The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-08-06
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The teacheEs' institute which has been
In session at the Garfield building foI
the past tour weeks closed Thursday
IL is but just 20 the parties
who have contributed TO the
success Of the institute to say
that this has been one OF
the most successful terms OF
normal work In Lyon county. County
Superintendent Dixon, Prof. KlOck as
conductor and Prof. Wooster and Miss
Crichton, as Instructors, have given
| their entire attention TO the work with
the most satisfactory results. The at
tendance, which was about 1OS At the
opening Of the institute, reached 40 be-
fore its close, Of which number over
three lourths were ladies During the
institute large number of educational
journals have been introduced, among
which are the Teachers Institute,
American Teacher, and the Western
School Journal, published at Topeka.
The latter received hst OF sixty sub
scribers.
Friday there were 151 teachers who
took the examinations, there being eleven
more teachers taking the examination
than attended the institute. The follow
ing were the questions and the subjects of
examination:
THEORY AND PRACTICE.
1. Distinguish among physical, intel
lectuRl and moral education.
2. What are the best means which NAV
be used in physical education?
3. What methods may be used to de-
Velop attention?
4 Describe the various methods of
conducting recitations, and give reasons
for the method which you use.
5. How often and for what purposes
do you hold class examinations?
9. What are the principal difficulties
which teacher meets2
q. Outline general Lesson. on plants
for third-reader pupils.
8 What use may be made OF draWing
and clay modelling in primary classes |!
0. What il the test OF method2
READING.
l. What requisites would you make
for admission TO the second readerf
2. Name a selection applicable for an
1 illustration Of (a) the pathetic, ~ the
reverential, (c) the humorous.
3. Suggest an exercise for developing
articulation.
4. When do you consider flfth-reader
pupil prepared to recite in readingG
| 5. Mark diacritically the following:
"HuRo's manuscript presented a sin
| gular appearance. It was sort of battle
field on paper, In which the killed
words were we'll stamped out, and
the new recruits pushed forward in any
thing but good order. II has also been
1 compared 70 g sheet of music, In which
the blots looked like crotcheLs and quaV-
/ ers."
ARITHMETIC
l. Explain subtraction when IL IN
| wolves the method of borrowing or the
method of adding ten.
2. illustrate your method Of teaching
addition of fractions to beginners, by
using the following, viz: q, 5 6, Is.
3. If 81 barrels Of flour cost $5l q
what will 43S barrels cost? (Glve full
1 analysis)
4. A man bought 2 cwt 81 lbs. 10 OF
ut sugar at cents pound, and sold II
at 81 cents pound, using by mistake
troy weight. How much did he make
3. What will 1t cost TO carpet room
SO feet long and "a feet wide with carpet
Is yard wide, at $225 q yard, allowing
nothing for waste?
6. The longitude of Edinburgh Is {
degrees IL minutes west, and that of Chi
cago 81 degrees A minutes 80 seconds
west: what change would be necessary
in our watches IN coming from Edin
burgh TO ChicagoH
7. Find the retail price of an article
bought at u discount of 3314 per cent
which. sold at an advance of 1914 pei
cent, yields net profit of IS? (GiVe
analysis in tull.l
| B. l sold consignment ut grain anC
invested the proceeds in sugar, deductIhG
my commissions, ~ per cent for sell.
ing and 21s per cent for buying. TbI
sugar cost $7.640; what did the grair
sell Tor, and what were my commissions
0. What will be the cost OF 8 sigh
draft on New York for 5000 at Is re-
cent premium?
10. What is the distance between tive
opposite corners of square whose are,
900 square feet?
ORTHOaRAPHY.
1. Name the chief difficulties in spell
ing.
Q. illustrate the different sounds of
by selected words.
When Is silent dropped ON adding
"A suffix to a word?
4, COrrect-"Enny carfull scholla
shews his preference for puriect inglish
thogh the study of grammar may be Ions
deferred"
8. GIYe methods OF stimulating classel
In spelling.