THE BISHOP'S EDUCATION SOCIETY, PUNE

(SENIOR SCHOOL)

SYLLABUS
FOR THE
ACADEMIC YEAR 2010 - 2011
CLASS – X

ENGLISH LANGUAGE
BOOKS : 1. ICSE TOTAL ENGLISH FOR CLASS X.
2. FRANK WAY TO SUCCESSFUL ENGLISH LANGUAGE PAPERS.
3. WREN AND MARTIN [REFERENCE]

1ST TERM
A. COMPOSITION : Narrative, Descriptive, Argumentative, Picture Composition, Book
Review, Fax and Email.
B. LETTER : Informal and Formal

C. COMPREHENSION : Meanings, Questions, and Précis.

D. GRAMMAR : Test Papers and Worksheets.

E. REVISION
ND
2 TERM
A. COMPOSITION : Narrative, Descriptive, Argumentative, Picture Composition,
Book Review, Fax and Email.

B. LETTER : Informal and Formal

C. COMPREHENSION : Meanings, Questions, and Précis.

D. GRAMMAR : Test Papers and Worksheets.

E. REVISION

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3RD TERM
A. COMPOSITION : Narrative, Descriptive, Argumentative, Picture Composition,
Book Review, Fax and Email.

B. LETTER : Informal and Formal

C. COMPREHENSION : Meanings, Questions and Précis.

D. GRAMMAR : Test Papers and Worksheets.

E. REVISION
ENGLISH LITERATURE
BOOK : AS YOU LIKE IT.
THE GOLDEN LYRE
A TREASURE TROVE OF SHORT STORIES
1ST TERM
A. DRAMA : AS YOU LIKE IT – ACT III, IV & V

B. SHORT STORIES : A TREASURE TROVE OF SHORT STORIES .

1. DUSK
2. Case for the Defence

(Portion from Class IX)

1. The Post Master
2. The Umbrella Man

C. POETRY : THE GOLDEN LYRE

1. The Road Not Taken
2. Because I Could Not Stop For Death
3. No Men Are Foreign

(Portion from Class IX)

4. The Ballad Of Father Gilligan
5. Night Of The Scorpion

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2ND TERM
A. DRAMA : AS YOU LIKE IT : ACT III, IV & V.

B. SHORT STORIES : TREASURE TROVE.

1. How Much Land Does A Man Require ?
2. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
Portion from Class IX
1. The Tiger In The Tunnel
2. The Monkey’s Paw

C. POETRY : GOLDEN LYRE

1. To The Indian Who Died In Africa

2. Shakespeare

Portion from Class IX

1. Our Casuarina Tree
2. The Slave’s Dream

3RD TERM
A. DRAMA : AS YOU LIKE IT (ACT III, IV & V)

B. SHORT STORIES : TREASURE TROVE

1. The Gift Of The Magi
2. Sniper
3. Marriage Is A Private Affair
4. A Fishy Story

C. POETRY : THE GODLEN LYRE

1. The Frog And The Nightingale
2. Laugh And Be Merry
3. To India – My Native Land
4. IF

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HINDI
BOOKS : CHANDRAGUPTA VIKRAMADITYA
GADAYA SANKALAN
SARAS HINDI VYAKARAN – [LANGUAGE]
1ST TERM
A. LITERATURE
1. CHANDRAGUPTA VIKRAMADITYA
Chapter 1 to 10
2. GADAYA SANKALAN
1. Chapter 3 Uski Maa
2. Chapter 5 Chappal
3. Chapter 7 Mamta
4. Chapter 8 Bholaram Ka Jeev
5. Chapter 12 Main Aur Mera Desh

B. LANGUAGE
1. Composition : Narrative, Descriptive, Argumentative, Based on Idioms
or Proverbs, Imaginative and Picture Compositions.
2. Letter writing : Informal and Formal.
3. Comprehension : Meanings, Questions and Answers.
4. Grammar
2ND TERM
A. LITERATURE
1. CHANDRAGUPTA VIKRAMADITYA
Chapter 11 to 21
2. GADAYA SANKALAN
1. Chapter 9 Khel
2. Chapter 13 Sachi Veerta
3. Chapter 14 Shram Ki Pratishtha
4. Chapter 15 Bheed Mein Khoya Aadmi

B. LANGUAGE
1. Composition : Narrative Descriptive Argumentative, Based on Idioms or
Proverbs, Imaginative and Picture Compositions.
2. Letter writing : Informal and Formal.
3. Comprehension : Meanings, Questions and Answers.

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 4. Grammar : i) Sanskrit to Hindi
ii) Synonyms
iii) Antonyms
iv) Idioms
v) Proverbs
vi) Nouns, Pronouns, Abstract Nouns, Adjectives,
Verb, Adverbs.
vii) Combined words
viii) Words with various meaning
ix) one word for many words.
x) Minute difference in meanings
xi) Correct Sentence Framing

3RDTERM - Complete revision of ICSE Syllabus. Practice test papers.

REVISION

MATHEMATICS
BOOK : CONCISE MATHEMATICS PART – I
CONCISE MATHEMATICS PART - II
1ST TERM
A. Commercial Arithmetic covered in Class IX.
B. 1. Distance and Section Formula Co-ordinate Geometry
2. Equation of a Line
3. Trigonometrical Identities Trigonometry
4. Height and Distance
5. Problems on Quadratic Equation
6. Symmetry

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2ND TERM
A. Unit 3 1. Circles
2. Tangents and Intersecting Chords
3. Construction
4. Ratio and Proportion
5. Cones and Spheres

3RD TERM

REVISION

PHYSICS
BOOK : CONCISE PHYSICS - II

1ST TERM
1. All chapters covered in Class IX.
2. Chapter 8 - Current Electricity.
3. Chapter 9 - Electric Power and Household Circuits.
4. Chapter 1 - Force
5. Chapter 2 - Work Power Energy
2ND TERM
1. Chapter 3 - Machines
2. Chapter 10 - Electro Magnetism
3. Chapter 12 - Thermionic Emission and Radio – activity.
3RD TERM
REVISION
CHEMISTRY
BOOK : SIMPLIFIED ICSE CHEMISTRY FOR STD X.
ST
1 TERM
1. Chapter 4 A - i) Organic Chemistry
ii) Metallurgy
iii) Sulphuric Acid
2. Practical Chemistry Revision

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2ND TERM
1. Practical Chemistry
2. Analytical Chemistry

3RD TERM
REVISION
BIOLOGY
BOOK : CONCISE BIOLOGY X – SELINA REVISED EDITION
ST
1 TERM
1. All chapters covered in Class IX.
2. Chapter 7 - The Circulatory System
3. Chapter 8 - The Excretory System
4. Chapter 11 - Aids to Health.
5. Chapter 2 - Cell cycle, cell Division and structure of
Chromosomes
6. Practicals to be conducted and written as prescribed in the ICSE Scope 2011
ND
2 TERM
1 Chapter 3 - Fundamentals of Genetics.
2. Chapter 11 The Reproductive System

3RD TERM
REVISION

HISTORY
BOOK : New ICSE History and Civics – Frank Bros and Co

1ST TERM
A. HISTORY
1. Chapter 8 - National Movement and Mahatma Gandhi
2. Chapter 9 - Quit India Movement and Subhash Chandra Bose.
3. Chapter 10 - Partition of India.

B. CIVICS
1. Chapter 7 - The Union Judiciary
2. Chapter 8 - State Juidiciary

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2ND TERM
A. HISTORY
1. Chapter 16 - Universal Declaration of Human Rights
2. Chapter 17 - Cold War
3. Chapter 18 - The Non Aligned Movement

B. CIVICS
1. Chapter 9 - The Subordinate Court.

3RD TERM
REVISION

GEOGRAPHY
BOOK : FRANK MODERN CERTIFICATE GEOGRAPHY PART – I AND PART II.
MAPS : A) INDIA
B) SURVEY MAP
1ST TERM
1. Entire Syllabus except Transport

2nd TERM –
1. Transport
2. Revision

3RD TERM
REVISION

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
BOOK : **** CHECK TEXT BOOK – BEETA PUBLICATIONS / PERIWINKLE
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION

1ST TERM
1. All Chapters covered in Class IX
2. Chapter 19 Ozone layer Depletion
3. Chapter 20 Disasters
4. Chapter 21 Eco friendly Technology
5. Chapter 22 Consumer Education
6. Chapter 23 Community Participation

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2ND TERM
1. Chapter 24 Protection of Wild Life
2. Chapter 25 Enforcement of Acts, Laws and Policies

3RD TERM
REVISION
ECONOMICS
BOOK : ELEMENTARY ECONOMICS FOR ICSE CLASS IX – VOLUME I
ELEMENTARY ECONOMICS FOR ICSE CLASS IX – VOLUME II
1ST TERM
Book Volume I
1. Revision of Chapters 1-6 completed in Class IX.
2. Chapter 7 The Theory of Demand
3. Chapter 8 Elasticity Demand
4. Chapter 9 Theory of Supply
5. Chapter 10 Elasticity of Supply

2ND TERM
1. Chapter 11 Meaning and Scope of Public Finance
2. Chapter 12 Public Revenue
3. Chapter 13 Public Expenditure
4. Chapter 14 Public Dept
5. Chapter 15 Money – Meaning and Functions
6. Chapter 16 Inflation
7. Chapter 17 Banking/ Commercial Bank
8. Chapter 18 Central Bank
9. Chapter 19 Consumer Awareness
3RD TERM
REVISION – Paper Solving and Examination

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS
BOOK : FRANK CERTIFICATE COMPUTER APPLICATION CLASS X

1ST TERM

1. Revision of Class IX Syllabus.

2. Class as the basis of all computation
3. Constructors
4. Functions
5. Class as User Defined Data Type

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2ND TERM

6. Iterations
7. Using Library classes
8. Encapsulation / Inheritance
9. Arrays
10. Input/ Output

3RD TERM - REVISION

PHYSICAL EDUCATION
BOOK : PHYSICAL EDUCATION (CANDID SERIES) ICSE CLASS IX
1ST TERM
1. Lesson 1 Personal Health
2. Lesson 2 Diseases
3. Major games - Football and Cricket.
i) Physical Efficiency test
ii) Skill test.
iii) Viva
2ND TERM
1. Lesson 2 Community Health
2. Lesson 4 First Aid
3. Major Games Football, and Cricket.
i) Physical Efficiency test
ii) Skill test.
iii) Viva

3RD TERM

REVISION

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