DELHI PUBLIC SCHOOL, RUBY PARK, KOLKATA

CLASS – XI (2021 -22)

SYLLABUS FOR BLOCK TEST - II (Science)

ENGLISH
Reading Comprehension:
1. Unseen passage (factual, descriptive or literary /discursive or persuasive)
2. Unseen passage for Note Making and Summarising

Writing Skills :
Short Writing Tasks
1. Posters
Long Writing Tasks
1. Official Letters: e.g. to school/college authorities (regarding admissions, school issues, requirements /
suitability of courses)
2. Debate

Grammar
1. Determiners
2. Tenses
3. Re-ordering of Sentences
4. Gap Filling Exercise
5. Transformation of sentences

Literature
Questions based on extracts/ texts to assess comprehension and appreciation, analysis, inference, extrapolation
Book-Hornbill:
1. The Voice of the Rain (Poem)
2. The Ailing Planet: The Green Movement’s Role (Prose)
3. The Browning Version (Play)
4. Childhood (Poem)
5. Silk Road (Prose)
Book-Snapshots:
1. Albert Einstein at School (Prose)
2.Mother’s Day (Play)
3. Birth ( Prose)
Assessment of Listening and Speaking Skill

PHYSICS

Unit VII: Properties of Bulk Matter

Chapter-9: Mechanical Properties of Solids
Stress-strain relationship, Hooke's law, Young's modulus, bulk modulus

Chapter-10 : Mechanical properties of Fluids

Pressure due to a fluid column; Pascal’s law and its applications (hydraulic lift and hydraulic brakes), effect of
gravity on fluid pressure.
Viscosity, Stokes’ law, terminal velocity, streamline and turbulent flow, critical velocity, Bernoulli's theorem and
its applications.
Surface energy and surface tension, angle of contact, excess of pressure across a curved surface,application of surface
tension ideas to drops, bubbles and capillary rise.

Chapter -11 : Thermal properties of Matter

Heat, temperature, (recapitulatian only) thermal expansion; thermal expansion of solids, liquids and gases,
anomalous expansion of water; specific heat capacity; Cp, Cv - calorimetry; change of state - latent heat capacity.
Heat transfer-conduction, convection and radiation (recapitulation only), thermal conductivity, qualitative ideas of
Blackbody radiation, Wein's displacement Law, Stefan's law, Greenhouse effect

Unit VIII: Thermodynamics

Chapter-12: Thermodynamics

Thermal equilibrium and definition of temperature (zeroth law of thermodynamics), heat, work and
internal energy. First law of thermodynamics, isothermal and adiabatic processes.
Second law of thermodynamics: reversible and irreversible proce
Unit IX: Behaviour of Perfect Gases and kinetic Theory of Gases
Chapter-13: Kinetic Theory
Equation of state of a perfect gas, work done in compressing a gas.
Kinetic theory of gases - assumptions, concept of pressure. Kinetic interpretation of
temperature; rms speed of gas molecules; degrees of freedom, law of equi-partition of energy
(statement only) and application to specific heat capacities of gases; concept of mean free path,
Avogadro’s number.
Unit X: Oscillations and Waves
Chapter-14: Oscillations

Periodic motion - time period, frequency, displacement as a function of time, periodic

functions.

Simple harmonic motion (S.H.M) and its equation; phase; oscillations of a loaded
spring- restoring force and force constant; energy in S.H.M. Kinetic and potential
energies; simple pendulum derivation of expression for its time period. Free, forced and
damped oscillations (qualitative ideas only), resonance.
Chapter-15: Waves

Wave motion: Transverse and longitudinal waves, speed of travelling wave,

displacement relation for a progressive wave, principle of superposition of waves, reflection
of waves, standing waves in strings and organ pipes, Beats

CHEMISTRY
1. States of Matter: Gases and Liquids: Three states of matter, intermolecular interactions, types
of bonding, melting and boiling points, role of gas laws in elucidating the concept of the
molecule, Boyle's law, Charles law, Gay Lussac's law, Avogadro's law, ideal behaviour,
empirical derivation of gas equation, Avogadro's number, ideal gas equation and deviation from
ideal behaviour.

2. Chemical Thermodynamics: Concepts of System and types of systems, surroundings, work,

heat, energy, extensive and intensive properties, state functions.
First law of thermodynamics -internal energy and enthalpy, measurement of U and H, Hess's
law of constant heat summation, enthalpy of bond dissociation, combustion, formation,
atomization, sublimation, phase transition, ionization, solution and dilution. Second law of
Thermodynamics (brief introduction)
Introduction of entropy as a state function, Gibb's energy change for spontaneous and
nonspontaneous processes.
Third law of thermodynamics (brief introduction).
3. Equilibrium: Equilibrium in physical and chemical processes, dynamic nature of equilibrium,
law of mass action, equilibrium constant, factors affecting equilibrium - Le Chatelier's principle,
ionic equilibrium- ionization of acids and bases, strong and weak electrolytes, degree of
ionization, ionization of poly basic acids, acid strength, concept of pH, buffer solution, solubility
product, common ion effect (with illustrative examples).

4. s -Block Elements: Group 1 and Group 2 Elements -General introduction, electronic

configuration ,occurrence, anomalous properties of the first element of each group, diagonal
relationship, trends in the variation of properties (such as ionization enthalpy, atomic and ionic
radii), trends in chemical reactivity with oxygen, water, hydrogen and halogens, uses.

5.Some p -Block Elements: General Introduction to p -Block Elements

Group 13 Elements: General introduction, electronic configuration, occurrence, variation of
properties, oxidation states, trends in chemical reactivity, anomalous properties of first element
of the group, Boron - physical and chemical properties.
Group 14 Elements: General introduction, electronic configuration, occurrence, variation of
properties, oxidation states, trends in chemical reactivity, anomalous behaviour of first elements.
Carbon-catenation, allotropic forms, physical and chemical properties.

6.Hydrocarbons: Classification of Hydrocarbons Aliphatic Hydrocarbons:

Alkanes - Nomenclature, isomerism, conformation (ethane only), physical properties, chemical
reactions.
Alkenes - Nomenclature, structure of double bond (ethene), geometrical isomerism, physical
properties, methods of preparation, chemical reactions: addition of hydrogen, halogen, water,
hydrogen halides (Markovnikov's addition and peroxide effect), ozonolysis, oxidation,
mechanism of electrophilic addition.
Alkynes - Nomenclature, structure of triple bond (ethyne), physical properties, methods of
preparation, chemical reactions: acidic character of alkynes, addition reaction of - hydrogen,
halogens, hydrogen halides and water.
Aromatic Hydrocarbons: Introduction, IUPAC nomenclature, benzene: resonance, aromaticity,
chemical properties: mechanism of electrophilic substitution. Nitration, sulphonation,
halogenation, Friedel Craft's alkylation and acylation, directive influence of functional group in
monosubstituted benzene. Carcinogenicity and toxicity.

MATHEMATICS

1. Trigonometric Functions

* Measurement of angle
* Associated angles
* Domain and Range of Trigonometric Functions, their graph
* Compound angles
* Transformation of sums and products
* Multiple and submultiple angles
2. Linear Inequalities

3. Permutations and combinations

4. Circles, Parabola, Ellipse, Hyperbola

5. Derivatives

6. Introduction to 3-D Geometry

7. Probability

BIOLOGY

Unit-III Cell: Structure and Function

Chapter-10: Cell Cycle and Cell Division Cell cycle, mitosis, meiosis and their significance

Unit-IV Plant Physiology

Chapter-13: Photosynthesis in Higher Plants Photosynthesis as a means of autotrophic nutrition; site of

photosynthesis, pigments involved in photosynthesis (elementary idea); photochemical and biosynthetic
phases of photosynthesis; cyclic and non-cyclic photophosphorylation; chemiosmotic hypothesis;
photorespiration; C3 and C4 pathways; factors affecting photosynthesis.

Chapter-14: Respiration in Plants Exchange of gases; cellular respiration - glycolysis, fermentation (anaerobic),
TCA cycle and electron transport system (aerobic); energy relations - number of ATP molecules generated;
amphibolic pathways; respiratory quotient.

Chapter-15: Plant - Growth and Development Growth regulators - auxin, gibberellin, cytokinin, ethylene, ABA.

Unit-V Human Physiology

Chapter-17: Breathing and Exchange of Gases Respiratory organs in animals (recall only); Respiratory system
in humans; mechanism of breathing and its regulation in humans - exchange of gases, transport of gases and
regulation of respiration, respiratory volume; disorders related to respiration - asthma, emphysema,
occupational respiratory disorders.

Chapter-18: Body Fluids and Circulation Composition of blood, blood groups, coagulation of blood;
composition of lymph and its function; human circulatory system - Structure of human heart and blood vessels;
cardiac cycle, cardiac output, ECG; double circulation; regulation of cardiac activity; disorders of circulatory
system - hypertension, coronary artery disease, angina pectoris, heart failure.

Chapter-19: Excretory Products and their Elimination Modes of excretion - ammonotelism, ureotelism,
uricotelism; human excretory system – structure and function; urine formation, osmoregulation; regulation of
kidney function - renin - angiotensin, atrial natriuretic factor, ADH and diabetes insipidus; role of other organs
in excretion; disorders - uremia, renal failure, renal calculi, nephritis; dialysis and artificial kidney, kidney
transplant.

Chapter-20: Locomotion and Movement Skeletal muscle, contractile proteins and muscle contraction.

Chapter-21: Neural Control and Coordination Neuron and nerves; Nervous system in humans - central nervous
system; peripheral nervous system and visceral nervous system; generation and conduction of nerve impulse.

Chapter-22: Chemical Coordination and Integration Endocrine glands and hormones; human endocrine system
- hypothalamus, pituitary, pineal, thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal, pancreas, gonads; mechanism of hormone
action (elementary idea); role of hormones as messengers and regulators, hypo - and hyperactivity and related
disorders; dwarfism, acromegaly, cretinism, goiter, exophthalmic goiter, diabetes, Addison's disease.

COMPUTER SCIENCE

Computational Thinking and Programming – 1

● Lists: introduction, indexing, list operations (concatenation, repetition, membership &
slicing),traversing a list using loops, built-in functions: len(), list(), append(), extend(), insert(),
count(),index(), remove(), pop(), reverse(), sort(), sorted(), min(), max(), sum(); nested lists,

● Tuples: introduction, indexing, tuple operations (concatenation, repetition, membership &

slicing),built-in functions: len(), tuple(), count(), index(), sorted(), min(), max(), sum(); tuple
assignment, nested tuple,

● Dictionary: introduction, accessing items in a dictionary using keys, mutability of dictionary

(adding a new item, modifying an existing item), traversing a dictionary, built-in functions: len(),
dict(),keys(), values(), items(), get(), update(), del(), clear(), fromkeys(), copy(), pop(),
popitem(),setdefault(), max(), min(), count(), sorted(), copy();

● Introduction to Python modules: Importing module using 'import <module>' and using from
statement, Importing math module (pi, e, sqrt, ceil, floor, pow, fabs, sin, cos, tan); random
module (random, randint, randrange), statistics module (mean, median, mode)

Society, Law and Ethics

● Digital Footprints
● Digital society and Netizen: net etiquettes, communication etiquettes, social media
etiquettes
● Data protection: Intellectual Property Right (copyright, patent, trademark), violation of IPR
(plagiarism, copyright infringement, trademark infringement), open source softwares and
licensing (Creative Commons, GPL and Apache)
● Cyber-crime: definition, hacking, eavesdropping, phishing and fraud emails, ransomware,
preventing cyber crime
● Cyber safety: safely browsing the web, identity protection, confidentiality, cyber trolls and
bullying.
● Safely accessing web sites: malware, viruses, Trojans, adware
● E-waste management: proper disposal of used electronic gadgets
● Indian Information Technology Act (IT Act)
● Technology & Society: Gender and disability issues while teaching and using computers

ECONOMICS

Part A: Statistics for Economics

Unit 3: Statistical Tools and Interpretation
Measures of Dispersion - absolute dispersion standard deviation); relative dispersion coefficient
of variation)
Correlation – meaning and properties, scatter diagram; Measures of correlation - Karl Pearson's
method (two variables ungrouped data)
Introduction to Index Numbers - meaning, types - wholesale price index, consumer price
index, uses of index numbers; Inflation and index numbers.
Part B: Introductory Microeconomics
Unit 6: Producer Behaviour and Supply :Meaning of Production Function – Short-Run and
Long-Run Total Product, Average Product and Marginal Product. Returns to a Factor
Cost: Short run costs - total cost, total fixed cost, total variable cost; Average cost; Average fixed
cost, average variable cost and marginal cost-meaning and their relationships.
Revenue - total, average and marginal revenue - meaning and their relationship.
Supply,market supply, determinants of supply, supply schedule, supply curve and its slope,
movements along and shifts in supply curve, price elasticity of supply; measurement of price
elasticity of supply - percentage-change method.
Unit 7: Forms of Market and Price Determination under Perfect Competition with simple
applications.
Perfect competition - Features; Determination of market equilibrium and effects of shifts in
demand and supply. Simple Applications of Demand and Supply: Price ceiling, price floor.
PHYSICAL EDUCATION

Unit IV -Physical Education & Sports for CWSN (Children With Special Needs- Divyang)

• Aims & objectives of Adaptive Physical Education

• Organization promoting Adaptive Sports (Special Olympics Bharat; Paralympics;
Deaflympics)
• Role of various professionals for children with special needs (Counsellor, Occupational
Therapist, Physiotherapist, Physical Education Teacher, Speech Therapist &amp; special
Educator)

Unit V- Yoga

• Meaning & Importance of Yoga

• Elements of Yoga
• Introduction - Asanas, Pranayam, Meditation &amp; Yogic KriYoga
• Yoga for concentration & related Asanas (Sukhasana; Tadasana; Padmasana &
Shashankasana, Naukasana, Vrikshasana (Tree pose), Garudasana (Eagle pose)

Unit VI- Physical Activity & Leadership Training

• Leadership Qualities & Role of a Leader

• Meaning, objectives & types of Adventure Sports (Rock Climbing, Tracking, River Rafting,
Mountaineering, Surfing and Paragliding)
• Safety measures to prevent sports injuries

Unit IX- Psychology & Sports

• Definition & Importance of Psychology in Phy. Edu. & Sports

• Define & Differentiate Between Growth & Development.
• Adolescent Problems &Their Management

Unit X- Training and Doping in Sports

• Meaning & Concept of Sports Development

• Principles of Sports Training
• Concept & classification of doping
• Prohibited Substances & their side effects