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THE TREASURE WITHIN
Objectives
To encourage the learners to share their personal experiences.
To sensitise the students to the feelings of an individual. To enable the learners identify their strength & weakness based on areas of their aptitude & interest. To help the learners in making decisions for the future, regarding their choice of subjects, courses and careers. To enable them use new words and phrases in their own sentences. To enable them express themselves in grammatically correct language. New wordsNightmare = an unpleasant & frightening dream,
Psyche = mentality, the deepest feelings & attitudes, Pranks = naughty jokes, mischiefs, Bring up = to support life, nurture Offbeat =unusual or unconventional Rise to the occasion = to take advantage of the opportunity, Key PointsHafeez was an unhappy but carefree school boy who loved doing things but not interested in mechanical learning.
When he reached his 11th Class, the Principal advised him to act as a responsible grown-up boy and take his studies seriously. The Principal’s advice had a deep influence on Hafeez. He scored 50% marks in his SSC exam. Hafeez Contractor was destined to be an architect, though he never tried to be one. It was by chance that he became a famous architect. The lesson highlights the key idea that every child is talented and a potential achiever and is different from other children in his/her style of learning and area of interest Summary“The Treasure Within’ is a lesson based on a conversation between Ms. Bela Raja, editor of the newsletter-‘Sparsh’ and Mr. Hafeez Contractor, one of India’s leading architects.
Hafeez Contractor was good at drawing sketches. But as a school boy he didn’t do well in academics. He passed his exams only by copying. Architect Hafeez Contractor is full of surprising and revolutionary ideas. He looks at the face & clothes of a client and learns about his habit and tastes. This helps him to design for the client. His designs are stimulating and spontaneous. His famous designs are Lake castle Building, Imperial Towers, MP Compound Mill, etc. At present, he is a member of the Bombay Heritage Committee and New Delhi Lutyens Bungalow Zone Review Committee. Hafeez explains: “Architecture can give form to beliefs, and can make building into a real and arresting symbol of brand intent.” Extended learning supportwww.authorstream.com
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Short Questions and Answers
Q1.What did Hafeez Contractor have nightmares about?
Ans.- About appearing in Maths exam. where he didn’t know anything. Q.2. In what special way did Hafeez Contractor remember things? Ans.- He didn’t remember them through his mind and saw things as photographs. Q.3. What did Hafeez do in school as a gang leader? Ans.- He would plan strategies for gang fights. Q.4. Why could Hafeez not join the army? Ans.- His aunt tore up his admission letter as she didn’t want Hafeez to join the army. Q.5. How do you assess Hafeez Contractor as a learner? Ans.- Hafeez Contractor is an “unusual learner” who does not accept things mechanically but applies his mind to remember them. (Learning by doing) Q.6. How did Contractor define Mathematics? Ans. Putting design, construction, psychology & sociology together and making a sketch from all these is Mathematics. Q.7. Why did Hafeez Contractor go to an architect’s office? Ans. Hafeez Contractor wanted to learn French from his cousin whose husband was an architect. So, Hafeez had to go to an architect’s office. Answers of Textbook Questions
1. What did Hafeez Contractor have nightmares about?
Ans. Nightmares about appearing Maths test where he didn’t know anything. 2. What did the Principal say to him, which influenced him deeply? Ans. That he should act as a responsible grown up person and take his studies seriously. 3. “…….that year I did not step out onto the field”. What was he busy doing that year? Ans. He would go for prayers, would eat and study. He read all the books, starting right from the 5th class. 4. (i) What ‘distraction’ did Hafeez create one day? Ans. One day, Hafeez did not want to study. So, he created a ‘distraction’ by playing ‘Chor-Police’ for an hour. (ii) Would you have liked to participate in the distraction had you been with him? Ans. (For self attempt) 5. Hafeez wanted to join the police force. Why couldn’t he? Ans. Because his mother didn’t like so. She wanted him to do his graduation. 6. In the architect’s office, Hafeez Contractor was advised to drop everything and join architecture. Why? Ans. Hafeez Contractor had a natural talent of drawing sketches. The architect asked him to design a house. He did so immediately which impressed the architect. Then he asked Hafeez to drop everything and join architecture. 7. (i) What was Mrs. Gupta’s advice to Hafeez Contractor? Ans. Mrs. Gupta was Hafeez Contractor’s teacher in 3rd Standard. Her advice was to become an architect on growing up. (ii) What made her advise him so? Ans. Mrs. Gupta saw that Hafeez Contractor’s sketches were very good which is a quality possessed by an architect. 8. How did he help his fellow students who had lost a button? Ans.- Hafeez Contractor would cut a chalk piece in the shape of a button and fixed it in the shirt. It looked like a real button. 9. Which rules did he break as a school boy? Ans. Hafeez Contractor used to copy in every test, it was against the rule of the school. 10. What is Hafeez Contractor’s definition of Mathematics? Ans. Putting design, construction, psychology & sociology together and making a sketch from all these is Mathematics. Homework
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