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Project Portfolio/Project Report Topics

List with the Tasks
General Instructions:

• It is compulsory for all to prepare the Project file.

• The Internal Assessment of Term II will be in the form of Project Portfolio/Project Report and Viva.
Both Project and Viva will carry 5 Marks each.
• The Internal Assessment of Term II will be taken by an external examiner. The Project File ofyours will
be checked by the external examiner. The Viva will also be taken by him/her on the same time.
• The Project Report is needed to be completed in I 000 words in your own handwriting.
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Project-Portfolio/ Project Report

The Project-Portfolios is a compilation of the work that the students produce during the process of working on
their ALS Project. The Project-Portfolio may include the following:

PROJECT FILE
Page 1: COVER PAGE, WITH TITLE OF PROJECT, SCHOOL DETAILS/DETAILS OF STUDENTS.

Page 2 : STATEMENT OF PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES/GOALS

Page 3 : CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF THE TEACHER.

Page 4: ACTION PLAN FOR THE COMPLETION OF ASSIGNED TASKS.

Mid Pages : PROJECT/REPORT DETAILS( Graphics and pictures to be pasted on lefl hand side and content
of the report to be written in your own handwriting on the right hand side of the page.

Last Page : LIST OF RESOURCES/BIBLIOGRAPHY

THE INSTRUCTIONS TO STUDENTS FOR MAKING PROJECT

• The marks allotted for ASL PROJECT lOmarks(S +S) project and viva on the same
taken by the External
• The Project can be inter-disciplinary in theme.
 • The topics may be taken up that provide students with opportunities for listening and speaking.
• Some suggestions are as follows:
INTERVIEW BASED RESEARCH:
I. Students can take a project on the theme of their Interest. Ex- Impact of pandemic on
Businessmen, the students will interview the business and write a report on the Information in 1000
words.
2. The students should interview and collect Information at least ten memben (10 memben).
3. The students need to prepare a questionnaire on the topic taken and it will be same for all the
memben being interviewed.
4. The questionnaire should consists IS questions including basic information (name, occupation
etc)
S. The students will take the help of the teacher in preparing the questionnaire.
6. Each and every student will have a different questionnaire as they have different topics for project
7. Evidences need to be attached at the last pages of the project like the questionnaire, photographs
with the interviewee.
8. A video of one or two persons can be taken and should be saved in a pen drive.

• THE PORTFOLIO OF PROJECT

THE PROJECT PORTFOLIO MAY INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING
I. cover page with the title of the project, school details of the students
2. Statement of purpose or objectives
3. Certificate of completion
4. Content of the project
S. Topic of the project
6. Action plan of the project
7. Project Report
8. Questionnaire
10. Photographs
11. List of resources and bibliography

NOTE: THE PROJECT SHOULD BE HANDWRITTEN

( The cover page , acknowledgement , certificate can be printed and the rest of the pages should be
handwritten)
USE A4 size paper white sheet for the project and after compiling everything it should be spiral
binding.
 Project - Topics

TOPIC :1 Gender issues ( Take any one Issue)

 -Highlight the plight of oppressed Gender– inequality, injustice,

deprivation, agony, pain faced by them ( Infographics / Data).

 -Women ideology towards gender inequality.
 -Movements against Gender inequality.
 -Discrimination at different places ( home, job, school etc).
 -Kamala Das – and Indian writer throughout her literature career
has fought for the rights of women – ( Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers) –
mention the themes.
 -Kamala Das: The Voice of Indian Woman’s Quest For Liberation (
It is an autobiographical verse ) Highlight.
 -# Me too movement.
 -How can the change be brought in the mind set of the people.
 -Recent Supreme court decision in America- Abort Crucial Rights.
LINK OF THE 1
TOPIC 2: Unleash your real potential – be bold, be resilient, be strong
(Importance of a resilient attitude)
What do you mean by Resilient Attitude.
 Traits, qualities and characteristics of Resilient person.
 How personal choices help or hinder our resilience.
 Tips for Building and Cultivating Resilience.
 Why is resilience important?

 Is Resilience a skill or character strength?

 What are the seven C’s of Resilience?
 Different types of resilience
 Key component and element of resilience life
 Take an example of the chapter— Deep Water
 Other examples of great personalities
TOPIC -3: Courage is not the absence of fear but triumph over it
 -Introduction
  -Origin of the quote
 -Courage – a choice to act
 -What can one learn from fear
 -Benefits of having courage over fear
 -How and why to overcome fear
 -Fighting against fear is hard but worth it ( Examples)
 -Mention some of your worst fears and how you managed to
overcome them — A Questionnaire
 -Famous personalities who overcame their fear ( Their motivation
podcast/speech/stories


TOPIC -5: Watch ‘CNN’s award-winning Planet in Peril series and
Anderson Cooper 360 0 on the environment.
Write review in 500 to 1000 words highlighting the problems dealt.
 –Like Climate change
 Vanishing habitats
 Disappearing species
 Human population growth
 Collect pictures and articles from the journals, newspaper and
science magazines showing the changes
 Make a comparative report showing the changes from past 20
years.
 Mention Role of Eight year old girl Licypriya, known as Indian
‘Greta’ for her passion towards the fight against climate change. (
Take any other example)

 TOPIC-6: Watch short film “Positive all the way” ( how
people with undeterred determination face the obstacles of
life and leave a mark for themselves)
 -Give examples of people in different sphere of life who have
shown positive attitude and reached the pinnacle of success
  – obstacles faced
 – their undeterred determination
 – lesson and message their efforts give to others
 – values learnt -can co relate it with the chapter ‘DEEP WATER’

TOPIC -7: Watch the ‘The Story of Plastic’ it is a searing expose.

Make a project on “Plastic Menace’
 – Uncover the ugly truth behind plastic pollution
 –Environmental damage created by plastic
 -Human Rights abused that occur throughout the lifecycle of
plastic
 -False solution of plastic recycling.
 – Initiative launched by Union Environment Minister to stop the
plastic menace
 – infographic to show the increase of the use of plastic
 – some state/ countries who are successful in reducing the use of
plastic
 – cutting from Newspaper/Journals to show the impact of Plastic
 – views about plastic ban
TOPIC -8: Social Issues in India
A, GENDER ISSUES –
1. Reason/causes for disparity
 Gender gap in Education/labour force/employment
 Economic survey
 Rank of India as per World Economic Forum
 Schemes launched by Indian Government to bridge the gap
 Campaigns launched to bring in behavioural change in
society
B. MIGRATION
 Changing Pattern of Migration
 women migration in India is increasing at a faster pace than men
Why?
  Plight of Migrants ( even talk of the plight of the migrants during
the pandemic)
 Infographic description ( No., reason, condition)
 Take incident from (lost spring) talk of the callousness of society

and the political class towards the sufferings of the poor

C. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
– INTRODUCTION
 cycle of abuse
 intergenerational violence
 effects
 causes
 prevention

types of abuses
legal way to approach
Satyamav Jayate ( Episodes)
ex-Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers
TOPIC-9: “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.”
 Importance of Language
 Meaning of ‘Linguistic chauvinism’
 Find examples in history where conquered people had their
language taken away from them or had a language imposed of
them—What was the result/outcome
 Problems faced by linguistic minority
 How can they keep their language alive
 Linguistic human rights
 Linguistic Chauvinism examples from English literature

TOPIC -10: Navarasas ( Nine Rasas)

 What are the Nine rasas?
 The Chemistry behind Emotions
 Colours that represent Nine rasas
  Are emotions good or bad? Should we embrace all emotions?
 How to overcome bad moods?/ What happens when the
emotions are supressed?
 Life experience of dealing with emotions ( Grief, Sorrow, Anger,
Fear)
 Professions and skills which include learning about emotions
 Make a Google form (atleast 10 questions )/make a
questionnaire= to assess your as well as your friends Emotional
State

TOPIC-11

The need to develop the right attitude towards the specially

challenged, the need to incorporate them into the social
mainstream and also realize the true beauty that lies within a
person and not in one’s physical appearance. “Appearances are
deceptive”

See the documentary- Forgive us Our Trespasses (Attitude towards

disable people)
Mention dehumanising way , the disabled are treated/ rather ignored
in the past even today
Extracts /real life stories
Suggest some radical changes
Importance of Inner beauty over outer beauty
Relate it with chapter ’ On the face of it’
#OntheFaceofIt

TOPIC-12
Should criminals in prison be given the opportunity of learning
and education? Can education bring any reform ?
Should prisoners be allowed access to education?
Why should they be educated?
Do prisoners have the right to education in India?
CRIME AND ILLITERACY
Crime reduction through better education
Benefits of education for criminals in prison
Survey to show the change

TOPIC-13
Conduct an interview of the people of slum –
FOLLOW THESE POINTS;

Find the harsh realities of life faced by them

Do they understand the value of #education
Find the pathetic condition of the slum children
Talk of the theme of social injustice and class inequalities prevailing in
the society, effect of social disorder, confusion, chaos and poverty
What can be genuinely done for them
Some questions-
How do feel living in slum?
For how long have you been here
What’s the area of the house and how many people live?
What is the source of Income?
Are your children going to school?
What basic facilities do you get?
Why have you migrated to city?
Do you want to go back to your own village?
Etc……

TOPIC- 14
Sacrifices and sufferings faced by the Indian unsung martyrs for
gaining freedom.
 Freedom fighters are epitome of bravery and their lives personify
lessons of supreme struggle and endurance (enormous impact on the
children)
Moral lesson learnt from freedom fighters
Qualities they have ( courage, independent thinking, humility,
empathy, determination—)
Their contribution to Indian freedom
Mention atleast 5 unsung martyrs and their role in gaining freedom

TOPIC -15
Choose an issue that has provoked a controversy like the Bhopal
Gas Tragedy or the Narmada Dam Project in which the lives of the
poor have been affected.
Bhopal gas tragedy
History of the Union Carbide India Limited
Establishment
History and ownership of Bhopal plant
What is MIC gas?
Storage of MIC gas at Bhopal Plant
Causes of Bhopal gas tragedy
Effect of the gas leak
Governments response to the tragedy
UCIL response to the tragedy
Movement and protest led by the victims of the tragedy
Repercussion of the tragedy
Media/articles/movie/—–cuttings and reviews
Lesson learnt from the tragedy

TOPIC-17
Hero Worshipping/ Fantasizing/Ego ideal. Are teenagers justified
in their act of hero-worship’?

Adolescence a period of change/ transitional period/period of

unrealism/ time of search for identity
What is hero worshipping for adolescent?
Is hero worshipping/fantasising good or bad?
Meaning of adolescent fantasising
Hero worship is related with which stage of development
Are teenagers justified with their hero worship?
Purpose of ego ideal
What attracts the child to hero worship
Hero worshipping is India is too big.why?
What are some potential dangers of hero worship?

TOPIC-18
Callousness of human beings towards wildlife

What should be our attitude towards animals?

Reasons why we need to save wildlife
Attitude of human – destruction/fragmentation/modification caused
by human led activities
Danger of development
Instance of game hunting
Animals who have extinct and the ones on the verge of extinction
(reason)
Data collection /images
Involvement of affluent people (ANY BOLLYWOOD CELEBRITY ETC)
Earth’s fate and the devastation of the natural world were recently put
under the microscope with the release of Sir David Attenborough’s
Netflix documentary A Life On Our Planet.
Steps taken /needs to be taken to preserve wildlife
TOPIC-19

TOPIC-20
Gondwana India
Where is Gondwana region in India?
What countries were in Gondwana ?
Is India part of Gondwana
When did India separate from Gondwana?
Why Gondwana is so named?
The break up history of Gondwana and its impact
Pictorials showing the break up
Reference of the chapter- Journey to the end of the earth
RACISM
MEANING OF RACISM
Types
Consequences ( Social, Physical, Mental)
Racism between humans is the worst kind of Racism because…steps to
stop/reduce it
How stopping racism can bring equality and peace
Racism in India/ world/LGBT community
Steps taken till now to stop /reduce it / awareness spread
Celebrities and activists participation in spreading awareness
Read the stories ‘Jamaican Fragment’ and ‘Boyhood Days’.
All of the above deal with racial prejudices and the struggle of
coloured people to rise above unruly bias, unemployment, poor
healthcare, inadequate schools, and unresponsive government.

What is the message conveyed

Make a comparative analysis of the texts keeping in mind the
following-
The story of misfortune and agony
Difference in the situation
How do individuals combat the situation of adversity and how should
the present hard time be fought