READ AND STAY MOTIVATED

Reading is a great way to get and stay motivated. These inspirational books will not only help you on the road to success, but will keep you inspired by seeing how others have achieved their dreams. 

• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change/ Steven R. Covey
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens/ S. Covey
• Power of Now/ Eckhart Tolle
• Awaken the Giant Within/ Anthony Robbins
• The Last Lecture/ Randy Pausch
• Winning/ Jack Welch
• The Secret/ Rhonda Byrne
• Magic/ Rhonda Byrne
• The Success Principles: How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be/ Jack Canfield
• Steve Jobs/ Walter Isaacson
• Eat. Pray, Love/ Elizabeth Gilbert
• You Can Win/ Shiv Khera
• The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari/ Robin S. Sharma
• Tuesdays with Morrie/ Mitch Albom
• The Five People You Meet in Heaven/ Mitch Albom
• The Alchemist/ Paulo Coelho
• Man's Search for Meaning/ Viktor E. Frankl
• The Diary of a Young Girl/ Anne Frank
• I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was shot by the Taliban/ Malala Yousafzai
• Wonder/ R.J. Palacio
• The Book Thief/ Markus Zusak
• The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment/ Eckhart Tolle
• How to Win Friends and Influence People/ Dale Carnegie
• The Art of Racing in the Rain/ Garth Stein
• Chicken Soup for the Soul/ Jack Canfield, Editor
• Jonathan Livingston Seagull/ Richard Bach

ANNOUNCEMENT OF SCHOLASTIC WRITING AWARDS 2015

D.A.V. Public School, Sector-14/10A

Gurgaon

We are pleased to announce the Scholastic Writing Awards 2015 for outstanding original works by students of classes 4 to 9, in the category of fiction/short story in English.

The winners will not only be given attractive awards, but their award-winning stories will also be published in an anthology titled, For Kids By Kids.

TOPICS to choose from:
Group 1 : classes 4 to 6	·         He/she is awoken by the roaring of a T-Rex. ·         He/she receives a mysterious package with a golden amulet in it. ·              You discover a hidden door behind your closet.
Group 2 : classes 7 to 9	·                  The Mona Lisa winks at you at the Louvre. ·                  There was a legend about the well in the garden. ·                  An encounter with a helpful but clumsy ghost.

 Timelines:

·         Registration and Submission- open till February 1, 2016 (11.30 PM, IST)

·         Ranking Panel- February 2, 2016- February 21, 2016

·         Winners announcement- May, 2016 

          PROCEDURE:          Go to the Scholastic India homepage www.scholastic.co.in and click on the Scholastic Writing Awards banner or go directly to the following url: http://swa.scholastic.co.in

·          Click on Register and fill in the details in the online form.

·          Once you submit the form you will be sent a Log-in ID on the registered id.

·         You can use this log-in ID to submit your entry ·  To submit an entry, simply log-in using your log-in ID and copy paste the text or key in the story.

·           An individual can submit only a single entry. Make sure each submission also lists the name of the student, the class, the school and the address. 

.            Ranking panel will open from February 2, 2016. For ranking the entries assigned to an individual, you have to use same log-in ID and password to log-in. Click on the icon START RANKING. 

 .           Group 1 entry will receive group 1 entry only for ranking and same applies for group 2.

RESULTS - Library Project (2015-16): VOYAGE AROUND THE BIBLIOGRAPHIC WORLD

RESULTS

 Library Project (2015-16)

 VOYAGE AROUND THE BIBLIOGRAPHIC WORLD

"For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offers an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.”

                               ....... A PARALLEL WORLD EXISTS IN BOOKS. LET’S VOYAGE...
WINNERS:

• Activity : PPTs related to Biographies of famous personalities(done by Class VI)

First- 6-A: Aadi, Shruti, Himanya, Harsha

                 Country- Bhutan, Personality- Tek Nath Rizal

Second- 6-D: Mahek, Arundhati

                     Country- Japan, Personality- Shizuka                                                                               Arakawa
Third- 6-C: Kartik, Rashi, Khushi, Anshul
                  Country- Germany, Personality- Adolf Hitler

• Activity : Folktales Recreated (done by Class                   VII)

First- Shreya Indu, VII-C
Second-  Antara Basu, VII-G
Third- Yash Kumar, VII-E

• Activity : Travelogues (done by Class VIII)

First- 8-C: Arushi, Bhumika, Kiran, Rishabh, Shrenik, D. SAi Shubham, Ajyendra, Aadhika, Aikansh, Hitesh, Tanya, Himanshu, Saanika [Country- INDONESIA]

Second (shared by two groups)

•  8-F: Nishtha, Yashika, Kavya, Aarzoo, Shreya, Manya, Pranvika, Palak, Khushboo, Kanupriya, Saumya, Onika   [ Country- SRI LANKA]

• 8-D: Amit, Sarthak, Khushi, Mekhla, Sheena, Anusha, Gauri, Nipun, Udit, Ronit, Rajan, Arnav, Lavanya 

      [Country- MALAYSIA]

Third- 8-G: Manan, Divyaa, Bhavika, Vashima, Arpita, Vivek, 

 Sabhya, Prakhar, Bhavy, Shashvat, Arjun, Prachi, Niharika, Akhil  [Country- USA]


Special Award  for Travelogue in digital format - 8-A: Namit Shrivastava, Khushi Gulati, Shubh, Aman, Diya, Vansh, Shruti, Lakshita, Nishant, Yashika, Sejal, Ridham, Bhanu, Ishaan [Country- Afganistan]

TRAVELOGUE: AFGHANISTAN

The students of Class VIII culminated the Project by taking a Voyage around the World and created Travelogues. Their personalised experiences reflected the imaginative journey they embarked   while exploring the countries in the perspective of Land, People and Culture.



Click on the link below to view TRAVELOGUE of AFGHANISTAN

AFGHANISTAN

BOOKS WORTH READING

Reading List

• 1984 / George Orwell
• A Suitable Boy / Vikram Seth
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain
• Alice in Wonderland / Lewis Carroll
• Discovery of India / Jawaharlal Nehru
• Godaan / Munshi Premchand
• Gora / Rabindranath Tagore
• Psmith in the City / P.G. Wodehouse
• The God of Small Things / Arundhati Roy
• Pride and Prejudice / Jane Austen
• The Story of My Experiments with Truth / Mahatma Gandhi
• Train to Pakistan / Khushwant Singh
• A History of India / Romila Thapar
• To Kill a Mockingbird / Harper Lee 
• Crime and Punishment / Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Great Expectations / Charles Dickens
• The Interpretation of Dreams / Sigmund Freud
• The Great Gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Catch 22 / Joseph Heller
• Wolf Hall / Hilary Mantel