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The City School Gulistan-e-Johar Campus Class 6 Syllabus for Mid-Year 2017-18 ENGLISH: Comprehension - Unseen Passage.. Literature – Matilda Chap # 1-10 (Words Meaning, Character sketch Q/A, RTCs Summary) Grammar - Simple past tense Active/passive voice Direct/indirect speech Conditionals: First Conditionals Figurative language (Similie, Metaphor, Personification, Sounding words with poetry) Noun phrases Compound sentences Comparatives and superlatives Phrasal Verbs Second Conditionals Verb Phrases and Prepositional phrases Conjunctions Composition Narrative Writing Create a leaflet Account writing A Newspaper Report Journal writing Create a poem (Free Verse) Descriptive writing-Character Description Dialogue Writing Create a Ghost Story Reconstructing text :Fairy Tale/Legend to a different ending Report Writing Create a role play Describing a painting Diary Writing GEOGRAPHY: Basic Skills: Understanding maps, lines of latitude and longitude and Prime Meridian on a globe, graphs and different kinds of diagrams and pictures. Weather and Climate (Project) Definition of atmosphere, Components that make up air. Composition and importance of atmosphere, layers of atmosphere (stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, ionosphere) northern lights, phenomenon of Auroras, incoming and outgoing solar radiation, the ozone layer and the greenhouse effect. The Land of Pakistan Topography, how do we show landscape in South Asia? Relief, different landforms in Pakistan (plateaus, plains, valleys, and mountains) What happens when a plate moves towards another plate? Formation of these landforms, landforms created by earth movements and volcanic activity, Land plateau, Mount Etna, weathering, erosion, the alternate heating and cooling of rocks and rocks formation. The Environment The natural and human environment, an environment with both natural and human features, change of natural into human environments Industries Industries, industries as a system, industries in the village in Sindh, (manufacturing, service, plantation industries). COMPUTER SCIENCE Learning the basics Creating a document Setting online History: Basic Skills: Historians and detectives Why we study history? Being a history detective, how archaeologists find sources? How geography helps historians. Counting years World History Important early civilisations Beginning of early civilisations, The Indus valley civilisation: the discovery, important features, administration, religion, social life, trade and decline. Sumer, the first civilization. The Nile valley civilisation: important features, the ancient Egyptian culture, developments. World History; Chinese civilizations The world’s oldest continuous civilisation, ideas of ‘Confucious’, ‘Afterlife’ by Qin Shi Huang, the history of the Great Wall of China, two important aspects of Chinese culture – silk and calligraphy. World History; The Aryans Social life, religion, developments, development of caste system in Aryan social groups World History; The Persians The development of the Persian Empire, Indus Valley region in the Persian Empire, battles between The Persians and The Greeks. Science Biology Micro-Organisms Chemistry Introduction to Science More about dissolving Physics Physical Quantities and Forces .
