River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-05-20
TEACHERS EXAMINATION.
PIERCE COUNTY.
SPRING OF 1886.
J. A. MURPHY, County Supt. of Schools.
oRTHoEPY.

/ L. HOW llldilg IllSLlbu ulDilLlOiES.
Name and analyze each.
.. Into how many and what classes
are unaccented syllables divided?
3. In what instances does the most
marked difference between refined and
unrehned speech occur?
t. Give the three rules in Orthoepy
| that constitute the chief foundation of
the phonetic" method of teaching read
| ing
5. In accented syllables ending in
final, or followed by another consonant,
| a, e. /, o, and Y have what sounds?
| Illustrate
8. Write the chart of vocals and vowel
| substitutes as given by Salisbury.
oRTHoGRAPHY.
Is. Write the five most common and
most beneficial rules of spelling. Do you
use them in your school, and to what
extent?
SIS. Spell dictated list.
WRITTEN ARITHMETIC.
l. Multiply twelve thousandths bv
twelve hundredths and divide the prod.
! uct by six ten-thOusandths.
2. John lives 50 rods from the school
house. He attends regularly at school
for a term of ii weeks of five days each,
and goes home TO dinner every day
How many miles does he travel?
3. How many feet of boards are there
III the four sides of barn 80 by 40 it., Is
| #. high to the caves and 243 #. high to
the gable peaks?
1. A rectangular cistern - #. long, 10
#. wide and 8 it. deep contains how many
barrels of water?
5. The cost of building a school-house
is 1885, the assessed valuation of the
district is S34,750, and A owns a farm
worth $9,475. Find AS tax.
8. What is the difference between
discounting bill of goods at 25 per cent.
and 10 per cent. of, and discounting the
same bill at 10 per cent. and 70 per cent.
off?
Z. A bookseller bought books, worth
$500, at retail prices, getting discount of
333 per cent. he sold them at the retail
prices, on 8 months time; money being
worth = per cent, what per cent. profit
did he make?
s. A merchant had 500 Dbl. of flour
insured for so per cent. of their cost at
81 per cent, paying 5l07.2 5 premium. At
what price per Dbl. must he sell the flour
to gain 20 per cent?
READING.
/. Describe in full the Word Method
of teaching reading.
2. Would you allow your pupils to
piAlAA- II ~, liOW SOOll SllOulu printing
be dropped and writing taken up?
3. What qualifications should pupil
possess in reading preparatory to gradua-
ton from the Course of Study?
4. Mark the infections in the follow
ing selection: Gail the circumstances
and ages of men, poverty, riches, youth,
old age-all the dispositions and passions,
melancholy, love. grief contentment-
are capable of being personified in poetry
with great propriety."
8. Read from dictated selections.
THEORY AND PRACTICE.
l. What are the chief ends of
recitation?
2. Upon what motives will you rely
chiefly to secure good work from your
pupils, and how will you use them?
3. Name three things which you con-
slider indispensable in the teachers
preparation for his class, ar / give reasons
for your opinion.
4. Distinguish between education and
instruction.
>. What do you understand by drill,
and what ought to be secured by it?
6. What are the conditions or circum-
stances essential to study?
7. What should the school records
show, and why?
8. What qualities seem to you most
essential in a teacher for the successful
management of a school?
9. Discuss the incentives proper to
be used to stimulate pupils to activity
and application.
TO- What relation has the school board
to regulations for school management?
What is the duty of the teacher in
securing cooperation, and upon what is
this based?
FOREIGN GEOGRAPHY.
/. BY means of a drawing explain the
cause of the change of seasons.
2. What is the vegetable kingdom?
Give the uses of plants and the requi-
sites for vegetable growth.
3. Bound Dakota. Name two of its
principal rivers, its leading cities, its
climate and productions.
4. Spain-its capital? Mountains?
Principal cities? Industries? Form of
government?
5. Locate Genoa, Valparaiso, Trans
vaal, Calcutta, Zuyder-Zee.
6. Draw an outline map of Pennsyl-
vania, locating its mountain ranges, three
principal rivers and three leading cities.
Z. Name all the important cities on or
about the same latitude as New York.
HISTORY.
/. Give the names of the persons who
nave ntll lilC Ol1ACC VI Llt0AACllN HAliJC
1860, and two important events connected
with the incumbency of each.
>. Briefly discuss the public career of
De Soto; of U. 5. Grant; of Andrew
Jackson.
3. What events opened and closed the
War of the Rebellion? Give dates and
the principal participants in each.
4. Discuss the Louisiana and Alaska
Purchases.
5. Give the results Of the following
treaties: Aix-la-Chapelle, Utrecht, Rys
wick and Paris.
6. Describe the battle of Gettysburg.
T.. Give a good sketch of the history
of California.
HOME GEOGRAPHY.
l. Why has River Falls grown more
rapidly than Ellsworth?
> Give a general history of PierC
county-its present condition as to popu-
lation, wealth, manufactures, productions,
government, etc.
8. Is map-drawing necessity in study
ing geography? Why? How would you
teach II?
4. Draw an outline map of Wisconsin.
Trace upon it the c., NJ. 4 st. F., and the
C., st. F., NJ. < O. railroads, with their
main functions and branch lines.
5. Locate the State Ga FOL, the State
ITlSOn. the CldiE OUlNtfSilA4 III tdC1 VI
the five State Normal Schools.
PENMANsHIP.
l. Describe the position you require
your pupils to take in writing.
.. How many movements in use in
writing? Describe the one you use, CIV
ing your reasons for such choice.
3. Is a good handwriting an indis-
pensable qualification in the teacher?
| Why?
1. Analyze the word "knife" by num-
bering the principles in proper order.
3. Write a stanza from a Psalm Of
| Life as a specimen.
| PHYSIOLOGY AND HYGIENE.
l. The effects of what specific agen-
cies are to be considered in this study
>. In teaching this subject are you to
| treat il from a scientific or a moral stand
point? Illustrate.
8. Show the effects of alcohol on the
circulation.
| 4. Mention causes of impure blood.
3. Define stimulants. Narcotics.
| 8. OF meats, which is the best? What
objection is there to pork? What danger
| in eating rsw meat?
| :. Name five prominent hindranees to
digestion.
s. Describe the manner of purifying
the blood.