Please select a subject first
Advertisements
Advertisements
Answer the following question in about 40-50 words.
What extraordinary experience did Charley have when he went to the Grand station?
Concept: undefined >> undefined
Answer the following question in about 40-50 words.
What did Charley find in his collection of first-day covers?
Concept: undefined >> undefined
Advertisements
Answer the following question in about 40-50 words.
Why did Charley buy old-style currency?
Concept: undefined >> undefined
Send a formal letter of invitation · in 50 words to Dr. Mehra, noted novelist and educationist, to speak on, The Importance of Books'. You are Lena/Sanjay, Secretary Literary Club, S. S. Public School. Meritionday, date, time and venue.
Concept: undefined >> undefined
Answer the following question in 120 – 150 words :
At the end of the storytelling session, why does Jack consider himself ‘caught in an ugly middle position’?
Concept: undefined >> undefined
Answer the following question in 120-150 words:
Lammeter sisters have money but not class or education. What do you think about them?
Concept: undefined >> undefined
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
and
looked out at young
trees sprinting, the merry children spilling
out of their homes, but after the airport's
security check, standing a few yards
away, I looked again at her, wan,
pale
as a late winter's moon and felt that
old
familiar ache, ......
(a) How can the trees sprint?
(b) Why did the poet look at her mother again?
(c) What did she observe?
(d) Identify the figure of speech used in these lines.
Concept: undefined >> undefined
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
Wear skins peeped through by bones and spectacles of steel
With mended glass, like bottle bits on stones
(b) What is their slag heap?
(c) Why are their bones peeping though their skins?
(d) What does 'with mended glass' mean?
Concept: undefined >> undefined
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
Those who prepare green wars,
wars with gas, wars with fire,
victory with no survivors,
would put on clean clothes
and walk about with their brothers
in the shade, doing nothing.
(a) Whom does the word ‘those’ refer to?
(b) What does the poet mean by : ‘put on clean clothes’?
(c) Describe the irony in the third line.
(d) When can a person walk about with ‘their’ brothers?
Concept: undefined >> undefined
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
A thing of beauty is a joy forever
Its loveliness increases, it will never
Pass into nothingness; but will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
(a) Which two qualities of beauty are mentioned here?
(b) How does it give calm to a troubled mind?
(c) What does the word ‘bower’ mean?
(d) How does beauty lead to ‘a sleep full of sweet dreams’?
Concept: undefined >> undefined
How did the Champaran episode prove to be a turning point in India's freedom struggle ?
Concept: undefined >> undefined
Use Your Imagination to Suggest Another Ending to the Above Story.
Concept: undefined >> undefined
The two accounts that you read above are based in two distant cultures. What is the commonality of theme found in both of them?
Concept: undefined >> undefined
It may take a long time for oppression to be resisted, but the seeds of rebellion are sowed early in life. Do you agree that injustice in any form cannot escape being noticed even by children?
Concept: undefined >> undefined
Bama’s experience is that of a victim of the caste system. What kind of discrimination does Zitkala-Sa’s experience depict? What are their responses to their respective situations?
Concept: undefined >> undefined
What was Franz expected to be prepared with for school that day?
Concept: undefined >> undefined
What had been put up on the bulletin-board?
Concept: undefined >> undefined
The people in this story suddenly realize how precious their language is to them. What shows you this? Why does this happen?
Concept: undefined >> undefined
Franz thinks, “Will they make them sing in German, even the pigeons?” What could this mean?
Concept: undefined >> undefined
“When a people are enslaved, as long as they hold fast to their language it is as if they had the key to their prison.”
Can you think of examples in history where conquered people had their language taken away from them or had a language imposed on them?
Concept: undefined >> undefined
