DELHI PUBLIC SCHOOL, JAMMU

SESSION- 2022-23
SYLLABUS FOR PRE BOARD II
Class –X

S.no Subject Date of SYLLABUS FOR PRE-BOARD II

. Exam
8.
Prose
1. A letter to God
2. Nelson Mandela - Long Walk to Freedom
1 English 16-01-2023
3. Two Stories About Flying
4. From the Diary of Anne Frank
5. Glimpses of India
6. Mijbil the Otter
7. Madam Rides the Bus
8. The Sermon at Benares
9. The Proposal (Play)

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

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
6. The making of a Scientist
7. The necklace
 8. Bholi
9. The Book That Saved the Earth

Writing Skills
I. Formal Letter based on a given situation in 100-
120 words.
Il. Writing an Analytical Paragraph (100-120 words)
on a given Map / Chart / Graph / Cues .

Grammar
In form of Gap Filling/ Editing/ Transformation
exercises.

1. Tenses
2. Modals
3. Subject - verb concord
4. Reported speech
Commands and requests
Statements
Questions
Determiners

2 Hindi 18-01-2023 अपठित गद्यांश

व््यकरण
1.समयस
2.वयक्् रूपयांतरण
3.पदबांध
4.मह
ु यवरे
पयठ्् पुस्तक
कयव्् खांड
1.कबीर
2.मीरय के पद
3.पववत प्रदे श में पयवस
4.तोप
5.मनुष््तय
6.आत्मत्रयण
7.कर चले हम फ़िदय
 गद् खांड
1.बडे भयई सयहब
2.डय्री कय एक पन्नय
3.ततयांरय-वयमीरो कथय
4.पतझर की टूटी पत्ति्यां
5.अब कहयां दस
ू रों के दुःु ख से दुःु खी होने वयले
6.कयरतस
ू
सांच्न
1.हररहर कयकय
2.सपनों के से ठदन
3.टोपी शुक्लय
रचनयत्मक लेखन
अनुच्छे द ,पत्र , सूचनय, त्तवज्ञयपन, लघुकथय/ई-मेल

*History*
CH- 1 Nationalism In Europe
CH- 2 Nationalism In India
CH- 3 The Making of Global World
CH -4: The Age of Industrialisation.
CH -5 : Print Culture and the Modern World

3 Social Science 20-01.2023 *Civics*

CH-1 Power sharing
CH-2 Federalism
CH-4 Gender Caste and Religion
CH- 6 Political Parties
CH-7: Outcomes of Democracy
*Economics*
CH-1 Development
CH-2 Sectors of Indian Economy
CH-3 Money and Credit
CH-4 Globalisation and the Indian Economy
*Geography*
CH-1 Resource and Development
CH-2 Forest and Wildlife Resources
CH -3 Water Resources
CH- 4 Agriculture
Ch-5 Minerals and Energy Resources
Ch- 6 Manufacturing Industries
Ch-7 Lifelines of Indian Economy
 1. Real numbers.
2. Polynomials.
Mathematics 3. Linear equations.
4 25-01.2023 4. Quadratic Equations.
5. Arithmetic progression.
6. Triangles.
7. Coordinate geometry.
8. Introduction to trigonometry
9. Application to trigonometry.
10. Circles.
11. Area related to circles.
12. Statistics.
13. Surface area and volume.
14. Probability

PHYSICS
1. Light
5 Science 30-01.2023
2. Human eye and Colourful World
3. Electricity
4. Magnetic effects of current
PRACTICALS
1. Determination of the focal length of (i)
Concave Mirror (ii ) Convex Lens by
obtaining the image of distant object.
2. Finding the image distance for varying object
distance in case of a convex lens and
drawing corresponding ray diagrams
to slow the nature of image formed.
3.Tracing the path of the ray of light passing
through a rectangular glass slab for different
angles of incidence. Measure the angle of
incidence, angle of refraction, angle of
emergence and interpret the result.
4.Tracing the path of the rays of light through a
glass prism.
5.Studying the potential difference (v) across a
resistor on the current (I) passing through it and
determine its resistance. Also plotting a graph
between v and I.
6.Determination of the equivalent resistance of
two resistors when connected in (a) series
and (b) parallel.

CHEMISTRY
THEORY
CHAPTER- 1 CHEMICAL REACTIONS
AND EQUATIONS
CHAPTER-2 ACIDS, BASES AND SALTS
CHAPTER-3 METALS AND NON-METALS
CHAPTER-4 CARBON AND ITS
COMPOUNDS

PRACTICALS
1. A. To determine the pH of the given
samples using pH paper or universal
indicator.
1. Dilute Hydrochloric Acid
2. Dilute NaOH solution
3. Dilute Ethanoic Acid solution
4. Water
5. Lemon juice
6. Dilute Hydrogen Carbonate solution
B. Studying the properties of acids and
bases (HCl and NaOH) on the basis of their
reaction with:
a) Litmus solution
(Blue/Red)

b) Zinc metal
c) Solid sodium carbonate

2. Performing and observing the following

reactions and classify them into:
(i) Action of water on quicklime
(ii) Action of heat on ferrous sulphate
crystals
 (iii) Iron nails kept in copper sulphate
solution
(iv) Reaction between sodium sulphate and
barium chloride solutions

a) Combination
reaction
b) Decomposition reaction
c) Displacement
reaction
d) Double displacement reaction
3. Observing the action of Zn, Fe, Cu and Al
metals on the following salt solutions:
i)ZnSO4(aq)

ii) FeSO4(aq)
iii)CuSO4(aq)

iv) Al2 (SO4)3(aq)

Arranging Zn, Fe, Cu and Al (metals) in
decreasing order of reactivity based on the
above result.

4. Studying the comparative cleaning

capacity of a sample of soap in soft and hard
water.

5. To study the following properties of acetic

acid (ethanoic acid):
1. Odour (Smell)
2. Solubility in water
3. Effect on litmus
4. Reaction with sodium bicarbonate

BIOLOGY
1.Life Processes
2.Control and Coordination
3.How do Organisms Reproduce?
 4. Heredity & Evolution (Topics excluded:
Evolution, evolution & classification and
evolution should not be equated with progress)
5. Our Environment
PRACTICALS
1.Experimentally show that carbon dioxide is
given out during Respiration.
2.Prepare a temporary mount of a leaf peel to
show stomata.
3.Studying (a) binary fission in Amoeba, and
(b) Budding in yeast and Hydra with the help of
prepared slides/diagrams.
4.Identification of a different parts of an
embryo of a dicot seed (Pea, gram or red
kidney bean).

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