ST.

MICHAEL’S HIGH SCHOOL

SYLLABUS- 2019-20 , STD 10TH

ENGLISH
ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE (Code No. 184)
FIRST TERM

PROSE (First Flight)

1. A Letter to God
2.Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
3.Two Stories about Flying
4.From the Diary of Anne Frank
5.The Hundred Dresses –I
6.The Hundred Dresses –II

SUPPLEMENTARY READER (Footprints without Feet)

1.A Triumph of Surgery

2.The Thief’s Story
3.The Midnight Visitor
4.A Question of Trust
5.Footprints without Feet

Literature Reader (First Flight)

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
6. Amanda

SECOND TERM

PROSE (First Flight)

7.Glimpses of India
8.Mijbil the Otter
9.Madam Rides the Bus
10. The Sermon at Benares
11. The Proposal
POETRY

7. Animals
8. The Trees
9. Fog
10. The Tale of Custard the Dragon
11. For Anne Gregory

SUPPLEMENTARY READER (Footprints without Feet)

6. The Making of a Scientist

7. The Necklace
8. The Hack Driver
9. Bholi
10. The Book that saved the Earth

The Grammar syllabus will include the following areas in class X. (First term and
Second Term)
1. Tenses
2. Modals
3. Use of passive voice
4. Subject – verb concord
5. Reporting
(i) Commands and requests
(ii) Statements
(iii) Questions
6. Clauses:
(i) Noun clauses
(ii) Adverb clauses
(iii) Relative clauses
7. Determiners
8. Prepositions

The above items may be tested through test types given below:

Gap filling with one or two words to test Prepositions, Articles, Conjunctions and
Tenses, Editing or omission, Sentences Reordering or Sentence Transformation
in context.

WRITING SKILLS (First term and Second Term)

Formal letter complaint / inquiry / placing order / letter to editor / article in about
100-150 words. The questions will be thematically based on the prescribed books.

Writing a short story based on a given outline or cue/s in about 150-200 words.
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SUB.: MATHEMATICS
 SUBJECT 1ST TERM 2ND TERM
1. Real numbers 9. Arithmetic Progression
2. Polynomials 10. Heights and Distances
3. Linear equation in Two 11. Statistics
variables 12. Probability
4. Triangles 13. Construction
MATHEMATICS 5. Trigonometric Ratios 14. Co-ordinate Geometry
6. Trigonometric Identities
7. Quadratic Equations
8. Circles
SUBJECT 1ST TERM 2ND TERM
WEEKLY Real numbers, Polynomials Arithmetic Progression, Heights
TEST 1 and Distances

WEEKLY Linear Equation in Two Probability and Statistics

TEST 2 Variables, Triangles

WEEKLY Trigonometric Ratios, Co-ordinate Geometry, Area of

TEST 3 Trigonometric Identities Circle, sector and segment

Science
SUBJECT 1ST TERM 2ND TERM
1. ELECTRICITY
PHYSICS 1. LIGHT 2. MAGNETIC EFFACT OF CURRENT
2. HUMAN EYE 3. SOURCE AND ENERGY
1. CHEMICAL REACTION AND 1. CARBON AND COMPOUND
CHEMISTRY EQUATION 2. PERIODIC CLASSIFICATION OF
2. ACID BASES AND SALT ELEMENT
3. METALS AND NON EQUATION
1.LIFE PROCESS 1. HOW DO ORGANISMS REPRODUCE
BIOLOGY 2. CONTROL AND CO- 2. HERIDITY AND EVOLUTION
ORDINATION 3. OUR ENVITATION
4. MANAGEMENT OF NATURAL
RESOURCE
WEEKLY TEST 1 PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY
WEEKLY TEST 2 BIOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY BIOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY
WEEKLY TEST 3 PHYSICS AND BIOLOGY PHYSICS AND BIOLOGY
WEEKLY TEST SYLLABUS (CHAPERS TAUGHT BY TEACHER IN THE CLASS)

Social Science
 SUBJECT 1ST TERM 2ND TERM
1. The Rise of Nationalism in 1. The Age of Industrialization
HISTORY Europe 2. Print Culture and Modern
2. Nationalism in India World

1. Power Sharing 1. Political Parties

POLTICAL SCIENCE 2. Federalism 2. Outcomes of Democracy
3. Gender, Religion and Caste
1. Development 1. Money and Credit
ECONOMICS 2. Sectors of Indian 2. Globalization and The Indian
Economy Economy
1. Resources and Development 1. Mineral and Energy Resources
GEOGRAPHY 2. Forest and Wildlife Resources2. Manufacturing Industries
3. Water Resources 3. Life Lines of National
4. Agriculture Economy

SUBJECT 1ST TERM 2ND TERM

* Nationalism in Europe, Sub Topic-
The French Revolution and Idea of a
Nation
• Power Sharing, Sub Topic-
WEEKLY TEST Majoritarianism in Sri Lanka
1 • Development- Upto National
Development
• Resources and Development
• Nationalism in Europe, Sub Topic-
The Making of Nationalism in
Europe
WEEKLY TEST • Federalism – Upto What makes
2 India a Federal Country?
• Sectors of Indian Economy
• Forest and Wildlife Resources
• The Age of Industrialization, Sub
Topic- Before the Industrial
Revolution
• Political Parties – Upto Meaning
and Functions
• Money and Credit
• Minerals and Energy resources
• The Age of Industrialization, Sub
Topic- Hand Labour and Steam
Power
• Political Parties
• Globalization and The Indian
Economy
• Manufacturing Industries

• Nationalism in India, Sub Topic- • Print Culture and The Modern

The First World War, Khilafat and
Non-Cooperation Movement
WEEKLY TEST • Gender, Religion and Caste
3 • Sectors of Indian Economy
• Water Resources
World, Sub Topic- The Printed
Books
• Outcomes of Democracy
• Globalization and The Indian
Economy
• Life Lines of National Economy

Computer Application(165)
 1ST Term
Unit 1: Networking

 Internet: World Wide Web, web servers, web clients, web sites, web pages,
web browsers, blogs, news groups, HTML, web address, e-mail address,
downloading and uploading files from a remote site. Internet protocols: TCP/IP,
SMTP, POP3, HTTP, HTTPS. Remote login and file transfer protocols: SSH,
SFTP, FTP, SCP, TELNET, SMTP, TCP/IP.

 Services available on the internet: information retrieval, locating sites using

search engines and finding people on the net;
 Web services: chat, email, video conferencing, e-Learning, e-Banking, e-
Shopping, e-Reservation, e-Governance, e-Groups, social networking.
 Mobile technologies: SMS, MMS, 3G, 4G.

Unit 2: HTML

* Introduction to web page designing using HTML: create and save an HTML
document, access a web page using a web browser.

* HTML tags: html, head, title, body, (attributes: text, background, bgcolor, link,
vlink, alink), br (break), hr(horizontal rule), inserting comments, h1..h6

(heading), p (paragraph), b (bold), i (italics), u (underline), ul (unordered list), ol

(ordered list), and li (list item). Description lists: dl, dt and dd. Attributes of ol
(start, type), ul (type).

* Font tags (attributes: face, size, color).

* Insert images: img (attributes: src, width, height, alt), sup (super script), sub
(subscript).
* HTML Forms: Textbox, radio buttons, checkbox, password, list, combobox.
* Embed audio and video in a HTML page.
* Create a table using the tags: table, tr, th, td, rowspan, colspan
* Links: significance of linking, anchor element (attributes: href, mailto), targets.
* Cascading style sheets: colour, background-colour, border-style, margin,
height, width, outline, font (family, style, size), align, float.

Unit 3: Cyber ethics

 Netiquettes.
  Software licenses and the open source software movement.
 Intellectual property rights, plagiarism and digital property rights.
 Freedom of information and the digital divide.
 E-commerce: Privacy, fraud, secure data transmission.

2nd Term
Unit 4: Scratch or Python (Theory and Practical)
Alternative 1: Scratch
 Revision of the basics of Scratch
 Sprite, tempo, variables, and events
 Coordinates and conditionals
 Drawing with iteration
 Update variables repeatedly, iterative development, ask and answer blocks
 Create games, animated images, stories and songs

Alternative 2: Python (only for children with special needs)

  Revision of Python basics
  Conditionals: if, if-else statements
  Loops: for, while (e.g., sum of first 10 natural
 numbers)
 Practice simple programs