Maharashtra Class 10th Kumarbharati English Book Contents
Unit One: 1.1 Where the Mind is Without Fear… 1.2 The Thief’s Story 1.3 On Wings of Courage 1.4 All the World’s a Stage 1.5 Joan of Arc 1.6 The Alchemy of Nature
Unit Two: 2.1 Animals 2.2 Three Questions 2.3 Connecting the Dots 2.4 The Pulley 2.5 Let’s March 2.6 Science and Spirituality
Unit Three: 3.1 Night of the Scorpion 3.2 The Night I Met Einstein 3.3 Stephen Hawking 3.4 The Will to Win 3.5 Unbeatable Super Mom-Mary Kom 3.6 The Concert
Unit Four: 4.1 A Thing of Beauty is a Joy For Ever 4.2 The Luncheon 4.3 World Hertiage 4.4 The Height of the Ridiculous 4.5 The Old Man and The Sea : Book Review 4.6 The Gift of the Magi
Unit-1: Taking the help of a dictionary/internet guess and write the type of poem against its description. (i) A long story-poem, often mythical (ii) A short story poem with a message (iii) A poem of 14 lines (iv) A song-like poem (v) A poem with no uniformity of rhyme, rhythm etc. (vi) A poem set in picturesque, rustic background (vii) A sad poem, lamenting death of a loved one (viii) A 5-line short funny poem with rhyme-scheme aabba. (ix) A poem written, just to create humour
In your notebook write down lines from the poem as a proof for the following. (a) Tagore wishes for a nation where people are truthful. (b) The poet would like everyone to work hard to reach their goal and in the long run to reach perfection. (c) The poet wishes that everyone in his country holds his head high in dignity. (d) The poet dreams of a nation where knowledge should be free to all. (e) The poem is a ‘prayer’.
Answer the following questions in your own words. (a) How is the world broken into fragments? (b) Explain what the ‘tireless striving’ should, be for. (c) ‘Where words come out from the depth of truth.’ Explain in your own words. (d) Who is ‘Thee’ in the poem? What does the poet appeal to ‘Thee’ to do? (e) What qualities does the poet wish to inculcate in his countrymen?
Write in your notebook your own response and justify, where needed. (a) Is the poem a prayer for India alone? (b) What should the words we speak reflect? (c) What should people keep on widening? How can it be done? (d) From what darkness of night should our nation awake? (e) What attributes of Rabindranath Tagore does the poem (prayer) reflect? (f) What effect does the repetition of the word ‘where’ at the begining of each line?
Complete the following sentences using your own interpretation. (a) When the mind is without fear and head unbowed, we enjoy freedom. (b) When knowledge is free, every citizen enjoys the right to and . (c) We can prevent injustice when we pull down discriminatory walls of caste, class, religion etc. (d) Constant effort and strife leads to . (e) Logical thinking and reasoning can put a stop to . (f) Tagore appeals to God to make his country a .
Fill in the blanks. (a) Students should keep themselves aloof from . (b) When everyone will be literate. (c) It is a social duty of every student of the modern world to uproot from societies. (d) Students must develop outlook and attitudes. (e) In the world of sycophancy, students must .
