PREFACE

Nothing is more powerful for your future than being a gatherer of good ideas and
information. That’s called doing your homework. – Jim Rohn
Dear Scholar
Summer break is a planned break in the academic calendar that gives you time to
rejuvenate, educate self, de-stress, relax, improve physical health, acquire a new hobby,
visit interesting and fun workshops, learn new skills besides reinforcement as it helps
you to retain better and recall concepts by providing opportunities for repetition and
practice thus honing your learning skill. Reinforcement is an integral part of learning, it
supports you in developing independent learning, critical thinking, time management,
self-reflection that you need to improve and develop a growth mind-set for academic
success beyond books. It benefits you to prepare for upcoming tests and assignments.
Also out-of-class activity/assignment allotted to you are as an extension or
revision of classwork, permitting you to explore subjects and develop essential
life skills wherein you find a solution to every problem and thus enhance your
problem-solving skill.
This year’s Vacation Enrichment Reinforcement (VER) is based on 8C’s of 21st century
skills. These are critical thinking and problem solving; creativity and innovation; cross–
cultural understanding; collaboration, teamwork and Leadership; communications,
information and media literacy; computing and ICT literacy; career and learning skills
and compassion. Vacation Enrichment Reinforcement (VER) has been planned to aid
you to work on your own terms, drive you to get things done with the approaching
deadline and at the same time retain the important information you may otherwise
forget due to break from school.

A Few Pointers…….
 Vacation Enrichment Reinforcement (VER) will help you combat academic
regression.
 Also note that independent, creative and original ideas of the work will be highly
appreciated. Projects/Assignments must be submitted as per the instructions
mentioned with the assigned tasks.
 VER is a part of SEA (Subject Enrichment Activity) so its submission is
mandatory.
 Work to be submitted to the respective Subject Teacher latest by 5th July 2023.
So adherence to the given timeline is important.
 As PAs will be conducted after the school re-opens, so prepare yourself
thoroughly.
 Ensure to keep a balance between leisure and academics.
Besides enjoying your holidays by spending quality time with your family and friends,
hone/ develop a skill, eat healthy food, drink lots of water, exercise daily, take a good
night sleep, keep good health and stay safe.
Ignite the spark of your imagination to spend time qualitatively and purposely.

Happy Holidays!!

ASPAM Scottish School

 GRADE XI
ENGLISH

1. Suppose you have got a chance to meet and interview one of the members of the
Garoghlanian tribe from The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse. Write the entire
interview in question answer form. Frame at least 10 questions along with answers and
attach two illustrations alongside.

2. Choose any one topic from the following and prepare a file for ASL.
i. Impact of 4Cs (Communication, Creativity, Critical Thinking,
Collaboration) in overall Development of a child.
ii. Do exam results alone determine a child’s worth?
iii. How India is working towards bridging the digital divide and ensuring
access to digital technology for all. (Refer G20 Summit)
iv. Open School versus Regular School.
v. Dropping a year helps students or not?

3. Vocabulary enrichment is the most essential part of language learning which helps
us in giving creativity to our expressions. Here is a small exercise to enrich you with
words we require in our day-to-day life.

POETIC DEVICE CROSSWORD

 ENGLISH

Across Down
1. Correspondence of sound between 1. A repeated pattern of movement or
words or the ending of words. sound.
3. Describe something so that it appeals to 2. The choice of words or the viewpoint of
our sense of smell, sight, taste, touch, or a writer on a particular subject.
hearing. 4. The repetition of the sound of a vowel.
5. The comparison of one thing to another 6. The formation of a word from a sound
without the use of like or as. associated with what is named.
7. Giving them meanings that are different 8. In which two unlike things are compared
from their literal sense. using like or as.
9. Giving something nonhuman human
characteristics.
10. The occurrence of the same letter or
sound at the beginning of closely
connected words.
11. Exaggerated claims not meant to be
taken literally.
12. Agreement or compatibility between
opinions or actions.
13. The action of repeating something that
has already been said or written

General instructions:
 All work to be done on A4 sheets.
 Compile and make a creative cover page along with index page.
 All the work to be kept in a folder
 All the sheets to have a border
 Complete and submit the recapitulation worksheet uploaded in ERP.
 Assessment of HHW to be done on the basis of content, clarity of thought,
expression and creativity.
 PHYSICS

Roll no. Topic

1,3,5 Temperature of Stars and brightest stars in the night sky. + A3 size poster
2,4,6, Newton’s cradle + working model.
7,9 hydraulics + working model
8,10,12 Tell Time With Stars + A3 size poster (must include related history)
constellations: position of constellation through out the year +A3 size
13,15, poster, file
Physics Project on Nanotechnology: The Smaller The Stronger +A3 size
14,16,18 poster
Earth's orbit: include
1.6 month day/night at poles
2. solar and lunar eclipse
[Link]
[Link] of orbit and rotation( varying with latitude and
longitude)
11,17 file + 3D model
 CHEMISTRY

Project – 1 (For Odd Roll Numbers)

 To perform chemical analysis of normal and pathological urines

Project – 2 (For Even Roll Numbers)

 To perform the chemical analysis of face powders
 BIOLOGY

 Specimens/slides/models and identification with reasons –

Bacteria, Oscillatoria, Spirogyra, Rhizopus, mushroom, yeast, liverwort, moss,
fern, pine, monocotyledonous plant, one dicotyledonous plant and one
lichen.
 Virtual specimens/slides/models and identifying features of –
Amoeba, Hydra, liverfluke, Ascaris, leech, earthworm, prawn, silkworm, honey
bee, snail, starfish, shark, rohu, frog, lizard, pigeon and rabbit.
 Mitosis in onion root tip cells and animals cells (grasshopper) from
permanent slides.
 Different types of inflorescence (cymose and racemose)
 Human skeleton and different types of joints with the help of virtual
images/models only
 MATHEMATICS

Instruction:
 Please do the following activities in practical file
 Use coloured papers, coloured strings, graph papers, dotted papers etc
 Each activity is to be done separately
 Write according to following criteria
Step 1 Objective
Step2 Material used
Step 3 Procedure
Step 4 Conclusion
Step 5 Result
1. To verify that for two sets A and B, n (A×B) = pq and the total number of
pq
relations from A to B is 2 , where n(A) = p and n(B) = q.
2. To find the number of subsets of a given set and verify that if a set has n
n
number of elements, then the total number of subsets is 2 .
3. To represent set theoretic operations using Venn diagrams.
 A  B ,  A  B , A ' ,  A  B  , B  A,  A  B ' ,  A  B ' ,  A  B
4. To verify distributive law for three given non-empty sets A, B and C, that is,
A (B C) = (A B) (A C).
5. To identify a relation and a function.
 HISTORY

Students will choose any one topic of their choice and make a project. Find a topic you
can manage in the time and space you have available.

Kindly note, the following instructions:

Use the material available at home, like pages of old notebooks that can be used to write
or file/drawing sheets, lose pages etc. , if possible draw/paste pictures and present it in
a file when school reopens . Inclusive of everything minimum 20 and maximum 25
pages should be used. Write your name, class-section, roll number , subject, , topic .The
project should be informative and look presentable.

List of Few Suggestive Topics for Projects:

1. Anthropological Research based on Darwin’s Theory
2. Critique of the industrialisation in Britain
3. Aspirations of women in Renaissance period
4. Relations and impacts of past crusades
5. Facets to Modernisation of Japan / China/Korea
6. An Exploratory study into Humanism
7. History of aborigines – America / Australia
8. An exploratory study into the making of America
9. Piecing together the past of Genghis Khan
10. An in depth study into ‘now and then’ paradigm of Christianity
11. Learning about global Sufism
12. Myriad realms of slavery in ancient, medieval and modern world
13. Making and unmaking of Mesopotamia
14. Paradigms of Greco – Roman civilization
15. An exploratory study into the realism and the transmission of Humanistic ideas
16. Scientific Revolution and the origins of modern science
 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Make a project on any one of the following topics.

1) Topics
1) Making of the Constitution.
2) Elections in India.
3) Working of the Indian Judiciary System.
4) Social Justice: Are ethics followed in Indian Politics.
5) Human Rights Act and its gratification in India.
6) Political impact on Indian Legislation.

Project Guidelines
1. It should be handwritten on a A4 size sheet
2. Project should be summed up in 15-20 pages.
3. It should be well researched based on facts and figures and pictorial
4. The project must have a table of contents, Title/Cover page, Acknowledgement,
Bibliography,
Analysis with headings and subheadings
[Link] must include relevant news clippings, facts and figures, pictures

2) Revise the chapters that have been done till now

 ECONOMICS

Prepare a project on any one of the following topics

 Effect on PPC due to various government policies
 Invisible Hand (Adam Smith)
 Opportunity Cost as an Economic Tool (taking real life situations)
 Effect of Price Change on a Substitute Good (taking prices from real life visiting
local market) Effect on Equilibrium Prices in Local Market (taking real life
situation or recent news)
 Effect of Price Change on a Complementary Good (taking prices from real life
visiting local market)
 Solar Energy, a Cost-Effective Comparison with Conventional Energy Sources
 Bumper Production- Boon or Bane for the Farmer
 Any other newspaper article and its evaluation on basis of economic principles 
Any other topic
 ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Prepare a project report on any one of the given topics

 Conduct a case study of any entrepreneurial venture in your nearby area.

 Learn to earn.

 Field Visit ; Visit any business firm near your locality , interact with the owner of
the business firm and prepare a field report on parameters like ; type of business
, Scale of business , product/ service dealing in , target customer , problem faced
and measures to solve the faced challenges .
 COMPUTER SCIENCE

Project: Create a list in python that contains values of 21st century skills.
Apply the following list functions:
 Find the length of a list.
 Display all the elements of a list.
 Display the list element placed at 2nd index position.
 Display the index position of last element.
 Reverse the list element.
 Display the list elements twice using repetition.
 Copy the first list element into second list.
 Sort the list elements.
 Delete the last element of a list.
 Find maximum and minimum element of a list.

Write the syntax and output for all into notebook.

 PSYCHOLOGY

Prepare a file covering the following assignments:

1. Suggest 7-10 ways for increasing motivation and concentration referring to the
studies conducted in the last 10 years.

2. Psychology is an integral part of various other fields and disciplines. Explain taking
references from the studies conducted in the last 10 years.

3. Impact of gender typing on today’s society. Support your viewpoints with the help of
recent research findings.
 BUSINESS STUDIES

Prepare a project file and presentation on start-up India - It should include following
points.
General Guidelines-
Following essentials are required to be fulfilled for its preparation and submission.
1. The total length of the project will be of 25 to 30 pages.
2. The project should be handwritten.
3. The project should be presented in a neat folder.
4. Use A4 size one side ruled pastel sheets for project work. Use the ruled side for
writing and the blank side for pictures. The size of the pictures should be neither too big
nor too small.
 Front Cover
 Certificate
 Acknowledgement
 Index
 Introduction
 Definition
 What is startup?
 Why startup India?
 Problems faced by startups
 Ways to fund startup
 Quote five examples of successful startup
 Conclusion
 Bibliography

Art Integration Learning

Prepare a model and presentation on the following topics (Any one topic)

1. E-commerce
2. Innovation in Banking system
3. Auxiliaries to trade
4. Create website or an app
5. Cryptocurrency
6. GST
7. Industries
8. Business Model
9. Any other topic
 ACCOUNTANCY

Prepare a comprehensive project of any sole proprietorship business. This may state
with journal entries and their ledgering, preparation of Trial balance. Trading and
Profit and Loss Account and Balance Sheet. Expenses, incomes and profit (loss), assets
and liabilities are to be depicted using pie chart / bar diagram. This may include simple
GST related transactions.
Project work should include-
 Front Cover
 Certificate
 Acknowledgement
 Index
 Twenty transactions of the business.
 Journal entries and their Ledgering
 Preparation of Trial balance.
 Bibliography
 Use A4 size one side ruled pastel sheets for project work. Use the ruled side
for writing and the blank side for pictures. The size of the pictures should be
neither too big nor too small.

Art Integration Learning

 Prepare a quiz/puzzle on accounting term

 Prepare a rap/song/story/video on Accounting
 FASHION STUDIES

1. Prepare a value chart for three primary colours.

(1 A -4 size sheet for Tints and 1 for Shades)

2. Prepare a Nature inspired design by using different colour schemes. (Triadic colour
scheme, complementary colour scheme, Analogous colour scheme)

3. Collect the fabric swatches made of different fibres. Paste them on A-4 size sheet.