Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-02-09
EIGHTH GRADE PUPILS
HAVE Many TESTS
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following words: Lady, fox, valley,
knife, gulf, solo, potato. he, it, radius,
axis. stratum. Write the plural pos
sessive of man, sOn-in-laW, he, deer.
4. Correct, giving reasons: (a) 1t
is him. OBJ Them boys go to school.
(c) The soil of these lands are very
fertile I'D He has went home. (e)
/ seen him go.
5. Write a letter to your county SUI
perintendent telling briefly what you
did in each subject this year.
6. Analyze the following sentences:
THE captain who had been the
source of our discomfort, was gone
where he could not trouble u.s."
with a bound that nearly knocked
the official over, the dog dashed to-
ward his mistress"
z. Show by sentences in how many
ways a noun may be used i'll SEN
tence
s. Use the following words in SEN
fences: Should, would, shall, will. aw-
full, fixing, mending, let, leave, learn,
teach, sit, set, stationery, principle.
Reading.
/. Write the story of either The
COurtship of Miles Standish or Little
Women.
3 Write from memory at least five
quotations from choice selections and
tell from where they were taken.
8. Suppose that you meet the word
niche" in your lesson; state how you
will go about to find it's meaning and
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4. Name at least five poems and
five pieces of prose that you have read
during the past two years. Who wrote
each?
5. Oral reading CTeacher to have
child read some good upper form Sc
lection aloud).
Physiology.
L. Why is it necessary to breathe
pure air and consequently necessary
to ventilate school rooms, dwellings
and barns?
2. Why should you study physio-
lOgy in school?
8. Why do so many children get
measles, grippe and chicken pox? Is
it necessary that all children get these
before they grow up? Why?
4. Name at least five rules of
health that you should observe, and
tell why.
5. What are the functions of the
skin? Under what conditions does it
function best?
g. Define excretion. Name three
important organs of excretiOn and tell
of effects when these organs fail to
work.
z. How do the bones of an adult
differ from those of a child? Why
should care be exercised regarding pO-
sition during school hours?
s. Name the different digestive or
gans and tell upon what kinds of food
each acts. What digestive juices are
found in each organ?
u. s. History.
1. Draw a may of North America
in which you show what land was
claimed by the different European
powers after the French and Indian
wars, also jamestown, Plymouth, st.
Augustine, Santa Fe, Erie Canal, Get
syburg.
2. State some historical facts con-
nected with each of the following:
Valley Forge, Saratoga, Hampton
Roads, Santiago. Boston, Paul Jones,
Commodore Perry, Black Hand, Joliet
and Harpers' Ferry.
g. When and how was slavery in
troduced into the United States?
When and how abolished? What
caused It to flourish in one part of
the United States and die out iii an
other?
4. In what wars has the United
States engaged? Give causes for each.
What were their results?
s. Trace the course Washington
pursued in the Revolutionary war and
what the result of each encounter.
g. How did we come to have two
houses in congress and the members
elected in the present way?
z. Name the different colonies that
existed at the time of the Revolution
and tell what form of government they
then had
s. What do YOU understand by each
of the following: FederaIist, Char
ter Oak. Ordinance of 1887, White
Caps, Monroe Dictrine?
Agriculture.
L Explain what you understand
hot bed" and cold frame" How do
they differ? OF what use is each?
2 Name the different types of
COWS and tell what kind Of cattle
come under each type.
B. What weeds do you find on your
farm? Which ones are harmful? How
may these be exterminated? What
are weeds?
A. Name the chief classes Of chick
ems and tell their chief characters
tic differences. Which would you
choose? Why?
5. This last year many potatoes
had brown streaks through them.
What caused this? How could this
have been avoided?
s. What farm experiments have
you performed in school? What did