Course Outline for the Academic Year: 2023 - 2024

Grade 8
Art
FIRST TERM

● Mark making – Music as inspiration – Review lines

● Contour drawing - types of contour - favorite fruit or vegetable.
● Bilateral Mirror drawing – Focus : elements of art
● Atmospheric perspective – Landscape painting
● Water color techniques – Abstract art –
● Artist study : Pakistan’s renowned Artist
● Suminagashi print – Positive negative space – No tan Design
● Print making – Styrofoam prints – Organic shape design
● Zines
● Observational drawing : Hand gestures

SECOND TERM

● Shading techniques : Cross hatching, stippling etc

● Review color study – Shade an orange sphere with 4 colors ( No black)
● Design study – Product packaging design – Choose a Favorite product ( 3D)
● Agamograph
● Still life composition - Sighting technique – Assorted objects setup
● Art movement : Post Impressionism
● Calligraphy
● Pot painting – Recreate your favorite painting by any Artist
● Free style artwork.
● Observation drawing – Favorite musical instrument.

Students may be assessed through: 

Artworks
Sketches and Rough work
Group work
Quizzes
Class participation
Readiness for class
English Language

Text: Complete English for Cambridge Secondary 1 book 8

Reading and Comprehension:

· Fiction

· Non-fiction

· Myths and legends

· Poetry

· Drama

Writing:

· Formal letters

· Drama scripts (humour: student-initiated sub-topic)

· Arguments

· Speeches

· Summaries

· Reports

· Stories

· Articles

· Brochures

· Descriptions
Speaking and Listening:

Discussion, making speeches and presentations, role-play and performance.

Language:

· Sentence types and clauses

· Regular and irregular verbs, tenses, prepositional phrases, adjectives,

adverbs and adverbials, pronouns.

· Punctuation

· Discourse markers

· Figurative language, idiomatic expressions

· Language in context. Formal and informal register

· Prefixes, synonyms, antonyms, word families

· Question types

· Paragraph construction and process writing

FIRST TERM

Units 1 to 5

SECOND TERM

Units 6 to 9

Students may be assessed through: 

Tests
Quizzes
Classwork/Homework assignments
Group work
Projects
Class participation
Exams (Midterm and Final)

English Literature
TEXTS

1. The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

2. Short Stories:

a) The Fun They Had by Isaac Asimov

b) All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury

 c) Charles by Shirley Jackson

d) The Scholarship Jacket by Marta Salinas

3. Poems:

a) Conquering Mt Everest

b) Drifting by Bobbi Katz

c) Still I Rise by Maya Angelou

d) Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden

FIRST TERM

The Merchant of Venice

Points of focus:

● Context

● Features and Elements of Drama

● Themes

● Characterization

● Language and imagery

● Poetic devices – rhyme, rhythm, meter

SECOND TERM

Short stories:

a) All Summer In a Day – Ray Bradbury

b) The Fun They Had – Isaac Asimov
c) Charles – Shirley Jackson
d) The Scholarship Jacket – Marta Salinas

Points of focus:

· Context – The circumstances that form the setting for the stories and in
terms of which it can be fully understood.
 · Plot development
· Characterisation – the development of characters and their relationships
· Themes and their development
· Language and imagery: recognizing the way words and images work
to convey meaning.
· Developing and sharing a personal response to character, events
and themes.

Poetry:

a) Conquering Mount Everest – Wilfrid Noyce

b) Drifting – Bobbi Katz

c) Still I Rise – Maya Angelou

d) Those Winter Sundays – Robert Hayden

Points of focus:

● Features of poetry
● Poetic devices
● Themes
● Inferred meaning
● Personal response
● Comparison of poems

Students may be assessed through: 

Tests
Quizzes
Classwork/Homework assignments
Group work
Projects
Class participation
Exams (Midterm and Final)
Urdu
FIRST TERM

Urdu Literature (Urdu kee Bahar):-

● Hamdh

● Hockey

● Hazrat Ali (RA)

● Hikayat e Romi

● Girls guide

● Taasub

● Hajjam ki Biwi

Nazmein:-

● Bahar ka Mausam
● Ae Jawan, Manzil hai Aasman (song by Fakhir and Junaid)

Urdu Grammar (Nardhban)

● Wahid Jama (page 20)

● Muzzakar Moannas (to be provided by teacher)

● Sabqa/ Laheqa (page 13)

● Mutaradif o Mutazaad (page 22)

● Zarb ul Amsal (page 33)

● Tashbihaat (to be provided by teacher)

 ● Translation

● Tafheem

● Essay Writing

● Email Writing

● Kahani Nawesi

● Listening Comprehension

● Mahawaraat

● Ginti 21 to 100 (Revision )

SECOND TERM

Urdu Literature (Urdu kee Bahar):-

● Baghbani

● Adab kee Ahmiyat

● Misali Talib-e-Ilm

● Bijli kee Daryaft

● Bilquis Edhi

● Tabdeeli Mausam

● Mazoor Bachay

Nazmein :-

● Hub e Watan

Urdu Grammar (Nardhban):-

 ● Wahid/Jama

● Muzzakar Moannas

● Sabqa Laheqa

● Mutaradif Alfaaz

● Mahawaraat

● Tashbihaat

● Zarb-ul-Amsal

● Translation

● Ginti jumlon main awr waqt ghari ki madd say

● Essay Writing

● Email Writing

● Kahani Nawesi

● Listening Comprehension

Note: All topics will include words/meanings, jumlay , Q/A , Khulasa , Markazi
Khayal, use of dictionary and dictations.

Students may be assessed through:

Tests

Quizzes

Classwork/Homework assignments

Group work

Projects
 Class participation

Exams (Midterm and Final)

Science
FIRST TERM

● Photosynthesis
● Food and Digestion
● Elements and compounds
● Magnetism
● Motion and Speed (Including cars,clock-making: student initiated link)

SECOND TERM

● Respiration and Circulation

● Mixtures
● Simple Chemical Reactions (student-initiated topic:PLASTIC)
● Sound
● Light (including light travel in space: student-initiated topic)

Global Perspectives
Course description:

The Curriculum provides a comprehensive set of learning objectives for Cambridge

Global Perspectives. The learning objectives are divided into six main skill areas
called “strands” which run through every stage. Each strand corresponds to one of
the skills: 

● Research
● Analysis
● Evaluation
● Reflection
● Collaboration 
● Communication
 
Each topic or challenge will provide a sequence of activities to support the
development of a particular skill.
FIRST TERM

● Skill focus: Research Challenge

● Changing Communities

(Including the student-initiated sub-topic: Racism, Rights and Laws)

● Skill Focus: Evaluation

● Migration

SECOND TERM

● Skill Focus: Evaluation

● Family
● Digital World
● Skill Focus: Collaboration
● Trade and Aid

(Including Ottoman Empire (the location of Istanbul), cryptocurrency:

student-initiated sub-topics)

Students will be engaged in the Generation Global Programme, a project by the

Tony Blair Institute for Global Change

Students may be assessed through: 

Classwork/Homework assignments
Group work
Team Project
Individual Report
Class participation

Islamiyat
FIRST TERM

Life and history of Holy Prophet (s.a.w)

Makkan era-

●     Conditions of Arabia before the advent of Islam

●     Early life of the Prophet (s.a.w) [Upbringing, Cleansing of the heart, a journey with Bibi
Amina, Visit to Monk Bahira, HaFijar, Half ul Fazool, professions and titles, marriage to
Khadija-R, Arbitration]

●     Experience of the first revelation and role of Khdaija-R and Waraqah Bin Nawfil.
●     Stages of preaching

●     Persecutions faced by Muslims and the Prophet (s.a.w)

●     Migration to Abyssinia

●     Conversion of Omer-R and hamza-R

●     Boycott

●     Year of sorrow

●     Visit to Taif

●     Pledges of Al Aqabah

●     Reasons for the rejection of Prophet’s (s.a.w) preachings by the Makkans and accepting
Islam by the Madinans

●     Migration to Madinah

Hadiths of the Holy Prophet (s.a.w)

●     Any 4 hadiths

  

SECOND TERM

Life and history of Holy Prophet (s.a.w)

Madinan era-

●     Events of 1st A.H

●     Battle of Badr

●     Battle of Uhud

●     Events of 4th A.H

●     Battle of Trench

●     Treaty of Hudaibiya

●     Letters and invitation to Islam

●     Khyber

●     Conquest of Makkah

●     Battle of Hunain
●     Tabuk expedition

●     The last sermon

●     Demise of the Prophet (s.a.w)

●     Relationship with the Jews and Hypocrites

Passages of Quran

●     Surah Al Maida

●     Surah Al Kauther

Students may be assessed through:

Tests
Quizzes
Classwork/Homework assignments
Group work
Projects
Class participation
Exams (Midterm and Final)

Mathematics
FIRST TERM
● Rational and Irrational Numbers (Unit 9)
● Indices and Standard Form (Unit 1)
● Order of Operations with Algebra (Unit 5)
● Rounding and Estimating Numbers (Unit 11)-----Tentative
● Estimating Surds (Unit 26)
● Further Fractions and decimals (Unit 14)
● Simple Interest (Worksheets)
● Further Constructions, Polygons and Angles (Unit 17)
● Pythagoras Theorem (Unit 2)
● Area and Circumference of Circle (Unit 4)
● Surface Area and Volume of Prisms (Unit 8)
● Manipulating Algebraic Expressions (Unit 15)-----Math Ahead 2
● Further algebraic expressions and formulae (Unit 18)
● Further algebraic equations and inequalities (Unit 20)
● Data Collection and Sampling (Unit 3)
● Record, Organize and Represent Data (Unit 7)

SECOND TERM
● Further Data Interpretation (Unit 12)
● Mutually Exclusive Events (Unit 10)
● Combined Events (Unit 16)
 ● Probability- Expected and Relative Frequency (Unit 19)
● Further Transformations (Unit 13)
● Linear and Quadratic Sequences (Unit 21)
● Functions and their Representation (Unit 24)
● Linear Functions and Solving Simultaneous Linear Equations (Unit 27) …. Math
Ahead 2
● Direct and Inverse Proportion (Unit 29)
● Scale and Area Factors of Enlargement (Unit 23)
● Coordinates and Straight-Line Segments (Unit 25)
● Bearings and Scale Drawings (Unit 28)
● Compound Measures and Graphs (Unit 30)

Students may be assessed through:

Tests
Quizzes
Classwork/Homework assignments
Group work
Projects
Class participation
Exams (Midterm and Final)

PSHE
FIRST TERM

Relationships

● Relating to others
● Skills for successful relationships

Tobacco and other drugs

○ Drugs – an introduction
● Drugs and the law
● Smoking

Emotional wellbeing and mental health

● What is ‘resilience’?
● Feelings and how to manage them
● Anger Management

Healthy lifestyle

● Things that support our health .

● Influences on health
SECOND TERM

Risk and safety

● Gambling
● First aid and CPR

Communities .

● What makes a successful community? ... .

● What can cause problems in communities?

Stress Management:-
Academic Stress and Test Anxiety

Planning for the future

● My personal brand
● What do I need to plan for?
● What opportunities are out there for me?
● Time management

Financial Management (student interest)

● Credit and debt

● Money stresses and pressures
○  

Note: The course outlines have been created using KS3 and KS4 books.

Students may be assessed through:

Classwork/Homework assignments
Group work
Class participation

Social Studies
FIRST TERM

● The Industrial Revolution (History)

● Colonization of the subcontinent (History)
● The struggle for power on the subcontinent - (Tipu Sultan, case study on
rockets)
● What is development? (Geography)
 ● How does ice change the world? (including connection to Climate Change
and importance of Siachen Glacier +Pages 282 -285) (Geography)

SECOND TERM

●  The War of Independence (History)

● The First World War (WWI) to be explored as an precursor to WWII (causes

and consequences, Treaty of Versailles, fall of Khilafat)
● The Second World War

(the student-initiated topic ‘deaths of famous people,’ for example:Tipu Sultan, Bahadur
Shah Zafar, Hitler may be explored in the above topics as relevant)

● How are populations changing (Geography)

● How is Asia being transformed (Geography)

Students may be assessed through:

Tests
Quizzes
Classwork/Homework assignments
Group work
Projects
Class participation
Exams (Midterm and Final)

ICT & Digital Literacy

FIRST TERM

ICT:- 

● Handling Database
● Documents for a Purpose
● Programming the computer 

DLS:-

● Communicating with others using digital tools & project (Including

student-initiated sub topics: Photoshop, Vlogging and YouTube channel and how
to grow it) 

● Understanding our online footprint

SECOND TERM

ICT
● Programming the Computer (Coding/Python: Student-initiated sub-topic)
● Deep diving
● ICT is Fun (including animation: student-initiated topic)

DLS:-
● Digital awareness
● Protecting online community & project 
● Social Media marketing: Student-Initiated topic (How to promote your
pages/channels)

Students may be assessed through:

Tests
Quizzes
Classwork/Homework assignments
Group work
Projects
Class participation
Exams (Midterm and Final)

MUSIC
Students should purchase their own instrument of choice, so that they can practice
at home. They may choose between a Keyboard, Ukulele or Percussions. The school
can help by advising or assisting them in purchasing the instruments.

FIRST TERM

● Music in our daily lives

● Observing music (Ear Training)
● Introduction to dotted notes
● Music Analyzation
● Singing Solfeges (Do Re Mi)
● Pitch and Symbols Kodaly method (Solfege Syllables)
● Pitch Names
● Musical Alphabets
● In-Tune singing
● Introduction to Rhythm
● Rhythm Solfege (Takadimi system)
● Performance – Ode to nature
● Introduction to Rhythm playing (Percussions)
SECOND TERM

● Relative solmization
● Introduction to Keyboard
● Introduction to Staff
● Staff Notation
● Ear training and sight-singing
● Meter and rhythmic patterns
● Keyboard Training
● Instrument Training
● Major Scales
● Major Triads
● Sight Reading
● Musical Forms
● Individual and ensemble work

Students may be assessed through: 

Practice and skill level
Readiness for class
Individual Performance
Group Performance
Class Participation and Activities
Homework
Quizzes

Physical Education
FIRST TERM

Circulatory system 
● Components of blood
● Heart structure and function 
● Cardiac output

Energy Supply and the effects of exercise on the body

● Aerobic and Anaerobic respiration 
● Recovery

Student-initiated topics:-

● First Aid

SECOND TERM

● Short term effects of exercise

● Long term effects of exercise
 ●

Health and Well-being

● Health and well-being 
● Fitness 
● Diet and energy sources ‘
● Components of fitness 
● Fitness testing VO2 Max (maximum oxygen intake)

Student-initiated topics:-

Self-Defense (student-initiated topic)

Students may be assessed through: 

Quizzes
Tests
Practicals
Marked Assignments
Research Based Presentations