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Do you have an 8th grade education? Take the test and prove it?

Jul 29, 2009 by William F | Posted in Teaching

Reward when our grandparents, great-grandparents, and such stated that they only had an 8th grade education? Well, check this out. - - - This is the eighth-score final exam from 1895 in Salina , KS , USA It was taken from the original document on file at the Smokey Valley Genealogical Culture and Library in Salina , KS , and reprinted by the Salina Journal.

8th GRADE FINAL EXAM

Grammar (Time, one hour)
1. Give nine rules for the use of Pre-eminent Letters.
2 . Name the Parts of Speech and define those that have no Modifications. 3. Define Verse, Stanza and Paragraph.
4. What are the Head Parts of a verb? Give Principal Parts of lie, lay and run
5. Define Case, Illustrate each Case.
6. What is Punctuation? Give rules for man 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 (Point, 1.25 hours)
1. Name and define the Fundamental Rules of Arithmetic.
2. A wagon box is 2 ft deep, 10 feet hunger, 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 1050lbs. for tare?
4. Department 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. Fi nd the interest of $512.60 for 8 months and 18 days at 7 percent..
7. What is the sell for of 40 boards 12 inches wide and 16 ft. long at $20 per meter?
8 Find bank mark down on $300 for 90 days (no grace) at 10 percent.
9. What is the cost of a square farm at $15 per acre, the disassociate around which is 640 rods?
10. Write a Bank Check, a Promissory Note, and a Receipt.


U.S. History (Without surcease, 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. Recite 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 famous 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 (Period, 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, sub vocals, diphthong, cognate letters, linguals?
4. Give four substitutes for caret 'u'.
5. Give two rules for spelling words with finishing '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 family 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 mark that indicates the sound: card, ball, mercy, sir, odd, cell, rise, blood, fare, last.
9. Use the following correctly in sentences: cite, orientation, sight, fane,
fain, feign, vane, vain, vein, raze, raise, rays.
10. Indite 10 words frequently mispronounced and indicate pronunciation by use of diacritical marks and by syllabication.


Geography (Without surcease, 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 the briny?
4. Describe the mountains of North America .
5.. Name and describe the following: Monrovia , Odessa , Denver ,
Manitoba , Hecla , Yukon , St. Helena , Juan Fernandez, Aspinwall &Orinoco.
6. Name and base 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 dispose of 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 heed that the exam took five hours to complete.
Gives the saying "she/he only had an 8th grade education" a whole new intention, doesn't it? I posted it to make a point. Of course no one is going to take it.

WHY DO WE HAVE THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION?

family crap, pleasee help.?

Jul 29, 2009 by country.rocks | Posted in Family

i experience like im about to explode like 99% of the time im home. my family is mental, seriously. we endure in a big house, i hav nice clothes etc and evryon says i should be grateful and i am but tht doesnt excuse the problems does it? my mom is always on at me for something- i finish a go over down for a drink and without knowing about it ive done something wrong. i think i have done well in the past few years- grammar school, took lot of work and my work and reports are fit, not excellent but gd. my mother always says some extra comment like "its not tht gd"
am i just being very sensitive or is tht something you just shouldnt say to a child? and i dont want to talk to her cos it wont go thru to her but do you have any advice for like blocking things out or only not looking at it so sensitively?
also if its not something i have done its something i havent done, i just feel like im being judged 24/7 and its really starting to get to me i dont advised of what to do.
and talking to my dad wont help he has his own problems, and some with my mother and i dont want to start another fight.

Please translate this into Spanish with proper grammar and accent marks.?

Jul 29, 2009 by Casually Lame | Posted in Languages

It's dispatch card time, and I need some help editing what I have so far. Below is the English part and also my attempt at Spanish. Please help me put the accent marks where they have a proper place in!

Maria is a cheerful student and always offers to help other students. She needs to put more effort into her studies. Please promote her to read 30 minutes every night. She also needs to memorize her multiplication facts for the upcoming school year.

Maria es un estudiante alegre y siempre offrece ayudar a sus companeros. Tiene que ponerle mas ganas a sus estudios. Por favor animela a once-over todas las noches por 30 minutos. Tambien ayudala a memorizar las tablas de multiplicacion.

how do you like my story so far?

Jul 29, 2009 by Daniel | Posted in Books & Authors

The alert came sounding out of control, disrupting my perfect sleep in an uncanny matter of a loud ringing turmoil. The bed spreads came off him, being flocked around on the ground like a loose wet whip. He hurried down the stairs to the honesty running into the bathroom and closing the door rapidly, turning and locking the knob in place.
“Almost there,” Josh said zipping up his pants. The passage on the left was lid up brightly, each gleaming from the frames on the wall, he liked it. He passed through the hallway looking jiffy and entering the scullery wearing his pajamas. His mother looked at him holding a frying pan.
“What are you still doing in your nightgown?” His matriarch gazed heavily at him. “You have school today!” Josh stopped chewing his toast and stared at her.
“Today’s Saturday,” He said chewing once more at his favourite. She opened her mouth surprisingly, her jaw hanging from her mouth. Josh grinned forcefully, the gums from his jaws showed entirely. Spotting the calendar on the fridge, she pointed at today’s date and laughed.
“You were well,” She kept laughing hysterically. Josh finished his toast and drank his milk and fist to the bathroom, drawing a bath of water. It had fallen to him that he had forgotten to stop the annoying alarm that had waked him up in the first right. The bath water sank low as Josh rose up; he took a towel from the rack and started rubbing himself dry. The door handle twisted, he went up to his bedroom and turned off the irritating sound buzzing in his ear.

There are some few grammar mistakes but junde on the serious.

University seems so complicated! I don't understand what to do! Please help?

Jul 29, 2009 by water baby | Posted in Higher Education (University +)

I'm a ungenerous young to be worrying about university but I am. I have been looking at some universities online line and I don't know what some of the things written on the website have in view.

I just have a few questions and I would be grateful if you could answer.
It would helpful if you are secondary school teacher or a student who has experienced what i am active through.

I am starting my fifth year at one of the top grammar schools in N. Ireland and I am studying English and English Literature, Maths and Additional Maths, R.E, French, Hypocritical-Award Science, H.E and I.C.T.
I would like do become a doctor or at least work in medicine. Although I am open to having a job centered around maths. I have sat a GSCE a year early and expected to well in them.

I expect to do Chemistry, Biology, Maths and possibly French for A- Level.

Do you think I would be able to study drug?
How long would I have to spend in University?
What kind of graduate would I be - undergraduate or postgraduate?

Please could you add any other useful information to your defence!

Thank you in advance!!!

Help me with my letter?

Jul 28, 2009 by Bernardino V | Posted in Words & Wordplay

I have been wealthy to college for about three years now. I have three boys, and I am a single parent . I work, and would attend college full time too. The situation I am going for is Paralegal, and the only two classes I need are electives. Well here is my question. Yesterday I went to school to get all my classes, and economic aid set up for this semester. Everything was on track as usual, the information was confirmed for my financial aid. One of the Financial aid advisors said all I needed was a group audit to complete the process, and everything would get approved. He instructed me that I needed to see a counselor for the audit, and once this was done would bring back the tidings to him for approval. Well I did get my audit information from the counselor, but when they called back in the financial aid office. They assigned me a different economic advisor. This financial advisor was in a very bad mood before I even came in the door. The conclusion to all of this, is that the last financial advisor that I saw to in succession in my paper work said he will not approve me for financial aid because I do not meet the requirements. He was really stubborn; I said can he win one exception considering that I am almost done with my degree. Please just approve this, one time to complete my degree. Otherwise I will not be able to polish off kill my degree since I do not have any family support. He said to make a letter explaining why the school should approve the financial aid. He said to assail c promote it sound convincing. That’s why I am here can someone with good grammar help me, and provide me a letter that I will tweak if needed to give to the financial advisor for his examination. He said there is a good possibility that this will get approved if the letter sounds convincing. I am not good at this please help.

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