MONTHLY SYLLABUS GRADE VIII

ENGLISH- CLASS 8

Month CUP Language focus Writing

March- Unit 1- Going Punctuation for Writing

May underground rhetorical effect, contemporary
extended metaphors fantasy
Writing a formal
review Producing
travel writing

July- Unit 2- Law and Combining sentence Descriptive account

Aug order type for effects Colons Writing a speech Writing
Unit 4- Time and Semicolons a story opening
Tenses Conditionals
and modals

Verb choices

Sep Revision HALF YEARLY Progression test

papers
Oct-Nov Unit 5-That's Asides and dramatic Writing a discursive
entertainment Unit irony Response Analysing a
6- A sense of Place Layers of meaning poem Homecoming
in figurative writing(flashback)
language
Rhyming couplets and
imperfect rhyme
Pathetic fallacy

Dec- Unit 7- Motifs Level of formality Writing a feature

Jan The Journey Ambiguous endings
Puns and double article
Within
meaning
Writing a short story
Unit 9-Strange and with a twist
unusual
Writing a final scene

Feb Revision ANNUALEXAM Checkpoint Exam

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MONTH NAME OF THE CHAPTER SUGGESTED ACTIVITY
APRIL- • Photosynthesis and • LAb VISIT
MAY Carbon cycle • LAB VISIT
MID
• Properties of
TERM
materials
JULY • Forces and Energy • LAB VISIT

AUGUST • Maintaining life • LAB VISIT

SEPTEMBER REVISION
OCTOBER • Sound and Space • VISIT TO
PLANETARIUM
• LAB VISIT

NOVEMBER • Reactivity • LAB VISIT

• Rates of reaction

DECEMBER • Genes and • LAB VISIT

Inheritance
JANUARY • Electricity • LAB VISIT

FEBRUARY REVISION
 Geography VIII

Months Syllabus topic wise

Resources
April-May Land and soil resources
28 days Water resources
July Natural vegetation and wildlife
25 days
August Agricultural Practices
23 days Major crops

September
14 days Revision: Term 1

October Mineral and Power resources

17 days
November Manufacturing Industries
21 days Industries: India and the world
December Human Resources (ELP project )
24 days
January Disaster management
19 days
February Revision: Term II
16 days
 Maths Grade 8

March -April 1- Number and calculation

2- Expressions and formulae

May 2 -cont

July 3- Decimals ,percentages and rounding

Mid term I
4-Equations and inequalities

August 5-Angles
13-Position and transformation

September 9-Sequences and functions

Revision HY

October 8-Fractions
10- Graphs

November 11- ratio and proportion

12-Probability

December 14-Volume ,surface area

Mid term till 14.2
6-Statistical investigations

January 15- Interpreting and discussing results

7-Shapes and measurements

February Revision
 HISTORY GRADE 8
Collins Cascade 8

Months Topics Scheme of Work Activities

Working
Days
March’24 • They would be Research work 4
Where, When, knowing about the Observe images of
and How. colonial period in Newspapers of the
India pre-independence
period and compare
it with the present-
day newspapers.

April’24 • The learners will Prepare a speech on 12

Establishment know about the the ‘Divide and Rule
of British Rule details of the British policy’ as applied by
in India. rule in the British
India
Frame a constitution
• The learners will
for your own class. It
The Indian know about the
Constitution. should be fair to all.
Indian constitution
in detail.

May’24 6
The Indian
Constitution.
(cont.)
June’24 - - - -
July’24 Research work Why 12
Rural life and did the British
society introduce different
land revenue
systems for different
• The learners will states?
know about the
various land revenue
collection system,
under the Ryotwari,
Case study on divide
The Revolt of Mahalwari • Learners and rule from the
1857 will know the causes, book.
centers and

consequences of
the revolt.
August’24 Colonial 15
Education Research work Right to
education act
• Education during
British rule in
India
• Learners will know
Understanding about the formation Have a question hour in
Secularism. and functioning of the class.
the Parliament.
Election commission
of
India, Rajya
Sabha and the Lok
Sabha.
Revision 15
September’24
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Half Yearly Examinations
October ’24 Laws 15
Case study–Lokpal Bill

• Learners will know

Judiciary in about the
India formulation of
laws, controversial
laws and the role
of people in
making laws.
• Learners will
understand the
structure of
judiciary,
integrated system
of judiciary,
jurisdiction of
courts and
litigations
November’24 Women and Project on Gender 12
Reforms equality–SDG5. Creating
an organisational chart
about the social
reformers their locations
• Learners will know and contributions.
about the status of
women in the
society before the
reforms and will
The know about the
Nationalist social reformers.
movement:
Rise and • The learners will
Growth till know the reasons
1905 for national
movement,
Gandhian era,
birth of Indian
National
Congress
December’24 The National Research work–Look for 12
Movement I a speech of Shri. Gopal
Ganga Dhar tilak and
make your own diary
• The learners will know entries about it. Mention
about the about the mood of the
extremists, partition audience listening to it.
of Bengal, Research–Bring your
Swadeshi and own findings about Annie
Boycott movements, Besant (Group activity
Formation of
Muslim League, Scrap book work)
The Lucknow Pact
1916. • The learners
The National
will know all the details
Movement II
related to the
nationalist
movement 2
Jan’25 8
The National Collect rare photographs
Movement III • The learners will know of the freedom
all the details movement and conduct
related to an exhibition of the
the nationalist same.
movement 3
Feb’25 Revision 8
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