CLASS 6-MY CHILDHOOD

MY CHILDHOOD

EX A.

1.Rameswaram

2.Madras

3.Jainulabdeen

4.Ashiamma

5.Mosque Street

6.Ramanadha Sastry,Aravindan,Sivaprakasan

7.Lakshmana Sastry

8.Sivasubramania Iyer.

Ex B.

Q1.

A1.Dr.Kalam's father,Jainulabdeen,had neither much formal education nor much wealth ,but he was a wise man with a generous spirit,austere, tall and handsome.

His mother,Ashiamma was an ideal helpmate to his father.She too was very generous and loved to feed people.

Q2.

A2.Dr. Abdul Kalam inherited honesty and self-discipline from his father and faith in goodness and deep kindness from his mother.

Q3.

A3.They lived in an ancestral house,which was built in the middle of the 19th century.It was a fairly large pucca house,made of limestone and brick,on the mosque street in Rameswaram.

Q4.

A4.Dr. Kalam earned money by selling tamarind seeds to a provision shop and earned one anna daily.He also earned money by catching bundles of newspaper thrown by his cousin from a moving train.

Q5.

A5.During World War II there was a sudden rise in the demand of tamarind seeds. A kind of emergency was declared and the trains halts at Rameswaram was also suspended.

Q6.

A6.The new teacher could not tolerate a Hindu priest's son sitting with a Muslim boy.In accordance with the social ranking as seen by him,he made Abdul Kalam sit at the back of the class.

Q7.

A7.When Abdul Kalam and his friend went home and told their respective parents about the incident,Laxmana Sastry summoned the teacher.He told the teacher that he should not spread the poison of social inequality and communal intolerance in the minds of innocent children.He asked the teacher to either apologise or quit the school.The strong sense of conviction conveyed by Laxmana Sastry reformed this young teacher.

HOTS

Q2.

A2.Abdul Kalam's friends were from orthodox Hindu families.Duringthe annual Sri Sita Rama Kalyanam ceremony,Kalam's family used to arrange boats for carrying the idols of the lord.Also,events from the Ramayana were the bedtime stories that he heard from his mother and grandmother..