I have a copy of "California Teacher and Home Journal"-Vol. 2. Official Organ of the Department of Public Instruction San Francisco: No. 508 Montgomery Street 1883 I have extracted information from the following pages 217-220, Chapter Heading Oct 1883, under the section: "News From The Schools" . ----------------------- Following are some of the questions propounded at the late meeting of the Inyo County Board of Education to applicants for county certificates. It will be seen that though Inyo County County is not the largest field for educational development, it is determined to make the proficiency of its preceptors an established and recognized fact. GENERAL QUESTIONS: State your full name, age, birthplace. Where educated? What experience in teaching? What certificates, diplomas or letters of recommendation, if any, do you now possess? What educational works have you read, and what educational journals do you now read? What proofs have you of a good moral character? Did you deposit a fee of one dollar with the County Superintendent? (What follows is a long list of questions under various headings. I have just posted a few of them here) ORTHOGRAPHY: schottische, quiescent, zouave, merino, inscroll, dernier, ichneumon, hemstitch, quinsy (this is just a few of the words in the list) GRAMMAR: Of what do the following treat, viz: Orthography? Etymology? Syntax? Prosody? Analysis? Define five figures of rhetoric. Give five rules of syntax. ARITHMETIC: Hypotenuse 50, base and perpendicular equal . Find them. Define a cubic prime. A water tank is 3 1/2 feet wide and 5 1/2 feet long. How deep must it be to hold 8 hogsheads? A man owned a square filed containing 10 acres. He gave enough from it for a street 4 eons wide all around it. How much land did he have left? GEOGRAPHY: What is climate, and upon what does it chiefly depend? Illustrate the following, viz: delta, estuary, oasis, small circle, zenith, archipelago, lagoon and nadir. Bound the North temperate zone and name the principal division in each. What and where are the following: Hainon, Sincoe, Loffoden, Balira, Bass, Baikal, Manmee, Girronde, Sing Sing and San Quentin( we know this one!) READING: What are the divisions of expression? Name seven general divisions of modulation. Name and define 5 styles of prose and 5 varieties of poetry? THEORY and PRACTICE OF TEACHING: What is the best method of teaching morals? How should a teacher rank in society? How do you ventilate your classrooms in winter? -------------------- These are just a few of the many questions. Carolyn Feroben http://www.mariposaresearch.net/ Doug Urbanus wrote: >My mom was born in Salina Kansas. She would agree that she would never have gotten out of 8th grade if she had stayed. Heck she would never gotten out of 12th. On the other hand she could have named all the parts of speech. I listened recently to a talk by the Provost of the Defense Language Institute in Monterey California. While those who successfully apply have demonstrated an aptitude for language, almost every student had to be taught the elemental structure of the English language before they proceeded to being taught languages of varying difficulty (Spanish to Pashtun). They can't diagram a sentence. They don't know what diagraming a sentence represents. By the way my mom taught me. So at least for one question I could have passed. > > >Barb C <calibarbi@hotmail.com> wrote: >I spoke with Norma Goodman, volunteer librarian at the Smoky Valley Genealogy Society and Library in Saline, Kansas, yesterday to confirm they have this test at their location. Indeed they do! > >(And yes, it is spelled 'Smoky'.) > >Barb > > > >>From: goldsdlf@lamar.colostate.edu> To: norcal@rootsweb.com; casANFRA-L@rootsweb.com; stlouis-mo@rootsweb.com> Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 21:57:49 -0600> Subject: [CASANFRA] 8th grade exam...> > I wrote Judie Cook and sent her another website about the high school test.... I can not imagine 8th grade students taking such a test.... my mother, finished high school in a small MO town and took the teacher certification test and passed it like many other young ladies across the nation in the early 1920's. She taught grade school for a few years. She could not have begun to pass this test....> > The true Genealogist always says "let's prove a find at least three times".... and at this point in time I do not think this test has been proven once. One person said their grandparents had taken the test...... where is the data that shows it was the same test. Check the following:> > http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/a/1895exam.htm> > I'm becoming extremely worried that several >> >> > historic! >al documents are not proven....... a Civil War Expert in our Genealogical Society pointed out the fallacies within several letters found in the "Civil War Letter" site via Google the other day..... He couldn't even find the "signers" of some letters listed in the Civil War Veteran records. There are some "smoothies" out there that can rake in a few bucks by selling fake documents.> > The role of the professional Genealogists and Genealogical Societies world wide, are increasing daily.... namely, encouraging researchers to not take everything that is printed on the internet as a proven fact..... seek reliable proof, a half dozen times if need be.> > Kenneth L. Goldsberry> Pres. Larimer County CO Genealogical Society> > www.lcgsco.org > **************************> Visit SFGenealogy.com!> http://www.sfgenealogy.com> > > >