Academic Review Semester 1 Assessment Portion 2024-25
Grade 8
No Subject Portion for Semester 1 Total Marks &
Duration
1 First Language ● Reading Skills 80 marks
English Passage Comprehensions- Non-Fiction texts Unit (2 hour)
2 and 3 (Collins Cambridge Lower Secondary
English Stage 9 Coursebook, Reader)
● Usage
Subtopics:
● Transformation of Sentences
● Workbook exercises (Collins Cambridge Lower
Secondary English Stage 8 workbook)
● Vocabulary: Unit 2 and 3 ( Vocabulary Workshop
Book)
Writing Skills
● Formal Letter Writing
● Argumentative Writing
2 English Elements of Fiction writing 80 marks
Literature (2 hour)
● Understanding Writer’s use of language
● Theme
● Setting
● View Point
● Characters
● Structure
Decoding a seen text
Identifying tone, mood, themes, conflict, imagery,
figures of speech
Writing a personal response
Prose: (Themes, conflicts, tone, mood, personal
response)
● Olive Schreiner, ‘The Woman’s Rose’
Writing skill:
● Descriptive writing
Poetry: (Themes, conflicts, tone, mood, personal
response)
● Love Armed by Aphra Behn
● Medusa by Carol Ann Duffy
3 Spanish Cosas que me molan Reading &
● Talking about things you like Writing - 80 marks
● Using irregular verbs in the present tense (1 hour 30 mins)
Mi semana
● Talking about your week
● Using regular verbs in the present tense Listening &
Cartelera de cine speaking Skills -
● Talking about films 20 Marks
● Using the near future tense Time - 20 minutes
Un cumpleaños muy especial
● Talking about a birthday
● Using the preterite
Los famosos
● Talking about life as a celebrity
● Using three tenses together
Hotel Catástrofe
● Saying what you have to do at work
● Using tener que
¿En qué te gustaría trabajar?
● Saying what job you would like to do
● Using correct adjective agreement
¿Cómo va a ser tu futuro?
● Talking about your future
● More practice with the near future tense
¿Cómo es un día típico?
● Describing your job
● More practice using three tenses
4 French ● Unité 1 - De jeunes francophones 80 marks
● Unité 2 - Bienvenue à Paris (1 hour 30 mins)
● Unité 3 - Ça me passionne
Listening &
● Unité 4 - Au travail speaking Skills -
20 Marks
**All grammar topics taught till semester 1 end part of the
Time- 20 minutes
portion.
(Grammar topics till grade 7 also included)
5 Hindi ● अपठित गद्यांश 60 marks
● अपठित गद्यांश (विकल्पों का सही चन
ु ाव ) 2 hours
व्याकरण
Listening papers
● पर्यायवाची शब्द 30 marks ;
● २] विलोम शब्द
● ३] मह ु ावरे Time - 45 minutes
● ४]वाक्यांश के लिए एक शब्द
रचनात्मक लेखन
फिल्म समीक्षा
निबंध लेखन
श्रवण कौशल अभ्यास (जानकारी ,साक्षात्कार ,कहानी के आधार पर
)
6 Math ● Number and calculation 80 marks
➢ Irrational numbers (2 hours)
➢ Standard form
➢ Indices
● Expressions and formulae
➢ Substituting into expressions
➢ Constructing expressions
➢ Expressions and indices
➢ Expanding the product of two linear expressions
➢ Simplifying algebraic fractions
➢ Deriving and using formulae
● Decimals, percentages and rounding
➢ Multiplying and dividing by powers of 10
➢ Multiplying and dividing decimals
➢ Understanding compound percentages
➢ Understanding upper and lower bounds
● Equations and inequalities
➢ Constructing and solving equations
➢ Simultaneous equations
➢ Inequalities
● Angles
➢ Calculating angles
➢ Interior angles of polygons
➢ Exterior angles of polygons
➢ Constructions
➢ Pythagoras’ theorem
● Fractions
➢ Fractions and recurring decimals
➢ Fractions and the correct order of operations
➢ Multiplying fractions
➢ Dividing fractions
➢ Making calculations easier
● Sequences and functions
➢ Generating sequences
➢ Using the nth term
➢ Representing functions
7 History ● Chapter 1: The Beginning of the Modern World. 80 marks
● Chapter 3: The Age of Revolution - American (1 hr 45 min)
Revolution. (page 30-33)
8 Geography ● Asia - Climate 80 marks
● India - location, extent, political and physical (1 hr 45 min)
divisions
● India - climate, wildlife and natural vegetation
● Interpreting topographical sheets
● Formation of rocks and types of rocks
9 Biology 10.1 What is excretion? 80 marks
10.2 The human excretory system (1 hr 30 mins)
10.4 When kidneys go wrong
11.1 Reproduction : a characteristic of life
11.2 Fertilization : a new life begins
11.3 Boy or girl? sex inheritance in humans
11.4 Variation between individuals
11.5 The development of a fetus
11.6 Health of the mother, health of the child
11.7 Understanding science, saving lives
11.8 Smoking and pregnancy : the evidence
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH METHOD
LAB SAFETY RULES (LAB APPARATUS)
10 Physics 9.1 The world's energy need 80 marks
(1 hr 30 mins)
9.3 Non-renewable resources: fossil fuel
9.4 Renewable resources: solar and geothermal
9.5 Renewable resources: water and wind
11.1 Floating and sinking
11.2 Using ideas about density
12.1 Hot and cold
12.2 Conservation of energy
12.3 Energy transfer – Conduction
12.4 Energy transfer – Convection
12.5 Energy transfer – Radiation
12.6 Cooling by evaporation
MCQ, Structured and Practical-based questions
11 Chemistry 1. Structure, bonding and properties 80 marks
10.1 Proton number and periodic table (1 hr 30 mins)
10.2 Electrons in atoms
10.3 Making ions
10.4 Inside ionic compounds
10.5 Covalent bonding
10.6 Covalent structures
10.7 More about structures
10.8 Life saving compounds
2. Patterns in periodic table
11.1 Calculating density
11.2 Explaining density
11.3 Using density
11.4 The periodic table : Group 1
11.5 More about Group 1
Lab related questions
12 Computer Theory Theory ( written
Science Unit 1: Computational Thinking exam ) - 35 marks
● Understanding Pattern recognition
(40 Minutes)
● Using subroutines in algorithms
● Using iteration in flowcharts
● Using Selection and Sequence in flowcharts
Unit: 4 : Hardware
● Primary storage
● Secondary storage: Types of storage devices
● Virtual memory
● Cloud storage Advantages and disadvantages of
cloud storage
Unit 5 :Software
● High-level language and low-level languages
● Translators,Compiler and interpreters
● Role of IDE(Integrated Development environment)
in writing program code Practical - 35
Practical marks
Unit 2: Coding
- (50 Minutes)
● Using the concept of iteration in python programs
● Understand the meaning of procedures and
functions
● Using procedures and function in python programs
with or without parameters
● Declaring and using arrays 1D
Unit 3 : Program and Development
● Revise HTML
● Create a website using the features of HTML
● Using CSS with HTML
● Inline style
● Internal style sheet
● External style sheet
13 Global ● Written Paper: Themes: Endangered Languages, 50 marks
Perspectives 60 minutes
Globalization’s impacts on Languages,
Globalization in general, Language and media,
Effects of media in general
● IR topics: Words 1200-1500 Learners will choose Individual
Report/Research(
1 topic from the list below and submit it as per the
Part of
deadline shared. Summative)
● Topic list: Arts in society, Change in culture and 30 Marks
communities, ‘Climate change, energy and
resources’, Conflict and peace, ‘Development, This is not a
trade and aid’, Digital world, Education for all, written paper, this
Employment, ‘Environment, pollution and is a coursework
conservation’, Globalisation, Health and submission.
wellbeing, Law and criminality, Media and
communication, Migration and urbanisation,
‘Political power and action’, Poverty and inequality,
Social identity and inclusion, Sport and recreation,
‘Technology, industry and innovation’, ‘Transport,
travel and tourism’, Values and beliefs, ‘Water,
food and agriculture’
14 Art and design ● Landscape art - Perspective study, colour theory, Total marks -
acrylic, water colour and knife painting and other 80 marks
paitning media study
Duration - 2 hours
● Expressive Portraits - Self portraits, proportion 30 min
study, colour scheme,expressions, personal
narratives, building identities.
15 Music - Rhythmic notations Listening
- note values and rests component (
- rhythmic dictation written exam ) -
- Fundamentals of music production 40 marks
- Dynamics and articulation (45 Minutes)
Performance - 20
marks
Composition - 20
mark
Total marks - 80
16 Drama & Total Marks - 80
Theatre ● Group performance
● AO1 -Individual acting -40 marks
● AO2 -Original Drama -20 marks
● AO3 -Staging -20 marks
● There will be no written exam.
17 Marathi कविता : आभाळाची आम्ही लेकरे 40 marks
पाठ : नातवंडास पत्र (1 hour)
व्याकरण :
● समानार्थी शब्द (Speaking &
● विरुद्धार्थी शब्द Listening Skills
● अंक १ ते ५० (10 marks)
● विरामचिन्हे
● अव्यय
(क्रियाविशेषण अव्यय,शब्दयोगी अव्यय,उभयान्वयी
अव्यय,
केवलप्रयोगी अव्यय )
