CBSE Class 10 Additional Subjects syllabus 2011

ADDITIONAL SUBJECTS

(A) MUSIC

Any one of the following can be offered: (Hindustani or Carnatic)

1. Hindustani Music-Vocal OR 4. Carnatic Music-Vocal

2. Hindustani Music Melodic Instruments OR 5. Carnatic Music-Melodic Instruments

3. Hindustani Music Percussion Instruments

6. Carnatic Music-Percussion Instruments

(1) HINDUSTANI MUSIC (VOCAL)

(CODE NO. 034)

CLASS X

THEORY

1. Basic knowledge of the structure and tuning of Tanpura.

2. Knowledge of the notation systems laid down by Pt. Vishnu Digamber Paluskar and Pt. V.N. Bhatkhande.

3. Definition of Vadi, Samvadi, Anuvadi, Vivadi, Alap

4. Brief description of Natya shastra, Sangeet Ratnakar.

PRACTICAL

Marks : 75

Periods : 202

1. Community Singing:

(a) Two songs in different regional languages.

(b) One Tagore song

2. Aaroha, Avaroha, Pakad and Drut Khyal in the following Ragas: Kafi, Khamaj, Sarang and Desh with simple elaborations and few tanas.

Suggested Reference Books :

1. Kramik Pustak Malika by Pandit V.N. Bhatkhande

2. Rag Vigyan by Pandit V.N. Patwardhan.

(II) HINDUSTANI MUSIC (MELODIC INSTRUMENTS)

(Code No. 035)

CLASS X

THEORY

1. Basic knowledge of the structure and tuning of any one of the following insruments:
(i) Sitar, (ii) Sarod, (iii) Violin, (iv) Dilruba or Esraj, (v) Flute, (vi) Mandolin, (vii) Guitar.

2. Knowledge of the notation systems laid down by Pt Vishnu Digambar Palukar and Pt. V.N. Bhatkhande

3. Vadi, Samvadi, Anuvadi, Vivdi, Alap

4. Brief description of Natya Shastra, Sangeet Ratnakar.

PRACTICAL

Marks : 75

Periods : 202

1. Eight Tala-babbha Alankaras set to different Talas.

2. Aaroha, Avaroha, Pakad and Drut Gat in the following Ragas: Kafi, Khamaj, Sarang and Desh with simple elaborations and few Todas

Suggested Reference Books:

1. Sitar Marg (I Part) by Shri S. Bandyopadhyaya, Vani Mandir, Subzi Mandi, Delhi-7

2. Vitat Vadya Shiksha’, by Shri S. Bandyopadhyaya, Vani Mandir, Subzi Mandi, Delhi-7

3. Sitar and its Technique by Prof. Debu Chaudhuri, Avon Publishers, Shahdara, Delhi.

(III) HINDUSTANI MUSIC (PERCUSSION-INSTRUMENTS)

(CODE NO. 036)

CLASS X

THEORY

1. Basic knowledge of the structure and tuning of the instruments (Tabla or Pakhawaj).

2. Knowledge of tala notation systems laid down by Pt. Vishnu Digamber Paluskar and Pt. V.N. Bhatkhande.

3. Definition of Avartan, Theka, Lahera, Amad, Mohra, Tihai.

4. Brief description of Natya Shastra, Sangeet Ratnakar.

PRACTICAL

Marks : 75

Periods : 202

1. To produce correctly the basic Bolas-Ta, Dha, Tin and Dhin, Dha, Ki, Na, Ti, Dhi, Na and Ti; Ti, Na, Dhi, Dhi, Ga, Tir, Kit, Tu, Na, Katta, etc.

2. Ability to recongise the tala of the composition being sung or played on a melodic instrument.

3. To recite the tala with hand beats and to play on the instrument the Theka of Jhaptala, Rupak and Ektala with elaborations.

Suggested Reference Books :

1. ‘Tal Sastra’ by Shri Bhagwat Sharan, Sangit Hathras.

2. Tabla Vadan Shiksha by Pt. Krishna Rao Shankar Pandit.

(IV) CARNATIC MUSIC (VOCAL)

(CODE NO. 031)

CLASS X

THEORY

1. Basic knowledge of structure of the Tambura.

2. Outline knowledge of the 72 malakarta scheme 

3. General understanding of Principles of notation in Carnatic Music using signs and symbols. 

4. Ragalakshanas in brief of the following ragas : 
Hamsadhvani, Shankarabharanam, Kamboji, Hindolam, Abhogi

5. Study of the lakshanas of varnam, Jatiswaram, kriti

PRACTICAL

Marks : 75

Periods : 202

1. Community Singing:
Four devotional songs, simple Naamaavalis, Bhajans composed by the saints poets of India.

2. Ragalakshanas of the following ragas :
Kalyani, kamboji, shankarabharanam, Hindolam, Abhogi 

3. To create proper sense of svara and laya through sapta tala alankaras. Alankaaras in Mayamalavagoula and other simple scales. 

4. One Divyanama kirtana, one Jatisvaram at least two simple kritis to the accompaniment of Tambura and Mridangam. 

5. One Adi tala varam is two degrees of speed. 

6. Principles of notation in Carnatic music, illustrated with suitable examples.

(V) CARNATIC MUSIC (MELODIC INSTRUMENTS)

(CODE NO. 032)

CLASS X

THEORY

1. Basic knowledge of the structure and tuning of the instrument opted for 

2. Outline knowledge of the seventy-two Melakarta Scheme 

3. Principles of Notation in Carnatic music 

4. Raaga Lakshana of Mohanam, Kaamboji, Abhogi, Nata, Hindolam

5. Lakshanas of the musical forms kriti and Varnam.

PRACTICAL

Marks : 75

Periods : 202

1. Playing of the ragas prescribed for Theory

2. Tuning the instrument

3. Musical composition : Adi tala Varnam in two degrees of speed. 

4. Simple keertanams and simple kritis.

Suggested Reference Books:

1. Flute by Prof. Sambamoorthy. 

2. Musical Instruments of India by S. Krishnaswamy.

(VI) CARNATIC MUSIC (PERCUSSION-INSTRUMENTS)

(CODE NO. 033)

CLASS X

THEORY

1. Knowledge of the structure and tuning of the instrument 

2. To produce correctly and clearly the Sollukettus on the instrument opted for and the technicalities related to them. 

3. Principles of Notation in Carnatic music 

4. Lakshanas of the musical forms keertanam and Kriti, also ragas Mohanam, Kalyani, Kambhoji, Hindolam. 

5. Basic knowledge of the principles of performance as presented in Vocal and Instrumental music.

PRACTICAL

Marks : 75

Periods : 202

1. To play precisely, the Sollukettus in different degrees of speed.

2. Tuning of the instrument. 

3. Ability to play the Thekas and Mohras in Adi tala, Rupaka tala and Chaapputala.

4. To play brief tani-avartams in simple taalas.

Suggested Reference Books :

1. ‘Percussion Instruments & Laya Vadys’ Prof. P. Sambamurti. 

2. ‘Mridanga Svabodhini’ by M.R. Durairaj

(B) PAINTING

(CODE NO. 049)

CLASS X

One paper

3 hours

Marks : 100

Periods : 270

Painting from memory

Simple composition in (water/poster/pastel) colours on given subjects based on sketching from life,

(C) COMMERCE

Note : Any one of the following three areas can be offered:

I. Elements of Business

Or

II. Elements of Book Keeping and Accountancy

or

III. Typewriting-English or Hindi

(I) ELEMENTS OF BUSINESS

(CODE NO. 154) 

Objective : The objective of this paper is to provide elementary knowledge of the different aspects of business.

CLASS X

OR

(II) ELEMENTS OF BOOK-KEEPING AND ACCOUNTANCY

(CODE NO. 254)

CLASS X

(III) TYPEWRITING-(ENGLISH OR HINDI)

(CODE NO. 354)

Due to speedy industrialisation and rapid means of communication, the use of labour saving devices is on the increase. Typewriting is one of the most commonly used labour saving devices even in remote towns. Its relevance is more pronounced in developing countries, where other sophisticated labour saving devices are not available. CBSE has decided to include the subject “Typewriting-English or Hindi” as an additional (optional) at the Secondary level. This step has made the Scheme of Studies job oriented and need based.

Objectives

- To help the learner understand the mechanism of the typewriter.

- To enable the learner understand methods of typewriting

- To help the learner know the symbols used in proof-correction.

- To enable the learner acquire the skills of proper display of matter like margin setting, centering  and tabulation.

- To help the learner acquire skills of typing and cutting stencils with speed and accuracy.

CLASS X

One paper

2 hours

Marks : 25

Periods : 68

Theory

- Functions of important parts of Typewriter

- Elementary knowledge about display of letters and tabulation-margin setting, centering, headings, Subheadings

- Knowledge of cutting stencils and use of correcting fluid

- Simple proof correction symbols

- Standard abbreviations

- Speed development exercises.

PRACTICAL

One paper

1 hours

Marks : 75

Periods : 202

A. Running Matter-A speed and Accuracy Test

Marks : 30 Time : 10 minutes

(A Passage of 300 words @ 30 w.p.m. in English and 250 words @ 25 w.p.m. in Hindi. The same passage to be repeated, if finished before time)

B. Tabulation Test

Marks : 45  Time : 40 minutes

(A Tabular statement having not more than 3-4 rows and columns horizontally and vertically. The same is applicable for Hindi Typewriting also)

OR

Letter Typing

Marks : 45  Time : 40 minutes

(Typing a simple letter in English or in Hindi of around 200 words)

NOTE: Ten minutes time is allowed in between for adjustment of typewritiers and starting of the above job (s).

(D) HOME SCIENCE

(CODE NO. 064)

CLASS X

One Theory paper 3 hours 75 Marks

One Practical paper  3 hours  25 Marks

 Theory

CLASS X

Practicals : 20+5 (sessional work) =25

1. Observe and record physical and motor characteristics of a child at any given stage between 0- 3 yrs of age.

2. Observe play activities of children betwen 1-3 yers of age. Record their interests and characteristics of play materials.

3. Make a suitable play object for a child between 0-3 yrs.

4. Prepare dishes using methods of enhancement of nutrients.

5. Prepare useful household items recycling waste materials.

6. List any five malpractices you have observed in the market.

7. Practice basic stitches-tacking, running, hemming and back stitch.

8. Remove common stains-curry, paint, ball pen ink, lipstic, blood, rust, tea & coffee.

9. Launder and finish cotton, silk, wool and synthetic articles.

10. Examine quality of a sitched garment.

11. Read lable on a ready made garment.

Note : Students are required to maintain record of practical work undertaken in the academic session.

References :

1. Home Science by Staff of Lady Irwin College Published by Longmans, New Delhi.

2. Despatches 1-6 (secondary Course) prepared, published & Marketed by National Open School. B-31-B, Kailash Colony, New Delhi-48.

ADDITIONAL LANGUAGES

Any one from the following other than the ones offered under the compulsory group:
Hindi, English, Assamese, Bengali, Bhutia, Gujarati, Kannada, Kashmiri, Limboo, Lepcha, Marathi, Malayalam, Manipuri, Oriya, Punjabi, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Sanskrit, Arabic, Persian, French, German, Russian, Spanish, Nepali, Portuguese, Tibetan and Mizo.

Note : Syllabi and text books of these languages will be the same as given for the respective

languages under the Compulsory Languages Group in Vol. II of this curriculum. *Please refer to the Scheme of studies for further details

(E) FOUNDATION OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

(CODE No. 165)

Learning Objectives

General :

1. To familiarize with basics of information technology

2. To develop basic skills of using tools for information representation and processing.

3. To use Information Processing tools for enhancing productivity and quality.

Specific :

1. Cognitive domain : Knowledge and understanding To develop basic understanding of IT tools.

2. Psychomotor domain : Skills To develop skills in using Information Processing tools.

3. Affective domain : Personality traits

To develop habit of teamwork, structure presentation and abide by ethical principles of computing

CLASS X

CLASS X

THEORY
UNIT 1 : BASICS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Internet : World Wide Web, Web Servers, Web sites, Web Pages, Web Browsers, Blogs, Newsgroups, HTML, Web address, Email address, URL, HTTP.

Services available on Internet : Information Retrieval, Locating sites using search engines and finding people on the net, Chat, FTP, Downloading and Uploading files from or to remote site.

Web services : Chat, email, Video conferencing, e-Learning, e-Banking, e-shopping, e-reservation, e-Groups, Social Networking.

UNIT 2: INFORMATION PROCESSING TOOLS

Office Tools

Database Management Tool :

Basic Concepts and need for a database, Creating a database, Setting the Primary Key, Entering data into a database, Inserting and deleting fields, Inserting and deleting Records, Data Validation : Field Size, Default Value, Validation Rule, Validation Text, Required, Allow Zero Length.

INFORMATION REPRESENTATION METHODS

Hyper Text Markup Language

Introduction to Web Page Designing using HTML, Creating and saving an HTML document, accessing a web page using a web browser (Internet Explorer, Mozilla firefox, Operat Apple Safari, Netscape Navigator, Google Chrome);

Elements in HTML : Container and Empty elements, Designing web pages using the following elements:

HTML, HEAD, TITLE, BODY (Attributes: BACKGROUND, BGCOLOUR, TEXT, LINK, ALINK, VLINK, LEFTMARGIN, TOPMARGIN), FONT (Attributes: COLOUR, SIZE, FACE),

BASEFONT (Attributes :COLOUR, SIZE, FACE), CENTER, BR (Break), HR (Horizontal Rule, Attributes: SIZE, WIDTH, ALIGN, NOSHADE, COLOUR), COMMENTS, ! for comments, H1.. H6 (Heading), P (Paragraph), B(Bold), I (Italics), U (Underline), UL & OL (Unordered List & Ordered List Attributes: TYPE, START), LI (List Item), Insertion of images using the element IMG (Attributes : SRC, WIDTH, HEIGHT, ALT, ALIGN), Superscript SUP and subscript SUB. Inserting table-TABLE, TR, TD, ROWSPAN, COLSPAN

Internal and External Linking between Web Pages: Signficance of linking, A-Anchor Element
(Attributes: NAME HREF, TITLE, ALT)

XML

Introduction to XML, Difference between XML and HTML with respect to the following : Data sepration, data sharing, documents structure, tags, nesting of elements, attribute, values.

XML Elements - Defining your own tags in XML, Root element, child elements and their attributes; Comments in XML, White space and new line in XML, well formed XML documents, validating XML documents, XML Parser, Viewing XML documents in a web browser.

UNIT 3: IT APPLICATIONS

Students are suggested to work on the following areas using Database Management Tools and HTML on topics implementing the tools covered in the course.

Domains :

Business Computing 

* Personal Data Management System 

* School/Class Result with student-wise and subject-wise marks 

* Employee Payroll (Computation of Monthly Salary) 

* Stock Inventory (Purchase and Issue records)

Website Designing

* Personal Blog with Name, Photo, Areas of Interest, School, State, Country 

* School Website - Infrastructure, Facilities, Uniform, Motto, School Pictures, Extra-Curricular Activities, Subject and Language Options 

* Travel and Tourism 

* Indian Statistics - State wise Area, Population, Literacy (Enrolment in Primary, Middle, Secondary, Senior Secondary), Gender Ratio 

* Environment (Save Energy) and Pollution (Global Warming)

UNIT 4: SOCIETAL IMPACTS OF IT

Virus, Worms, Trojans and Anti-Virus Software, Spyware, Malware, Spams, Data Backup and recovery tools and methods, Online Backups, Hacker and Cracker with regard to Computer Data and Applications.

Information security provisions in e-Commerce

CLASS X

PRACTICALS

(A) HANDS ON EXPERIENCE

Design of Practical Question Paper

There is no pre-set question paper provided by CBSE for conducting practical examination. This flexibility has been provided to give more freedom to the examiners for the improvement of practical examination, keeping in view the resources and other facilities available in the laboratory of the School. However, detailed instructions on the basis of syllabus, distribution of marks and conduction of practical examination have been provided. The internal examiner and the external examiner together set the question paper according to the prescribed curriculum and distribution of marks.

I. Buisness Computing Problem :*

A business-computing problem is required to be solved using Database Management Tools for testing the following aspects of database.Creating and entering data into a database

• Setting the primary key

• Validation of data

II. Web Page Designing:* 

A Problem on Web Page designing (Minimum 2 pages)to be given for testing in the following HTML elements:

• Adding a tittle to webpage

• Formating text

• Inserting Image

• Putting main points using ordered or/and unordered list

• Wrting text in paragraphs

• Inserting content in tabulated from.

The students are supposed to know the tools and style for designing domain specific webpages from real life applications and the topic mentioned in the syllabus.

Students to be asked to create an XML document on the lines of XML concepts covered in theory sylllabus.

Break up of Marks (HTML)

• Visual Effect : 1

• Linking : 1

• Coding : 2

* Printout of the document(s) should be attached with the answer sheet.

4 Marks

(B) IT APPLICATION REPORT FILE 

Students are supposed to make a IT Application Report File Containing Real life assignments / presentations using Database Management Tools and HTML on topics from the domain:
Must have print outs of the following:

• 4 database solutions from Business Computing

• 8 HTML source code along with browser view

• 2XML documents

4 Marks

(C) VIVA VOCE

The questions can be asked from any portion of the syllabus covered during Class IX and Class X.

NOTE-Teachers are suggested to give first-hand demonstration covering the aspects such as : Connecting to internet, Using popular Search Engines, Web Browsing, Opening E-mail accounts, Sending and Receiving E-mails, Downloading files and pictures.