– IX Division of Syllabus for Term II (October - March) Summative Assessment II Section Marks Reading 15 Writing 20 Grammar 15 Literature+ Value Based Question 15+5 = 20 Long Reading Text/ Fiction 10 Listening and Speaking Formative Assessment TOTAL Total Weightage Assigned 30% 10 90 20% 50% The Question Paper will include value based question(s) To the extent of 3-5 marks. The Problem Solving Assessment will be conducted for all students of
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Night-time‚ Mark Haddon’s main character‚ Christopher‚ has autism and his thinking and narration is very accurate of how people with autism think or act. Haddon doesn’t write Christopher as a super-genius who has no behavioral problems or a dumb idiot that doesn’t know anything‚ he just writes Christopher as a Savant that has Asperger’s. The reason why the novel is so well-loved and popular is because Mark Haddon portrays autism in a accurate but positive way and Christopher’s perspective in the book provides
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The book of Job comes from the Old Testament in the Bible and serves the purpose of teaching one to steadfastly serve God even in the toughest of times. Although God promises to watch over his people at all times‚ he never promises that life will always be easy. Job lives a prosperous life‚ which suddenly takes a turn for the worst when the devil intervenes in an attempt to weaken Job’s faith in God. Though many important themes are apparent in the book of Job‚ a major theme that is blatantly present
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Roughing it was written by Mark Twain. This book is a journal of Mark Twain and his brother’s trip to Carson City‚ Nevada. They went because Mark Twain’s brother had a job as the Secretary of Nevada. This book‚ journal‚ started when they were leaving to go to Carson City; and ended when Mark Twain decided to move to New York instead of living in San Francisco or any part of the wild west. In between this time he talked about how they became rich and how they lost it and how they became rich again and
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The novel Dracula by Bram Stoker‚1897 has been adapted into a film Bram Stoker’s Dracula‚ made in 1992. This film is an accurate and exceptionally well done adaptation of the novel. What made this adaptation so good was how it was put together; from the cast‚ to the added romance‚ to incorporating all important ideas from the novel into the film‚ without making it un-cinematic. Francis Ford Coppola (the producer of the film) chose the right cast to depict the characters just as imagined in the
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“There was a hand in the darkness‚ and it held a knife.” These are the first words of the fantasy book by Neil Gaiman called The Graveyard Book. The book is about an ordinary child who is in all was ordinary. Well other than the fact that he was raised in a graveyard by ghosts and a man who is neither living or dead that is. Nobody Owens (yes that is his real name) was nearly murdered when he was a baby. Although the murderer the man named Jack also known as Jack Frost failed to murder him‚ he did
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Two Men‚ One Dream Is Mark Zuckerberg the modern day Frankenstein? Victor Frankenstein is the Character of the book Frankenstein by Mary Shelley in which he reanimates a body and learns to regret his creation. Mark Zuckerberg is the man who created the famous social media network Facebook and faced hardships during the beginning phase of his creation. Victor Frankenstein and Mark Zuckerberg are two men who wanted to make their mark on the world and both succeeded with two very different creations
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Nia Henderson March 14‚ 2013 5th period Rhetorical Analysis Samual Longhorne Clemon well known as "Mark Twain" was born on November 30‚ 1895 in Florida‚ Missouri. He was the sixth of seventh children of John and Jane Clemons. The family later moved to a small town Hannibal‚ Missouri where his father died of pneumania which prompted him to leave school and become a printers apprentice. He recieved work from his brother Orions newspaper Hannibal Western Union as a printer and editorial assistant which
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Everyone remembers reading the works of Mark Twain when they were in school. Freshman year of high school you’re sitting in your English class and the teacher is reading the story of Huckleberry Finn. As you go through the story‚ you start to think‚ “Wow‚ people actually treated other humans this way?” and you realize how cruel it really is. It teaches you that discrimination is not right and everyone deserves to be equal. Now just imagine never having read that book‚ never feeling the sympathy for the
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The book 1984‚ written by George Orwell‚ describes a world where people have no privacy. They were being watched every single second‚ and they weren’t allowed to have their own thoughts. This novel may sound unrealistic‚ but there are some relations between the world today and the world in 1984. And this novel warns us that‚ if totalitarianism were not opposed‚ some situations described in 1984 could become a reality in the future. Throughout the book‚ Winston was described as a character who has
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