Beaconhouse School System

Syllabus for End of Year Examination 2023

Class 8 (Punjab/Sindh/Balochaistan/AJK)

ENGLISH
Language (i) Reading Read an unseen grade appropriate comprehension passage and answer questions with
varying degrees of challenge.
▪ Identify the purpose and/or main idea of the text
▪ Answer inferential questions based on the given text
▪ Identify meaning by predicting words and phrases in the given text
▪ Identify author’s use of devices to portray ideas and thoughts
▪ Connect the topic in the given text to personal thoughts/ opinions/ experiences
▪ Differentiate between facts, opinions, beliefs and prejudices
▪ Identify grammatical components in the given text (mentioned in the writing
section)
▪ Find a suitable replacement for grammatical components (eg; synonyms,
adjectives, words with a positive or a negative connotation or colloquial vs formal
written language etc.)

(ii) Writing Writing for different purposes:

▪ Story writing
▪ Narrative/ recount (serious/humorous)
▪ Descriptive writing
▪ Report Writing
▪ Informal/formal Letter (including letter of complaint, formal application letter)
▪ Argumentative/Persuasive writing (essay, poster, advertisement)

As per the purpose of writing, use the following grammatical components where required:
▪ different types of sentences, such as question, exclamation, statement, conditional
▪ direct/indirect speech
▪ present, past and/or future tense
▪ time and sequence vocabulary for cohesion and coherence (first, after that, in the
end etc.)
▪ phrasal verbs
▪ uncommon prefixes
▪ collocations
▪ write using complex punctuation (full stop, comma, colon, semi colon, question
mark, exclamation mark, speech/quotation marks, dash, hyphen, parenthesis and
apostrophes)

As per the purpose of writing, express the following where required:

▪ facts and/or opinions
▪ beliefs and/or assumptions
▪ colloquial or formal written language
▪ words with a positive or negative connotation
(Writing to be assessed according to the criteria shared by the HO)
 Listening Assessment to be based on audio clip/s or teachers reading aloud the provided text
▪ Listen to follow instructions to answer questions
▪ Listen to understand the main idea
▪ Listen for specific details
▪ Listen for meaning
▪ Listen for explicitly stated information
▪ Listen for information that is not explicitly stated
▪ Differentiate facts from speaker’s opinions

Speaking Students should be able to speak on any one of the given prompts for 2-3 minutes
▪ Speak to give information
▪ Speak to describe something using appropriate vocabulary
▪ Speak to give opinion
▪ Speak to share and advocate personal point of view
▪ Extend ideas by supporting them with evidence and examples
(Speaking to be assessed on the criteria shared by the HO)
Literature (i) Poetry ▪ Critical appreciation, thematic and analytical questions
▪ Identify, discuss or compare and contrast the main idea, theme, mood, tone and
feelings in poems
▪ Identify figurative devices, such as similes, metaphors, personification,
alliterations, hyperbole, onomatopoeia and symbolism
▪ Identify meter, word choice, chapter, stanza placement
(ii) Novel • Analytical, thematic and inferential questions
• Discuss the main idea, theme, tone, plot, setting
Hidden • Identify and explain the various conflicts (Character VS Self, Character VS
Figures Character, Character VS Nature, Character VS Society)
• Characterization/ Character sketch
• Compare and contrast two characters in terms of differences and similarities in
their characters
• Explain how author develops character voice(s) through actions, words, and plot
design
• Explain how a character responds in situations and what does that say about their
beliefs, assumptions, values, principles and thought process
• Explain how the characters undergo changes as the story takes turns and twists
• Identify and explain how author’s own feelings and thoughts may be seen
• Recognise connotations of words
• Relate character’s responses to personal experience
• Identify rhetorical devices used to argue, persuade, lead or sway (eg; Parallelism,
Hypophora, Repetition, Anti-thesis, Figurative Speech, Juxtaposition, Allusion,
Varied Sentence Length, Tricolon and Polysyndeton)
• Deduce meaning of words/phrases from contextual clues
• Summarise the main events
 Units/Topics Subtopics
Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of fractions, mixed numbers, decimal numbers and percentages (using knowledge of Order of
Operations wherever required)
Conversion between different types of fractions
Fractions and Percentages Percentage increase and decrease
Equivalences between fractions, decimals and ratios and percentages
Conversion of Pakistani currency to other well-known international currencies
Word problems involving comparison fractions, Zakat, Ushr and percentages in different real-life contexts
Finding the missing terms, next term and nth term in a sequence
Arithmetic and geometric sequence
Sequence and Patterns Find terms of an arithmetic sequence using:
- term to term rule
- position to term rule
Use of formula to find the term number when term value is given and vice versa
Algebraic terms (including open and close sentences, like term, variable, constant, expression, equation, inequality)
Associative, commutative and distributive Laws of the four operations in algebra
Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of polynomials
Factorization, simplification and expansion of linear and quadratic algebraic expressions
Algebraic identities:
- (a + b)2 = a2 + 2ab + b2
Algebraic Expressions and - (a - b)2 = a2 - 2ab + b2
Factorization
- a2 - b2 = (a + b) (a – b)
Divide a polynomial (of degree up to 3) using factorization method only by:
- a monomial
- a binomial
Factorize the following types of expressions:
- a2 - b2
- a2 ± 2ab + b2
- ax2 + bxy + cy2 (By mid-term breaking)
Solving simultaneous linear equations (in two variables) using substitution and elimination methods
Solving quadratic equations using factorization and graphical methods
Algebraic Equations and Finding value of unknown variables
Inequalities Solve simple linear inequalities (and represent the solution on a number line) i.e.
- ax > b or cx < d
- ax + b < c
- ax + b > c
Area and perimeter of triangles and quadrilaterals (including parallelograms and trapeziums) - with consistent and inconsistent units
Area and Volume
Volume and surface area of cubes, cuboids, simple 3D right prisms, spheres, pyramids, cones - where the units are both consistent & inconsistent

Calculating gradients and y-intercepts from a given straight line equation of the form y = mx + c, as well as from the graph

Introduction to Coordinate Equation for horizontal and vertical lines

Geometry Plot graphs of linear equations in two variables i.e.
- y = mx
- y = mx + c
Transformation
Reflecting 2D shapes in a given line on four quadrant grid (x-axis and y-axis only)
(2D shapes)
Understanding of Sets, elements of a set, equal sets, empty sets, universal set, subsets, complement of a set, intersection of sets, union of sets
Express sets using tabular, descriptive, and set-notations
Introduction to Set theory Commutative and associative properties of union and intersection (two sets)
Enumerate complements, difference, union, intersection of two sets mathematically
Show complements, union and intersection and difference of two sets by shading in Venn diagram using one universal sets and two subsets

Use of set theory to list number of elements in sample space and subsets

Meaning of the terms experiment, outcome, event, sample space, equally likely events, possible outcomes
Predict the outcomes of simple combined events with the help of:
Probability - sample space
- tree diagram
Calculate probability involving less than, greater than, at most, at least a particular number of single-event experiments
Word problems involving all of the above

Unit: Variation and Inheritance Unit: Salts Unit: Thermal Energy

Unit: Reactivity Unit: Electricity

 Geo ra hy

Theme
Industriali ation and International Trade
2 Trans ort and its Im ortance
To ics
Unit 4: Industrialization
Unit 5: Pakistan and International Trade
Unit 6: Transport and its Importance

3 Social and Economic e elo ment Unit 10: Measuring Development

HIST Y

Theme To ics
eforms of Muslim Unit 8: Agreements, Disagreements and Deadlocks:
Lea ue ( 30 3 ) 1930-39

orld ar II and its Unit 9: The World at War (1939 - 45)

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Aftermaths ( 3 ) Unit 10: Powershifts - The World after World War II
Partition of India and
3 formation of Pa istan Unit 11: Towards Partition and Pakistan (1940 - 47)
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Ne Be innin s
New Beginnings: Pakistan after 1947
Pa istan after

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