Tsunami

• ENGLISH
• Secondary Education

Expected Learning Outcomes

Describe the significance of events associated with the story.

Restate stories of Natural Calamities stated in the story.

Infer the meanings of unfamiliar words by reading them in context.

Answer the intermittent questions based on their reading

 An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

What are natural disasters ?Name a few natural disasters.

How do people suffer due to natural calamities?

What is a Tsunami?

Did Sanjeev make it to safety?

"In the chaos and confusion"
Choose the synonym of "chaos"

1. rustle
2. havoc
3. timid

The family had gone to celebrate Christmas.
Identify the finite and non-finite verbs.

Meghna was saved by a relief helicopter.

1. True
2. False

Ignesious lost his wife, two children, his father-in-law, and his brother-in-law in the tsunami.

1. True
2. False

How are Meghna and Almas’ stories similar?

Do you think animals can sense natural disasters? Elucidate.

Home Fun

Read the third part of the chapter

Now, I CAN:
Restate stories of Natural Calamities stated in the story.
Infer the meanings of unfamiliar words by reading them in context.
Answer the intermittent questions based on their reading

1. Strongly agree
2. Agree
3. Not sure
4. I need some help.

Expected Learning Outcomes

I will be able to:

* share my thoughts and views about the kind of civilization
Ashoka had visualized, and how the leaders
of today can still follow in Ashoka’s footsteps.

* share my thoughts and views while answering the questions based on the extracts of the text.

* share my thoughts and views to justify whether the world has still not learnt to value what Ashoka said about
gentle living, goodness, kindness and tolerance. 

In the eighth year of his reign, which kingdom did Ashoka decide to invade?

1. Magadha
2. Kalinga
3. the Mauryan empire
4. None of the above

The Kalinga army had accepted to surrender. (True/False)

What surprised the Mauryan kingdom?

The victorious king stood in the middle of the terrible carnage he had wrought, in a battlefield filled with the dead and dying and took a close look at what he had achieved.
Which of the following words is an antonym to 'victorious'?

1. triumphant
2. conquering
3. despondent
4. None of the options

The victorious king stood in the middle of the terrible carnage he had wrought, in a battlefield filled with the dead and dying and took a close look at what he had achieved.
Which of the following words is synonymous to 'carnage'?

1. slaughter
2. amiability
3. renaissance
4. None of the options

Now, I CAN share my thoughts and views:
* about the kind of civilization Ashoka had visualized.
* while answering the questions based on the extracts of the text.
* to justify whether the world has still not learnt to value what Ashoka said about gentle living, goodness and tolerance.

1. Strongly agree
2. Agree
3. Not sure
4. I need some help.

Expected Learning Outcomes

I will be able to:

* share my thoughts and views about the methods that a modern head of state would use to convey her/his message to the people.

* share my thoughts and views while answering the questions based on the extracts of the text.

* attempt the assignment based on the chapter 'Kalinga: The Turning Point'.

* depict/ illustrate the transformation of King Ashoka post the War of Kalinga through 'art integration' of my choice.

ART INTEGRATION

Depict/ Illustrate the transformation of King Ashoka post the War of Kalinga via:

* an animated version or a cartoon on an A4 sheet. 

* any of the e-tools and create a soft version of the same. 

* an act of dance, dance-drama or mime. 

Now, I CAN:
* share my thoughts and views about the methods that a modern head of state would use to convey her/his message to the people.
* share my thoughts and views while answering the questions based on the extracts of the text.

1. Strongly agree
2. Agree
3. Not sure
4. I need some help.