NEW GREEN FIELD SCHOOL, ALAKNANDA

SYLLABUS
SESSION 2024-2025
CLASS-X

ENGLISH
Prescribed Books: Published by NCERT, New Delhi

[TERM-I]

Literature Reader (First Flight)

Prose:
1. A letter to God
2. Nelson Mandela: Long walk to Freedom
3. Two stories about flying
4. From the diary of Anne Frank

Poetry:
1. Dust of snow
2. Fire and Ice
3. A Tiger in the Zoo
4. How to tell wild animals
5. The Ball Poem

Supplementary Reader (Footprint without feet)

1. A Triumph of surgery
2. The Thief’s story
3. The Midnight visitor
4. A question of trust

Grammar
1. Tenses
2. Modals
3. Subject-verb concord
4. Reported Speech
• Commands and requests
• Statements
• Questions
• Determiners
The above topics may be tested through Gap-filling, Editing, Transformation exercises.

Words And Expressions- II (Workbook)

Unit 1 to 4
Writing Skills
1. Formal letter (based on a given situation)
2. Analytical Paragraph

Unseen Passage

Unit Test I
First Flight
Prose:
1. A letter to God
Supplementary Reader (Footprint without feet)
1. A Triumph of surgery
Grammar
1. Gap Filling

Writing Skills
1. Formal letter (based on a given situation)

Unseen Passage

TERM II

Literature Reader (First Flight)

Prose:
1. Glimpses of India
2. Mijbil the Otter
3. Madam Rides the Bus
4. The Sermon at Benares
5. The Proposal (Play)

Poetry:
1. Amanda!
2. The Trees
3. Fog
4. The Tale of Custard the Dragon
5. For Anne Gregory

Supplementary Reader (Footprint without feet)

1. Footprint Without Feet
2. The Making of a Scientist
3. The Necklace
4. Bholi
5. The Book That Saved the Earth

Grammar
1. Tenses
2. Modals
3. Subject-verb concord
4. Reported Speech
• Commands and requests
• Statements
• Questions
• Determiners
The above topics may be tested through Gap-filling, Editing, Transformation exercises.
Words And Expressions- II (Workbook)

Unit 7 to 11

Writing Skills

1. Formal letter (based on a given situation)

2. Analytical Paragraph

Unseen Passage

Unit Test-Il

First Flight
Prose:
1. Glimpses of India
Poetry:

1. Amanda!

Supplementary Reader (Footprint without feet)

1. Footprint without feet

Grammar:

1. Editing
2. Integrated Grammar

Writing Skills:

Analytical Paragraph

Unseen Passage
 MATHEMATICS

[TERM- I ]
Ch-1 : Real numbers

Ch-2 : Polynomials

Ch-3 : Pair of linear equations in two variables

Ch-4: Quadratic equation

Ch-5 : Arithmetic progression

Ch-6: Triangles

Ch-7: Coordinate Geometry

Ch-13: Statistics

Unit Test I -
Ch - 1: Real Number s
Ch - 2: Polynomials

[TERM-II]
Ch-8: Introduction to trigonometry

Ch-9: Some applications of trigonometry

Ch-10: Circles

Ch-11: Area related to Circles

Ch-12: Surface Areas and Volumes

Ch-14: Probability

Unit Test II-

Ch-8: Introduction to trigonometry

Ch-11: Area related to Circles

 SCIENCE

TERM-I

CHEMISTRY
Chapter 1: Chemical reactions and Equations

Chapter 2: Acids, Bases and Salts

PHYSICS
Chapter 9: Light- Reflection and Refraction
Chapter 10: Human Eye and the Colourful World

BIOLOGY
Chapter 5: Life Processes

Chapter 13: Our Environment

Chapter 6: Control and Co-ordination (Pg no. 100-105)

UNIT- TEST I

CHEMISTRY: Chapter 1: Chemical reactions and Equations

PHYSICS: Chapter 9: Light- Reflection
BIOLOGY: Chapter 5: Life Processes ( Pg no. 79-90)
 TERM-II

CHEMISTRY

Chapter 3: Metals and Non- Metals

Chapter 4: Carbon and its Compounds

PHYSICS
Chapter 11: Electricity

Chapter 12: Magnetic Effects of Electric Current

BIOLOGY

Chapter 6: Control and Co-ordination (Pg no.105-112)

Chapter 7: How do organisms reproduce?

Chapter 8: Heredity

UNIT- TEST II

CHEMISTRY: Chapter 3: Metals and Non-Metals

PHYSICS: Chapter 11: Electricity

BIOLOGY: Chapter 6: Control and Co-ordination

 SOCIAL SCIENCE
Name of the textbooks
• India and the Contemporary Word - II (History)
• Contemporary India II (Geography)
• Democratic Politics II (Political Science)
• Understanding Economic Development (Economics)
• Together Towards a Safer India - Part III, a Textbook on Disaster Management
Note: Please procure latest reprinted edition (2024-25) of prescribed NCERT textbooks.

Term – 1

HISTORY
• Nationalism in India
• The Rise of Nationalism in Europe
• The Making of a Global World (To be evaluated in the Board Examination -
Subtopics: 1 to 1.3 Pre Modern World to Conquest, Disease and trade)
GEOGRAPHY
• Resources and Development
• Forest and Wildlife
• Water Resources
• Agriculture

POLITICAL SCIENCE
• Power Sharing
• Federalism
• Gender, Religion and Caste

ECONOMICS
• Development
• Sectors of the Indian Economy
MAPSKILL
A . HISTORY (Outline Political Map of India)
Chapter - 2 :Nationalism in India - for locating and labelling / Identification
1. Indian National Congress Sessions:
• Calcutta (Sep. 1920)
• Nagpur (Dec. 1920)
• Madras (1927)
2. Important Centres of Indian National Movement
• Champaran (Bihar) - Movement of Indigo Planters.
• Kheda (Gujarat) - Peasant Satyagraha.
• Ahmedabad (Gujarat) - Cotton Mill Workers Satyagraha.
• Amritsar (Punjab) - Jallianwala Bagh Incident.
• Chauri Chaura (U.P.) - Calling off the Non-Cooperation Movement.
• Dandi (Gujarat) - Civil Disobedience Movement.

B . GEOGRAPHY (Outline Political Map of India)

Chapter 1: Resources and Development (Identification only)
• Major soil Types
Chapter 3: Water Resources (Locating and Labelling)
Dams:
• Salal
• Bhakra Nangal
• Tehri
• Rana Pratap Sagar
• Sardar Sarovar
• Hirakud
• Nagarjuna Sagar
• Tungabhadra
Chapter 4: Agriculture (Identification only)
• Major areas of Rice and Wheat.

• Largest / Major producer states of Sugarcane , Tea, Coffee, Rubber,

Cotton and Jute.
Unit Test 1

• Economics Chapter 1 – Development.

• Political Science Chapter 1- Power Sharing.

Term – II

HISTORY
• Print Culture and the Modern World
• The Age of Industrialization (To be assessed as part of Periodic Assessment only)

GEOGRAPHY
• Minerals and Energy Resources.
• Manufacturing Industries.
• Lifelines of National Economy - Only map pointing to be evaluated in the
Board Examination

POLITICAL SCIENCE
• Political Parties
• Outcomes of Democracy

ECONOMICS
• Money and Credit
• Globalization and the Indian Economy -To be evaluated in the Board
Examination:
What is Globalization?
Factors that have enabled Globalization
MAPSKILL
B . GEOGRAPHY (Outline Political Map of India)
Chapter 5: Minerals and Energy Resources
Minerals (Identification only)
a. Iron Ore mines
• Mayurbhanj
• Durg
• Bailadila
• Bellary
• Kudremukh
b. Coal Mines
• Raniganj
• Bokaro
• Talcher
• Neyveli
c. Oil Fields
• Digboi
• Naharkatia
• Mumbai High
• Bassien
• Kalol
• Ankaleshwar
Power Plants
(Locating and Labelling only)
a. Thermal
• Namrup
• Singrauli
• Ramagundam
b. Nuclear
 • Narora
• Kakrapara
• Tarapur
• Kalpakkam
Chapter 6: Manufacturing Industries (Locating and Labelling Only)
Software Technology Parks:
• Noida
• Gandhinagar
• Mumbai
• Pune
• Hyderabad
• Bengaluru
• Chennai
• Thiruvananthapuram

Cotton Textile Industries:

• Mumbai
• Indore
• Surat
• Kanpur
• Coimbatore

Iron and Steel Plants:

• Durgapur
• Bokaro
• Jamshedpur
• Bhilai
• Vijaynagar
• Salem
Chapter 7: Lifelines of National Economy
Major Ports: (Locating and Labelling)
• Kandla
• Mumbai
• Marmagao
• New Mangalore
• Kochi
• Tuticorin
• Chennai
• Vishakhapatnam
• Paradip
• Haldia
International Airports:
• Amritsar (Raja Sansi - Sri Guru Ram Dasji)
• Delhi (Indira Gandhi)
• Mumbai (Chhatrapati Shivaji)
• Chennai (MeenamBakkam)
• Kolkata (Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose)
• Hyderabad (Rajiv Gandhi)

• Note: Items of Locating and Labelling may also be given for Identification.

Unit Test 2
• History Chapter 4- The Age of Industrialisation.
• Political Science Chapter 4 - Political Parties.
 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Book Name: Essential of Artificial Intelligence

Term-1
Part A
Employability skills
Unit 1- Communication Skills-II
Unit 2- Self-Management Skills-II
Unit 3- ICT Skills-II
Part B
Subject Specific Skills
Unit 1- 1. Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
2. Basics of AI

Term II

Part A
Employability skills
Unit 4- Entrepreneurial skills-II
Unit 5- Green Skills

Part B
Subject Specific Skills
Unit 2- AI project Cycle
Unit 3- Advance Python
Unit 4- Data Science Unit
5- Computer Vision
Unit 6- Natural Language Processing
Unit 7- Evaluation
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