SUMMATIVE PAPER-II-2013
CLASS : IX
SUBJECT : ENGLISH
Academic standards:
1.
Reading & Responding : Tasks
no 1 & 5
2.
Conventions of writing : Tasks no 4
3.
Vocabulary : Tasks no : 2
4.
Grammatical
awareness : Tasks no 6
5.
Creative writing : 3 ,7,8 &9
Read the following
passage.
People choose different ways to protect the environment .Here is a
speech delivered by a Red Indian Chief Seattle more than a century ago to save
his land. Chief Seattle has become world famous for a moving speech he made in
1854, just before his lands were taken from him and his people. Seattle’s words
resonate very well in the environmental community, and are in
fact considered to be something like ‘a gospel of the greens’.
“How can you buy or
sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us.
If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water,
how can you buy them? Every part of the Earth is sacred to my people.
Every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods,
every clear and humming insect is holy in the memory and experience of
my people. The sap which courses through the trees carries the
memory and experience of my people. The sap which courses through the trees
carries the memories of the red man.
Task -1
Answer the quest ions. 3
X 2 ½ = 7 1/2
1.
Why
did the Chief Seattle become world famous?
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2.
Is
it possible to sell the sky and warmth of the land ? If “yes” or “no”, how can
you say?
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3.
What
are the different ways to protect the environment? Explain.
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ask-2
Write the synonyms to
any five underlined words from the above passage. 10
M
1.
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3
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4.
5.
Task-3
Prepare a speech on “ Environment protection”. 10
M
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Task – 4
Edit the passage. ( use punctuations,tense, articles,
prepositions where necessary) 5 M
It’s not funny she
said even mummy says he should have been
a brigadier It was on the tip of his tongue to made a witty remark (‘Perhaps
that’s why he’s still a colonel’), but he did not want to give offence. They
stand on either side of the wall, appraising each other. What stopped the
narrator from making an witty comment. Why.
‘Well,’ she said finally. ‘If you don’t want to buy the house, what are
you looking at?’ ‘I used for live here once.’ ‘Oh’ ‘Twenty-five years ago. As a
boy, As a young man.... And then my grandmother died, and we sold the house and
went away.
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Task – 5
Read the following passage.
You must teach your
children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of our grandfathers.
So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the Earth is rich
with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our
children, that the Earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the
sons of the Earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves. This
we know - the Earth does not belong to man - man belongs to the Earth. All
things are connected like the blood which unites one family. All things are
connected . Whatever befalls the Earth - befalls the sons of the Earth. Man did
not weave the web of life - he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to
the web, he does to himself. Even the white man, whose God walks and talks with
him as friend to friend, cannot be exempt from the common destiny. We may be
brothers after all. We shall see. One thing we know, which the white man may
one day discover - Our God is the same God. You may think now that you own Him
as you wish to own our land, but you cannot. He is the God of man, and His
compassion is equal for red man and the white. The Earth is precious to Him,
and to harm the Earth is to heap contempt on its creator. The whites too shall
pass, perhaps sooner than all other tribes.
Answer the following questions. 3
X 21/2= 71/2
1. What is to be taught to the children?
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2. How is the earth useful to human beings?
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3. What is the opinion of the white about God?
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Task- 6
Prepare five
possible questions with the help of task -5 paragraph. 10 M
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Task- 7
Describe any one picture in your own words. 
Task – 8
Prepare a profile of
Chief Seattle. 10
M
A chief to the Duwamish people his native name
is closer to Si'ahl. The city found in the state of Washington is named after
him. He is famous for having made a speech that was generally in favor of being
responsible to the environment and to have respect of the land rights of his
people.
It
is said he was born in 1780, on the Black River near what is now the city of
Kent. He was just a young man when he earned the reputation of being both a
warrior and a leader because of the many defeating ambushes that he led. He and
his group primarily attached the S'Klallam and the Chimakum along the Green
River up from the foothills of the Cascades.
At
just about six feet he was considered both broad and tall for a Puget Sound
native and there for given the nickname, Le Gros or The Big One by the traders
with the Hudson Bay Company. His spouse name is La-Dalia olahi.He also became
known as an orator because of his articulate address regarding relations
between the Native Americans and the Europeans.
He was baptized Noah into the Roman Catholic Church. In March of
1854 he gave a speech to a great number of people just outside of Seattle in
regards to Native lands. He spoke while resting his hand on the Governor and it
has been translated several times. He reportedly thanked the Europeans for
their generosity and also asked to have guaranteed access to the Native
American burial grounds. He died on June 6th 1866.
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Task- 9 10
M
Prepare a possible conversation between the two friends about environment.
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