Chapter Highlights In her diary, Margie wrote about ‘Tommy finding a new book’ on the schools of the old days. The old kinds of paper books used to have pages unlike the e-books. 3 Tommy and Margie considered such books to be nothing more than a waste as they were worthless after the first reading 4 Margie hated her mechanical teacher a lot because he was giving her test after test and she was not doing well 5 The County Inspector came to repair the mechanical teacher of Margie so that its level could match the level of Margie. 6 Margie was disappointed when the mechanical teacher was not taken away by the County Inspector completely. Tommy and Margie both discussed the old schools and the teachers that were human beings. Tommy and Margie went to their schools to attend their lectures The mechanical teacher flashed at their school time everyday : except Saturday and Sunday.Evelyn lost her hearing ability at the age of eleven but she started losing it at the age of eight. 2 Evelyn wanted to play xylophone but she was discouraged by all the other teachers. 3 Ron Forbes encouraged Evelyn to play xylophone and after that she never looked back. 4 Later on, she became the most sought after xylophone player with a hectic international schedule 5 She claims that music flows throughout her body in the form of vibrations. She was conferred upon by many awards like ‘Soloist of the Year’. _7 She kept herself busy with performing for disabled, prisoners and for __ the sick. She was also a great woman of charity. She was an icon, an inspiration and a motivation for the disabled.mperor Aurangzeb banned the playing of pungi but it was revived by a barber in his court with some improvisation and got the name shehnai. 2 The sound of shehnai was considered auspicious and it is @ part of a North Indian wedding. 3 Earlier, Bismillah Khan was a player of gilli-danda but later on he earned Bharat Ratna. _ 4 Everyone from Bismillah Khan's family was a professional musician. 5 Bismillah Khan used to practise music on the bank of the Ganga for hours and he became perfect in the art. 6 He had his programmes in the All India Radio and played shehnai from the Red Fort at the time of independence. Bismillah Khan travelled many countries and gave his Performance there and impressed alll his listeners. He received many awards and recognition from all over world. He received highest civilian award of India, the ‘at Ratna in 2001. art hiis very afraid of her __ his hard and overbearing attitude. She stammer in his -presencé 2 Her grandmother encourages Kezia to get to know her parents better in their free time on Sundays. As part of this, she suggests Kezia to make a pin-cushion Qs a gift for her father on his birthday the following week. Kezia made the pin-cushion, filling it by tearing up into ‘small pieces some papers she found on her mother’s bedroom table. 4 That night there was an uproar in the house because her father could not find the papers on which he had written the speech to be given to the Port Authority next day. Kezia had unknowingly torn it up and stuffed the pieces into the pin-cushion. When her father came to know this, he punished Kezia by hitting her on her palms with a ruler Kezia was jealous of the Macdonald family living next door ee father played with his children in his free time. She realised then that there were different kinds of fathers One day when Kezio's mother fel ill and was hospitalised, the grandmother had fo accompany her. This left Kezia. only with her father in the house at night. Kezia had a nightmare while asleep. nd found her father by her bedside Her father took Kezia to his own bed to c he slept off, as he was tired. 11 Kezia suddenly realised that her father was lovable and had @ big heart. She woke up in fright aA ‘omfort her andy Chapter Highlights 1 Albert Einstein was born in 1879 in Germany. His mother thought him to be abnormal because of his large head. 2 During his childhood, Albert did not play with other children, preferring mechanical toys instead. 3 During his schooldays, he did well in studies, though not impressing his headmaster. However, he became a gifted amateur violinist. 4 He left school at the age of 15 due to the strict regimentation (discipline) there. 5 He shifted to Switzerland to continue his scientific studies at the University of Zurich. 6 In the university, he fell in love with a fellow student, Mileva Maric, a Serbian girl. 7 After securing a job, he married Mileva and they had two children. However, they gradually grew apart and divorced after 16 years of marriage. 8 After graduating, Einstein found a stable job as a technical expert in the patent office in Bern. There he continued his scientific experiments side-by-side.11 12 13 stated his Special Theory of Relativity, which ne and distance, giving rise to the well-known & =mc' ation, relating mass to energy. In 1915 he published his General Theory of Relativity, which resulted in his being awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. When the Nazis gained political power in Germany in 1933, Einstein shifted to the USA. When Germany developed nuclear fission, a colleague persuaded Einstein to write to the President of USA, Franklin Roosevelt about the large-scale devastation a nuclear bomb could cause. This resulted in the USA developing its own nuclear bombs and using them on Japan near the end of the war. Shocked by the extent of the destruction caused by these bombs, Einstein wrote to the United Nations to stop the arms buildup by forming a ‘world government’. He used his popularity to campaign for peace and democracy during the next ten years, till his death in 1975. He was known and celebrated as a visionary and ‘world cit. en’ as much as a scientific genius.ine taney ‘* jpter Highlights 1 The narrator and his friends are listening to a story being told by a homeopathic doctor about his encounter with a snake. 2 The doctor tells that this happened on a hot summer night when after having dinner at a restaurant he had returned to his house. His room was shared by lots of rats who lived in the tiled roof. 3 When he sat down at the table to read, he looked in the mirror there and decided that he would shave daily, grow a thin Moustache and would always smile all for looking more handsome. After all, he was a young bachelor. He also thought of marriage to a fat woman doctor who would have medical practice and lots of money. 4 Suddenly a snake fell down on his shoulder, coiling round his left arm, with its hood less than four inches from the doctor's face. He saw that it was a cobra. 5 The doctor did not move but started Praying to God because he realised that he did not have any medicine for snakebite. He thought of himself as a stupid doctor. 6 The snake turned and saw its own reflection in the mirror on the table. It uncoiled itself from the doctor's arm to move closer to the mirror, maybe to appreciate its own beauty. 7 The doctor got a chance to run away from the room. He stayed the rest of the night at a friend’s room. 8 Deciding to vacate his room immediately next morning, the doctor returned to his room with his friend to collect his belongings. 9 However, he found that a thief had stolen all of his belongings except for a dirty vest. 10 The doctor ended his story by saying that he never again saw the snake that was fascinated by its own beauty.> w Chapter Highlights Abdul Kalam was born into a middle-class Tamil Muslim family in 1931 at Rameswaram, The family, though was middle-class but his father provided all the basic Necessities and Abdul Kalam had a secured childhood both materially and emotionally. Abdul earned his first wages by helping his cousin Samsuddin in his business of distributing the daily newspapers in Rameswaram. Abdul was much influenced by the qualities of his parents, teachers and friends. He was very friendly with three Hindu boys, one of whom, a Brahmin, always sat next to him in class in the front row. ‘Once a new teacher asked Abdul to sit in the last row in class because he was a Muslim. This made his Brahmin friend cry which made a lasting impression on Abdul. When the Brahmin boy's father came to know about this, he scolded the new teacher for spreading communal intolerance. Abdul learnt the lesson of breaking social barriers from his science teacher, a Brahmin. The teacher invited Abdul home for a meal but the teacher’s wife, being orthodox, refused to serve Abdul in her kitchen. Then the teacher himself served Abdul and also sat with him to eat. This convinced his wife to serve Abdul herself when Abdul visited them next. When Abdul was grown up and the Second World War had ended, Abdul took his father’s permission to go to the district headquarters for higher studies. His father joyfully permitted him to ‘go and grow’. __ enter atnen ne10 11 ) Chapter Highlights = The narrator ‘Jerome’ boasted of being the master of = packing. His two friends George and Harris relax while the narrator packs the bag. The narrator packed the bag but missed so many things. The narrator searched for his toothbrush and found it ina boot. The narrator reopened the bag and repacked it many times. George and Harris undertook the task of packing of the hamper. They messed up things and took a long time in packing. The dog Montmorency came and created trouble. He sat on things that were to be packed, squashed lemons and disturbed everything. Finally, the packing ended late at night and they all got tired and decided to sleep Before going to sleep they had an argument about when to wake up in the morning.moe » Chapter Highlights Part I Santosh Yadav 1 Santosh Yadav was born in a small village named Joniyawas of Rewari, Haryana. 2 She was the only sister of five elder brothers. 3 She was a rebel and didn’t want to live like other girls of her village. 4 She wanted to study and took admission in a school in Delhi against her parents’ wish. 5 She went to Jaipur for higher education 6 She enrolled herself in Uttarkashi’s Nehru Institute of Mountaineering without taking permission from her parents. 7 At the age of twenty years, Santosh Yadav scaled Mt Everest and became the youngest woman to climb it. 8 Within a year, she climbed Mt Everest again and became the ‘only woman in the world to achieve this feat. 9 She saved a fellow climber's life while climbing Mt Everest by sharing her oxygen 10 She collected and brought down 500 kilograms of garbage from the Himalayas. 11 She was honoured with one of the top civilian awards of India, the Padmashri for her achievement.e ee rt I Maria Sharapova 1 At the age of eighteen, Maria Sharapova became world number one in women’s tennis. 2 She won the women’s singles crown at Wimbledon in 2004 and became the number one in 2005. 3 She was only nine-year old when her father took her to America for tennis training. 4 Her father worked hard and earned as much as he could to keep her tennis training going. 5 She felt lonely and was ordered to tidy up the room and clean it by other athletes 6 She is very patriotic at heart and calls herself a true Russian. 7 She loves singing, dancing and reading novels of Arthur Conan Doyle. 8 She has a great fashion-sense. 9 She calls money a motivation; and tennis, a business and a sport. 10 She wants to become world’s number one player.’ . 2 He brings that bear cub to his home and gs ito his wife, lca 3 His wife treats the bear with love and affection. She names the cub. ‘Bruno’. 4 Accidentally, he eats poison one day and suffers a stroke of Paralysis. He is taken to the Vet (doctor for animals) and gets well after treatment. 5 Once, he drank a gallon of old engine oil but there was no ill-effect on him. 6 The narrator's wife loves him a lot and helps him learn some tricks that he performs on her command 7 When Bruno grows big, the narrator's wife changed his name to Baba. He was sent to zoo as he was too big to be kept at home. 8 The narrator's wife and Bruno became sad and did not eat food for many days. 9 The narrator's wife visits the z00 to meet Bruno. 10 Bruno recognises her at once at the zoo even after three months of Separation and becomes happy. 11 Both of them sit together for hours She gives him his favourite food. 12 The narrator's wife cries and requests the superintendent to allow her to take Bruno with her. 13 He allows her and makes s; Bruno to their home. 14 Bruno comes home and they spend a lot of time together and are very happy. Pecial ‘arrangement for transporting sat» Chapter Highlights 1 The author goes to Kathmandu and visits the famous Pashupatinath temple which is only for Hindu devotees. 2 Huge crowd of priests, hawkers, devotees, tourists, stray cows, fighting monkeys, pigeons and dogs make the atmosphere chaotic. He visits another holy shrine-Baudhnath stupa, a Buddhist shrine. It has a calm and peaceful atmosphere unlike the Pashupatinath temple 4 Tibetan immigrants sell various items there The author finds Kathmandu a crowded but more religious, vivid and mercenary (money oriented) city. 6 The streets are noisy and busy with hawkers, shopkeepers, stray cows, honking sound of vehicles and tourists. w uw 7 He enjoys a lot being there but due to home sickness plans to return to home by air 8 He gets mesmerised by the melodious music of flute by a flute seller. The author analyses the significance of flute in various Cultures across the world/ » Chapter Highlights 1 Gerrard was packing his bag when an intruder armed with a gun breaks into his house. 2 He appears calm and behaves as if nothing has happened. 3 The intruder asks him questions about himself 4 Gerrard strikes a conversation with him to know about his intentions. 5 in the meantime, Gerrard cooks up a plan to trap the intruder. 6 The intruder believes in his plan and follows him to his car. 7 While the intruder is moving out of his house, Gerrard pushes him and locks him in a cupboard. 8 Gerrard tells his friend to call the police.