1895 8th Grade Final Exam
how much more educated an eighth grader was a hundred years ago than today.
This has come again to tell us what education was in 1895!
THE TEST ASKS FOR A COMPOSITION IN 150 WORDS. TODAY'S TWITS TWITTER IN 149 CHARACTERS! WITH ALL THE ABBREVIATIONS USED IN TEXTING AS WELL AS TWITTERING, THEY ARE PROBABLY LOSING THE ABILITY TO SPELL A WORD IN FULL. WHAT WILL THEY DO WHEN THEY HAVE TO WRITE AN ESSAY FOR THEIR COLLEGE APPLICATION?
1895 8th grade final exam
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What it took to get an 8th grade education in 1895...
Remember when grandparents and great-grandparents stated that they only had an 8th grade education? Well, check this out. Could any of us have passed the 8th grade in 1895?
This is the eighth-grade final exam from 1895 in Salin a , Kansas , USA . It was taken from the original document on file at the Smokey Valley Genealogical Society and Library in Salin a , and reprinted by the Salin a Journal.
8th Grade Final Exam:
Salina , KS -
1895
Grammar (Time, one hour)
1. Give nine rules for the use of capital letters.
2. Name the parts of speech and define those that have no modifications.
3. Define verse, stanza and paragraph
4. What are the
principal parts of a verb? Give principal parts of 'lie,''play,' and 'run.'
5. Define case; illustrate each case.
6 What is punctuation? Give rules for principal marks of punctuation.
7 - 10. Write a composition of about 150 words and show therein that you understand the practical use of the rules of grammar.
