THE EPISTLE class 9 newsletter- September 2020 CLASS NEWSLETTER –CLASS IX

AUGUST 2020

ARMY PUBLIC SCHOOL, DELHI CANTT

ENGLISH

STRESS BUSTERS FOR BETTER HEALTH

Most students experience a considerable amount of stress due to school activities which affects

their performance. Stress can affect your sleep, retention , study pattern and even diet , leading to

behavioural problems. In the previous newsletter we spoke of time management. That is the best way to reduce stress.

Here are a few tips to deal with stress:

1. Time Management: Manage your time in such a way that it leaves you enough time for other activities that you may want to pursue.

2. PriorItise: Work in a manner that you complete your important work first which can be

submitted on time. So, organize your academic life.

3. Exercise: In the present scenario, you will not be able to go out to exercise. Do practice the

yoga asanas that you have been taught in school. They will definitely help to destress and concentrate better.

4. Connect: with your friends and family. This is a golden opportunity to do so. Make the most

of it. They are instant mood lifters.

5. Help: your parents do the household chores. It helps to unwind.

6. Watch: a funny video or a comedy film. It is a great stress buster.

7. Listen: to music. Sing along. It helps soothe your emotions.

8. Dance : to music. It not only destresses but is a good workout too.

Lastly, remember ,to get at least eight hours of sleep at night. Take power naps as and when you

need them. You will definitely be more productive if you follow these tips.

Activity:

Make a list of all the things that stress you. Work towards relieving that stress.

Etymology:

Stress: noun, origin French

Old French estresse ‘narrowness, opression’ based on Latin strictus ‘drawn tight.

Meaning distress.

Middle English denoting hardship or force exerted on a person for the purpose of compulsion.

He suffered from fatigue and emotional stress.

SYLLABUS COVERED

Syllabus Covered:

Writing Skills:

Description of a person

Story Writing

Revision: the Half Yearly Exams

Syllabus for Half Yearly Exams:

Beehive: Moments:

The Fun They Had The Lost Child

Road not Taken The Adventures of Toto

Sound of Music 1& 2 In the Kingdom of Fools

Wind The Happy Prince

The Little Girl Writing Skills:

Rain on the Roof Description of a person

A Truly Beautiful Mind Story Writing

The Legend of the Northland Grammar:

My Childhood Editing, Reported Speech

No Men are Foreign Gap Filling

LINKS:

PPT and Word Documents

MATHEMATICS

Blaise Pascal (19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor,

writer and Catholic theologian. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax

collector in Rouen. Pascal's earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences, where he made

important contributions to the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by generalising the work of Evangelista Torricelli. Pascal also wrote in defence of the scientific method.

In 1642, while still a teenager, he started some pioneering work on calculating machines. After three

years of effort and 50 prototypes,[8] he built 20 finished machines (called Pascal's calculators and

later Pascalines) over the following 10 years,[9] establishing him as one of the first two inventors of the mechanical calculator.[10][11]

Pascal was an important mathematician, helping create two major new areas of research: he wrote a

significant treatise on the subject of projective geometry at the age of 16, and later corresponded

with Pierre de Fermat on probability theory, strongly influencing the development of modern

economics and social science. Following Galileo Galilei and Torricelli, in 1647, he rebutted Aristotle's

followers who insisted that nature abhors a vacuum. Pascal's results caused many disputes before

being accepted.

In 1646, he and his sister Jacqueline identified with the religious movement

within Catholicism known by its detractors as Jansenism.[12] Following a religious experience in late

1654, he began writing influential works on philosophy and theology. His two most famous works

date from this period: the Lettres provinciales and the Pensées, the former set in the conflict

between Jansenists and Jesuits. In that year, he also wrote an important treatise on the arithmetical

triangle. Between 1658 and 1659, he wrote on the cycloid and its use in calculating the volume of

solids.

Throughout his life, Pascal was in frail health, especially after the age of 18; he died just two months after his 39th birthday

Syllabus for the month of August

Chapter completed- Circles, Heron’s formula.

Chapter continued- Surface, areas and volumes.

SCIENCE

Syllabus covered

Phy:Gravitation & Revision for HY & viva

Chem: Revision for HY & viva

Bio: Revision for HY& viva

Syllabus to be covered

Phy:Gravitation & Revision for HY

Chem: Revision for HY

Bio: Revision for HY

SOCIAL SCIENCE

Russian Revolution

From where do rivers originate?

River is a body of water, so its origin must also be a source of water. Normally a river begins, or

starts, from a glacier, stream, or lake; a glacier may be explained as a body of ice. This starting point is called Headwater or Headstream.

The Source of a river is usually found in high places such as hills and mountains. A river can have

more than one source.

Different Sources of Rivers----

Spring- Some rivers begin where a natural spring releases water from underground.

The origin of the river Ganga is the Gangotri glacier at Gomukh, a place in

the Himalayas.

Rainfall and Melting snow—

Some rivers begin in mountains or hills, where rain water or snowmelts collect and forms small channels. The streams begin big enough to form a river.

Lakes – The source of some rivers is a lake. The source of river Nile is lake Victoria, in Burundi.

HINDI

1 - पे्ररक वचन

कववता- गरुु है सकल गणुों की खान

गरुु, पित,ु मात,ु सजुन, भगवान,

ये िााँचों हैं िूज्य महान।

गरुु का है सवोच्च स्थान,

गरुु है सकल गणुों की खान।

कर अज्ञान ततममर का नाश,

दिखलाता यह ज्ञान-प्रकाश।

रखता गरुु को सिा प्रसन्न,

बनता वही िेश सम्िन्न।

कबबरा, तलुसी, संत-गसुाईं,

सबने गरुु की मदहमा गाई।

बडा चतरु है यह कारीगर,

गढ़ता गााँधी और जवाहर।

आया िावन िााँच-मसतम्बर,

श्रद्धािूववक हम सब ममलकर।

गरुु की मदहमा गावें आज,

मशक्षक-दिवस मनावें आज।

एकलव्य-आरुणण की नाईं,

गरुु के मशष्य बने हम भाई।

िेता है गरुु पवद्या-िान,

करें सिा इसका सम्मान।

अन्न-वस्र-धन िें भरिूर,

गरुु के कष्ट करें हम िूर।

ममल-जुलकर हम मशष्य-सजुान,

करें राष्र का नवतनमावण।

2 - छात्र-ननर्मित गनतववधियों के कुछ नमूने

Syllabus covered

स्पर्ि - अधववापषवक िरीक्षा िाठ्यक्रम िनुरावतवन

संचयन- िनुरावतृत (िाठ-१,२ )

व्याकरण- संिेश लेखन, चचर वणवन,नारा लेखन , संवाि लेखन और िनुरावतृत - संिूणव व्याकरण

मौणखक िरीक्षा-15 अंक

Syllabus to be covered

स्िशव- गीत-अगीत (िठन हेत)ु

अग्नन-िथ (िठन हेत)ु

संचयन-मेरा छोटा सा तनजी िसु्तकालय

व्याकरण- िनुरावतृत

अर्दििवावषिक परीक्षा-1-15 अक्टूबर