
HINDI
व्याकिण
1.प्रस्ताि लेखन
2.पत्र लेखन (प्राथथना पत्र, वनजी पत्र एिां औपचारिक पत्र)
3.व्यािहारिक व्याकिण – (भाििाचक िांज्ञा, विशेषण, उपििथ-प्रत्यय, विलोम,
पयाथ यिाची, मुहाििे आवि)
Chapter- वंदना
Chapter 1- जननी जन्मभमू मश्च स्वर्ाादपि र्रीयसी
Chapter2-‘कमा’ एवं मसद्धिमंत्र:
Chapter3- महान वैज्ञाननक डॉ.ए.िी.जे.अब्दल ु कलाम:
SANSKRIT
Grammar: Present Tense, Past Tense, Future Tense,
Imperative mood, Potential mood
Words –1.दे व, लता, नदी, तद् (masculine, feminine and neuter
gender)
2.Translate into Sanskrit
1. Spreadsheet formulas and functions
COMPUTER 2. Spreadsheet chart
 3. Algorithm
4. Flowchart.
1.School Diary
a. Our Patroness
b.Our Foundress
c.Our History
d. Maxims of Venerable Mother Mary Ward (maxims 1 to 15)

2. Value Education book:(Living in Harmony)

VALUE EDUCATION
a. Ch 1-The Jar of Life
b. Ch 2- What can you share
c. Ch 3- Your Rights,My rights
d. Ch 5-The Grand People in our Life

3. Mary Ward A prophet of Hope:

Chapter 6,7,and 8.
1.Plant habitats (pg no. 7)
2.Animal habitats (pg no. 8)
3. Animal senses (pg no. 9)
4. Marine (pg no. 10)
5. Economic and political terms (pg no. 11)
6. New terms (pg no. 12)
7. Indian women writers (pg no. 14)
8. Atoms and molecules (pg no. 17)
GENERAL 9. Indian scientists (pg no. 18)
KNOWLEDGE 10. Global Indians (pg no. 19)
11. Guests in India (pg no. 20)
12. States and union territories (pg no. 21)
13. International Organisations (pg no. 23)
14. Dance forms of the world (pg no. 28)
15. Environmentalists (pg no. 33)
16.Natural calamities (pg no. 34)
Note: Currents Affairs taught by the teachers are also included.