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Syllabus Focus for Second Term Summative Examination

Grade 8
May 2023

Index Page
Subject Page Number

English Language 2
English Literature 2-3
Cambridge Mathematics 3-4
Shinglee Mathematics 4-5
French 5-6
Spanish Beginners 6
Spanish Advanced 6-7
Hindi 7-8
German 8
Physics 8-9
Chemistry 9-10
Biology 11
History 12
Geography 12-14
Computers 15
Art 15-16
Music 16
Design 16
Robotics 16

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 Subject Syllabus Focus Paper Details

English Language LANGUAGE Duration: 1 hour 30

KEY SKILLS: minutes Total Marks: 50
• Reading skills
• Writing skills

The students will be tested on the skills developed

through a study of:
• Narrative Writing
• Descriptive Writing
• Reading Comprehension
• Writer’s Effect
• Letter Writing (Persuasive)
• Summary
In the summative exam, via unseen passages the
students will be tested on the given formats to test
their comprehension skills as well as their style and
technique of writing.

English Literature LITERATURE Duration: 2 hours 15

KEY SKILLS minutes Total Marks: 75
• Reading skills
• Writing skills Important Instruction:
• Analytical and critical thinking skills The students will be
expected to answer three
PROSE: questions: One question
The Stories discussed and critically analysed in the from each of the sections
class with the students are: A, B and C. Students
• The Story of an Hour may attempt any
• Dusk question from Section A
• The Open Window (Poetry). However, from
sections B (Prose)and C
DRAMA: (Drama), they must
Julius Caesar Acts 1-5 answer one passage-
The students have learnt the context and meanings based question (marked
of quotes and phrases. They have also analysed the *) and one critical
text in terms of language, themes, setting, plot and analysis question
literary techniques. In the summative, the students (marked †). They must
will be tested on character analysis, themes, setting, ensure that they attempt
plot etc.to evaluate the skills of analysis developed one question from each
during this term. The students should also be able of the sections
to analyse extracts in terms of language and literary

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 techniques. Students will be tested on analytical
questions: extract based and general.

POETRY:
• To see a World
• London Snow
• Sonnet

The students analysed these poems in class to

comprehend and appreciate the features of poetry.
They have learnt to identify and comment
effectively on the literary techniques used in the
poems (Structure, diction, simile, metaphor,
hyperbole, personification, irony, rhyme scheme,
alliteration, onomatopoeia, contrast, anaphora,
repetition etc.). The students will be tested on the
setting, language, themes and literary devices used
in these poems to evaluate the skills of analysis
developed during this term.

Cambridge Chapter 5 – Angles Maximum Time: 2 hours

Mathematics - Calculating angles Maximum Marks: 80
- Interior angles of polygon Concept based and
- Exterior angles of polygon application based, long
- Constructions and short type questions
- Pythagoras’ theorem from the given topics.
Chapter 7 – Shapes and Measurements
- Circumference of a circle Use of calculator is
- Areas of compound shapes allowed.
- Large and Small units
Chapter 8 – Fractions
- Fractions and recurring decimals
- Fractions and the correct order of
operations
- Multiplying fractions
- Dividing fractions
- Making calculations easier
Chapter 9 – Sequences and functions
- Generating sequences
- Using the nth term
- Representing functions
Chapter 10 – Graphs
- Functions

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 - Plotting graphs
- Gradient and intercept
- Interpreting graphs
Chapter 11 – Ratio and proportion
- Using ratios
- Direct and Inverse proportion
Chapter 12 – Probability
- Mutually exclusive events
- Independent events
- Combined events
- Chance experiments
Chapter 13 – Position and transformation
- Bearings and scale drawings
- Points on a line segment
- Transformation
- Enlarging shapes
Chapter 14 – Volume, surface area and symmetry
- Calculating the volume of prisms
- Calculating the surface area of triangular
prisms, pyramids, and cylinders
- Symmetry in three-dimensional shapes
Shinglee Quadratic Equations and Functions Maximum Time: 2
Mathematics - Solving quadratic equations by completing Hours
the square Maximum Marks: 80
- Solving quadratic equations by using Concept based and
formula application based, long
- Solving quadratic equations by Graphical and short type questions
method from the given topics.
- Solving fractional equations that can be
Scientific Calculator is
reduced to Quadratic equations
allowed.
- Applications of Quadratic Equations in
Real-World contexts
- Graphs of Quadratic Functions.

Coordinate Geometry.
- Gradient of a straight line
- Length of a Line Segment
- Equation of a Straight line

Further Trigonometry
- Sine and cosine of obtuse angles
- Area of Triangle
- Sine rule
- Cosine rule

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 Applications of Trigonometry
- Angles of Elevation and Depression
- Bearings
- Three-Dimensional Problems
Arc Length, Area of Sector and Radian Measure
- Length of Arc
- Area of Sector
- Radian Measure
- Arc Length and Area of Sector using
Radian Measure
Congruence and Similarity Tests
- Congruence tests
- Similarity Tests
- Applications of Congruent and Similar
Triangles
Area and Volume of Similar Figures and Solids
- Area of Similar Figures.
Volume of Similar Solids
Geometrical Properties of Circles
- Symmetric Properties of Circles
- Angle Properties of Circles

French Topics - Reading and Writing:

Reading Comprehension: Max marks: 50
• Unit 2 (Tricolore 3) - Welcome to Paris Duration: 1hour 15mins
• Unit 3 (Tricolore 3)- My passions Reading – 26 marks
• Unit 4 (Tricolore 3) & Resource handout – I Writing –24 marks (2
Introduce myself – My School, subjects and
essays – 12 marks, 80-90
future plans
• Unit 7 (Tricolore 3) and Resource handout words each)
– I Introduce myself - Staying fit, my eating
habits, my body and my health. Listening:
• Resource handout – I Introduce myself – To be conducted
My home internally in class on
Monday, 8th of May
Writing, Listening, Speaking: 2023
Resource handout – I Introduce myself
Max marks: 15
• My home
Duration: 30 - 40 mins
• My school
• My eating habits
Speaking:
• My body and my health
Topic Conversation
To be conducted
internally in class.

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 Schedule to be intimated
to students and through
Friday Note.
Max marks: 15
Duration: 2 - 4 mins

Spanish beginner Topics: Reading and Writing:

Max marks: 50
Unidad 3: Aquí Vivo Yo Duration: 1-hour 15mins
Unidad 4: Otros Tiempos Reading – 26 marks (2
Unidad 5: En Forma reading comprehensions)
Writing –24 marks (2
Grammar:
essays)
• Present tense
• Present continuous tense(Regular and
Listening:
Irregular verbs)
To be conducted
• Past tense (Regular verbs and Irregular
internally in class on 8th
verbs)
of May 2023
• Present perfect
Max marks: 15
• Pretérito imperfecto
• The imperative Duration: 30-40 mins

Speaking:
Topic Conversation
To be conducted
internally in class
between 1st to 5th May.
Schedule to be intimated
to students and through
Friday Note.
Max marks: 15
Duration: 2 – 4 mins

Spanish Advanced Topics: Reading and Writing:

Unidad 3: Aquí Vivo Yo
Unidad 4: Otros Tiempos
Unidad 5: En Forma
Unidad 6: Hoy es fiesta
Grammar:
• Present tense
Max marks: 50
Duration: 1 hour 15mins
Reading – 26 marks (2
reading comprehensions)
Writing –24 marks (2
essays)

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 • Pretérito imperfecto Listening:
• Objeto de Complemento Directo To be conducted
• Sentence connectors internally in class on 8th
• The imperative of May 2023
• Giving recommendations and advice Max marks: 15
• Proposing a plan Duration: 30-40 mins
• Accepting or rejecting a suggestion
Speaking:
Topic Conversation
To be conducted
internally in class
between 1st to 5th May.
Schedule to be intimated
to students and through
Friday Note.
Max marks: 15
Duration: 2 – 4 mins

Hindi Topic :
• Unit 2 - Health Maximum Time: 1 Hour
• Unit 5 - Future 20 mins
• Unit 7 - History Maximum Marks: 40
Grammar : 3 comprehension (22
marks) summary writing
• Unseen Passage
(10 marks), creative
• Letter Writing (Formal & Informal) writing (8 marks)
• Suchna lekhan
• Email writing Listening:
• Smachar lekhan To be conducted
• Saransh lekhan internally in class on 8th
of May 2023
Max marks: 20
Duration: 30-40 mins

Speaking:
Topic Conversation
To be conducted
internally in class
between 1st to 5th May.

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 Schedule to be intimated
to students and through
Friday Note.
Max marks: 10
Duration: 2 – 4 mins

German Topic: Reading and Writing:

• My home Max marks: 50
• My school Duration: 1 hour 15mins
• My eating habits Reading – 26 marks (2
reading comprehensions)
Grammar: Writing –24 marks (2
• Cases- Nominative, essays)
Accusative & Dative
• Preposition with Dative Listening:
• Adjective-declination To be conducted
• Verb conjugations internally in class on 8th
• Modal verbs of May 2023
• Seperable verbs Max marks: 15
Duration: 30-40 mins

Speaking:
Topic Conversation
To be conducted
internally in class
between 1st to 5th May.
Schedule to be intimated
to students and through
Friday Note.
Max marks: 15
Duration: 2 – 4 mins

Physics Chapter 9 - Electricity Paper 1 – MCQ

9.1 Electricity Phenomena. 20 marks - 30 minutes
9.2 Dangers of electrostatic phenomena. Paper 2 –Structured
9.3 Digital Sensors. Questions
9.4 Electric circuits. 60 marks- 1 Hour 15
9.5 Current; What is it and how we can measure it. minutes
9.6 Parallel circuits. Paper 3 – Alternative to
9.7 Models for electric circuits. Practical

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 9.8 How components affect the current. 20 marks – 30 minutes
9.9 Voltage.
9.10 Enquiry: Selecting ideas to test circuits. Scientific Calculator
9.11 Extension: Energy and Power. permitted.

Chapter 10 - Energy
10.6 The world’s energy needs.
10.7 Fossil fuels.
10.8 Generating electricity.
10.9 Renewable energy sources: solar and
geothermal.
10.10 Renewable energy sources: using water and
wind.
10.11 Energy for the future.

Chemistry Unit 9: Energy changes Paper 1: Multiple choice

9.5: Investigating Endothermic questions Marks: 20
Changes Duration 30 minutes
9.6: Review
Paper 2: Structured
questions: Marks: 60
Unit 10: The reactivity series Duration: 1 Hour 15
10.1: The reactions of metals with Minutes
oxygen
10.2: The reactions of metals with Paper 3: Alternative to
water the practical: (Questions
based on the
10.3: The reaction of metals with
investigative tasks which
acids are discussed in the class
10.4: The reactivity series and lab activity) Marks:
10.5: Nickel in the reactivity series 20
10.6: Metal Displacement reactions Duration: 30 minutes
10.7: Using the reactivity series- Extracting metals
from their ores. Note: Scientific
calculators are not
10.8: Writing Symbol Equations-This will also
permitted.
include balancing
equations and writing chemical
formulae.
10.9: Review

Unit 11: Making salts

11.1: Making salts- Acids + metals

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11.2: Making – Acids + Carbonates
11.3: Extension- Making salts – Acids and alkalis
11.4: Extension- Making salts - Fertilizers
11.5: Review

Unit 12: Rate of reaction

12.1: Rate of reaction
12.2: Concentration and reaction rate
12.3: Temperature and reaction rate
12.4: Surface area and reaction rate
12.5: Catalyst and reaction rate
12.6: Review

Stage 9: Review
Please study from TB, NB, WB, Handouts(if any
given) and assignments.

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Biology Unit 14: Adaptation and survival Paper 1: Multiple choice
questions Marks: 20
14.1 Adaptation Duration 30 minutes

14.2 Extreme adaptations Paper 2: Structured

questions: Marks: 60
14.3 Extension: Survival Duration: 1 Hour 15
minutes
14.4 Enquiry: Sampling technique

14.5 Studying the natural Paper 3: Alternative to

the practical: (Questions
14.6 Review based on the
investigative tasks which
Unit 15: Energy flow are discussed in the class
and lab activity) Marks:
15.1 Food webs 20
Duration: 30 minutes
15.2 Energy flow
Note: Scientific
15.3 Decomposers calculators are permitted.
15.4 Changing populations

15.5 Facing extinction

15.6 Extension: Maintaining biodiversity

15.7 Review

Unit 5 & Unit 17: Variation and classification

5.1 Variation

5.2 Extension: Causes of variation

17.1 Using keys

17.2 What makes us different?

17.3 Extension: Chromosomes

17.4 Extension: Investigating inheritance

17.10 Review

Note : [Refer PPTs, class notes, textbook

workbook and notes uploaded in Teams]

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 History Topics
Total marks: 50 marks
Collins Textbook Max. Time: 1 hour 30
mins.
2.11 Fascists and Nazis: Who were they and what
did they believe? • Candidates
answer all
2.15 Hitler and the rise of Germany questions from
sections A, B and
3.11 War Crimes: Hiroshima? C.
3.12 The Holocaust Part-1 • Short answer
type questions
3.13 The Holocaust Part-2 • Long answer type
questions based
3.14 The Holocaust Part-3 on critical
thinking,
Understanding History (Handout) application, and
evaluation skills
4.2 The peace treaties • source -based
questions
4.3The League of Nations

4.4 The Weimar republic

5.3 The Great Depression

5.4 Hitler comes to Power

5.5 Life in Nazi Germany

6.4 Five steps to war

6.5 Neville Chamberlain and Appeasement

7.2 The war in the East

7.5 Hiroshima and Nagasaki

7.6 The Holocaust

Duration – 2 hours 10
Geography UNIT 1- SPACE AGE GEOGRAPHERS min
• Analyzing Trends Total Marks – 70
[Resource book Pg.23-25] Exam Pattern: All
questions are
UNIT 2- LIVING IN EARTHS DANGER ZONES Compulsory
• Plate tectonics- Distribution, types and
margins
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 [Interaction-Pg 30-33; Resource book- • Reasoning based
pg 46-51] Objective-type
• Volcanoes- Features and impact; types of questions.
volcanoes • Short
[Interactions Pg 34-35; Resource book- Pg 83 answer/Concept
–89]
based questions.
• Earthquake- causes and impact
• Descriptive/
[Resource book- Pg 52 –56]
analytical/Explan
{No case studies from Unit 2} atory/Questions.
• Diagram based
UNIT 3-SUSTAINING NATURAL questions,
ENVIRONMENT Sources based
• What are ecosystems? questions, Case
[Interactions (Chapter 1- pages10-11)] Study questions
• Features of specific biomes- Equatorial • All classwork
regions, Tropical rainforests, Mediterranean and homework
type, Hot desert, Polar region should be
[Interactions (Chapter 1-pages 12-25) revised.
• What is sustainability?
[Resource Book- page 121]
• Impact of development on natural
environment
[Interactions (Chapter 3-pages 48-59)]
• Biodiversity and sustainable development -
Case study: Borneo
[Resource Book- pages 122-141]

UNIT 4 – ENERGY RESOURCES –SECURITY

and MANAGEMENT
• What is a resource?
[Interactions (Chapter 3- page 60)]
• Natural resources
[Resource Book- pages 143-144]
• Human and economic resources [Resource
Book- page 145]
• Non-renewable resources- Formation, uses
and problems [Resource Book- pages146-
149]
• Alternative resources of energy-
Renewable, Geothermal
and Nuclear Energy
[Resource Book- pages 150-170]
• Energy security
[Resource Book- page 171]
• Resource management
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 [Interactions (Chapter 3-pages 62-65)]
• Possibility for future consumption of
energy resources: Case study: Energy Mix
in the UK
[Resource Book- pages 172-76]
• Soil as an important resource [Interactions
(Chapter 3-pages 66-67)]

UNIT 5-GLOBAL COOPERATION AND

INTERDEPENDENCE
• What is globalization?
• Factors affecting globalization
• Is globalization a new phenomenon?
• Impact of globalization
- Language
- Transnational corporations
- Sports
- Gaming industry
[Resource book for all topics of this unit]

UNIT 6-GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT

• Development patterns and categories
[Resource Book- pages 198-201]
• Factors affecting development.
- Geographic, Historic, Political, Economic
[Resource Book- page 202]
- Population, Jobs, Trade
[ Interactions (Chapter 5; pages 92-97)]
• Wants and needs
[Resource Book- pages 203-205]
• Poverty
[Resource Book- pages 206-209]
• Measuring Development
- Economic indicators
- Human Development Index
[Resource Book- pages 210-212]
• UN Sustainable Development Goals
[Resource Book- page 213]
• Resource and wealth: aspects of fairness
and development
- Case study: Fairtrade
[Resource Book- pages 214-218]
• Is development spread evenly?
[Interactions, pages 98-99]

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Computers Theory: Theory paper:
Algorithms, Programming and Logic Contains short-answer
• Basic programming concepts-variables, and structured questions.
constants, operators, declarations, All questions are
initialization, data types, input and output compulsory. No
statements calculators are permitted
• Sequence construct in this paper.
• Selection construct--if, if-else, if-else-if, Duration: 1 hour
nested if Marks: 60
• Iteration construct- for loop, while loop, Practical Paper:
nested loop Programming in Python
• String handling- length, split, strip, Duration: 30 minutes
uppercase, lowercase, substring [slicing in Marks: 20
python], reverse, sort functions, isalpha,
isdigit functions.

• Developing algorithm using flowchart,

pseudocode and python program for all the
above mentioned concepts.
• Computation Thinking and the techniques.
Problem solving steps.
• Arrays in the form of list in Python
programming language and its in-built
functions
• Trace Table
Practical:
Programming in Python
• Sequence construct
• Selection construct--if, if-else, if-else-if,
nested if
• Iteration construct- for loop, while loop,
nested loop
• String handling- length, split, strip,
uppercase, lowercase, substring [slicing in
python], reverse, sort, isalpha, isdigit
functions.
• Arrays in the form of list in Python
programming language and its in-built
functions

Art Mixed-media and acrylic paintings depicting forms Artworks will be

of nature, animals, birds, or insects. assessed for skill,
creativity, and
composition.

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 Music Individual Class Performance. Marking criteria:
1. Range of
technical &
musical skills
demonstrated.
2. Accuracy of
notes & rhythm
OR quality of
improvisation.
3. Choice & control
of tempo.
4. Sensitivity to
phrasing &
expression.

Total Marks: 80

Design Technology Creating three-dimensional shapes using foam Finished three-

boards. dimensional shapes will
be assessed for cutting,
gluing and measurement
accuracy.

Robotics Getting Started with Qtpi Exam Pattern:

• Introduction to Qtpi components- sensors and • Objective-type
motors questions.
• Introduction to block based and thonny software • Short and long
•Smart bin answer/concept-based
•Floor cleaner questions.
•Anti-theft alarm system
• Smart Fan Paper-Theory
• Color Picker Marks-30
• Smart door Duration-40min

Paper-Practical
Marks-50
Duration-40min

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