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GRACE ACADEMY, ANNUAL SYLLABUS CLASS XI HUMANITIES 2020-21

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1. ENGLISH CORE (301) TERM 1 1. THEORY (80 marks)

Hornbill

The Portrait of a Lady

A Photograph

We Are Not Afraid… Die

Discovering Tut

Landscape of the Soul

The Adventure

Voice of the Rain

The Laburnum Top

Childhood Snapshots

o The Summer of… Horse o Address o Ranga’s Marriage o Albert Einstein in School

Short Writing Skills Notice & Poster Letter Writing Letter to the Editor – Opinion/Complaint Letter to School Authorities- Enquiry/Request Long Writing Skills Narrative Writing & Report Unseen Passage Comprehension &Note-Making Grammar Transformation of Sentences TERM 2 Hornbill

The Ailing Planet: the Green Movement’s Role

Browning Version

Father to Son

Silk Road Snapshots

o Mother’s Day o The Ghat of the Only World o Birth o The Tale of the Melon City.

Short Writing Skills Advertisement- Promotional & Classifieds Letter Writing Business Letter – Placing an Order Job Application with résumé Long Writing Skills Speech & Article Unseen Passage Comprehension &Note-Making Grammar Transformation of Sentences 2. INTERNAL ASSESSMENT (20 Marks) May include Assessment of Speaking and Listening in both terms.

2. GEOGRAPHY (Code No 029) Term-I Part A Fundamentals of Physical Geography 25+5= 30 Unit-1: Geography as a discipline 25 Unit-2: The Earth Unit-3: Landforms Part B India-Physical Environment 30 Marks Unit-7: Introduction 25 Part C Practical Work 30 Marks Unit-1: Fundamentals of Maps 10 Marks Term-II Part A Fundamentals of Physical Geography Unit-4: Climate Unit-5: Water (Oceans) Unit-6: Life on the Earth Map and diagram 5 Part B India-Physical Environment 30 Marks Unit-9: Climate, vegetation and soil Unit-10: Natural hazards and Disasters Map and Diagram 5 Note: The question paper will include a section on Open Text-based Assessment of 10 marks from Unit – 5 (Part A). No other question will be asked from this unit. The open text material on this unit will be supplied to students in advance. These materials are designed to test the analytical and higher order thinking skills of students. The Part A: Fundamentals of Physical Geography Unit-1: Geography as a Discipline 04 Periods

Geography as an integrating discipline, as a science of spatial attributes.

Branches of Geography; Physical Geography and Human Geography.

Scope and Career Options Unit-2: The Earth 11 Periods

Origin and evolution of the earth; Interior of the earth. Wegener's continental drift theory and plate tectonics. Earthquakes and volcanoes: causes, types and effects.

Unit-3: Landforms 20 Periods Rocks: major types of rocks and their characteristics. Geomorphic processes: weathering, mass wasting, erosion

and deposition; soil-formation. Landforms and their evolution.

Unit 4: Climate 30 Periods Atmosphere- composition and structure; elements of

weather and climate. Insolation-angle of incidence and distribution; heat budget of

the earth-heating and cooling of atmosphere (conduction, convection, terrestrial radiation and advection); temperature- factors controlling temperature; distribution of temperature-horizontal and vertical; inversion of temperature. Pressure-pressure belts; winds-planetary, seasonal and local; air masses and fronts; tropical and extratropical cyclones.

Precipitation-evaporation; condensation-dew, frost, fog, mist and cloud; rainfall-types and world distribution.


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World climates-classification Koeppen, Differences in parameter between koeppen & Thornthwaite, Global warming and climatic changes.

Climate and Global Concerns. Unit 5: Hydrosphere (OTBA) 10 Periods

Basics of Oceanography Oceans - distribution of temperature and salinity. Movements of ocean water-waves, tides and currents;

submarine reliefs. Ocean resources and pollution.

Unit 6: Biosphere 07 Periods Biosphere - importance of plants and other organisms;

biodiversity and conservation; ecosystem and ecological balance. Map work on identification of features based on 1 to 6 units on the outline/Physical/Political map of the world. 05 Periods Part – B: India - Physical Environment Unit-7: Introduction 04 Periods

Location, space relations, India's place in the world. Unit-8: Physiography 28 Periods

Structure and Relief; Physiographic Divisions. Drainage systems: Concept of river basins, Watershed; the

Himalayan and the Peninsular rivers. Unit-9: Climate, Vegetation and Soil 28 Periods

Weather and climate - spatial and temporal distribution of temperature, pressure winds and rainfall, Indian monsoon: mechanism, onset and withdrawal, variability of rainfalls: spatial and temporal; use of weather charts; Climatic types (Koeppen).

Natural vegetation-forest types and distribution; wild life; conservation; biosphere reserves.

Soils - major types (ICAR's classification) and their distribution, soil degradation and conservation. Unit-10: Hazards and Disasters: Causes, Consequences and Management 14 Periods

Floods, Cloudbursts Droughts: types and impact Earthquakes and Tsunami Cyclones: features and impact Landslides

Map Work of features based on above units for locating and labelling on the Outline/Political/Physical map of India. 04 Periods Open Text based Assessment 05 Periods Part – C: Practical Work 50 Periods Unit-1: Fundamentals of Maps 20 Periods

Geo spatial data, Concept of Geographical data matrix; Point, line, area data.

Maps -types; scales-types; construction of simple linear scale, measuring distance; finding direction and use of symbols.

Map projection- Latitude, longitude and time, typology, construction and properties of projection: Conical with one standard parallel and Mercator's projection. (only two projections) Unit 2: Topographic and Weather Maps 30 Periods

Study of topographic maps (1 : 50,000 or 1 : 25,000 Survey of India maps); contour cross section and identification of landforms-slopes, hills, valleys, waterfall, cliffs; distribution of settlements.

Aerial Photographs: Types and Geometry-vertical aerial photographs; difference between maps and aerial photographs; photo scale determination. Identification of physical and cultural features.

Satellite imageries, stages in remote sensing data-acquisition, platform and sensors and data products, (photographic and digital).

Use of weather instruments: thermometer, wet and dry-bulb thermometer, barometer, wind vane, rain gauge. Practical Record Book and Viva Voce Viva to be based on Practical Unit I and II only.

3. POLITICAL SCIENCE (028) Prescribed Books: 1. Indian Constitution at work, Class XI, Published by

NCERT

2. Political Theory, Class XI, Published by NCERT

TERM I Part A: Indian Constitution at work 1 Constitution Why and How and Philosophy of the

Constitution

2 Rights in the Indian Constitution

3 Elections and Representation

4 The Executive

5 The Legislature

6 The Judiciary

7 Federalism

8 Local Governments

9 Constitution as a living document

Part B: Political Theory 10. Political Theory: An Introduction

11 Freedom

TERM II 12 Equality

13 Social Justice

14 Rights

15 Citizenship

16 Nationalism

17 Secularism

18 Peace

19 Development

COURSE CONTENT

Part A: Indian Constitution at Work


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1. Constitution Why and How and Philosophy of the

Constitution Constitution: Why and How, The making of the

Constitution, the Constituent Assembly, Procedural

achievements and Philosophy of the Constitution.

2. Rights in the Indian Constitution 16 Periods The importance of Rights, Fundamental Rights in the

Indian Constitution, Directive Principles of State Policy,

Relationship between Fundamental Rights and Directive

Principles

3. Election and Representation 11 Periods Elections and Democracy, Election System in India,

Reservation of Constituencies, Free and Fair Elections,

Electoral Reforms

4. Legislature 11 Periods Why do we need a Parliament? Two Houses of

Parliament. Functions and Power of the Parliament,

Legislative functions, control over Executive.

Parliamentary committees. Self-regulation.

5. Executive 11 Periods What is an Executive? Different Types of Executive.

Parliamentary Executive in India, Prime

Minister and Council of Ministers. Permanent Executive:

Bureaucracy.

6. Judiciary 11 Periods Why do we need an Independent Judiciary? Structure of

the Judiciary, Judicial Activism, Judiciary and Rights,

Judiciary and Parliament.

7. Federalism 11 Periods What is Federalism? Federalism in the Indian institution,

Federalism with a strong Central Government, conflicts in

India's federal system, Special Provisions.

8. Local Governments 11 Periods Why do we need Local Governments? Growth of Local

Government in India, 73rd and 74th Amendments,

implementation of 73rd and 74th Amendments.

9. Constitution as a Living Document 11 Periods Are Constitutions static? The procedure to amend the

Constitution. Why have there been so many

amendments? Basic Structure and Evolution of the

Constitution. Constitution as a Living Document.

Part B: Political Theory

10. Political Theory: An Introduction 10 Periods What is Politics? What do we study in Political Theory?

Putting Political Theory to practice. Why should we study

Political Theory?

11. Freedom 11 Periods The Ideal of Freedom. What is Freedom? Why do we need

constraints? Harm principle. Negative and Positive

Liberty.

12. Equality 11 Periods Significance of Equality. What is Equality? Various

dimensions of Equality. How can we promote Equality?

13. Social Justice 12 Periods What is Justice? Just Distribution. Justice as fairness.

Pursuing Social Justice.

14. Rights 11 Periods What are Rights? Where do Rights come from? Legal

Rights and the State. Kinds of Rights. Rights and

Responsibilities.

15. Citizenship 11 Periods

What is citizenship? Citizen and Nation, Universal

Citizenship, Global Citizenship

16. Nationalism 11 Periods Nations and Nationalism, National Self-determination,

Nationalism and Pluralism

17. Secularism 11 Periods What is Secularism? What is Secular State? The Western

and the Indian approaches to Secularism.

Criticisms and Rationale of Indian Secularism.

18. Peace 11 Periods What is Peace? Can violence ever promote peace? Peace

and the State. Different Approaches to the

pursuit of peace. Contemporary challenges to peace.

19. Development 11 Periods What is development? Dominant, development Model and

alternative conceptions of development.

4. ECONOMICS [030] TERM - I Part A: Introductory Microeconomics

Unit 1: Chapter-1 Introduction Unit 2: Chapter-2 Consumer's Equilibrium and Demand

Part B: Statistics for Economics Unit 1: Chapter-1 Introduction Unit 2: Chapter-2 Collection of Data Chapter-3 Organization and Presentation of data Chapter-4 Presentation of data Unit 3: Statistical Tools and Interpretation Chapter-5 Measures of Central Tendency

TERM – II

Part A: Introductory Microeconomics

Unit 3: Chapter-3 Production and Cost Unit 4: Chapter -4 Theory of firms under perfect Competition Chapter-5 Market equilibrium Chapter-6 Non-competitive markets

Part B: Statistics for Economics Unit 3: Statistical Tools and Interpretation Chapter-6 Measures of Dispersion Chapter-7 Correlation Chapter-8 Index Numbers

Part C: Developing Projects in Economics


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5. MATHEMATICS [041] FIRST TERM 1. Sets 2. Relations and Functions 3. Trigonometric Functions 4. Complex Number and Quadratic Equations 5. Permutations and Combinations 6. Straight lines 7. Limits and Derivatives 8. Binomial Theorem 9. Sequence and Series SECOND TERM 10. Sequence and Series contd... 11. Conic Sections 12. Introduction to 3D Geometry 13. Statistics 14. Probability 15. Principle of Mathematical Induction 16. Linear Inequalities 17. Mathematical Reasoning

6. INFORMATICS PRACTICES [Code No 065]

CHAPTERS 1) Introduction of Computer System

Introduction to computer and computing: evolution and components of a Computer System, Input / Output

devices. Computer Memory: Units of memory, primary and secondary Software: purpose, system and

application software, generic and

specific purpose software.

2) Introduction to Python

Basics of Python programming, Python

interpreter - interactive and script

mode, the structure of a program,

indentation, identifiers, keywords,

constants, variables, types of operators,

precedence of operators, data types,

mutable and immutable data types,

statements, expressions, evaluation

and comments, input and output

statements, data type conversion,

debugging.

Control Statements: if-else, for loop

Lists: list operations - creating,

initializing, traversing and

manipulating lists, list methods and

built-in functions.

Dictionary: concept of key-value pair,

creating, initializing, traversing,

updating and deleting elements,

dictionary methods and built-in

functions.

3) Data Handling using NumPy

Data and its purpose, importance of

data, structured and unstructured

data, data processing cycle, basic

statistical methods for understanding

data

Introduction to NumPy library, NumPy

arrays and their advantage, creation of

NumPy arrays; indexing, slicing, and

iteration; concatenating and splitting

array;

Arithmetic operations on one

Dimensional and two Dimensional

arrays.

Calculating max, min, count, sum,

mean, median, mode, standard

deviation, variance on NumPy arrays.

4) Database concepts and the

Structured Query Language

Database Concepts: Introduction to

database concepts and its need, Database Management System.

Relational data model: Concept of domain, tuple, relation, candidate key, primary key, alternate key, foreign key.

Advantages of using Structured Query Language, Data Definition Language, Data Query Language and Data

Manipulation Language, Introduction to MySQL, Creating a database using

MySQL, Data Types Data Definition: CREATE TABLE, DROP TABLE, ALTER TABLE.

Data Query: SELECT, FROM, WHERE. Data Manipulation: INSERT, UPDATE,

DELETE.

5) Introduction to the Emerging Trends

Artificial Intelligence, Machine

Learning, Natural Language Processing,


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Immersive experience (AR, VR), Robotics, Big data and its characteristics, Internet of Things (IoT),

Sensors, Smart cities, Cloud Computing and Cloud Services (SaaS,

IaaS, PaaS); Grid Computing, Block chain technology.

7. SOCIOLOGY (Code No- 039)

Chapters for TERM -I

Book -1 Introducing Sociology

Chap-1 Sociology and Society

Chap-2 Terms, Concepts and their use in Sociology

Chap-3 Understanding Social Institutions

Chap-4 Culture and Socialisation

Chap-5 Doing Sociology – Research Methods

Chapters for Term –II

Book-2 Understanding Society

Chap- 1 Social Structure, Stratification and Social Processes in Society

Chap-2 Social Change and Social Order in Rural and Urban Society

Chap-3 Environment and Society

Chap-4 Introducing Western Sociologists

Chap-5 Indian Sociologists

8. ENTREPRENEURSHIP Term I Unit 1: Entrepreneurship: What, Why and How

Entrepreneurship- Concept, Functions, Need and Importance.

Myths about Entrepreneurship Pros and Cons of Entrepreneurship Process of Entrepreneurship.

Unit 2: An Entrepreneur

Types of Entrepreneurs Competencies and Characteristics; Ethical

Entrepreneurship.

Entrepreneurial Value: Values, Attitudes and Motivation.

Mindset of an Employee and an Entrepreneur- Difference

Intrapreneur: Importance in Any Organization. Unit 3: Entrepreneurship Journey

Self-Assessment of Qualities, Skills, Resources and Dreams.

Generation of Ideas. Feasibility Study Opportunity Assessment Business Plan Preparation Execution of Business Plan Role of Society and Family in the growth of an

entrepreneur. Challenges faced by women in Entrepreneurship.

Unit 4: Entrepreneurship as Innovation and Problem Solving

Entrepreneurs- as problem solvers. Innovations and Entrepreneurial Ventures. Social Entrepreneurship-Concept and Importance Risk taking-Concept; types of business risks. The role of technology/ social media in creating new

forms of firms, organizations, networks and cooperative clusters.

Barriers to Entrepreneurship. Support structure for promoting entrepreneurship

(various government schemes). Unit 5: Understanding the Market

Market- Traditional and E-commerce- Concept and Role

Types of Business: Manufacturing, Trading and Services.

Market Forces: Sellers, consumers and competitors. Expanding Markets: Local to global, Strategies

needed. Marketing Mix: Concept and Elements. Pricing and Factors affecting pricing. Market Survey: Concept, Importance and Process.

Term II Unit 6: Business Arithmetic

Simplified Cash Register and Record Keeping Unit of Sale, Unit Price and Unit Cost - for single

product or service Types of Costs - Start up, Variable and Fixed Income Statement Cashflow Projections Break Even Analysis - for single product or service Taxes

Unit 7: Resource Mobilization Types of Resources - Human, Capital and other

Resources


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Selection and utilization of human resources and professionals like Accountants, Lawyers, Auditors, Board Members, etc.

Role and Importance of a Mentor Estimating Financial Resources required. Methods of meeting the financial requirements. Size and capital based classification of business

enterprises. Various sources of Information

Project Work (Any Three) 1. Visit and report of DIC 2. Case Study 3. Field Visit 4. Learn to earn 5. Know thy state handicraft

9. HOME SCIENCE

Term I Theory.

Unit I: Understanding Oneself: Adolescence Ch- 1 Understanding The Self Ch-2 Food, Nutrition, Health And Fitness Ch-3 Management Of Resources - Time, Money,

Energy And Space- Ch-4 Fabric Around Us Unit II: Understating Family, Community And

Society Ch- 5 Relationships And Interactions With

‘Significant Others’. Ch – 6 Concerns And Needs In Diverse Contexts: Term I Practical 1. Study Of Physical Self With Reference To 2. Understanding Oneself With Reference 3. Record Own Diet For A Day 4. Record The Fabrics And Apparel Used In A

Day 5. Record One Day’s Activities Relating To Time

Use And Work 6. Record Own Emotions For A Day Term II Theory Unit III: Childhood Ch- 7 Survival, Growth And Development • Areas

Of Ch- 8 Nutrition, Health And Wellbeing Ch- 9 Our Apparel Unit IV: Adulthood Ch- 10 Health And Wellness Ch- 11 Financial Management And Planning Ch 12 Care And Maintenance Of Fabrics

Practical. 7. List And Discuss 4-5 Areas Of Agreement And

Disagreement 8. Relationship Of Fibre Properties To Their

Usage 9. Study One Female Adult And One Male Adult 10. Preparation Of Different Healthy Snacks 11. Study Of Labels 12. Plan A Budget

10. GENERAL STUDIES I TERM 1. Science, Technology and Society 2. India’s Social Structure 3. Protection of Environment II TERM 4. National Unity 5. International Peace and Understanding

11. PHYSICAL & HEALTH EDUCATION APRIL – SEPTEMBER [FIRST TERM] 1. Aims of Physical Education 2. Games & Sports major Badminton, Foot- ball, Volley ball & Basketball. 3. Health Education 4. Recreational Games 5. P.T. Drills & Mass P.T. 6. First Aid 7. Practical of Ground Marking of major sports OCTOBER- MARCH [SECOND TERM] 1. Games & Sports (Major Games- Volleyball, Basket-Ball,

Table Tennis & Cricket 2. Health Education: Mind & Body coordination 3. Recreational Games: Lead up Games, Dodge Ball, Throw

Ball 4. P.T. Drills & Mass P.T 5. First Aid 6. Leadership Development 7. Practical of Ground Marking of major sports

12. WORK EXPERIENCE 1. Paper work-Make an invitation/greeting card with envelope. 2. Block Printing- on table mats.

3. Macramé Work- Prepare flower pot holders/hangings

using plastic or nylon threads.

4. Patch work-Make a big wall hanging using broken

bangle pieces pasted on a board. Decorate it using

mirrors, beads of different colours etc.

13. MORAL EDUCATION 1. Self-awareness Inventory- April & May 2. Values: Right & Wrong – July - Oct 3. Dating Vs Courtship – Nov-Feb


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