Exams for Crayons and Ponytails

We are having mini-exams this week--only two days' worth, so I didn't ask questions for every subject or book.  Here are the exam questions as I gave them to the Squirrelings, with a few notes added.  Next week we are taking Spring Break.

Grade 4 Exam (based on Ambleside Online Year 4)

Bible and Christian Studies

1. In your own words, tell about your favorite character that you read about in your Bible or Christian studies this term.  Crayons chose Gladys Aylward from Hero Tales

2. In your own words, tell about something important that you learned in your Bible or Christian studies reading this term.

Literature

1.  (Robinson Crusoe) “I saw nothing in the bag but husks and dust; and being willing to have the bag for some other use, I think it was to put powder in…I shook the husks of corn out of it on one side of my fortification, under the rock.  It was a little before the great rains, just now mentioned, that I threw this stuff away, taking no notice of anything, and not so much as remembering that I had thrown anything there; when, about a month after, or thereabout, I saw some few stalks of something green shooting out of the ground, which I fancied might be some plant I had not seen….”

Explain the rest of this story.

Dictation:  to be given by mother  (We used a paragraph from Tolstoy's Childhood, Boyhood, Youth.)

U.S. and World History

1. Tell what you know of either a) Lafayette or b) Valley Forge.  George Washington's World
2.  Would you have sided with the Patriots or with the Loyalists?  Why?

Composition

1. Explain how Marva Collins encouraged her students to want to learn.  Marva Collins' Way

2. Tell a story about the courtship of Laura and Almanzo. These Happy Golden Years

OR

2.  Describe how the girls in Jack and Jill became “missionaries.”  Have they been successful so far? Jack and Jill, by Louisa May Alcott

Reading Skill
Father or friend to select a passage for student to read aloud. Tolstoy, as above

Science

1.  What are some reasons for thinking that human beings “didn’t just happen?”  It Couldn't Just Happen

2.  Tell about one of the science experiments you have done this year.  How did it work?  Crayons chose a siphoning experiment from Physics Lab in the Home, chapter 1

Arithmetic/Geometry:  to be given by mother

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Grade 8 Exam (Based on Ambleside Online Pre-Year 7)

Bible and Christian studies

1. In your own words, tell about your favorite character that you read about in your Bible or Christian studies reading this term.  Mere Christianity, The Accidental Voyage (Mr. Pipes series)

2. In your own words, tell about something important that you learned in your Bible or Christian studies reading this term.

Composition

1. Describe your favorite scene or character from Twelfth Night.

2. Tell a story about the courtship of Laura and Almanzo.  These Happy Golden Years

OR

2.  Describe how the girls in Jack and Jill became “missionaries.”  Have they been successful so far?  Jack and Jill

English Grammar

Complete the Nouns test in the test booklet.  Easy Grammar Plus

Canadian History

1.  Describe what you know of life during the Great Depression.  Story of Canada

World History

1.  Tell what you know of either the Russian Revolution or the Peace of Versailles.  Story of the World Volume 4

2.  Tell three things that you didn’t know before reading this term’s chapters from Story of the World.

Homemaking

What does Edith Schaeffer mean by the “hidden art of homemaking?”  Give some examples of ways that you might use the “hidden art” at home.  The Hidden Art of Homemaking

Citizenship/Government

What are the two most basic laws?  Whatever Happened to Justice?

Why were the founders of the United States more interested in “liberty” than in “democracy?”

Reading Skill

Father or friend to select a passage from Watership Down for student to read aloud. OR  Prepare a short puppet play based on a scene from the book.

Mathematics and Science:  to be assigned by father