Old man River - IX std

Old Man River is a drama
By Dorothy Deming

It shows that how the members of a family manage to escape when their house is surrounded by flood waters.

Amy and Betty are at home with their neighbours Rose and Sara.  Their parents are away from them and it keeps raining for three days.  There is a cloudburst and the melting of the snow causes the river level to rise.  It is late afternoon . Jim Hall a 17 year old neighbour comes to rescue the children.  He organizes a disaster rescue team and keeps things ready for an emergency . Tom Peters and Miss. Marsh come there in a rescue boat.  With their help the children are rescued. 

No men are foreign -VIII std

No men are foreign is a poem written by James Kirkup.

 

James Kirkup (1918 - 2009) was an Englishpoet, translator and travel writer.  

He won the Atlantic award for literature in 1950. He was a conscientious objector.

Content:
        The poet says that all men are equal. None of them are strange. Different armies wear different uniforms. But the people are same under those uniforms. Life is common in all lands. When we indulge in wars we bring ruin to ourselves.

Little Sarah - IX std

'Little Sarah' is a poem.  Sarah is a name of a little girl .One day her grandma asks for a Johny cake. She goes to the closet and finds the barrel empty. In order to get corn flour she goes to different places and different persons. She goes to shopkeeper, the miller,  the cornfield,  the sun,  the farmer and the ploughman.  When everything was done she ran to her grandma. Again her grandma asked her to get her a Johny cake as quickly as possible .

Living Amicably - VIII std

'Living Amicably' is taken from wings of fire.  This prose is about the life history of Dr A. P. J. Abdulkalam.  He was born in Rameswaram. His locality was surrounded by both Muslim and Hindu neighbours . In this prose he described about  two incidents that cornered him as a low caste Muslim boy.