[Sca-cooks] 8th grade edjumacashun

[chirhart_1]

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From: "Siegfried Heydrich" <baronsig at peganet.com>
To: <Sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 2:29 PM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] 8th grade edjumacashun


>     Remember when our grandparents, great-grandparents, and such stated
that
> they only had an 8th grade education? Well, check this out. Could many
> (any?) of us have passed the 8th grade in 1895? This is the eighth-grade
> final exam from 1895 in Salina, KS. It was taken from the original
document
> on file at the Smokey Valley Genealogical Society and Library in Salina,
KS
> and reprinted by the Salina Journal.
>
> 8th Grade Final Exam
> Salina, KS -1895
>
> Grammar (Time, 1 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 do,
lie,
> lay 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, 1.25 hours)
>
> 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 hold?
>
> 3. If a load of wheat weighs 3942 lbs., what is it worth at 50
cts./bushel,
> deducting 1050 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 cost of 6720 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
> meter?
>
> 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 around
> which is 640 rods?
>
> 10. Write a Bank Check, 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 the 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, 1 hour)
>
> 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'.
>
> 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 diacritically 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 correctly 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, 1 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,
> Heca, Yukon, St. Helena, Juan Fermandez, Aspinwall and Orinoco.
>
> 6. Name and locate the principal trade centers of the U.S.
>
> 7. Name all the republics of Europe and give 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 rivers.
>
> 10. Describe the movements of the earth. Give the inclination of the
earth.
>
> Gives the saying "she/he only had an 8th grade education" (when speaking
of
> an early 20th century person) a whole new meaning.
>
>
>
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