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TS 9th Class English Guide Unit 3C Homework

Questions and Answers:

Answer the following Questions

Question 1.
What is the main purpose of giving homework to children?

Answer: The main purpose of giving homework to children is to reinforce what they leam at school, and ultimately to help them learn the material better

Question 2.
How can excessive homework decrease students interest in studies?

Answer: When excessive homework is given to students, they should be away from all other recreational activities. They become sleepless. They should not share their feelings with their family. All these things decrease the interest of students in studies and subjects

Question 3.
Why do many teachers defend large amounts of homework?

Answer: Many teachers defend large amounts of homework. They say that it helps to prepare students for world that is becoming increasingly competitive

Question 4.
How does homework take time away from important elements of daily life?

Answer: Bonding and building strong family relationships with their families is an important element of the daily life of the students. Their bonding becomes strong by spending a lot of time with . their parents. But due to heavy homework students are not able to spend sufficient time with their parents. They are not able to take a break from their homework schedule. Parents also ask their children to complete the homework first and their talk is next. In families where both the parents are employees, the condition is very serious. In such families children have no bonding with their parents

Question 5.
Is the writer in favour of or against homework? Justify your reasons?

Answer: The write is in favour of homework but he opposes giving the excessive amounts of homework. He believes that a reasonable amount of homework will help children to enhance their learning. He does not ask to abolish the system of homework. He asks to continue the system in creative and interesting ways so that the child enjoys it

Project Work:

Conduct a survey to find out the kind of reading material the children like to be included in the textbook which makes them more interesting

Ask them which of the following they enjoy most and complete the table:

comics poems
biographies fairy tales
playlets stories
skits jokes
scientific essays news reports
folklore diaries
songs magazines
essays speeches
Question .
Work in groups and consolidate the data you have collected. Collect the data in the given format Prepare a pie chart with the collected data. Analyse the pie chart and name the materials they enjoyed reading?

Answer: Step - 1 (Collection of Data) Group - 1

Name of the Child Material liked Title
1. K. SINDHU COMICS Amar Chitra Kathalu
2. K. GANESH FOLKLORE Panchatantra Stories
3. K. PUJITHA FAIRY TALES Grandma Stories
4. V. MADHU FAIRY TALES Grandma Stories
5. GH. MADHURI FOLKLORE Panchatantra stories
Group - 2
Name of the Child Material liked Title
1. M. MADHAVI FAIRY TALES Grandma Stories
2. V. VASAVI FAIRY TALES Grandma Stories
3. V. BHANU PRAKASH FOLKLORE Panchatantra Stories
4. A. SULOCHANA FAIRY TALES Grandma Stories
5. M. DHANALAKSHMI FOLKLORE Panchatantra Stories
Group - 3
Name of the Child Material liked Title
1. G. VYSHANANI SKITS Bala Ramayanam
2. R VASANTHA JOKES Panchatantra Stories
3. R HARIKRISHNA COMICS Amar Chitra Kathalu
4. M. SOUMYA SKITS Lava-Kusa
5. A. MANEESHA JOKES Panchatantra Stories
Group -4
Name of the Child Material liked Title
1. G. VYSHANAVI SKITS Chota Bheem
2. P. VASANTHA JOKES Kunwar Singh Jokes
3. P HARIKRISHNA COMICS Stephen Leacock
4. M. SOUMYA SKITS Pasalapudi Kathalu
5. A. MANEESHA BIOGRAPHIES Swami Vivekananda
Step - 2 (Consolidation of Data):
Name of the Child Material liked Title
1. A. MANEESHA BIOGRAPHIES Swami Vivekananda
2. K. SINDHU COMICS Amar Chitra Kathalu
3. P HARIKRISHNA COMICS Amar Chitra Kathalu
4. P HAREKRISHNA COMICS Stephen Leacock
5. K. PUJITHA FAIRY TALES Grandma Stories
6. V. MADFIU FAIRY TALES Grandma Stories
7. M. MADHAVI FAIRY TALES Grandma Stories
8. V. VASAVI FAIRY TALES Grandma Stories
9. A. SULOCHANA FAIRY TALES Grandma Stories
10. K. GANESH FOLKLORE Panchatantra Stories
11. CH. MADHURI FOLKLORE Panchatantra Stories
12. V. BHANLJ PRAKASH FOLKLORE Panchatantra Stories
13. M. DHANALAKSHMI FOLKLORE Panchatantra Stories
14. P VASANTA JOKES Panchatantra Stories
15. A. MANEESHA JOKES Panchatantra Stories
16. P VASANTHA JOKES Kunwar Singh Jokes
17. G. WSHANANI SKITS Bala Ramayanam
18. M. SOUMYA SKITS Lava Kusa
19. G. VYSHANAVI SKITS Chota Bheem
20. M. SOUMYA SKITS Pasalapudi Kathalu
Step - 3 (Extraction of Percentages)
Material liked No. out of 20 Percentage (%) Extracted
1. BIOGRAPHIES 1 5
2. COMICS 3 15
3. FAIRY TALES 5 25
4. FOLKLORE 4 20
5. JOKES 15
6. SKITS 4 20
Step - 4 (Preparation of a Pie chart) Self Assessment:

How well have I understood this unit? Read and tick (?) in the appropriate box

Homework Summary in English

Homework is usually given to students to reinforce the things they learn at school. It usually helps the students learn the material better. But too much homework is not useful. It has some negative effects on students. This essay stresses the importance of limiting the amount of homework . to be given to children. On the other hand it discusses the adverse affects of excessive homework. The amount of homework given to children has been increased in repent times. The present day competition also encourages school to try to increase the volume of the curriculum. Some teachers say that large amountsof homework prepares students for the competitive world. The amount of homework given to students is higher in colleges than that of schools. A lot of homework usually means a lot of books. Carrying large amounts of weight daily at a young age can do a lot of damage and it leads to chronic shoulder, nec k and back pain. Excessive amount of homework makes some students sleepless. Some parents and teachers argue that it limits students after school activities. Children spending their whole time in doing homework become overweight and they fall to obesity. Homework takes away the time of children spending with their families. It is worse in families where both the parents are employees. Excessive homework and assignments cause students lose their interest in subjects. In such times they try to copy and cheat. Those bad habits will haunt the kids throughout their life. They like to take easy ways. The use of homework is effective when it is given in the limited and reasonable amounts. Homework should not be abolished but it should be limited. It should be creative and interesting so that the stude/its enjoy it

Glossary: historically (adv) : relating to past reinforce (v) : make a feeling or an idea stronger ultimately (adv) : in the end/finally counter-productive (adj) : having the opposite effect to the intended excessive (ad)) : greater than what seems reasonable restrict (v) : limit the size, amount or range of something acclaimed (v) : approved/praised/welcomed claim (v) : say something is true dates (v) : exists emerged (v) : started to exist/started to be known Incentive (n) : something that encourages you to do something curriculum (n) : the subjects that are included in a course of study defend (v) : say something in support of something that has been criticized increasingly (adv) : more and more all the time harmful (adj) : causing damage to health and environment backpack (n) : a large bag carried on the back of people chronic (adj) : difficult to cure insufficient (adj) : not enough beneficial (adj) : useful academics (n) : teachers/researchers obesity (n) : the state of being very fat overweight (adj) : too heavy and fat self-esteem (n) : a feeling of being happy with your own character and abilities depression (n) : a condition in which a person feels very sad and anxious bonding (n) : the process of forming relationship with a group of people precious (adj) : valuable or important haunt (u) : disturb adverse (ad)) : negative and unpleasant overwhelming (adj) : very great siblings (n) : brothers or sisters toil (n) : hard unpleasant work hinder (v) : to make it difficult for somebody abolish (v) : to do something end a system

Important Question

TS 9th Class English 9th Lesson Homework Important Question and Answers

Section - C : Creative Writing (Discourses) Major Discourses:
Question 1.
You have read the lesson Swami is Expelled from School. Narrate the reflections (thoughts) of Swami after he had left his school?

Answer: Swami rushed out of the school saying, "1 dont care for your dirty school." As he walked homewards, the tears that had been controlled till then found their way out. And they came out in floods. Swami didnt mind them. His mind was swarmed with different kinds of thoughts. His heart ached with insult. His body burned, with pain. His mind was hot with a heavy flow of thoughts. He did not notice passing persons

He didnt even take care to walk to the left of the road. In fact, his legs took him along the regularly used .path. At last, somehow he reached home with school bag on his back. The face with the marks of tears, the shoulders with the prints of the cane, and the heart, most, importantly, with the load of insult and suffering!

Swamis mother was moved on seeing Swamis pathetic state. Her eyes turned wet as she saw the red scars on Swamis shoulders. With choked throat, she asked Swami what had happened. Even the anxious father eagerly looked forward to listening to Swami. His parents anxiety touched Swami. He tried to be as cool as possible. He started narrating the incident at school very briefly.

"Our headmaster beats me every day. For one reason or the other, he scolds me and that too in a foul way. He repeatedly warns me with dire consequences." As he continued, it became difficult for him to control his tears. Still he tried to suppress the sobs and paused for a while.. Father took that opportunity to ask, "Why does your headmaster beat you alone every day without any reason ?"

That

Question hit Swamis heart like an arrow. Yet he restrained his feelings and said in an emotion filled voice* "Dad, he beats everyone, not me alone; that is his nature, his hobby, his practice. You can check it with any of our school students. The only difference is on the days of visits by officers or village elders."

"Then," interrupted mother with concern, "what shall we do ?" "I shall join some other school," prompt was the reply from Swami lest father should announce a dif-ferent decision

Noticing the resolute voice of Swami, even father wanted Swamis words to prevail. Mother was too willing. She sighed in relief as there was no opposition from father. Swami started dreaming of his new school!

Question 2.
Write the possible conversation between Swami and his father after he had left his school?

Answer: Conversation between Swami and his father: Swamis father : My dear Swami, why are you looking so dull ? Why havent you gone to school today ? Swami : Daddy, I dont like the school. The headmaster beats me every day. Swamis father : Why does your headmaster beat you every day without any reason? Im sure you must be causing a lot of nuisance in school. Swami : No, dad. The headmaster beats all my friends in the same way. Swamis father : OK. What do you want to do now ? Dont you go to school and continue your studies ? Swami : No, dad. Ill join some other school. Swamis father : Dont be stupid. I will come to your school and talk to your head master. Swami : No, dont come. My headmaster will be deaf to your request. Swamis father : Dont worry. I will request him to excuse you. . Swami : He wont excuse me. He will beat again after your departure. Swamis father : How could he do like that ? Dont think in such a way. Swami : No, dad. I dont want to study in that school. Please join me in a new school. Swamis father : OK, be calm at present. Things will settle in time. Ill think and take a decision. . Swami : Thank you dad.

Question 3.
You have read the lesson Swami is Expelled from School. Convert it into a skit?

Answer: SKIT The scene : Classroom [The Headmaster enters the class with a slightly flushed face and has an ominous look in his eyes.] Children : Good morning, Sir ! Headmaster : Are you not ashamed of coming and sitting there after what you did yesterday ? Swami, Raju, Suresh, Rajesh get up and stand on the desk. Now tell me why you didnt come to school yesterday. Raju : I got a headache. Headmaster : Bring a medical certificate. Suresh : Someone told me that there would be no school. So I went back home. Headmaster : Stupid, why didnt you come to school and verify ? Ten days attendance cancelled, two rupees fine and stand whole day on the desk. Rajesh : My grandmother died suddenly. Bring a letter from your father otherwise you will be suspended for 15 days. Swami : (Stands silently) Headmaster : Why did you keep away yesterday ? Swami : No - No. Headmaster : Idiot, stupid (many raps on Swaminathans body from the headmasters cane.) Swami : I.... I.... couldnt come. Headmaster : Is that so ? (Turning to a boy said) Bring the peon. (Peon enters the classroom) Peon : Didnt I see you break the panes ? Headmaster : Of the ventilators in my room ? (Headmaster beats Swami in a bitter manner.) Swami : Dont beat me, sir, it pains. Headmaster : Idiot, stand on the desk, till I announce your dismissal. Swami : I dont care for your dirty school. [Jumps down and weeps and with rolling tears leaves the school

Minor Discourses:
Question 1.
In the lesson, Swami is Expelled from School, the headmaster punished Swami severely. Swami came out of the school muttering I dont care for your dirty school. Write down his reflections in about 50 words in the form of a diary entry/

Answer: Friday 25th March, 20xx 9 pm Dear Diary, What a wretched school! How cruelty has taken the shape of this headmaster ? Dont they understand our feelings ? Werent they too children at one time ? Didnt they cause any nuisance when they were children ? Yes, I did break the panes in a moment of childish behaviour. Have I not been honest in not denying the charge ? Is it not enough to scold us in the whole class ? He went on insulting us, beating us and threatening us with dismissals. Is that the way to correct us

Shouldnt they give us a chance to set ourselves right ? I wish I werent a student of this horrible school. Thank God ! At least now, I gathered enough courage to come out of the school. I can join some other school. I think any other school will definitely be better than this bloody school. Any how, I too should and will be more careful about my behaviour and friends. I should think of my studies and my parents too. Yes, in one way, the incident is a lesson for me. I should make utmost use of it! Swami

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