Monday, June 27, 2011

History KPSC - Kids writeup


http://www.scribd.com/doc/34092982/History   Good link for the syllabus below.


http://www.scribd.com/doc/58872813?secret_password=ok28s9lh9dr7fbkuao3


http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/india/history/harappa.htm

Create a single page on each section below.
Copy text from the web page - put into note pad and then Ctrl-C , and paste to Word doc. ( I can do the pdf doc ), Change complex words to simple words.

Page 1 on Harappa & Mohenjodaro
Page 2: Vedic I
Page 3 :Vedic II
Page 4:  Alexander
Page 5 : Maurya
Page 6 : Pre-Gupta ( or Small Kingdoms )
Page 7 : Gupta
Page 8 : Post Gupta




History (Subject Code -13)
PAPER-I
Section - A: History of India (Down to A.D. 750)
i. The Indus Civilisation ( Harappa and Mohenjodaro )
Origins : Extent; Characteristic features, Major cities. Trade and contacts, causes
of decline, Survival and continuity.
ii. The Vedic Age
Vedic literature, Geographical area known to Vedic Texts, Differences and
similarities between Indus civilization and Vedic culture, Political, Social and
Economic patterns, Major religious ideas and rituals.
iii The Pre-Maurya Period
Religious movements (Jainism, Buddhism and other sects), Social and economic
conditions, Republics and growth of Magadha imperialism.
iv The Maurya Empire
Sources, Rise, Extent and fall of the empire; Administration. Social and economic
conditions, Ashoka’s policy and reforms.
v. The Post-Maurya period (200 B.C. - 300 A.D.)
Principal dynasties in Northern and Sourthem India, Economy and Society;
Sanskrit, Prakrit and Tamil, Religion (Rise of Mahayana and Theitic cults), Art
(Gandhara, Mathura and other schools), Contacts with Central Asia.
vi. The Gupta Age
Rise and fall of the Gupta Empire, the vakatakas, Administration, Soceity,
Economic, literature, art and religion, Contacts with South East Asia.
vii. Post Gupta Period (500 - 750 A.D.)
Pushyabhutis, The Mukharis, The later Guptas, Harsha Vardhana and his times,
Chalukyas of Badami, The Pallavas; Society administration and art. The Arab
conquest.
viii. General review of science and technology, education and learning.

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The American and French revolutions, Their significance and message, the Vienna
settlement and the age of reaction, Romantic revival, Hegel and German Idealism,
The Victorian era in England, Bourgeois liberalism.
6. The industrial revolution, Growth of the factory system, The classical economist
and utilitarian philosophers, the revolutions of 1830/32 and 1848 Utopian-socialism,
Karl marx’s scientific socialism, Working class movements, and social legislations,
Nationalism in Europe, Unification of Italy and Germany, Civil war in America,
Colonialism in Afro-Asian countries, Cases of China and Japan. The Ottoman
empire.
7. Neo-lmperialism in Europe, The Eastern question, Partition of Africa, The formation
of the Triple Alliance, The welding of the Entente Europe in two camps.
8. The First World War, Paris peace conference , League of Nations; New trends in
cultural fields, Darwin, Einstein and Froud, Philosophical Reflections of the theories
of evolution, relativity and quantum mechanics, New trends in literature.
9. The Russian revolution, Socialism in one country, Fascism in Italy, Nazism in
Germany, The great depression, milestones to the second world war.
11. U.N.O. Cold war, Afro - Asian resurgence, Detente, The Contemporary scene.
Star Wars, Gorbachev, Glasnost and Perestroika, Collapse of U.S.S.R. and
process of Globalisation.





http://www.forumforhinduawakening.org/articles/id/understanding/stories/shankaracharya




ESL - Links


Short Stories
http://www.english-for-students.com/Moral-Stories.html

Open any small story that relates to the rural landscape like 'Haste Makes Waste' ( there are snakes, and mongoose which the children understand )
1. Fit it into 1 page,
2. Create the title and center it. 
3. Convert a complex word to a simple word/sentence ( e.g: "fondling the carcass of mongoose" to 'holding the dead body of the mongoose' 
4. Remove any pictures.
5. Convert it to PDF.
Send me both the doc and the pdf file.

Calibri(body) 24 was the font and the size I used. Came to about 18 lines
Let's use the same font across.


http://www.kidsgen.com/moral_stories/

Here, even if less than a page - that's fine, then increase the font size. ( remove the pictures)
Some stories are :
Hare and Tortoise,
Dreamy Milk Maid,
Wolf and Goat,
Peacock and Crane  (here change the word 'Strut' to 'Dance'. )
Town Mouse and Country Mouse.


Saturday, June 11, 2011

Saving Patterns - Numbers (DW )


Go to http://www.dadsworksheets.com/ ( Click on Number Patterns on left )










For each file, save both the questions and answers and bundle the files either as zip or tar.


Saving percentages worksheets (DW)


Saving worksheets for Calculating Percentages.

This task involves saving the worksheets and their answers, into a separate folder.  But before I start - let me list some important requirements.
GhostWriter  Or cutePDF installed on your desktop/laptop/server.

Ist Important Note:
Save the pages as follows, on the upper left side there is a description, something like

Tens and hundreds
Version 1 and similarly the next page will be version 2
 For this you will create the page
calc_percentage_v1.pdf  and the answer will be saved as
calc_percentage_v1_ans.pdf

(Note that I added the "_ans" at the end of the filename)

I expect the files to be

calc_perc_v1_tens_huns.pdf
calc_perc_v1_tens_huns_ans.pdf

calc_perc_v2_tens_huns.pdf
calc_perc_v2_tens_huns_ans.pdf

...
calc_perc_v1_fifties.pdf
calc_perc_v1_fifties_ans.pdf

...
calc_perc_v1_twenties.pdf
calc_perc_v1_twenties_ans.pdf

..


Now the actual task;

Follow the steps and create a question and an answer bank for each version.

http://www.dadsworksheets.com 

Click on "Percentages" on the right, and then click on   "Calculate the percentage."

The following page should show up. Now, follow the below steps.







Click on Print and if you have Ghostscript installed, select it.



 

Save it     


 

Click on Answer key





Click on Print again and save it as described above.

Repeat this for as much files as possible, and zip it or tar it.

Let me know when done, I will pick up the bundle.

Thanks
Shashi