ARMY PUBLIC SCHOOL JHANSI

SESSION 2020–21
CLASS - 10

It’s summer time, school vacation

Happy Holidays

Dear Student,
 Summer Vacation is the best and the most fruitful time for learning and nurturing
creativity. Keeping this objective in mind we have planned diverse and exciting activities
that will enhance your knowledge and boost your creativity.
 “Knowledge is Power”. Therefore read lots and lots of books to cultivate the reading
habit and develop your vocabulary, language skills, increase your attention span and
improve your spellings.
 “A healthy mind lives in a healthy body”. So play the sport of your choice INDOORS. It
will help to instill discipline, generate sporting spirits and channelize your energies
constructively.
 Get up early in the morning and see the rising sun. Do indoor exercises / yoga and stay
healthy and fit. Spend quality time with your elders and share your thoughts and ideas
with them.
 Eat healthy food and drink lots of water during summer.

 Integrating curriculum helps students deepen their understanding of the subject matter
and comprehend relationship between different areas of study. This year‟s holiday
homework has been designed keeping this interdisciplinary aspect in mind.

Principal
English-
1. First Flight: read and complete the textual and extrapolative questions of
A Letter to God
Nelson Mandela
Two stories about Flying
From the Diary of Anne Frank
The Hundred Dresses I
The Hundred Dresses II
2. Reference to context and Summary of the following poems.
Dust and Snow
Fire and Ice
A Tiger in a Zoo
How to Tell wild Animals
The Ball poem
3. Footprints Without Feet ( read in detail)
A Triumph of Surgery
The Thief‟s Story
The Midnight Visitor
A Question of Trust
4. Download English Work Book „Words and Expressions Part II Class 10
Complete exercises on Reading Comprehension , Grammar , Vocabulary and Project
Work from
Unit 1 Letter to God
Unit 2 Nelson Mandela
Unit 3 Two Stories About Flying
Unit 4 From the Diary of Anne Frank
5. Write a Diary Entry in about 200 words expressing your feelings fear inhibitions on the
present Covid 19 pandemic situations

Note:
1. All textual questions of the chapters taught to be completed in the note books along with the
writing skills
2. Extrapolative questions would be send on whattsapp class group

Science-
Physics :
A – Prepare the tabular display of all the cases of image formation by concave and convex
mirror along with proper neat ray diagrams of the same.
B. Prepare the tabular display of all the cases of image formation by convex and concave lens
along with neat and clear ray diagram of all the cases.
C. With proper ray diagram derive the relation between focal length and radius of curvature.
Hence establish the mirror formulae.
D. With proper ray diagram establish the lens equation for convex and concave lens.
E. Make a systematic chart of all the important formulaes and sign convention for mirrors and
lens.
F. Make a list of atleast ten uses of concave and convex mirrors in our daily life around us.
G. Make a small investigation of any one important aspect of light in your life near or around
you and record your observations in copy. Your investigation will be discussed in class
H. Read chapter Light and prepare 20 Questions which are frequently asked in board
examination.
Chemistry:
A- 1. Prepare a detailed report on Types of Chemical reactions (20 each),
2. Using a pH strip categories the naturally occurring substances as acids, bases &
neutral compounds (water, coffee, onion peel, milk, mustard oil, lemon juice, carbonated
drink etc) OR Prepare a detailed report on natural & man made acids.
B- Read chapters 1st & 2nd and prepare 20 Questions from each chapter of your own and
answer those questions.

Biology:
A- Make an investigatory project report on “Diabetes mellitus” emphasizing the following
points
(i) Diabetes mellitus and its cause, (ii) Symptoms of the disorder, (iii) Precautionary measures,
(iv)Treatment of the disorder, (v) A case study
Instructions: (i) Write the project report on A4 size plain paper in your own hand writing,
(ii) Paste concerned colourful pictures, cuttings from magazines and newspapers, data etc.,
(iii) The project
B- Read chapter Life. Processes and prepare 20 Questions from each Life process of your
own and answer those questions.

Mathematics-
Solve any 25 questions
Topic: Real Numbers

Q1. Using Euclid‟s division algorithm, find the HCF of the following.
(a) 1288, 576 (b) 155, 1305 (c) 240, 1024

Q2. If the HCF of 210 and 55 is expressible in the form 210 × 5 + 55y, find y.

Q3. Find the largest number which divides 245 and 1029 leaving remainder 5 in each case.

Q4. Using prime factorization, find the HCF and LCM of 72, 126 and 168. Also show that

HCF x LCM ≠ product of the three numbers.

Q5. The HCF of two numbers is 145 and their LCM is 2175. If one number is 725, find the other.

Q6. The product of two numbers is 20736 and their HCF is 54, find their LCM.

Q7. After how many places of decimals, the decimal expansion of the rational number will
terminate?

Q8. State the fundamental theorem of Arithmetic.

Q9. Check whether 5n can end with the digit 0 for any natural number n.

Q10. Express each of the following as the product of primes.

Q12.Show that every positive even integer is of the form 2q and every positive odd integer is of
the form 2q+1, where q is some integer.

Q13. Prove that 5 + 2 √ 3 is an irrational number.

Topic: Polynomials
Q1. If (x + k) is a factor of 2x² + 2kx + 5x + 10, find k.

Q2. If α and β are the zeroes of the polynomial p(x) = 3x² – 5x + 6, find
(i) (α / β) + ( β / α ) (ii) α³ + β³

Q3. Find the quadratic polynomial whose zeroes are and .

Q4. Find a polynomial whose zeros are squares of the zeroes of the polynomial
3x² + 6x – 9.

Q5. If „1‟ is one of the zeroes of the polynomial p(x) = 7x – x³ – 6 find its other zeroes.

Q6. Find the quadratic polynomial, sum and product of whose zeroes are 2 and – 1 respectively.

Q7. If the sum of the zeroes of the quadratic polynomial kx² + 2x + 3k is equal to their product,
find k.

Q8. Find a polynomial whose zeroes are 2, 1 and – 1. What is its degree?

Q9. Find the polynomial whose zeroes are reciprocals of the zeroes of the polynomial
2x² + 3x – 6.

Q10. Find the ratio of the sum and product of the zeroes of the polynomial 5x² + 2x – 10.

Q11. If α , β and γ are the zeroes of the cubic polynomial p(x) = 3x³ – 6x² + 5x – 3, then, find
their sum and product.

Q12. Divide 3 – x + 2x² + x³ – 3x4 by (2 – x ) and verify by division algorithm.

Q13. Find all the zeroes of the polynomial p(x) = x4 – 7x³ + 9x² + 13x – 4, if two of its zeroes
are 2 + √ 3 and 2 - √ 3.

Q14. What must be subtracted from 8x4 + 14x³ - 2x² + 7x – 8 so that the resulting polynomial is
exactly divisible by 4x² + 3x – 2.

Q15. Find all the zeroes of the polynomial f (x) = 2x4 – 3x³ – 5x² + 9x – 3, if two of its zeroes
are ± √ 3.
Topic: Pair of Linear Equations in Two Variables

Q1. Determine the value of k for which the given system of equations has unique solution:
a) 2x – 3y = 1 ; k x + 5y = 7 b) 4x – 5y = k ; 2x – 3 y = 12

Q2. Find the value of k, for which the system of equations has infinitely many solutions.
a) 2x –3y = 7 ; (k+2) x – (2k+1) y = 3(2k–1)
b) x + (k+1) y =5 ; (k+1) x + 9 y = 8k – 1

Q3. Find the value of „k‟ so that the following system of equations has no solution.
a) (3k+1) x +3y – 2 = 0 ; (k²+1) x + (k – 2) y –5 = 0

Q4. Solve the following system of equations by any algebraic method.

b) 2x – 3y +13=0, 3x – 2y + 12 = 0. d) 3x – 4y –1=0, 2x – y + 5 = 0

Q5. Represent the following equations on the graph and determine the vertices of the triangle, so
formed .
a) 2y – x = 8, 5y – x = 14, y – 2 x = 1
b) y = x, y = 0, 3x + 3y = 10

Q6. Draw the graph of x – y + 1 = 0 and 3x + 2y –12 = 0. Calculate the area of the triangle bounded
by these lines and the x-axis.

Q7. Solve the system of equations x – y = 1, 2x + y = 8 graphically .Shade the area bounded by
these lines and x-axis. Also find its area.

Q8. A man has belts and handkerchiefs which are together 40 in number. If he had 5 more
handkerchiefs and 5 less belts, the number of handkerchiefs becomes four times the number
of belts. Find the original number of each.

Q9. .The age of father is twice the sum of ages of his two children. Ten years hence, the age of
father will be three-quarter of the sum of the ages of his children then. Find the present age
of father.

Q10. The numerator of a fraction is 4 less than its denominator. If the numerator is decreased by
2 and the denominator is increased by 1,the denominator becomes 8 times its numerator. Find
the fraction.
 Along with 25 questions prepare a chart containing Euclid’s division
lemma, fundamental theorem of arithmetic, conditions of No
solution, Unique solution, infinitely many solutions of pair of linear
equations in two variables.
 Perform the activity given below.
 Social Science
(CIVICS)

1. Do a case study of any one country on “Federalism”.

(History)

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1. “The changing status of Women in 20 century- causes and effects”

Write an article on the above-mentioned topic illustrating with suitable Source

Example sources Source1.

Source 2
 Courtesy US Library of Congress Source 3

Woman is the incarnation of ahimsa. Ahimsa mean infinite love, which again means
infinite capacity for suffering. And who but woman, the mother of man, shows this
capacity in the largest measure?..

Let her translate that love to the whole of humanity... And she will occupy her proud
position by the side of man... She can become the leader in satyagraha...---- Quotation
by Mahatma Gandhi

2. Find out more about nationalist symbols in countries outside Europe. For one or two
countries, collect examples of pictures, posters, poems, stories or music that are the
symbol of nationalism and paste / write about them in history nt.bk/ scrap book.

(Economics)
1. Write an article about Effects of Pandemic on Migrant Labourers Throughout India in
about 500 words. (In your article describe any two case studies where government or
non government organisations have extended any help to them.)

(Geography)
1. Prepare an extensive Comparison Table of Energy Resources used in India. (Include
conventional, non conventional, potential and stock resources)

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