Wednesday, April 29, 2020

#58 Class 12 The sound of music (29/04/2020)

Read the page No. 2 of the lesson and answer the questions--

Q.1 How did Evelyn lose her hearing sense?

Q.2 What were the parents of Evelyn advised?

Q.3 Who was Ron Forbes?

Q.4 What did Ron Forbes advise her?

Q.5 What was the duration of the course in Royal academy of music?

#57 Class 12 Second MCQ Test (An elementary school classroom in a slum) 29/04/2020

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https://forms.gle/3ebcwwL3YjaNfzFD6

Tuesday, April 28, 2020

#56 class-9 The sound of music Part--1 Evelyn Glennie (28/04/2020)

Hello students,

Today we are going to start the lesson 'The sound of music'. This lesson is about Evelyn Glennie and Bismillah Khan. Both relate to the field of music. Evelyn Glennie was a deaf girl who started to feel music through her body and played drums with the feeling of the vibration of the music. Bismillah Khan was a famous Shehnai player. The first part is all about Evelyn Glennie.


Read the first  page and answer following questions---

Q.1 How old was the girl?

Q.2 Where was the girl standing?

Q.3 Why was the girl nervous and excited?

Q.4 Where did the girl belong to?

Q.5 What physical disability did the girl have?

Q.6 What was the name of the girl's mother?

Q.7 When did Evelyn's mother realise that the girl had developed some problem with her hearing senses?

Q.8 Why did the headmistress of Evelyn ask her mother to take Evelyn to a specialist?

#55 class 12 MCQ Test-- An elementary school classroom in a slum

Monday, April 27, 2020

#54 Poetic devices in the poem 'An elementary school classroom in a slum' (27/04/2020)


1. Alliteration --- Far, far from gusty waves...................

2. Simile---- these children's faces like rootless weeds

3. Metaphor-- the stunted unlucky heir of twisted bones


4. Symbolism-- Map (World) Fog and endless night (uncertainty) 

5. Simile-- mended glass like bottle bits on stones
                  slums as big as doom
                   windows that shut upon their lives like catacombs

6. Alliteration--- Break O break open till they break the town

7. Metaphor-- ...whose language is the sun.

Sunday, April 26, 2020

#53 Class-9 MCQ Test (The Road not taken) (25/04/2020)

Dear students,

Please find the link to attempt the MCQ test from the lesson 'The Road not taken'.

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#52 Class 12 An Elementary school classroom in a slum (25/04/2020)

Paraphrasing of the fourth stanza

Unless,governor, inspector, visitor,

This map becomes their window and these windows

That shut upon their lives like catacombs

Break O break open till they break the town


According to the poet, the condition of these children will not improve till the governor, inspector, Govt. officials and other visitors do not take proper and timely action. They have to take timely action lest their life is permanently limited to the windows of their classroom like catacombs. (इन सभी लोगों को समय रहते इन बच्चों के लिए कोई ठोस कदम उठाना पड़ेगा  कहीं ऐसा ना हो कि इनकी जिन्दगी catacombs यानी underground कब्रिस्तान की तरह इन खिडकियों तक ही सीमित होकर रह जाए). The poet makes a request to all the officials to break these windows (barriers) to help them to break these windows and  reach to the town in open air and sky.


And show the children to green fields, and make their world

Run azure on gold sands and let their tongues

Run naked into books the white and green leaves open

History theirs whose language is the sun.

The poet requests all the officers to help children run in the green fields and enjoy the nature. According to him, these children should be allowed to run on gold sands (on the sea coast) azure (under the open blue sky). They should be helped to read books and study. White and green leaves here are the symbols of different areas of knowledge,  green leaves are the symbol of science while white may be related to other subject. In last line the poet says that only those people find place in the history whose knowledge have power. Language is the symbol of knowledge while the sun is the symbol of power and energy.

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