Third Grade. BOTH CLASSES. 1. Name the thirteen original colonies. 2. What was the first permanent colony within the limits of the present United States? The second? The third? By whom was each made? 3. What were the effects of the American discoveries upon France? England? 4. Spain? (a) Compare the policies of the French and the English in their treatment of the colonists. (b) What conflicts ensued as the results of the territorial claims of these two nations? 5. What was the importance of the capture of forts Duquesne and Quebec in the French and Indian War? 6. Give a brief statement concerning each of the following: Roger Williams, John Harvard, King Philip, Braddock, Champlain. 7. Name ten early explorers, stating under what flag each travelled, and what part of America each visited or explored. 8. Give an acccount of the early settlement of Georgia. Of Rhode Island. 9. What was the West India Company? London Company? 10. pany? State the object of each. Plymouth Com (a) When, where, and by whom was the first settlement made in Michigan? (b) Mention three important events in Michigan history. EIGHTH GRADE EXAMINATION. Questions prepared by the Superintendent of Public Instruction for the regular examination, May 9-10, 1907. ARITHMETIC. 1. Express in words 1881, 5.05, .0083, 100.01. 2. Give illustration of a number that is a perfect cube, a compound number, an abstract number. 3. Make a problem that can be solved by cancellation and solve it. 4. Make out a receipted bill of not less than five articles bought at a general store. NOTE. Half the credit for correct form, capitals and punctuation; half the credit for correct computation. 5. What will it cost to fence 20 acres of land, the rectangular field being 80 rods long, at $2.50 per rod of fence? 6. 7. 8. What will four loads of hay cost, weighing with wagon 4,200 lbs., 3,980 lbs., 4,600 lbs., and 3,240 lbs., respectively, at $18 a ton; the empty wagon weighing 1,160 lbs. Estimate or measure the size of the room in which you are writing this examination and find the number of square yards of plaster upon the walls and ceiling. Give the following: 1 acre ? sq. rods. = ? sq. ft. 1 bbl. ? gals. 1 sq. rod 1 gross ? doz. 9. How much lumber will it take to cover the two ing rafters 22 ft. long, provided the rafters project 2 ft.? NOTE. If pupils do not see the square root application in No. 9. the examiner may suggest it. 10. Show by a diagram the N. E. † of the N. E. † of sec. 16, and compute the value of the land at $50 an acre. 11. What is the interest on $240 for 3 years, 4 months, 15 days at 54 % per annum? How many cubic feet in a cube 18 inches on the edge? 12. 13. It costs $1.50 an acre to plow land, $0.75 an acre to fit it and plant it, and $0.60 for seed corn. It takes 1 days per acre to cultivate the corn at $1.75 per day for man and horse, 1 day to cut it at $1.50 per day, and 3 cents per bushel to husk and crib it. The crop averages 90 baskets of ears of corn per acre and sells for 24 cents per basket in the crib. How much does a man make or lose on 20 acres of corn? 14. I SOLVE THE REMAINING PROBLEMS BY ANALYSIS. lb. of butter costs 18 cents, what will 24 lbs. cost? 15. What gain per cent do I make in buying at $24 and selling at $28? CIVIL GOVERNMENT. What particular things has the study of civil government emphasized in your mind? (a) What are the three great branches of government? 1. 2. (b) Who discharge the duties in each? 3. Explain the steps necessary to take in a township to build a town hall. 4. (a) Where and how often does the State legislature meet? 496 (b) What are the presiding officers called? Who is the most influential State officer? Why? 6. (a) How are U. S. Senators chosen? (b) Who was last chosen in this State? What is the President's Cabinet? Of how many departments does it consist? How does an alien become a citizen? Give steps. (c) Where is his home? 7. 8. 9. How does a territory become a State? 10. State five facts with reference to the county board of school examiners. GEOGRAPHY. 1. Name the zones and give the width of each in degrees. 2. What is meant by the sun "crossing the line"? 5. 6. Name and locate two important cities in each of the following countries: Germany, South Africa, China, France, Russia. Name the islands under the control of the United States, and name a city in each. 7. Name the countries from which the following are imported to the United States: Coffee, hides, rubber, ivory, lumber. 8. 9. What articles manufactured in Michigan are exported to foreign countries? Locate Yellowstone Park, Yosemite Valley, Mammoth Cave, Pictured Rocks, Canyons of the Colorado. 10. Name the river systems of South America. 11. What are the chief industries of the gulf states? 12. Name the different states that produce copper, gold, lead. 13. Name the productions and manufactures of your county. 14. What territories are about to become states? 15. For what are the states of Central America important? GRAMMAR. 1. The language, arrangement of paragraphs, correctness of sentences, and neatness of paper will count for this number. 2. Name the essential parts of a sentence. 3. Define adjective, participle, pronoun, and give examples. 5. Define transitive verb, mode, voice. 6. State and illustrate three ways of forming the plurals of nouns. 7. Write the possessive forms of lady, women, teachers, attorney-at-law, Mr. Johnson. 8. Compare great, rapidly, beautiful, able, much. 9. Write a complex, declarative sentence, and state of what it is composed. 10. Give the principal parts of sit, sing, drink, eat. 11. Write sentences to illustrate each of the following: (a) A conjunctive adverb. (b) A relative clause. (c) An objective complement. (d) A clause used as an object. 12. Name the kinds of sentences according to use and illustrate each. 13. Analyze: This paper should show your ability to use good language and to express yourself clearly. 14. Parse the italicized words in the foregoing sentence. 15. Conjugate the verb sing in the present, past, perfect, and future tenses, active voice, indicative mode. ORTHOGRAPHY. 1. Define vowel, consonant, articulation. 2. Indicate the sounds of a, i, and o by proper diacritical marks. 3. Give the meaning of the following: Hon., Supt., lb., cwt., Dr., Col., vol., N. Y., %, 4. Define accent, root, prefix, suffix. 5. Use the following words in sentences: root, route; sweet, suite; meed, mead; boy, buoy; principle, principal. 6. Indicate the pronunciation of the following words by using proper diacritical marks and accent: educator, exhaust, combatant, Singapore, Escanaba, Aconcagua, Tacoma. 1. Show your teacher the proper position at the desk and the correct position for holding the pen. 2. Assuming these positions as given by you, write with pen (a) the one space letters, (b) the capital letters embodying the oval. 3-5. Write as a specimen of your handwriting the first stanza of America. 1. Describe the epidermis. PHYSIOLOGY. 2. Define secretion. Name five secretions of the body. Where is each secreted? 3. Why should one avoid sitting in a draft when over-heated? 5. Mention some common habits which injure the ear. 6. Describe reflex action. Why is it important? 7. Compare the veins and arteries. 8. Describe the lymphatic circulation. 9. Mention five foods especially good for this time of year. 10. (a) Name two exercises which develop certain muscles. are so developed. (b) Name two games which will develop the chest. 11. Describe normal breathing. 12. What are the functions of the liver? Why are they so? 13. What is the composition of the bones? How are the bones nourished? 14. (a) How does alcohol affect the heart? (b) Name five drinks which contain alcohol. 15. (a) What is the purpose of ventilation? READING. "Rip Van Winkle." 1. Give the setting of this legend. Describe Rip Van Winkle's appearance. What can you say of his character and ambitions? Why had he never succeeded? Name seven other persons mentioned or described in this legend. 2. 3. 4. 5. (a) What is satire? humor? (b) When does Irving use these? 6. Mention some characteristics of the Dutch homes of this period. 7. Tell in a paragraph how Rip Van Winkle came to take his long sleep. 8. What events in the history of the United States had taken place during Van Winkle's sleep? How do you know this from the story? 9-10. Describe the home coming. 11. What emotions does the story of the home-coming arouse in you. 12. (a) Who was Peter Stuyvesant? (b) Mention three other references to the history of New Netherlands. 13. Mention some things of the present day which would undoubtedly surprise one who had been asleep from 1886 to 1906. 14. (a) Name ten new words which you have added to your vocabulary by this study. (b) Mention some expressions which seem especially fitting. 15. What do you like best about this story? Why? UNITED STATES HISTORY. 1. For what purpose were the following colonies founded: Georgia, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Maryland? 2. 3. 4. (a) What conditions in Europe caused the early explorations? (b) Name six great explorers and tell under what flag each sailed. What constituted New France? Outline the steps in its overthrow. 5. (a) What text-book in United States history have you studied? (b) What history stories have you read and to what part of our history does each refer? 6. Describe the present United States flag. 7. Make statements regarding three of the following: The Japanese in California; the Panama Canal; Jamestown Exposition; Disaster in Jamaica; Elmer E. Brown; Andrew Carnegie. 8-9. Give an account of Burgoyne's campaign and state its importance and the results. 10. (a) Tell of Arnold's treason. (b) What lessons did you learn from this? 11. Name ten important events which took place between 1820 and 1850. 12. What territory has the United States secured by purchase? 13. What was the Emancipation Proclamation? 14. Tell of the life and services of William McKinley. 15. Name five inventions which have influenced our history. |