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Based on your reading of the passage answer the following question :
What are the aims of national integration ?
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Solution
The aims of national integrat ion are : improving socio-cultural relations ; reducing economic inequalities ; and st rengthening unity and solidarity
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WHERE the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free Where the world has not been broken up into fragments By narrow domestic walls Where words come out from the depth of truth Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit –
Where the mind is led forward by thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
— Rabindranath Tagore
- Why does the poet say, ‘Where the mind is without fear’ ?
- What are the narrow domestic walls being referred to ?
- Why are they ‘narrow ’ ?
- How /when does the ‘clear stream of reason’ lose its way ?
- What is the poet’s appeal ?
S : Strengths
W : Weaknesses
O : Opportunities
T : Threats
SWOT analysis is a tool used to develop effective strategies and plans for the progress and development of organizations, companies, institutions and even individuals. Working in groups, identify the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats for our country. Present your group’s views to the class. Your brief presentation should conclue with a ‘vision statement’ for India-where you want our country to be, say ten years from now and what we should do to achieve it.
On the basis of your reading of the passage answer the following question by ticking the most appropriate options. Give reason for your choices.
Paragraph 5 shows that kalam's mother and grandmother had
On the basis of your reading of the passage answer the following question by ticking the most appropriate options. Give reason for your choices.
'As the new teacher saw it' ( paragraph 6 ) . Which of the following best explains the meaning of this expression?
On the basis of your reading of the passage answer the following question by ticking the most appropriate options. Give reasons for your choice.
The science teacher's wife's behaviour during Kalam's second visit to their home showed that
On the basis of your reading of the passage answer the following question by ticking the most appropriate options. Give reasons for your choice.
Father gave Kalam the example of the seagull to
Complete the following sentence.
Kalam feels he had a very secure childhood because .....................................
Complete the following sentence.
Some traits and values Kalam and his siblings inherited from their parents were .............................................................................................. .
Complete the following sentence.
The salient feature of Kalam's relationship with his three childhood friends was that .........................................................................................
Complete the following sentence.
Two unique examples of communal harmony and brotherhood of mankind are .......................................................................................................
Role Play:
Your teacher will divide the class into groups of four and ask them to act out the following roles:
Kalam
Ramanadha Sastry
Aravindan
Shivaprakasan
In your group you should play the role allocated to you by engagmg in a conversation in which the friends
a) Express surprise and joy at meeting each other after nearly fifty years
b) Fondly recall their childhood times
c) Compare the problems facing the country then with the problems she is facing now.
d) Discuss what can be done to rid her of these problems
(Refer to the SWOT analysis of lndia)
After the role play, your teacher will invite some of the groups to share with others what problems they discussed and the solutions they proposed.
Diary Entry:
Suppose you are Kalam/Ramanadha Sastry. You are upset about being made to sit away from your best friend in the class. Write a diary entry expressing your feelings and reactions. In your diary entry you should
a) Describe the incident briefly
b) Say how you and your friend felt about it
c) Decide what you are going to do about it
Things to do:
1. Narrate the incidents described in the memoir in the form of a comic strip
2. Make a short film on the incidents narrated in the memoir
3. Script and stage a skit on the incident that happened in V grade.
Read each of the following sentences from the story and tick the word/phrase that gives the correct meaning for the italicized word/ phrase in
the context in which they are used here.
For reasons I have never been able to understand, a sudden demand for tamarind seeds erupted in the market.
Read each of the following sentence from the story and tick the word/ phrase that gives the correct meaning for the italicized word/ phrase in the context in which they are used here.
The first casualty came in the form of the suspension of the train halt at Rameswaram station.
Read each of the following sentence from the story and tick the word/ phrase that gives the correct meaning for the italicized word/ phrase in the context in which they are used here.
He looked utterly downcast as I shifted to my seat in the last row.
Read each of the following sentence from the story and tick the word/ phrase that gives the correct meaning for the italicized word/ phrase in the context in which they are used here.
Then the Second World War was over and India's freedom was imminent.
Based on your reading of the passage answer the following question :
Why is national integration important for a country like India ?
Read the passage carefully and familiarize yourself with the new words used in the passage by working out their meanings. Match the words in column A
with their meanings in column B.
| Column A | Column B |
| (a) foster | (i) the act of accepting someone as a part of a group |
| (b) pernicious | (ii) excessive enthusiasm for an extreme political or religious cause |
| (c) integration | (iii) encourage the development of |
| {d) fanaticism | (iv) agreement and support resulting from shared interests, feelings or opinions |
| (e) solidarity | (v) having a harmful effect. |
Organize a group discussion on the topic : “Destabilizing Forces Within a Country : Challenges to a Nation”.
