Class 10 English First Flight Chapter 5 (formerly Chapter 7 before The Hundred Dresses I & II were removed), Glimpses of India, brings together three cultural travelogue portraits: Lucio Rodrigues’s A Baker from Goa, Lokesh Abrol’s Coorg, and Arup Kumar Datta’s Tea from Assam. The chapter PDF also includes Adrienne Rich’s symbolic poem The Trees. … Read more
Class 10 Science Chapter 2, Acids, Bases and Salts, examines the chemical behaviour of acids and bases with metals, metal carbonates, metal oxides and each other, introduces the pH scale (0 to 14), and details the preparation and uses of five industrially important sodium and calcium salts. What Class 10 Science Chapter 2 Covers 2.1 … Read more
Class 10 English First Flight Chapter 6 (formerly Chapter 8), Mijbil the Otter, is an autobiographical account by Scottish naturalist Gavin Maxwell (Ring of Bright Water) describing how he adopted an otter from the Tigris marshes in Iraq in 1956, named a previously unknown subspecies (Lutrogale perspicillata maxwelli), and flew him from Basra to London … Read more
Class 10 Science Chapter 3, Metals and Non-metals, contrasts the physical and chemical properties of metals and non-metals, arranges metals in the reactivity series, explains ionic bonding via electron dot structures, and traces metallurgy from ore concentration to electrolytic refining and corrosion prevention. What Class 10 Science Chapter 3 Covers 3.1 & 3.2 Physical and … Read more
Class 10 English First Flight Chapter 7 (formerly Chapter 9), Madam Rides the Bus by Vallikkannan (translated from Tamil by K.S. Sundaram), tells the sensitive story of eight-year-old Valliammai (Valli), whose deepest desire is to ride the bus between her village and the nearest town—a forty-five-minute journey that introduces her to both the joy of … Read more