2023/2024 Vacation Assignment Topics

Form One(1) Students

March 5, 2024 –May 12, 2024
 SOCIAL STUDIES
Answer all questions.
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[Link] the terms national identity and national
integration.
b. Explain four ways we can promote national integration as
Ghanaians.
2. Discuss five relevance of festivals in our modern Ghanaian
society.
[Link] the terms; a. national independence b. self-
reliance
 SOCIAL STUDIES CONT’D
3b. Examine five things Ghanaian leaders can do to make
our independence meaningful.
4a. Differentiate between independence and self-reliance
b. Identify five conflict areas in Ghana, for each area, state
the cause(s) of the conflict and examine what the
government is doing to bring a resolution.

5. Explain the following terms; a. Negotiation, b. Mediation,

c. Arbitration,
d. Adjudication
 CORE MATHEMATICS
1. Plane Geometry
✓Angles at a point,
✓types of angles(Vertically opposite, alternative, corresponding, co-
interior angles),
✓ angles formed by parallel lines and transversal(s),
✓angle properties of triangles,
✓Angles formed from compound shapes(Triangles and parallel lines and
transversals)
✓incomplete diagrams and
✓basic equations from basic angles.
 CORE MATHEMATICS – CONT’D
2. Number Bases:
✓Place value of digits in numbers
✓Changing numbers in one base to number(s) in another base.
✓Basic operations in Bases(additions, Subtractions, multiplication)
✓Finding missing numbers in basic operations in bases(additions,
Subtractions, multiplication)
✓Binary operations in bases over a given set(s) (operations, missing
digits etc.
✓Basic equations from numbers
 ENGLISH LANGUAGE
GRAMMAR
1. Pronouns
2. Adjectives
3. Verbs
4. Tense and Aspect
5. Adverbs

COMPREHENSION
1. Types of Reading Techniques
2. Types of Comprehension Questions

SUMMARY WRITING
1. Techniques for Summary Writing
2. Identification of Topic Sentences or Main Ideas
 ENGLISH LANGUAGE CONT’D
ESSAY WRITING
1. Descriptive Writing
2. Informal/ Friendly Letters

ORAL ENGLISH
1. Vowels and Consonants

LITERATURE - CORE
Character Identification, Themes, and Literary Devices in The Kaya- Girl by Mamle Wolo
(Government Supplied. NB. Those who do not have copies could buy)
Supplementary Readers
Aku by Francis Sackitey
For the Love of Johnny by Joel Borboryoe
 INTEGRATED SCIENCE-PHYSICS(CORE)
❖Renewable and non-renewable energy sources
❖Global warming and greenhouse effect
❖Magnetic and non-magnetic substances
❖Magnetic field Magnetization and demagnetization
❖Strength of magnets Magnetic domains
❖Permeability Paramagnetic, diamagnetic &
ferromagnetic materials
❖Uses and applications of magnetic materials
 INTEGRATED SCIENCE - CHEMISTRY(CORE)
Air Components of air and their percentages
Why air is a mixture
Uses of the components of air
Water Components of water
Reason why air is a mixture and water is a compound
Sources and uses of water (rivers, streams, sea etc.)
Domestic use, agricultural use, transportation, fish farming
etc.
Properties of Water Physical properties of water, Chemical properties
Test for water
Hardness of water Hard water, Soft water, Compounds responsible for hardness,
Types of hardness (temporary and permanent), Removal of
water
Purification of water Large scale purification
Steps and reasons for each step
 INTEGRATED SCIENCE – BIOLOGY (CORE)
➢Cells: Structure and function of plant and animal cells.

➢Specialized cells e.g.; red blood cells, nerve cells, sperm cell

➢Reproduction and growth in plants

➢The Skeletal system

INTEGRATED SCIENCE – AGRICULTURE

➢Nitrogen Cycle

➢Soil and Water Conservation

INFORMATION COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY(ICT)
➢Discuss the internal hardware components of
the desktop computer
 CORE FRENCH
EXPRESSION ECRITE ET ORALE:
Faire des achats.

GRAMMAIRE:
Formation du pluriels des noms et des adjectifs
 PHYSICAL EDUCATION
✓First Aid,
✓Posture and Body Types
 MUSIC- ELECTIVE
1. Rudiment and theory of music-
✓Major and Minor scales
✓Simple and compound time signature.

2. Elements of music

3. Intervals.

4. Classification of African and Western instruments.

5. History of Baroque period music composers

 GEOGRAPHY
1. Ghana - Location, Position and Size
2. Relief of Ghana
3. Drainage of Ghana
4. Vegetation of Ghana
5. Climate of Ghana
6. Settlement
 HISTORY

✓The Trans-Saharan Trade

✓Civilization of North Africa

 GOVERNMENT
1. a) CITIZENSHIP, RIGHTS & RESPONSIBILITIES (Definition of concepts)
b) Ways through which Citizenship is acquired
c) Identify some rights and responsibilities of a citizen
d) Types of rights
e) Identify ways in which rights can be safeguarded
f) Identify institutions that safeguard rights, i.e., CHRAJ, DOVSU, NCCE etc.

2. ORGANS OF GOVERNMENT
a) Three types of Organs
b) Types of LEGISLATURE
c) Description of the structure of the Legislature
d) Identify the functions of the Legislature
e) Enumerate the problems or constraints of the Legislature
 GOVERNMENT CONT’D
F) DELEGATED LEGISLATION: Definition, Types, Importance and Limitations
of Delegated legislation
G) EXECUTIVE ORGAN: Definition, structure, Types of Executive and
Functions of the Executive
H) JUDUCIARY: Définition, structure of the judiciary, and Features and
constraints or problems facing the judiciary.
JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE: definition, measures to ensure judicial
independence and importance of judicial independence
JUDICIAL REVIEW: Definition, importance and demerits
 GOVERNMENT CONT’D
3. SEPARATION OF POWERS AND CHECKS AND BALANCES
a) What is SOP and Checks and Balances
b) Examine and show how SOP works in the Presidential and Parliamentary system
of government
c) Advantages and disadvantages of SOP
d) Demonstration of How Legislature, Executive, and Judiciary check each other.

4. THE CONCEPT OF SOVEREIGNTY: Meaning, characteristics, modern definition of

sovereignty, location of sovereign etc.

5. THE CONCEPT OF RULE OF LAW: Meaning( certainty, equality, and principle of

liberty), conditions for the realization of the rule of law, Limitations of rule of law,
etc. ENJOY YOUR HOLIDAYS
 ECONOMICS
Factors of production:
❑Land- definition, characteristics, importance and
challenges in economic development.

❑ Labour- definition, types, characteristics, labour

force, labour supply& demand for labour, division of
labour, efficiency of labour, contributions of labour
to economic development, geographical and
occupational mobility of labour.
 ECONOMICS CONT’D
Factors of production:
❑Capital: definition, types of capital with
examples, characteristics, and sources of capital
opened to businesses.
❑ Enterpreneurship: definition, difference
between entrepreneurship and entrepreneur,
main functions of entrepreneurs, and other
functions to economic development.
 LITERATURE IN ENGLISH
Suggested Book List
Prose-African
Hollis Pede- So The Path Does Not Die
Non-African
Harper Lee - To Kill A Mockingbird
Drama- African
Afua T. Sutherland-The Marriage of Anansewa
Non-African Robert Bolt - A Man for All Season
Poetry
African/Non-African David Miller - Miller’s Aid
Shakespeare- Antony and Cleopatra
 LITERATURE – IN - ENGLISH
Identify 10 literary devices in the text Antony and Cleopatra.
Quote the sentences in which they are found.

2. Read The Marriage of Anansewa

Discuss the significance of the role of the Storyteller in the drama.
b. Discuss two major themes in the text.

3. Read To Kill A Mockingbird

Discuss the character traits of the following characters.
[Link] Ewell
[Link]
 CHRISTIAN RELIGIOUS STUDIES(CRS)
Old Testament:
Leadership (Joseph and Moses)

New Testament:
Baptism and Temptation of Jesus.
 FRENCH(ELECTIVE)
Grammar
1. Les adverbes
2. L'imparfait

Essay
1. Décrivez la vie au village ou en ville.
2. Discutez les effets de la télévision sur la jeunesse
 MANAGEMENT IN LIVING

✓Marriage
✓Family
✓Family Crisis
 FOOD AND NUTRITION
1. Food habits
2. Food taboos and food fallacies
3. Food choices
4. Digestion of food and absorption of nutrients
5. Metabolism
 CLOTHING AND TEXTILES
1. Stitches

2. Seams

3. Arrangement of fullness
 GENERAL KNOWLEDGE IN ARTS
Research on the following:
1. Pre-historic Arts as discussed under:
✓ Paleolithic,
✓ Mesolithic and
✓Neolithic.

2. Ancient Arts
Write notes on the following.
a. Egyptian Arts
b. Greek. Arts
c. Oriental Arts
d. Oceanic Arts.

3. Identify visual arts artifacts and their methods of production.

4. Classify these artifacts under 2D and 3D.
 GRAPHIC DESIGN
Research on the following
1. Object Drawing (with illustrations)
a. Basic shapes and forms
b. Shading
c. Proportion
d. Perspective and Foreshortening.

2. Identify examples of communication designs:

I. Characteristics of communication designs
II. Write on the design process.
III. Write on your notion of colour in the society.
 PICTURE MAKING
1. Research on the following areas as a Picture Maker
a. Importance of Body Art.
b. Tools/Materials of Body Art
c. Types of Body Art
2. Explain the following
a. An Artist's Portfolio
b. Business Plan
c. Branding and packaging
d. Business Brochure and cards
e. Exhibition
f. Studio Maintenance
 TEXTILES
[Link] on the following Textiles fibres
• Cellulosic fibres (cotton and flax(linen)
• Proteinic fibres (wool and silk)
• Note: take key note of the nature of the fibre, its properties,
cultivation processes and methods of production of converting the
fibres into yarns.
• The research findings should be written in a new exercise book.

2. Produce an album with at least twenty (20) different Traditional fabrics in

it. Label the fabric by writing down their specific names under each one of
them.
 CERAMICS
Research on the following:

1. Methods in Ceramics production.

2. Techniques, tools used in Ceramics production.

3. Finishing and Decoration of Ceramics wares.

4. Processes in Ceramics production.

 JEWELLERY
RESEARCH ON THE FOLLOWING
1. Draw 20 each of the following
a. Adinkra Symbols b. floral insects

2. Finishing and decoration processes in jewellery fabrication. (Granulation,

Pickling, Conductivity, Weldability, Annealing, Chasing, Piercing)

3. Tools and equipment used in jewellery production (Draw, explain, label)

4. Symbolic meaning and associations of jewellery symbols.

 BIOLOGY
1. The Cell as a unit of life ;
✓specialized eukaryotic cells,
✓ relationship of cell, to tissue, organ and organ system.
✓organ and organism,
✓movement of substances into and out of cell.

2. Life processes of living things :

✓Amoeba,
✓Paramecium,
✓ Euglena and
✓Spirogyra
 CHEMISTRY
The carbon-12 scale RAM, isotopes, characteristics of isotopes
The mass spectrometer Mass spectrometry, diagram, construction, mode of operation,
principle of operation, information from mass spectrometer,
Disadvantages of the mass spectrometer, types of mass
spectrometers
Molar quantities, Mole RMM: Definition, calculation of molecular mass
Solutions, concentration of solutions, Calculations of mole
types of concentrations Definition, types of solutions (solid-solid, liquid-liquid)
Amount concentration, mass concentration, percentages, ppm
Dilute, concentration, saturated and supersaturated solutions
Dilution of solution Preparation of solution: Primary and secondary standards
Naming of compounds Name binary and ternary compounds, acids, bases, salts
Oxo compounds including Na2S2O3, K2Cr2O7
Laws of chemical combinations Perform experiments leading to the laws of chemical combinations
Types of simple chemical reactions (use molar solutions of Na2CO3 and CaCl2 for the law of
conservation.
Synthesis of MgO for the law of definite composition
 PHYSICS
• Renewable and non-renewable energy sourced
• Global warming and greenhouse effect
• Magnetic and non-magnetic substances
• Magnetic field Magnetization and demagnetization
• Strength of Magnets
• Magnetic domains
• Permeability
• Paramagnetic, diamagnetic & ferromagnetic materials
• Uses and applications of magnetic materials
 ELECTIVE MATHEMATICS
Binary Operations
❖Definition,
❖Interpretation of operations,
❖ Basic equations in Binary Operations,
❖Properties of Binary Operations(Closure, Commutative, Associative,
Distributive),
❖The identity element and condition for its existence,
❖Inverse of an element,
❖Condition for the non-existence of an inverse.
 ELECTIVE MATHEMATICS CONT’D
Quadratic Equation-
✓Definition of a quadratic equation/espressions),
✓ factorization of quadratic exressions(up to a fourth degree/rational exponents, by
substitution (e.g 𝑥 4 + 5𝑥 2 − 3, 𝑥 − 3 2 − 𝑥 − 3 + 12, 𝑡 − 8 𝑡 + 15)
✓Completing the square for quadratic expressions.
✓Solutions to quadratic equations- Factorization, completing the square, using the
quadratic formula, graphs.
✓Proof of the quadratic formula
✓Finding the maximum/minimum points/values/axis of symmetry of quadratics
equations without drawing the curve
✓Symmetric relationship between roots(sum and product) of quadratic equations,)
✓ formation of quadratic equations given the roots.
✓Basic proofs involving quadratic roots
 ELECTIVE MATHEMATICS-CONT’D
• Polynomial Functions
✓Definitions,
✓Degree of polynomials,
✓Algebra of polynomials(Addition, subtraction, multiplication,
division),
✓Expression of a polynomial into products/quotient remainder forms
✓ Factorization of polynomials(up the forth degree),
✓ Remainder/factor theorems,
✓Remainder/factor theorems leading to systems to equations, zeros of
polynomials
 AGRICULTURE
• Principles of Agriculture in Food Production
▪Meaning and Importance of Crops

▪Classification of Crops

▪Principles of Crop Production

▪Stages of Crop Production and its Related Practices

 ELECTIVE ICT
Discuss the internal hardware components of the
desktop computer
Read on:
1. Hardware
Watch videos on:
1. How the CPU works
2. Computer RAM and how it works
3. How to build your own computer
NOTA BENE:
ALL STUDENTS SHALL TAKE VACATION
ASSIGNMENT TESTS(VAT) ON THESE TOPICS IN
MAY, 2024. THE RESULTS SHALL BE PUBLISHED.
HAPPY HOLIDAY, EVERYONE.
Thank you