Class 10

Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

FIRST FLIGHT ( PROSE) Two Stories about Flying
1. 10th of May was, a day of freedom for South
Africa and there was huge gathering of
1. Seagull family of 6 members.
A Letter to God international leaders and dignitaries.
2. The young seagull afraid of flying.
2. Inauguration ceremony or swearing in ceremony
3. Family has concern of his food and fear of flying.
was being held in Union Building in Pretoria and
1. Lencho’s hope of good rain to have a good crops. 4. Cajoling and provoking him by family.
first non-racial government took the charge.
2. It rains but the rain soon changes into hailstones. 5. Family leaves him alone at the rock.
3. Nelson Mandela gave speech on the victory for
3. Lencho has firm faith in God. 6. He cries because of heat and hunger.
justice, peace and human dignity.
4. Lencho writes a letter to God to help him. 7. No one looks at him except the mother.
4. Mandela pledged to liberate his people from
5. Lencho asks God to send him hundred pesos. 8. Temptation by mother for a piece of fish.
poverty, suffering and discrimination.
6. Postmaster and other employees laugh at Lencho’s letter 9. He pretends to sleep but nobody comes to him,
5. A colourful show by jets and helicopters to show
to God. 10. Everybody taunts him for his cowardice.
military’s loyalty took place.
7. Postmaster decides to help Lencho in his problem. 11. The young seagull dives to catch a fish to feed himself.
6. Singing of two national anthems was done-the
8. Postmaster wants every employee to help in this noble 12. He tries to spread his wings outwards.
old ‘Nkosi Sikelel’ by the whites and the new ‘Die
deed. 13. He begins to fly slowly downwards and upwards.
stem’ by the blacks.
9. Postmaster collects seventy pesos and gives the envelope 14. He is now no longer afraid of flying and falling down in
7. A new system that recognized the rights and
to Lencho himself. the sea. He soars with a joyous scream.
freedom of all people was formed.
10. Lencho gets angry after getting seventy pesos amount as 15. Seagull family comes near to him and encourages him.
8. Mandela remembered and thanked the people
he had asked for hundred pesos. 16. He has made his first flight successfully.
who sacrificed their lives for the freedom.
11. Lencho calls the employees of post office a ‘bunch of
9. Salutation to some great freedom fighters –
crooks’ as he thinks that they have stolen the rest of
amount.
Oliver Tambo, Walter Sisulu, Chief Luthuli, Yusuf The Hundred Dresses – I
Dadoo and others.
12. Lencho again writes a letter to God to send him rest of the
10. Mandela said in speech that a country is rich
money. 1. It was Monday, Wanda was absent but nobody noticed.
because of its people not because of the
13. Lencho has firm faith in the magnanimity of God; and God 2. Wanda, a quiet girl, did not talk with others too much.
minerals. Courage is not the absence of fear but
never betrays the trust of a believer. 3. She lived at Boggins; Height and belonged to a poor
the victory over it. People should love others and
family.
not hate them due to colour or religion. Love
4. She wore the same blue dress every day.
From the Diary of Anne Frank comes naturally not by force, which is the natural
5. Peggy and Maddie were good friends and teased
goodness.
Wanda every day.
11. He also stated that a man should try to make a
1. Anne Frank lived in Holland after Hitler invaded. 6. Wanda had no friends and girls used to make fun of
balance between his duties – duty to his family
2. His father and mother left her and her sister to her her.
and duty to his community and country. A black
Grandma. 7. Wanda claimed of having a hundred dresses and sixty
person was treated badly and not allowed to
3. She was gifted a diary on her thirteenth birthday. pairs of shoes.
perform his duties.
4. She named it ‘Kitty’ and made it her best friend in her 8. Peggy was not really a cruel girl. She loved children
12. According to Mandela, freedom has many
loneliness. and animals also.
aspects like – for a kid it is to run and play, for an
5. She wrote every problem and happenings in her diary. 9. Peggy would say why Wanda had spoken of her
adult it is to fulfil the needs, of his own and his
6. She was very close to her Grandma, after her death she hundred dresses.
family. Real freedom means equal rights for
felt very much alone. 10. Maddie, herself a poor girl, did not like to tease Wanda
everyone.
7. They lived in hiding for many years to survive. but remained mum for fear of being ridiculed in
13. Nelson Mandela joined the African National
8. She was lovable of every teacher except Mr Keesing Wanda’s place.
Congress (ANC). He desired people to live with
who taught Maths. 11. There was a drawing competition for every boy and girl
dignity and respect. He wanted the oppressor
9. Mr Kessing got annoyed with her talkative nature. ’ in the class.
and the oppressed to be liberated.
10. He punished her by giving her extra homework many a 12. Everybody expected Peggy to win.
14. Patience and perseverance guided by discipline
time. 13. There were a hundred sketches of dresses beautifully
and system yield the desire result.
11. Her essay in verse form on topic ‘Quack’ Quack, Quack, drawn by Wanda in the classroom.
said Mistress Chatterbox humiliated Mr Kessing. 14. Miss Mason announced the winner Jack Beggles won
12. He allowed her to talk and relieved her from any extra
Glimpses of India among the boys and Wanda among the girls.
home work. 15. Wanda was absent but everybody clapped for her.
PART I A BAKER FROM GOA 16. Peggy and Maddie identified the blue and the green
The Hundred Dresses – II dress once spoken by Wanda.
1. The Portuguese in Goa were lovers of bread. 17. Everybody in the class clapped for Wanda’s great
2. Those eaters of bread have now gone but its quality of drawing.
1. Miss Mason makes the classroom fully attentive before
makers still exist.
reading out the letter by Wanda’s father informing about
3. During the childhood days of the narrator, a
her absence. PART II COORG
baker used to be their friend, companion and
2. The Petronski family decides to settle in a big city to avoid
guide.
the humiliation of Wanda at the school.
4. The baker came twice a day- once in the 1. Coorg or Kodagu, the smallest district of Karnataka, is a
3. Everybody got shocked after listening to the letter of Mr
morning and again while returning home after heavenly place.
Petronski.
finishing his selling. 2. The best season to visit it is from September to March.
4. Every student felt sorry for Wanda.
5. The jingling thud of the baker’s bamboo woke 3. The people living there are probably the descendants of
5. Maddie was very upset and couldn’t concentrate on her
up the sleeping children. Arabs or Greeks.
studies.
6. The loaves were delivered to the servants of 4. Their culture is apparent in their martial traditions,
6. Maddie felt herself coward as she never stopped Peggy
the house. marriages and religious rites.
from making fun of Wanda.
7. The children would peep into the baker’s 5. The Kodavus wear a long, black, embroidered coat
7. Maddie and Peggy went to find Wanda at her house at
basket for the bread bangles. called Kuppia.
Boggins heights.
8. The children would eat bread with hot tea. 6. The Coorg Regiment is one of the most decorated
8. They could not meet her as she had already left the place
9. The marriages were incomplete without the regiments in the Indian Army.
with her family.
popular bol bread. 7. Kodavus are the only people in India permitted to carry
9. Peggy tried to defend her behaviour but Maddie was not
10. Bolinhas was a must during Christmas and all firearms without a license.
happy for all of that.
other festivals. 8. The river Kaveri begins from the hills and forests of
10. Peggy and Maddie wrote a letter to Wanda telling her she
11. The bakers wore a particular knee length Coorg.
had won the contest.
frock known as kabai. 9. A variety of plants, birds and animals can be seen there.
11. Wanda did not reply for a long time.
12. Baking was a profitable profession. Bakers 10. The place offers a number of adventure sports for the
12. Wanda wrote a letter to Miss Mason to give her drawings
had a plump physique testifying to this. tourists.
to the girls as she had new ones at her home.
13. The bakers collected their bills at the end of 11. The Tibetan monks are amongst many surprises that can
13. She missed her old school and her teacher.
the month. be seen there.
14. She wanted to gift special drawing to Peggy and Maddie,
a green dress and a blue one respectively.
15. Maddie found her own face in the drawing she got from PART III TEA FROM ASSAM
Miss Mason sketched by Wanda. FEEDBACK AND
16. She rushed to Peggy’s house to tell that. SUGGESTIONS ARE
17. Both Peggy and Maddie’ found Peggy’s face in the green 1. Pranjol and Rajvir were visiting Assam by train.
2. Rajvir was busy looking at the beautiful scenery outside the train. INVITED @
dress gifted to Peggy.
18. Maddie cried for her behaviour and promised herself not 3. It was green everywhere as far as the eye could see.
4. The soft green paddy bushes gave way to tea bushes. parmarchandan
to be a silent spectator anymore ever if she was to lose
her close friend. 5. Assam has the largest concentration of tea plantation in the world.
6. The Chinese are said to have discovered tea. mal@gmail.com
19. Peggy consoled her by saying that Wanda liked them.
20. Maddie agreed and blinked away the tears that came 7. There is also an Indian legend saying that Bodhidharma discovered tea.
every time she thought of Wanda Petronski. 8. From China, tea came to the European countries and then to Asian countries. # STAY HOME #
9. Pranjol’s father managed Dhekiabari, a tea garden.
10. There were many tea- pluckers around the tea bushes. # STAY SAFE #
11. The best tea is obtained between May to July.
 Fire and Ice A Tiger in the Zoo
FIRST FLIGHT ( POETRY)
The poem, ‘Fire and Ice’ by Robert Frost The poem ‘A Tiger in the Zoo’ by
revolves around the theme that human Leslie Norris. In this poem, the poet
Dust of Snow emotions are destructive when allowed to run tries to depict the mental condition of a
amok (out of control). They can destroy a caged tiger. He compares the life of a
The ‘Dust of Snow’, by Robert Frost is a small and person morally, mentally and physically. The tiger in the zoo with its life in its natural
simple poem with a deep meaning”. It expresses the poet impresses upon the readers, the habitat. The poet conveys an important
significance of small things in changing one’s attitude. destructive results of bearing ill feeling like- message that the wild animals should
The poem reiterates that the little things in life can make greed, avarice, lust, conflict, fury, hatred, be in their natural habitat. In the poem,
huge changes in our future. It also shows that if we take intolerance, etc. he heightens the contrast between
the hard times of life in stride eventually something will freedom and captivity. He, very
happen to change our situation into happier times. impressively, shows us how love for
freedom is the natural instinct of every
The Ball Poem living being.

How to Tell Wild The poet, John Berryman in The Ball Poem’
describes the grief of a boy over the loss of his
Animals ball. With that loss he senses his first Amanda
responsibility in a materialistic world; where
The poem ‘How to Tell Wild Animals’ by those whom you love and your worldly The poem deals with the upbringing of a small child,
Carolyn Wells revolves around the possessions will not be with you forever. The Amanda. It highlights the struggles faced by the child.
dangerous ways to identify the wild poem shows how, all through your life, you will Poet Robin Klein makes an important point that a
animals. The poet tries to distinguish one be forced to do things that you don’t want to do child should never be denied freedom.
animal from the other in a humorous way. and you will lose or have to give up the things, Though it is parents who are responsible for proper
The poet suggests that its very risky to be that you love. But, despite this, you have to learn upbringing of their child but that should not make a
in such a close proximity to these wild to stand up, to be strong and get on with your life child feel trapped. Here, Amanda is prepared to be
beasts. The poem is, thus, very educative – no matter how much it hurts inside. Because acceptable in society, and this training needs her
as it tells us about various features of wild that is the only way you will survive. It thus, freedom to be cut short. Her imagination is not given
animals. teaches us to learn to accept and let go and not enough space, thus making her so angry that she
cling onto something that you can never have. wishes to be an orphan. The continuous nagging has,
thus, made her moody.
Footprints without Feet
The Thief’s Story The Midnight Visitor
A Triumph Of Surgery
1. A small-time 15 year old thief, who calls 1. Ausable was a smart secret agent, but did not look
1. James Herriot stops his car and sees the poor health of himself Hari Singh, befriends a struggling like one at all, being short and very fat. Fowler was
Mrs Pumphrey’s dog, Tricki. writer. Anil. Hari’s purpose is to steal Anil’s a young writer who wanted to write about Ausable
2. He advises Mrs Pumphrey to put Tricki on a strict diet money. and so spent an evening with him.
and make him exercise daily. 2. Anil is a good fellow who wants to teach
3. Mrs Pumphrey continues to overfeed Tricki, which Hari Singh how to read and write. 2. When both of them returned to Ausable’s sixth floor
worsens his condition. 3. Gradually, Anil develops trust in Hari hotel room, another secret agent named Max was
4. She calls Herriot for help on noticing Tricki’s deteriorating Singh. But Hari Singh has been waiting for waiting for them with a gun so that he could take the
health. the right moment to make a killing by doing important report on new missiles from Ausable.
5. Herriot decides to hospitalise Tricki for a fortnight to treat what he is best at, i.e. stealing. 3. To ensure the reports and their own safety, Ausable
him. 4. After stealing the money which Anil had invented a story about anybody entering his room
6. Tricki’s hospitalisation left Mrs Pumphrey and the earned by selling a book to a publisher, easily through a balcony just below the window in his
helpers at home in tears. Hari Singh tries to run away forever. room. Actually there was no balcony.
7. Tricki was kept on a strict diet in the hospital. His diet was 5. But some inner voice stops him from doing 4. Suddenly there was a knocking on the door and
increased according to the improvements he showed. so. He returns to Anil because he realises Ausable pretended that it was the local police.
8. Mrs Pumphrey’s anxiousness about Tricki’s health went that he wants to live a life of respect. 5. When the knocking was repeated, Max decided to
away on learning that Tricki was convalescing 6. Anil does not show that he knows about the wait in the balcony (which he thought existed) until
satisfactorily. theft and accepts Hari Singh with open the police went away. He stepped out of the window
9. She started to send eggs, wine and brandy for Tricki to arms. and fell to his death.
enrich his blood and improve his health. 7. Thus, a well-intentioned person tries to 6. When the door opened, a waiter came in with drinks
10. These items were instead enjoyed by James Herriot and reform a teenager who has strayed from which Ausable had ordered to be delivered to his
his partner. the correct path. room when he had returned to the hotel.
11. Tricki was transformed from a weak fat dog to a hard-
muscled and agile one.
12. James Herriot calls Mrs Pumphrey to come and take
Tricki home. Footprints without Feet
1. Two boys on a London street were surprised to see fresh muddy
A Question of Trust footprints of bare feet without finding who was making them.
2. These footprints had been made by Griffin, an eccentric scientist who
had discovered how to make his body transparent.
1. Horace Danby, who ran a business of making locks, had a good reputation in society. But he
3. To get away after he had burnt his landlord’s house down, he had to
was not totally honest.
remove his clothes so that he became invisible.
2. His hobby was collecting rare and expensive books. Horace robbed one safe every year to
4. Griffin entered unseen into a big store to get warm. When the store
finance his costly hobby.
closed at night, he put on new clothes, consumed meat and coffee from
3. Horace had been studying the country house at Shot over Grange, whose owner normally lived
the restaurant and went to sleep on a pile of quilts.
in London, as he wanted to burgle the jewellery, worth about 15000 pounds, lying in the safe in
5. He overslept and was seen by the shop assistants in the morning. He
this house.
again took off his clothes to escape them.
4. Horace entered the house when the servants were away. But Horace started sneezing because
6. Then he entered a theatrical company, and wore bandages on his face,
he had an allergy to flowers called hay fever.
dark glasses, a false nose and bushy side-whiskers. He robbed the
5. Suddenly he heard a young lady’s voice saying that she could cure him. He then saw her
shopkeeper of his money and escaped to Iping village by train to avoid
appear in the doorway.
being caught.
6. His first thought was to run, as the lady told him that she would telephone the police. Horace
7. He rented two rooms at an inn in the village. He explained to Mrs Hall,
told her to let him go and forget she ever saw him.
its owner, that he had an accident and did not want to be disturbed.
7. The lady agreed on one condition – he should open the safe for her, as she had to wear the
Soon his money finished and so he robbed a clergyman’s house by
jewels in the safe for a party the same night, but she had forgotten the combination to open the
using his invisibility.
safe.
8. That same day, when Mrs Hall entered his room, she and her husband
8. So Horace opened the safe for her and handed her the jewels to get his freedom.
were ‘attacked’ by the furniture. This made Mrs Hall think that it was
9. After two days Horace was arrested for the jewel robbery at Shot over Grange. Horace’s
haunted by spirits.
fingerprints were found, as he had opened the safe without using his gloves.
9. When the clergyman reported the burglary to the police, Griffin was
10. When he told the police that the lady of the house had asked him to open the safe, he was
suspected of having a hand in it. So the village constable, Jaffers came
surprised to learn that the actual lady was a 60-year old woman. Horace then realized that the
to arrest him on suspicion.
young woman was also a jewel thief who had used his skill to steal the jewels.
10. Meanwhile, Mrs Hall asked Griffin to explain all the unusual happenings.
11. Horace is now in prison. He understands now that the charming and clever young lady had
simply tricked him. Griffin lost his temper and took off all his clothes (thus becoming
invisible), knocked Jaffers unconscious and ran away.