Holiday Homework Class IX

To be ready for tomorrow's opportunities,
You must do your homework today,

Learn, refine your skills
and focus on growth,
That you may shine wherever you go forth!
Enriching and engaging! it will surely unleash your

potential,
Giving you fun, which is absolutely essential!
You will learn to work independently,
And use your time wisely;
So feel free to explore and grow,
Without rushing hurriedly!
Think out -of-the-box,
Invent and innovate,
For these activities are bound to inspire and motivate!
So don't hold yourself or hesitate,
But simply be at your creative best!
Class IX
HOLIDAY HOMEWORK
Session 2022-23
English
1. COMIC STRIPS
Creativity motivates a person to learn. So, get your ideas flowing.
Read the story ‘Packing’. On the basis of your reading of the story, create your own comic
strip.
Read one comic strip to notice how the dialogue is written, and how the action changes in
each frame.
Use an A-4 size sheet to create your comic strip.
Let your work be Original.
2. LITERARY DEVICES
A literary device is a writing technique used by writers to highlight the most significant
details in a piece of writing. There are many literary devices used in English prose and
poetry.
Given below are six devices for you to define. Give three examples for each, to explain.
 Simile
 Metaphor
 Personification
 Alliteration
 Repetition
 Symbolism
3. SUGGESTED READING
"Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time."
Read any one book by any one of the writers given below :
 Ruskin Bond
 O’Henry
 R.K. Narayan
ह िं दी
1. अपनी कल्पना के आधार पर कोई एक हित्र बनाकर या हिपकाकर लगभग 100 शब्ोिं में
शीर्षक दे ते हुए हित्र वर्षन कीहिए।
2. पाठ रै दास के पद व एवरे स्ट मेरी हशखर यात्रा के 10-10 बहुवैकल्पल्पक प्रश्न एक फोल्डर के
अिंतगष त तै यार कीहिए। उस फोल्डर को लेखकोिं ,कहवयोिं व पाठ से सिंबिंहधत हित्रोिं से
सुसल्पित कीहिए।
Mathematics
Students of a class to be divided in 8 groups by the respective Mathematics teacher and
allotted the topic for a Powerpoint presentation of less than 5 minutes(6 to 8 slides).
Students may insert videos if they wish. Further details will be discussed in class.The
topics are:
1. Making sense of Irrational numbers (Hippasus)
2. Bramhagupta theorem/formula
3. Pi (π) its meaning and approximation
4. Circle and properties
5. Coordinate geometry
6. Rational vs irrational(decimal form)
7. Solids and their nets
8. Volume of a sphere (youtube mathematics online)
Science
Physics
Lets walk and observe ourselves.
Of course, you probably know that any physical activity, including walking, jogging is a boon
to your overall health. So go for a small walk, observe yourself and fill the data accordingly-
1. Length of your one foot step.
2. Number of footsteps while walking.
3. Duration of walking.
4. Distance travelled by you while walking.
5. Your walking speed in m/s.
6. Your speed in km/h.
7. Observe the type of motion while walking.
NOW JOG FOR SMALL TIME DURATION AND OBSERVE.
8. Number of your footsteps.

9. Distance covered while jogging.
10. Time for jogging.
11. Average speed while jogging.
NOW RETURN TO YOUR HOME AT THE SAME INITIAL POINT AND CALCULATE
12. Your average velocity for entire trip.
 Note:- Copy this activity in your Physics register and fill accordingly.
Chemistry
NOTE-Answer the following questions in your Chemistry notebook.
1. Look at the following figures and suggest in which of the glass containers, i.e., A, B, C or
D, the rate of evaporation will be the highest? Explain.
2. It is a hot summer day, Priyanshu and Ali are wearing cotton and nylon clothes
respectively. Who do you think would be more comfortable and why?
3. You want to wear your favourite shirt to a party, but the problem is that it is still wet after
a wash. What steps would you take to dry it faster?
4. While heating ice in a beaker with a thermometer suspended in it, a student recorded
the following observations:
Based on the above observations, answer the following questions:

(a) State the change(s) observed between 2-3 min. and name the process involved.
(b) Between 30-35 min., the temperature remains constant. State the reason for this. Name
the heat involved in the process and define it.
5. The diagram below shows burning of an oil lamp.
Draw the arrangement of particles of ‘X’ and ‘Y’ (state of matter) shown in the above
diagram.
Biology
Answer the following questions in your biology notebook
1. All the living organisms in this world are composed of one of the two types of cell- either
prokaryotic or eukaryotic. Study these two types of cells and answer the following
questions:-
a) Which cell organelle is found in both types of cells and why?
b) Which type of cell is found in multicellular organisms?
c) How are these two types of cells different from each other, with regard to number and
shape of chromosomes?
d) Bacteria do not have membrane bound cell organelles, still some bacteria can do
photosynthesis. Which part of the bacterial cell helps in performing photosynthesis?
2. Three types of solutions are observed on the basis of concentration of dissolved
solutes. They are hypotonic, hypertonic and isotonic. Study these three types of
solutions and answer the following questions:-
a) The raisins swell after being kept in water for a few hours. Why?
b) The cut pieces of cucumber in our salad lose water when salt is sprinkled on them.
Why?
c) An accident victim was administered a saline solution. The cells of the victim’s body
neither swelled nor shrank. What type of solution is the saline solution?
d) Observe the following picture:-
A B
Which one of these plants (A/B) was irrigated with sea water? Identify & give reason
for your answer.
Social Science
Geography
DISASTER MANAGEMENT PROJECT
● The class will make a project on following disasters:
Name of the Disaster Roll Numbers

1. Covid 19 1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25, 29, 33, 37,
2. Landslides 2, 6, 10, 14, 18, 22, 26, 30, 34, 38,
3. Floods 3, 7, 11, 15, 19, 23, 27, 31, 35, 39
4. Cyclones 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32, 36, 40
 The class is going to prepare a project on the above mentioned disasters under the
following heads:
1. Introduction
2. Causes
3. Mitigation measures
4. Case study ( Event that has occurred within one year)
● The project will be done individually by each student. The Roll numbers have been
mentioned in front of the name of disaster.
● Each child will submit maximum of 4 (A4) size sheets along with pictures relevant to
the topic and a cover page which has to be designed by them.
French
 Design and create an invitation card along with its envelope. Write the content in
French.
Spanish
Write about any 4 authors on A4 size sheets and paste pictures. Also write synopsis of any
one famous work of any author:
1. Miguel de Cervantes, works such as El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha and
La Galatea,
2. Benito Pérez Galdós, works such as Fortunata y Jacinta and Doña Perfecta,
3. García Lorca, works such as El primer romancero gitano and Bodas de Sangre,
4. José María Arguedas, works such as Yawar Fiesta and El zorro de arriba y el zorro de
abajo,
5. Juan Rulfo, works such as El llano en llamas and Pedro Páramo,
6. Pablo Neruda, works such as Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada and
Canto general.
7. José Martí, works such as Versos sencillos and Ismaelillo.
German
 Make a PPT on similarities and differences in the Indo-German culture.
 The PPT should've have at least 6 slides.
Sanskrit
 अपनी पाठ्यपु स्तक महर्का के पाठोिं पर आधाररत एक शब्कोश का हनमाषर्
कीहिए।
Make your holiday homework a family
affair, through discussions, exchange of
ideas and collaborative sessions!
Empower the family time that vacations

aim to foster, Learning will indeed
become meaningful and better!
Put on your thinking caps and

channelise your energies,
for in each one of you is a budding
prodigy !

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To be ready for tomorrow's opportunities,

You must do your homework today,

Enriching and engaging! it will surely unleash your

NOW JOG FOR SMALL TIME DURATION AND OBSERVE.

8. Number of your footsteps.

Based on the above observations, answer the following questions:

Name of the Disaster Roll Numbers

Empower the family time that vacations

Put on your thinking caps and

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