DPS International (Saket)Holiday Homework

Class XI

First Language English

1. Narrative Writing : Write an original story on any one of the given options. The stories should have all the elements of a good story e.g. plot, characters, climax, dialogues etc.

Your stories should have originality, creativity and should not be plagiarized. Your stories should be of approximately 500 words.Avoid using the words ‘and’, ‘but’, ‘so’ or ‘then’ in your stories:

a. Write a story in which the protagonist wakes up one morning with wings.

b. Write a story with the first line, ‘A funny thing happened on my way to …’

c. One day you and your friends walked up to an old, seemingly abandoned house. You couldn’t see inside due to the dust and cobwebs on the windows. You decide to see if the door is locked. You try the knob, and it turns. The door creeks open as if it has not opened in years... What happens next? What do you find? What do you and your friend do? Write a story about entering that old, seemingly abandoned house.

d. The year is 2099 and students at school are educated by robots. All is well until the day the robots malfunction. Write the story.

2. Fun with Fiction : You are in a library. You are reading a novel/short story. Suddenly you notice something strange and unusual. The page you are reading flickers, the words on the page wobble and the book starts growing in your hands. You feel yourself tipping forward directly into the story and the events. Amazingly, you land in the story. The characters can see and talk to you and you can explore the world in the book.

Of the five choices mentioned below, read and prepare a dramatized script on a special chapter / incident or event (of your choice) from any one of the books in which you are present and play an important role.

a. The Hound of Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyleb. And the Mountains Echoed – Khaled Hosseinic. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Leed. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams e. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain

3. Carry on Jeeves! Special Edition! : Bertie Wooster has turned Agony Aunt (or Uncle) for a newspaper and is giving rummy advice to all and sundry about their problems. Create Wooster’s column for the weekend edition in which young ‘chappies’ and ladies can ask him for advice. Frame his advices and responses. Create 5 varied problems and their solutions.

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English as a Second Language1. All students should create a blog and share their links with the students and the teacher. Write a minimum of three entries in your blog per week – it should describe your feelings, what you are doing/ learning, your views on different topics etc.

2. Go through the links given below.

www.tribunemagazine.org

tribune.com.pk/epaper

www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk

www.outlookindia.com

nationalherald.org

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Read articles on environment, teenage problems, health etc regularly.

Read and take printouts of two articles on each of the following topics:

1. Effects of climatic changes on environment

2. Junk Food: A Growing Menace

In about 200 words write a newspaper article giving your views on each of the above topics.

3. Assignment:

You are going to read about parents educating their children at home instead of sending them to school.

I want to educate my children at homeFrom the day your child was born you have been home educating – assisting him in his quest for knowledge of the world around him, answering his questions, teaching him to walk and talk. You have already done the hard stuff, and without a curriculum. In fact, if you truthfully look back at this stage, you yourself have not had much of a hand in all the wonderful things your child has accomplished. Our children are born with the ability to teach themselves everything they need to know about surviving in the world they live in, and they do it well. School interrupts this natural flow of learning and eventually kills it. If you leave children alone and just provide lots of resources, encouragement and a caring environment, that is all you will ever need. Trust them and they will get the job done.

Home school is an option open to families in Australia and often the decision to home educate your child is made well after your child has started school. Schools are a fairly recent invention of man as they have only been around for about 150 years or so. Before that, parents always taught their children at home, and it was a natural part of life. Going to school is not the natural way for a child to learn and many children struggle with the concept of school. As a result, parents often see

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a change for the worse in their children. They become unhappy, angry little people unable to communicate with parents and siblings as they once did.

An Australian lecturer in education, who has been researching home education for ten years, has found that children who have structured lessons at home as well as children who have had absolutely no structure at home have both turned out to be socially and academically ahead of schooled peers. The only drawback he found that he found in the ten years of study was the lost wages of one parent.

Children do not need to be placed in artificial situations so that they can ‘become socialised’. Socialisation forced upon children in schools and playgroups is not true socialization. Real socialisation happens all the time, every minute of the day with parents, siblings, shopkeepers, in the park and best of all, children with themselves and their dreams. It happens all the time and we do not need to set it up. The type of socialisation that does happen in the schoolyard is not the type most of us want for our children (the bullying and the peer pressure and the bad language) and children that grow up in charge of their own socialisation grow strong and confident and able to communicate with a wide range of people.

Q1. Read the above passage and based on your reading answer the following questions:

a. Who plays a more important role in a child’s development, according to the writer? (1)b. Why does the writer think that schools interrupts the ‘natural flow of learning’? (2)c. When do parents usually start to think about home schooling for their children? (1)d. What sort of ‘little people’ are schools seen to produce? (1)e. What according to the writer are the benefits of home schooling? (1)f. What negative socialising does a school have on a child? (1)

Q2. In your own words summarize why home education is better than school education. (11)

Q3. It is a trend these days that parents send their children to boarding schools. Write an article for the local newspaper giving your views about this trend. (words175 –200)

a. why are parents sending their children to boarding schools.b. best places to bring up the children in today’s hectic schedule.c. children should be brought up under parental care and guidance.d. parents should know about day to day activities of their child

4. Assignment:

Read the following article and answer the questions that follow:

Parmesan cheese, without which your plate of spaghetti just does not taste right,

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The value of cheese...

has for many years been used as a security for loans by banks in the north of Italy. In a vast warehouse near the town of Parma, owned by the Banco Credito Emiliano, there are literally hundreds of thousands of wheels of cheese, each one ripening by the day, and increasing in value as they mature.

The cheeses offer short-term financing for local people until the cheese is ready to sell. Most banks will provide loans of between 65% and 70% of the value of the cheese when it enters the warehouse. A fresh wheel of parmesan usually weighs about 50 kg, but as it matures it will lose about 20% (or 10 kg) of its initial weight. However, the more mature a cheese becomes, the greater its value.

After the first 12 months in the warehouse, parmesan cheese is worth about $10.50 per kilo, whereas after two years the price has more than doubled. In some large London stores, two-year-old parmesan sells to the public for $45 per kilo.

For the banks around Parma, parmesan cheese has offered a very low security risk for more than 70 years. The process itself is painstaking, and dates back to the 14th century when the Benedictine monks first made the now world-famous cheese. While the machinery as well as the financing has changed over the years, the love and care which goes into the production of parmesan cheese remains unique. Rows of large copper containers, called vats, steam as warm milk bubbles and froths; the cheese mixture is whipped, heated, and then cooled; finally the soft cheese is placed in a net-like bag, and then into a mould.

But modern technology now provides each wheel of parmesan with its own personal air-conditioning system, which ensures that the air surrounding it is cooled to 18 – 20 degrees centigrade, with an air humidity level of 80%. There is even a special room where cheeses which have suffered some kind of superficial damage can receive special attention.

a. What happens to the value of a wheel of parmesan as it ripens? [1]b. How much does a full-size parmesan weigh once it has matured? [1]c. Who were the first people to make parmesan cheese? [1]d. What happens to the cheese mixture after it is cooled? [1]e. What has been the effect of modern technology on the parmesan cheese making process?

[1]f. Make a list of four pieces of information about the financial value of parmesan cheese.

[4]Q2. In your own words summarize the importance of cheese down the ages.

English Literature1. Create a Shakespeare ‘playlist’.

Choose 10 songs, and write a commentary of the play they relate to and why/how you think they do so. Do not givea run down of the current top 40 chart. For this, you need to research Shakespear’s plays.

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2. Read Lord of the Flies by William Golding.

Create an interactive app based on the story for a Smartphone. Look at the link below to get an idea of how to make an app

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/06/18/how-to-make-an-app_n_3459886.html

Use the Internet to research – do not print off the Internet!

PhysicsMake a working Model showing different types of Forces. No thermocol should be used.

Or

Make a Working Model showing different phenomena of Light and Heat transfer.

Chemistry

Cartoon making

"Chemistry– Our life, our future."

Draw cartoons with text in English which is expected to convey the meaning intended with clarity and good humour. However, only submissions pertaining to chemistry principles will be accepted. The cartoon must contain original work and not contain any copyrighted material.

Study Time

Make a chart and write all possible chemical formulae and name of compoundusing following Cations and Anions.

Biology5

The study of biology covers a wide range of interesting topics that include genetics, cells, photosynthesis, microbiology, ecology, stem cells, evolution, DNA, microorganisms, diseases. Challenge your knowledge of these topics by preparing a fun biology quiz. The questions should range from easy to hard and should test a number of different biology related topics .

Prepare a definite format for the quiz with rules. There should be 10 rounds with 5 questions in each round. There should be a round for inventions and discoveries with visuals. Use as many visuals as possible and any other effect to make it interesting. Set a time limit for each round and provide answers. Email the ppt on seemakapoor2364@gmail.com

History

1. Imagine yourself as a representative  of the following  countries  at  succesive conferences of league of nations :

a. Britainb. Francec. Germanyd.  Italy

2. Write position papers on behalf of your country   on the following issues before the league :

a. Corfu crisisb. Japanese invasion of manchuriac. Annexation of abbysinia by Italy

Each position paper to be of minimum 250 words It should be hand written

 For example - What is your position as a representative of Britain, as a representative of France, as a representative of Germany, as a representative of Italy on Corfu crisis 

Geography 

1. Choose a topic of environmental concern and prepare a case study together with a factual note as a PPT.

2. Choose a slum anywhere in the world .Prepare a case study including the location ,the advantages and disadvantages of living in a slum .the measures taken by the government to improve conditions. The report must be word processed and pasted into your note books, together with a location map and photographs.

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Economics1. Prepare a 3 minute extract from a speech or an official statement given by a country’s

Finance Minister or its Central Bank’s head. 2. You may use any of the provided links (CTRL + click on the blue text) or you may also look

at speeches by finance ministers and Central Bank heads of countries like UK, USA, Australia, Canada or any other country.

3. All students will present the speech extracts in class. On the basis of oral delivery and understanding of content they will be short-listed to present the speech in an inter-house elocution contest during Social Studies day.

4. Students should ensure that they understand the economics concepts mentioned in the selected speech.

COUNTRY FINANCE MINISTER HEAD OF CENTRAL BANKINDIA P.Chidambaram

Diaspora investments in india [2013]

Raghuram RajanInaugural address [2013]

CHINA Lou JiweiInclusive growth and fiscal reform [2013]

Zhou XiochuanShanghai as an international financial centre [2013]

JAPAN Taro AsoWhat is abenomiccs? [2013]

Haruhiko KurodaAiming at 2% inflation. [2014]

MEXICO Luis Videgaraystrategy for EMDEs [2014]

Agustin CarstensSearching for financial stability [2013]

GERMANY Wolfgang SchaubelInternational Financial Architecture [2013]

Jens WeidmanEurope's monetary union

Project Work- Business Studies

Visit a popular business around you and collect the following information for it and compile it in a form of a project:

1. What kind of activity it is doing –primary, secondary or tertiary.2. What form of business organization is it-e.g. sole trader……?3. What are its objectives- Long term and short term?4. What legal formalities they had to undergo before starting the business.5. Did they get any support from the government.6. Highlights of their business plan7. Do they use specialization of labour …explain in context of the business8. How do they value add….give examples.9. Mention three of their close competitors and compare their size in terms of employees, sales

and profits.10.Take an example of a decision a business has taken and how it affected the

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The project has to be neatly typed out and bound. Try to make it interesting with pictures of the place of the business and people working there.The same presentation has to be put in a PPT of 10 slides max.(It can be made interesting with embedding videos

AccountingCase Study I

Dr. Paula Loniak of Athens, Georgia, has worked with animals for more than 25 years. She has been a racehorse groom, a boarding kennel manager, a veterinary technician, and a veterinarian. Dr. Loniak started a sole proprietorship called Vet-to-Pet, a house call practice for dogs and cats. Dr. Loniak visits pets in their homes to provide basic veterinary services. She treats illnesses such as skin problems, allergies, ear and eye irritations, minor wounds, and abscesses. Vaccinations and lab screening tests are also administered. Dr. Loniak considers her services to be a supplement to the care given by other veterinarians, and is intended for those who have a hard time getting their pets to a clinic. Dr. Loniak works independently and uses a van to make her house calls. She charges an initial fee, which covers her expenses traveling to the patient’s home. This fee varies depending on the distance Dr. Loniak must travel. She also charges for the exam and any treatment, lab work, or medication required. She offers a sliding scale (lower, variable fees) for senior citizens on fixed incomes. She serves individuals with mobility limitations and works with seeing-eye and assistant/working dogs.

Accounting Applications:

Instructions: Now that you have reviewed the case study above, answer the following questions on your own.

1. What are some investments Dr. Loniak has probably made in her business and how would each affect the basic accounting equation?

Name of Investment

Effect on accounting equation

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2. What assets might this business have?

Non Current Assets Current Assets

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3. What Liabilities might this business have?

Non Current Liabilities Current Liabilities

4. Identify and classify the accounts affected if Dr. Loniak receives a cash payment for a visit.

Account to be debited Account to be credited

5. Identify and classify the accounts affected if Dr. Loniak wrote a check to pay for new veterinary equipment to be used on the van.

Account to be debited Account to be credited

6. What kinds of revenue does Vet-to-Pet receive? __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________

7. What kinds of expenses might Vet-to-Pet incur?

__________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________ Case study II

David, a web designer, after working for many years with IT companies, has recently started a new web design company to provide website design and other related services to local businesses in his location. The company is named “Web Design Inc.”Running a web design company can pose many challenges. You need to get involved in all the aspects of the business, including renting the place, setting up the infrastructure, buying the

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required software, recruiting trained staff, marketing and promoting your business, and most importantly managing their finances.

Assumptions: The business was started on June 1, 2012. The business follows the accounting period April 1, 2012 to March 31, 2013.

Transactions at Web Design Inc.

Make ledger for the above transactions , balance them and prepare the Trial Balance on June 21, 2012.( attach an extra sheet for making ledgers and Trial balance)

2. Prepare PPT on Timeline of Accounting as a subject. The presentation should cover the following aspects:

A brief history of accounting… who invented, when was it used in businesses officially……etc.

Types of accounting A brief on software used to maintain accounting records in current times Make your presentation interesting with snapshots of various books, documents, used in

the old times, videos on history of the subject, etc. The presentation should not be more than 10 slides.

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S. No. Date Transaction

Transaction 1 June 1, 2012 Started business with cash $ 50,000

Transaction 2June 5, 2012 

Purchases furniture $500. 

Transaction 3

June 12, 2012

Transfers $ 1200 to his bank account in Bank of America 

Transaction 4June 17, 2012

Bought raw material amounting to $ 500

Transaction 5July 25, 2012

Rent is paid $500.

Transaction 6July 26, 2012

Bought office vehicle for $4000

Transaction 7

July 30, 2012

Completed the project and receive the payment through cheque of $2,000 from the client.

Computer Science

Topics for the project: Choose any one

Hotel Management, School Management, Bank Management, Traffic Management, Tour Booking Website Management, Library Management, Hospital Management

A Project Report have to be submitted with given headings:

Processing of the whole system Difference between manual and automated system Hardware used Functioning of server Functioning of client Important files stored on client and server Network equipments needed Sensors needed Software needed (bespoke or off the shelf software) Security issues Draw a screen layout for easy navigation Database management

Information and Communication Technology

1. Write the positive and negative impact of internet in our life.

2. Write short notes on the following

a) Blog

b) Twitter.

c) Video Conferencing

3. Search Openoffice on internet and write about all the components in detail.

4. Name two free email service providers?

5. Discuss in 300 words whether Internet brings out the best (yes) or worst (no) in humanity.

Or

5. Make a collage of Photographs (taken by students themselves) on the Topic:

Unity and Diversity / 3-G Technology

Practical Task:

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You are supposed to create a presentation file using Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007, according to the instructions given below

1. Create a presentation with four blank slides.

2. Modify the presentation as follows.

a) Insert a suitable design template.

b) Insert a footer to show Your name and your Registration No. as given in the following example.

e.g. K.A.Perera | pcmb024

c) Insert Today’s date as a fixed date in the date area.

d) Make necessary changes to appear slide numbers in the slide number area.

e) Make necessary changes so that the footer, date and the slide number do not appear on the title slide (first slide).

3. Add content to the title slide (first slide) by following the instruction given below.

a) Type “Tea” as the slide title and it’s format should be

Font Type: Arial, Style: Bold, Size:96, Color: Black

b) Type “©Wikipedia” as the sub title and insert the following image from the resources directory to a suitable location.

4. Add content to the second slide by following the instruction given below.

a) Type the slide title as, "Tea & Health effects" and format it as,

Font Type: Arial, Style: Bold, Size:44, Color: Black

b) Insert the following content as shown below.

Tea is an aromatic beverage.

Here are some of the potential health benefits of tea;

1. Immunity against intestinal disorders.

2. Prevention of dental caries.

5. In the third slide, add the following components.

a) Type the slide title as, "Statistics"

b) Insert the following table13

6. In the fourth slide, add the following components.

a) Type the slide title as, "Production as a Chart". [

b) Draw a Pie chart as given below using the tabulated data given in the third slide.

7. Add the following animation effects to your presentation.

a) Apply emphasis animation effect to each main point and sub point in the second slide.

b) Apply sound effect when the second slide appears in the slideshow.

c) Hide the third slide from the slide show.

d) Save your presentation with the following file name <Your Index Number>_ P01 and upload it to the online e-testing system.

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Spanish 1. Assignment Booklet: Exercises to be completed till Pg.41,Writing Skills: 30words, 90 words, 140 words (Choose two each)

2. Book Review: The students will have to read a Spanish novel and write a book review.

3. Dramatization of a story: They will have to search Spanish Proverbs (Dichos y Refranes) and a fable based on the same, which they will execute in a dialogue form to be dramatized later.

4. Creative Work:Each student will have to make a Poster on any of the following topics:Festivals, Maps, Inventions, Historical monuments, Personalities (literary, Art, Music), Technology, Fashion, Dances, etc.Materials:Base: Handmade paperDecoration: Best Out of waste (Old Newspapers, cloth, wool, buttons, ribbons, mirrors, straws, threads, ice cream sticks), GlittersColour medium: Water/Poster colours/Crayons/Felt Pens/Colour PencilsNote: Printouts and pictures from any source strictly not to be used.

French Composez un poeme originale (sur le topique de votre choix) et illustrez-le avec de belles

images. Dessignez-le sur une feuille de taille A3.

Ecrivez un article sur votre ville favorite: Delhi ou Paris. (Envoyez-le a moi sur mon email: neelimasachdeva@rediffmail.com)

1. Pourquoi c’est votre ville favorite…2. Pourquoi c’est une ville celebre…3. La situation geographique de cette ville…etc.4. Illustrez votre article.

German 1 Excersises in the Assignment Booklet to be completed till the month of July.

2.Dramatization of a story: Search and prepare a list of German Proverbs(Sprichwörter und Redewendungen) and fables based on the same, Student are to write the story in a dialogue form to be dramatized later. 3.Creative Work: Each student is to make a Posters on any of the following topics:

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Festivals, Inventions, Historical monuments, Personalities (literary, Art, Music), Technology, Fashion, Dances, etc.Materials:Base: Handmade paperDecoration: Best Out of waste (Old Newspapers, cloth, wool, buttons, ribbons, mirrors, straws, threads, ice cream sticks), GlittersColour medium: Water/Poster colours/Crayons/Felt Pens/Colour Pencils  

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