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Hi Mary ,
I found this ..I will add at the botton of this post.
I wanted to see what you as a teacher would you say if this were a standard 8th grade test given todayin public shcools?Another question is how many high school grads in the past 10 years might be able to pass it ?..
My three older children that were all home schooled an are either in college now or have graduated did very well .. not perfect ,but very well. My 16 year old son past it with a 96. He finishes high school this year.
I took this test to work and gave it to some younger people I worked with this past summer , they all failed it ! They attended public high school ! These are the kinds of standards home schooler's use!
Here is the standard test give in 1805 to pass to the 8th grade!!!
8th
Grade Final Exam: Salina, KS - 1895
Grammar
(Time, one hour)
1.
Give nine rules for the use of capital letters.
2. Name the parts of speech
and define those that have no modifications.
3. Define verse, stanza and
paragraph
4. What are the principal parts of a verb? Give principal parts of
"lie,""play," and "run."
5. Define case; illustrate each case.
6 What is
punctuation? Give rules for principal marks of punctuation.
7 - 10. Write a
composition of about 150 words and show therein that you understand the
practical use of the rules of grammar.
Arithmetic
(Time,1 hour 15 minutes)
1.
Name and define the Fundamental Rules of Arithmetic.
2. A wagon box is 2 ft.
deep, 10 feet long, and 3 ft. wide. How many bushels of wheat will it h
old?
3. If a load of wheat weighs 3,942 lbs., what is it worth at
50cts/bushel, deducting 1,050 lbs. for tare?
4. District No 33 has a
valuation of $35,000. What is the necessary levy to carry on a school seven
months at $50 per month, and have $104 for incidentals?
5. Find the cost of
6,720 lbs. coal at $6.00 per ton.
6. Find the interest of $512.60 for 8
months and 18 days at 7 percent.
7. What is the cost of 40 boards 12 inches
wide and 16 ft. long at $20 per metre?
8. Find bank discount on $300 for 90
days (no grace) at 10 percent.
9. What is the cost of a square farm at $15
per acre, the distance of which is 640 rods?
10. Write a Bank C heck, a
Promissory Note, and a Receipt.
U.S.
History (Time, 45 minutes)
1.
Give the epochs into which U.S. History is divided
2. Give an account of the
discovery of America by Columbus.
3. Relate the causes and results of the
Revolutionary War.
4. Show the territorial growth of t he United States.
5. Tell what you can of the history of Kansas.
6. Describe three of the
most prominent battles of the Rebellion.
7. Who were the following: Morse,
Whitney, Fulton, Bell, Lincoln, Penn, and Howe?
8. Name events connected with
the following dates: 1607, 1620, 1800, 1849, 1865.
Orthography
(Time, one hour)
[Do
we even know what this is??]
1.
What is meant by the following: alphabet, phonetic, orthography, etymology,
syllabication
2. What are elementary sounds? How classified?
3. What are
the following, and give examples of each: trigraph, subvocals, diphthong,
cognate letters, linguals
4. Give four substitutes for caret 'u.' (HUH?)
5. Give two rules for spelling words with final 'e.' Name two exceptions
under each rule.
6. Give two uses of silent letters in spelling. Illustrate
each.
7. Define the following prefixes and use in connection with a word: bi,
dis, mis, pre, semi, post, non, inter, mono, sup.
8. Mark diacriticall y and
divide into syllables the following, and name the sign that indicates the sound:
card, ball, mercy, sir, odd, cell, rise, blood, fare, last.
9. Use the
following correct ly in sentences: cite, site, sight, fane, fain, feign, vane ,
vain, vein, raze, raise, rays.
10. Write 10 words frequently mispronounced
and indicate pronunciation by use of diacritical marks and by
syllabication.
Geography
(Time, one hour)
1
What is climate? Upon what does climate depend?
2. How do you account for the
extremes of climate in Kansas ?
3. Of what use are rivers? Of what use is
the ocean?
4. Describe the mountains of North America.
5. Name and
describe the following: Monrovia, Odessa, Denver, Manitoba, Hecla, Yukon, St.
Helena, Juan Fernandez, Aspinwall and Orinoco.
6. Name and locate the
principal trade centers of the U.S.
7. Name all the republics of Europe and
give the capital of each.
8. Why is the Atlantic Coast colder than the
Pacific in the same latitude?
9. Describe the process by which the water of
the ocean returns to the sources of r ivers.
10.
Describe the movements of the earth. Give the inclination of the earth.
Notice
that the exam took FIVE HOURS to complete.
Geketa
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