The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1911-07-13

The form or forms that you use.
Distinguish between the Indicative and
The subjunctive uses of the verb. Give
examples.
Define case. Show all the uses of the
absolute case In sentences.
Explain these different uses.
Define sentence, clause and phrase
Give examples Of each. How distinguish
a sentence and clause?
To what extent may language and
grammar work be correlated with other
branches? How do you do this in pri-
mary grades?
What do you understand by the value
Of good English What do you under
stand by the use of elegant English?
Diagram and parse the words in gothic:
And, as she looked around, she saw
Death, the eonsoler,
Laying his hand upon many heart, and
healing 1t forever.
Many familiar forms had disappeared in
Vacant their places were, or filed already
by strangers"
Writing.
Why have system Of penmanship?
How use 1t to the best advantage? What
chief results may be expected?
What movements are essential to rap
Id legible writing? How do you teach
one OF these movements?
Write the capital letters.
Write a few lines of prose.
orthography.
In what particulars are orthography
and any of the other studies correlated?
In what grade or grades would You begin
the use Of diacritical marks? Why?
Why divide words into syllables? How?
What must every syllable contain?
Give five prefixes and the meaning OF
each.
Describe your method Of teaching pu-
pills the use Of the dictionary.
What is meant by the root of word?
n Fnn of nrI9 Ex hn I1Gn ff
a word?
Mark these words properly: cruise, su-
perfuous, crevice, inimitable, only, on
lombard, plateau, aerial.
German.
How are the principal parts of weak
verbs formed? OF strong verbs?
What are the tense auxiliaries? What
Is the use of each?
How are adjectiVeS compared? Decline,
mo more beautiful garden"
Name the personal pronouns. Name
and decline the relative pronouns
What are the uses of the subjunctive
mode?
Name five propositions that govern the
dative case, five that govern the accusa-
tive case.
Name five propositions that govern the
genitive case.
Write five sentences using in each a
that may govern the dative
case or the accusative case.
General History.
Give an account of the battle of Mara
thon and tell why it is considered one Of
the decisive battles of the world.
Give a brief account of the struggle be-
tween the pope and the Hohenstaufen
emperors.
Describe the reformation in Germany.
Outline the reign of Louis XIV.
Describe the revolution in England of
1888. What were the permanent results
Who were the following: Savonarola? I?
Alaric? CavoHr? Joan of Arc? Themis-
tocles? Hannibal? John Huss? Logo
la?
Give the history of some great writing
and its effects upon the w6rld and Its
civilization.
Write short essay upon the subject,
THE United States World Power as a
Commercial Nation"
Literature.
Give an account of the life and works
or Alice Cary. Which of her works have
you read?
What are the chief characteristics of
Dickens style? Name five of his works.
Outline one Of Shakespeare's comedies,
Tell the story of one or more of the
works prior to Chaucer's time in the Eng
lish literature.
Name five selections that have given
their authors their regulations. How is
American literature indebted to English
literature?
Give an account of the life and works
of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Which of his
works have you read?
Write a short biography of Walter
Scott and tell about one OF his works.
What writer is sometimes called the
walter Scott of America?
Name the periods of American litera-
ture and the leading writer of each age.
What were the characteristics of the first
period? OF the one at this time?
Who were THE Cambridge Poets?
about the works of any one of these.
Name three or more books suitable for
reading to a school as part of the open
ing exercises in the morning. Give a
very brief description of one of them.
What are the chief aims in so reading to
a school?
Write of one Of the following: John
Ruskin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William
Wordsworth, julia Ward Howe or
author of whom you write.
Write of Chaucer and of the English
literature before his time Name his
writings.
Describe any one of the following clas-
sizes: "Cotter's Saturday Night" Desert
ed Village" "Snowbound." or The Ell
egy in a Country Churchyard" Give a
from it.
w nat uNlUS WT1IeTS can you IdlIS !
What do they write?
Name famous lyric, an epic, an elegy,
biography, historical novel, and a hu-
morous selection and the author of each.
Botany.
What is the relation of yeast to bread
making?
Describe the structure and reproduce
ton of one fungus.
How does, "a? an apple, (b) :. geranium,
IaN mt n OF NxThn lt1A
a potato, multiply the number of its in
dividuals?
Describe in detail the properties of a
member of the lily family.
Compare the structure of a corn and
of an apple tree stem.
What are the important functions OF
the foliage?
How does the root system get water
How would you plan and fit up room
for botany in a small high school?
Chemistry.
What do you understand by the "chem.
istry of plant production, and plant life?
How do plants get the necessary elements
for their sustenance? From what sources!
What are some of the chief elements that
are necessary to plant growth?
Give the main assumption made by the
dissertation theory. Define, ion, atom
Write the formula and briefly describe
the following: sugar, alcohol, lime, iron
rust, potassium nitrate
What salts may be formed from sui
puhric acid and a monovalent metal?
What is the chemical name of quick
lime? How is it prepared? Why is it an
essential part of mortar?
Give the properties of carbon dioXide.
Give some tests for it's presence.
Describe chlorine fully. Give at least
two of it's effects. Describe test for it.
What is matter? In what form does il
exist? Define each form
Outline your plan for teaching this sub.
ject. What preparations have you made
for teaching chemistry?