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Why celebrating the Children's Day, what is the reason?

         
          Children's Day Celebrating

           Children’s Day is celebrated on November 14 commemorating the birthday of first Prime Minister of independent India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. Known for his love and affection towards children, his birthday came to be celebrated as children’s day in the country.

           He was affectionately addressed as Chacha Nehru by children. Also, known as Bal Divas, the day is celebrated with much zeal and enthusiasm in the country. Along with children’s day being a fun day for kids, it also tries to emphasize on children’s rights and needs.

        It talks about the importance of the right to education, care, and a safe childhood. Nehru is often cited as saying that children should be lovingly nurtured as they are nation’s future citizens. Different countries celebrate Children’s Day on various dates.

           As per the United Nation’s recommendation, Universal Children’s Day is celebrated on November 20. The United Kingdom first proclaimed children’s day in 1954 to encourage all countries to institute a day to promote mutual understanding among children and promote children’s welfare across the world.

           Indian Children day has its roots back to 1959. Prior the death of Jawahar Lal Nehru, India celebrated November 20 as children’s day as observed by United Nations. Following the death of Nehru in 1964, Nehru’s birthday was unanimously decided to be celebrated as Bal Diwas or children day in India. Children’s Day celebrations in India Children’s day is celebrated with much enthusiasm by schools in India.

        Cultural programs, various events, workshops are held on this day. Some distribute roses among children as it is believed that Nehru was fond of it. In some schools, children dress up as Chacha Nehru depicting the day’s importance.

Games and sporting events are also held in schools to involve children in the celebrations. Schools also distribute sweets among children. Delhi has planned to hold cultural and extracurricular activities on November 14 at more than 100 locations across the city. Schools and colleges will remain close to letting children enjoy the day.

          However, in the view of smog in the national capital, it is not sure if the activities planned for children will be held. Also, this year, children will ring the NSE (National Stock Exchange) bell and take a round of the NSE building accompanied by senior UNICEF and NSE officials on November 14, as per reports.

The ‘KidsTakeOverNSE’ event is being organized to celebrate the Children’s Day as part of the UNICEF’s initiative to let children hold high-visibility roles in various fields.

Grammar... Parts of sentences

        SUBJECT AND PREDICATE

       The subject of a complete sentence is who or what the sentence is about, and the predicate tells about that subject. The dog ran.

        The dog is the subject of the sentence, because the sentence is telling something about that dog.

Abraham Lincoln.....

         THE ONE MINUTE APOLOGY

I am using chart and teach lesson for 9th standard...

   There are all students listen early, i am asking many questions to the students, they are answer very well... They are very birriliant students....

எனது பள்ளி கருத்தரங்கம்....

அரசினர்  உயர்நிலைப்  பள்ளி .......

புளியங்குறிச்சி......

                  இன்று  எனது பள்ளியில்  கருத்தரங்கம் நடைப்பெற்றது.....

                  நிலச்சரிவு,நிலநடுக்கம்  மற்றும்  வெள்ளப் பெருக்கு  ஏற்படும்  போது  எவ்வாறு நாம்  நம்மை காத்துக்கொள்ள  வேண்டும்  என்பதை  எனது  பள்ளி  ஆங்கில  ஆசிரியர்  தம்  மாணவர்களுக்கு  மிக  அழகாக  எடுத்துரைத்தார்....
         
                 அவருக்கு  எங்கள் இதயப்பூர்வமான  நன்றி......🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

எனது பள்ளி....

அரசு உயர்நிலைப் பள்ளி....புளியங்குறிச்சி...

            தற்போது  டெங்கு  காய்ச்சலால் மக்கள்  அனைவரும்  அவதிப்படும்  நிலையில், மாணவர்களின்  உடல்  நலனை  கருத்தில் கொண்டு எங்கள் பள்ளி  தலைமை ஆசிரியர்  மற்றும்  இருபால்  ஆசிரியர்களின்  துணையோடு இன்று  எனது பள்ளியில்  கொசு  மருந்து  அடிக்கப்பட்டது......

                                     இப்படிக்கு.

                                   ப.உமாமகேஸ்வரி

Kinds of sentences

Assertive, Interrogative, Imperative, Exclamatory....

Helen Keller

Helen Keller Biography Born

June 27, 1880 Tuscumbia, Alabama Died: June 1, 1968 Westport, Connecticut American activist for the physically disabled Though both blind and deaf, American lecturer and author Helen Keller (1880–1968) traveled the world over, fighting for improvement in the education and life of the physically handicapped. Helen becomes deaf and blind Helen Adams Keller was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama, on June 27, 1880.

Her parents were Captain Arthur H. Keller and Katherine Adams Keller. Her father was a veteran of the confederate army (army that fought to separate from the United States during the Civil War, which lasted from 1861 to 1865).

He also was the editor of the local newspaper, the North Alabamian. Helen was born a normal child. She started speaking when she was six months old. By the time she was a year old, she was able to communicate with her parents and she had also learned to walk.

When Helen was eighteen months old an illness developed that the doctor described as brain congestion. She ran a high fever for many days, and then the fever was gone. Helen was left deaf and blind from the illness. Helen became a very wild, unruly child. She would scream and kick when she was angry and giggle and laugh when happy.

She developed many of her own signals to communicate her needs with her parents. Her early learning When Helen was six, her mother contacted Dr. Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922), whom she had heard was working on devices to help the deaf. Bell met with Helen and her parents and suggested that they contact the Perkins Institute for the Blind in Boston, Massachusetts. In March 1887 Anne Sullivan (1866–1936), a teacher at the institute, came to serve as Helen's teacher.

Anne was twenty-one years old and had sight limitations of her own. One month after her arrival, Sullivan had taught Keller the word "water." She did this by using her fingers to spell letters into Helen's hand. From this she understood that objects had names, and that her teacher spelled these names into her hand.

This unlocked a whole new world of learning for Helen. Anne Sullivan was with Helen day and night, constantly spelling into her hand the words and ideas of things going on around them. Helen was a quick learner. In only three years she learned the manual alphabet (sign language), the Braille alphabet (an alphabet created by Louis Braille [1809–1852] for the blind that relies on raised dots to communicate), and she could read and write. Schools and education Helen wanted to learn to speak, and in 1890 she began taking speech classes at the Horace Mann School for the Deaf in Boston.

She worked diligently at learning to speak. After twenty-five years of hard work and practice, Helen was able to speak in a voice that others could understand.  From 1894 to 1896 Helen attended the Wright-Humason School for the Deaf. Here she continued to work on improving her communication, as well as her math, French, German, and geography. In this way Helen prepared herself for college and went on to Cambridge School for Young Ladies.

Anne Sullivan attended every class with Helen and interpreted the lectures and books for her, as they were not in Braille. By the time she was sixteen, Keller had passed the admissions examinations for Radcliffe College; in 1904 she graduated cum laude (with honors). This was all done with the assistance of Anne Sullivan interpreting the lectures and texts. Helen Keller. Courtesy of the Library of Congress .

Devotes life to helping others As a young woman Keller became determined to learn about the world and to improve the lives of others. With insight, energy, and deep devotion to humanity, she lectured throughout the world, worked to forward her ideas in Congress, and wrote thousands of letters asking for contributions to finance efforts to improve the welfare of the blind.

She visited hospitals and helped blind soldiers. She taught the blind to be courageous and to make their lives rich, productive, and beautiful for others and for themselves.

Keller associated with some of the greatest people of her time, including Alexander Graham Bell, Mark Twain (1835–1910), Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919), John D. Rockefeller Sr. (1839–1937), and Presidents Grover Cleveland (1838–1908), Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933), and Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924). She authored such books as Helen Keller's Journal, Out of the Dark, Midstream: My Later Life, My Religion, The Song of the Stone Wall, The World I Live In, and The Story of My Life.

Sullivan served as Keller's counselor and companion. When Keller died in 1968 her name had become a worldwide symbol of what the human spirit can accomplish despite severe physical limitations. For More Information Ford, Carin T. Helen Keller: Lighting the Way for the Blind and Deaf. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow, 2001. Herrmann, Dorothy.

Helen Keller:

A Life. New York: A. Knopf, 1998. Keller, Helen. Light in My Darkness. 2nd ed. West Chester, PA: Chrysalis Books, 2000. Keller, Helen. The Story of My Life. New York: Doubleday, Page, & Co., 1903, revised edition 1991. Lash, Joseph P. Helen and Teacher: The Story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy. New York: Delacorte Press, 1980.

She is a Differently abled child

Poem : A Tiger in the Zoo

             A  TIGER  IN   THE  ZOO

          This poem is a beautiful representation of the plight of animals. People trap animals and keep them in cages in a zoo but they do not realise that a wild animal is better off in its natural habitat. The poet has shown a stark contrast in the living style of a tiger in a zoo and a tiger in a forest.

A tiger, when kept in a cage, is not happy. He stalks the cage in a rage because he is furious to be held a captive. He should be left to wander in the forest and hunt his own food. A tiger usually hides in the tall grass and waits for his prey and then pounces on it, but if kept in a cage, he has to eat the food that is given to him.

According to the poet, a tiger should be allowed to roam about freely near the villages that are on the edge of the forests and terrorise the villagers.But unfortunately, the tiger is locked up in a concrete cell and has learnt to ignore people as he cannot pounce on them.

He is forced to stay in his cage and listen to the sounds of the patrolling cars outside, when he should have been on the prowl in the forest.

His bright eyes look sadly at the shining stars up in the sky.The poet has very cleverly made us realise that even in this modern world we all look up to nature for respite from the fast moving life. Trapped in a cage, the tiger feels an affinity to the stars and through them to nature.

Leslie Norris

English Grammar

Active voice and passive voice

Salim Ali.. The birdman of India

        Salim Ali :

Salim Ali, one of the greatest ornithologists and naturalists of all time, is also known as the “birdman of India”. He was one of the very first scientists to carry out systematic bird surveys in India and abroad. His research work is considered highly influential in the development of ornithology. Advertisements

Early Life :

As a 10-year-old, Salim once noticed a flying bird and shot it down. Tender at heart, he instantly ran and picked it up. It appeared like a house sparrow, but had a strange yellowish shade on the throat. Curious, he showed the sparrow to his uncle Amiruddin and questioned him about the bird’s kind. Unable to answer, his uncle took him to W.S. Millard, the Honorary Secretary of the Bomaby Natural History Society. Amazed at the unusual interest of the young boy, Millard took him to see many stuffed birds. When Salim finally saw a bird similar to the child’s bird, he got very excited. After that, the young Salim started visiting the place frequently. 

Salim Moizuddin Abdul Ali was born on November 12, 1896. He attended college, but did not receive any university degree. To assist his brother in wolfram mining, he went to Burma, but spent most of his time looking for birds. Soon, he returned back to Bombay.

Contributions and Achievements:

As soon as Salim returned, he studied zoology, and secured a position of a guide at the museum of the Bombay Natural History Society. Only 20 years old, he conducted the visitors and instructed them about the preserved birds. His interest in the living conditions of birds grew even more. Therefore, Salim visited Germany and saw Dr. Irvin Strassman. He came back to India after one year but his post in the museum had been removed for financial reasons. Salim Ali, as a married man, required money to make a living, so he joined the museum as a clerk. The job allowed him to carry on with his research. His wife’s house at Kihim, a small village near Mumbai, was a tranquil place surrounded by trees, where Salim would spend most of his time researching about the activities of the weaver bird. He published a research paper discussing the nature and activities of the weaver bird in 1930. The piece made him famous and established his name in the field of ornithology. Salim also traveled from place to place to find out more about different species of the birds. From what he had collected, he published

“The Book of Indian Birds in 1941” 
in which he discussed the kinds and habits of Indian birds. The book sold very well for a number of years. He also collaborated with S. Dillon Ripley, a world-famous ornithologist, in 1948. The collaboration resulted in the ‘Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan’ (10 Volume Set); a comprehensive book that describes the birds of the subcontinent, their appearance, habitat, breeding habits, migration etc. Salim also published other books. His work “The Fall of Sparrow” included many incidents from his real life.

Later Life and Death:

Salim not only researched about birds, but also contributed to the arena of protection of nature. For his extraordinary efforts, he was given an international award of INR 5 lacs, but he donated all the money to Bombay Natural History Society. The Government of India honored him with Padma Vibushan in 1983. This genius man died at the age of 90 on June 20, 1987.

He is a most famous Ornithologist