[GCFL-discuss] FW: 8 th grade final 1895

Thu Feb 19 20:40:29 CST 2004

This is great Frank, Having work in public schools for the last 32 yrs. I know for a fact that they don't teach this any more. Even the English and Math teachers wouldn't past a test like this. Times change, what would a person from 1895 know about todays life and could they survive. No I'm not a teacher, I run a school lunch program...

Dave
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  Subject: [GCFL-discuss] FW: 8 th grade final 1895

  How would you like to take this test?  Do you think any of the schools teach all this stuff any more?

  Frank

  Eighth Grade Final - 1895 
  > 
  >Remember when our grandparents, great-grandparents, and such stated that 
  >they only had an 8th grade education? 
  > 
  >Well, check this out. 
  > 
  >Could any of us have passed the 8th grade in 1895? 
  > 
  >(LOOK CLOSELY...  THAT'S EIGHTEEN NINETY FIVE) 
  > 
  >This is the eighth-grade final exam from 1895 in Salina, KS, USA.  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, 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.  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 
  >50cts/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, one 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, 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 rivers. 
  >10.  Describe the movements of the earth.  Give the inclination of the 
  >earth. 
  > 
  > 
  >*********************************************** 
  > 
  >Also notice that the exam took six hours to complete. 
  > 
  >Gives the saying"he only had an 8th grade education" a whole new 
  >meaning, doesn't it? 
  > 

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