The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1906-02-09
HARD QUESTIONS
And Some Easy Ones Propounded at
the stark County Teachers


the stark County Teachers
Institute.
At the Stark County Teachers Ex-
animation Saturday the following
questions were used:
THEORY AND PRACTICE.
applicants will take the first group
of four, and either the second or
third group Of four)
Mention four important sanitary
conditions of the school room which
should claim the teachers attention.
Give list of incentives and clas-
sify (a) whether natural or artificial;
(b) whether proper or improper.
What can you say OF education
during the middle, ages?
What are the compulsory educa-
ton reQuirefents in Ohio? What is
an age and schooling certificate?
OUR SCHOOLS'--CHANCBLLOR
Show the advantage to be gained by
having supervising principal in an
elementary school possessing nine or
more teachers What factors should
influence the board of education as to
| the adVisibility OF employing such a
teacher?
What does Chancellor consider the
present status and probable future of
the rural school in America?
| In a high school should any dis
tinction be made between boys and
girls as to the nature and severity Of
the curriculum? If so, why?
Compare instruction given in pub
lie and private schools as to (a) in
dividual attention given ito pupils;
(b) morality; (c) discipline.
THE METHOD OF THE RECITA-
TION'-McMURRY.
Why is it essential to supplement
text book instruction with graphic
representation? In what subject is
this correlation particularly necessa-
ry?
Upon what sources may a teach er
draw to establish a relationship be-
and experience, and a new topic to be
presented? ...
Mention two conditions necessary
to the proper application of the prin-
ciple of apperception.
How would you present the subject
of scansion in the classroom so as tC
fulfill these conditions?
State four requirements Of such an
aim.
GEOGRAPHY.
OF what use are parallels of lati
tude and meridians? What change il
time corresponds to every degree Of
longitude?
How long is the equator? Through
what countries does it pass?
Compare the climate of Oregon with
!, that of New England and state rea
sons for the difference.
Bound Chile; give it's chief prod
ucts; mention the two principal cities
Mention three advantages that ac
crue to cities situated on some body 0
water. State two natural causes tha
have contributed to the rapid growtl
of Minneapolis.
Locate an extensive wheat belt o.
copper region in the United State
and prescribe the route by which it
product is transported to New Yorl
:, and to San Francisco.
. b6luG SSySSIs SldCItI5 utiJd,
> What manufactured products are
exported from Hamburg? What raw
materials are exported from HonOlu
lu?
= = Locate Terre Haute: Newport; Con
= : cord; Cheyenne, Houston.
;, Describe the drainage of Africa.
:, UNITED STATES HISTORY IN
CLUDING CIVIL GOVERNMENT
Describe Raleigh's attempt to foun
, > colony in America.
. Compare the first colonists of Wiz
ginia with those of Massachusetts a
to character; object in coming t
America.
State compromise made in tn
formation of the constitution be
> tween the larger and the smalle
> states; upon the question of slavery
> What connection did each of tn
:, following have with the Revolution
!, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Morris
> John Paul Jones?
!, What political issues were befor
the country in 1850?
Why and how was the draft operat
ed in connection with the Civil War?
: Mention three states formed fToI
- the northwest territory,
What connection did the Kansas
- Nebraska Act have with the SLAYER
;. question? The invention of the COD
. ton gin?
What was the object of the Levi
, and Clark expedition? Uuder who's
= administration was it undertaken?
= What steps are necessary for a tel
% ritory to become a state? Mentio
four states that have been admitte
to the Union since 1880.
LITERATURE.
, Who were the Celts? State some
) thing of their characteristics and hal
4 its of life.