SRI SRI ACADEMY

SYLLABUS 2017-2018

CLASS - VIII

ENGLISH

FIRST TERM SECOND TERM

ENGLISH LITERATURE

POETRY

1. In the Bazar’s of Hydrabad

2. Where the Mind is Without Fear

3. All the World’s a Stage

4. The Unfolding Bud

PROSE

1. Anne Bakes a Cake

2. Darjeeling

3. OwensVs Master Race

4. Saving the Gharial

RAPID READER Merchant of Venice

ENGLISH LITERATURE

POETRY

1.The Elephant and the Trangopan

2. Macavity, the Mystery Cat

3.Poison Tree

4. The Lost Dances of Cranes

PROSE

1. Coming Home to Delhi

2. Bodyline

3. Can Animals Reason?

4. Gogol’s First Day

RAPID READER

1. Merchant of Venice

2. Tempest ENGLISH LANGUAGE

1. Framing of sentences, Interchange and

Question tags

2. Nouns: possessive

3. Adjectives-Degrees

4. Subject verb agreement

5. Tenses: Perfect and Perfect Continuous

6. Preposition

7. Conjunction

8. Transformation of Sentences

ENGLISH LANGUAGE

GRAMMAR

1. Synthesis of Sentences

2. Direct and Indirect

3. Phrases and Clauses

4. Conditionals

5. Voice (Active and Passive)

6. Transformation of Sentences

WRITING SKILLS

COMPOSTION (Story, Travelogue,

Argumentative)

LETTER- Formal and Informal

COMPREHENSION (Unseen and Aural)

SUMMARY

HINDI

FIRST TERM SECOND TERM

BENGALI (বাাংলা)

FIRST TERM SECOND TERM

MATHEMATICS

FIRST TERM SECOND TERM

1) Rational Numbers

2) Sets

3) Algebraic Expressions

4) Exponents

5) Squares & Square roots

6) Cubes & Cube Roots

7) Special Products & Expansions

8) Understanding Shapes

9) Constructions of Quadrilaterals

10) Percentage and its Applications

11) Factorisation

12) Area of Plane Figures

13) Probability

14) Representing 3D in 2D

1) Unitary Method

2) Profit, Loss & Discount

3) Simple Interest & Compound Interest

4) HCF & LCM of algebraic expressions

5) Linear Equations (Including Word

Problems)

6) Linear Inequations

7) Graphs

8) Triangles (Congruence of triangles &

Pythagoras’ theorem)

9) Circles

10) Symmetry & Reflection

11) Volume & Surface Area (Cube, Cuboid &

Cylinder)

12) Statistics (Collection of data, Graphical

representation of data)

*The topics covered in first term

PHYSICS

FIRST TERM SECOND TERM

Chapter 1. States of Matter on the Basis of

kinetic Theory of Matter

Chapter 2. Physical Quantities and Measurement.

Chapter 3. Force and Pressure.

Chapter 5. Light Energy.

1. Energy

2. Heat transfer

3. Sound

4. Electricity

5. Force & Pressure

CHEMISTRY

FIRST TERM SECOND TERM

1. Structure of atoms.

2. Hydrogen

3. Transformation of Substances (before

electrolysis)

4. Carbon

5. Chemical bonding

1. Carbon (Only amorphous carbon)

2. Carbon – Based Fuels

3. Metal and Non Metals

4. Transformation of Substances (Chemical

reactions from 1st term)

5. Chemical Bonding (1st Term)

BIOLOGY

FIRST TERM SECOND TERM

Chapter 1:- Transport in Animals and Plants.

Chapter 3:- Control and Coordination.

Chapter 5:- Pollution and Conservation.

Chapter 1:- Transport in Animals and

Plants.(from 1st term)

Chapter 2:- Reproduction, Growth and

Development.

Chapter 3:- Control and Coordination.

Chapter 4:- Health and Hygiene.

HISTORY & CIVICS

FIRST TERM SECOND TERM

CIVICS

1.India’s Foreign policy

2. War and Disarmament

CIVICS

1. The United Nations Organisation

2. Special Agencies of United Nations

3. Constitutions and its Special Features

HISTORY

1. Decline of Mughal Empire

2. Conquest of Bengal

3. Expansion Of the British Rule

4. Impact of the British Rule

5. Socio – religious reform movement

6. Revolt of 1857

HISTORY

1. Age of Revolution

2. Nationalism in Europe

3. Revolt of 1857

4. Rise of Indian Nationalism

5. Indian National Movement 1885 – 1918

6. Indian National Movement 1919-1947

GEOGRAPHY

FIRST TERM SECOND TERM

1.Weather and Climate

2. Practical study of Climate

3. Temperature

4. atmospheric Pressure

5. Winds

6. moisture and precipitation

7. Asia: land Political Divisions and Resources

8. Map Work ( Physical map Of Asia)

Indian ocean, Bay of Bengal, Arabian sea, Persian

gulf, Caspian sea, Arctic Ocean, Sea of Okhotsk,

Sea of Japan, Yellow sea, Strait of Malacca, Palk

Strait, Gulf of Kachchh, Anatolian, plateau,

plateau of Tibet, Plateau of Iran, Mongolian

Plateau, Deccan Plateau, Caucasus Mt, Zagros

Mt, Elburz Mt, Hindukush, Himalayas,

Karakoram, Ural Mt.

1. India : Relief features and Drainage

2. India : Climate

3. India Flora and Fauna

4. Wheat cultivation in Punjab : A case

Study

5. Plantations in Kerala : A case study

6. Environmental Concerns

7. Map Work (India-Physical)

COMPUTER

FIRST TERM SECOND TERM

1. Networking concepts

2. Log on to Access

3. Working with tables

4. Working with queries

5. Surfing internet

1. Understanding HTML

2. Using List and creating a table

3. Visual Basic 2010 express

4. More on VB 2010 express

SANSKRIT

FIRST TERM

SECOND TERM