Exam Time

We're just now finishing up our final term of the school year, so we'll be doing exams next week. I've come up with exam questions based on Charlotte Mason's exams, except that I'm only assigning ten questions per student. It's summer and we're all ready for a break, I didn't want to tack on a grueling week of exams to a vacation that's only starting in the middle of July. Summer's going to be short enough as it is.

Kahoa - Year 3.5

Bible
1. Tell about Gideon and his three hundred. (Judges)
2. How is Jesus better than the angels? (Hebrews)

3. Writing/Dictation (poem by Christina Rosetti)
Look over first, then write:
The city mouse lives in a house;--
The garden mouse lives in a bower,
He's friendly with the frogs and toads,
And sees the pretty plants in flower.

History (A Child's History of the World)
4. Tell about "Bibles made of stone and glass."
5. What do you know about Napoleon?

Literature
6. How did Myles help his father? (Men of Iron by Howard Pyle)
7. What happened to Gobo? (Bambi by Felix Salton)

Geography (Elementary Geography by Charlotte Mason)
8. What do you know about the surface of the earth? Name some continents.

Science (All About Famous Inventors and Their Inventions by Fletcher Pratt)
9. Tell about the invention of the cotton gin and who invented it, OR the airplane.

Math
10. 232 x 34
6x + 4 = 40
Write three ways of dividing 28 by 4. How much is that?

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Keola - Year 6

Bible
1. Tell about Gideon and his three hundred. (Judges)
2. How is Jesus better than the angels? (Hebrews)

3. Writing/Dictation
So Gandalf went on with the tale until he came to the fight in the dark the discovery of the lower gate, and their horror that Mr. Baggins had been mislaid. (The Hobbit)

History
4. How/why did Augustus get his title, and what was his name before? (Augustus Caesar's World by G. Foster)
5. Describe a Roman triumphal procession. OR tell what you know of Cleopatra.
6. Tell what you admire about Churchill OR Galileo's contributions to science/math. (Never Give in OR Galileo and the Magic Numbers)

Geography (A Child's Geography of the World by Hillyer)
7. Tell about "the land of the new moon" OR the place where there are "man made mountains."

Natural History/Science (The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson)
8. What do you know about waves or currents?

Citizenship (Plutarch's Lives)
9. What good did Romulus do for Rome?

Picture Study
10. Describe Waterhouse's painting "The Favourites of the Emperor Honorius"

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Kekoa - Year 10

Bible
1. Tell about some of Israel's judges (Judges)
2. Compare Jesus with the angels. (Hebrews)

History (Churchill The Great Democracies)
3. Tell about American Reconstruction after the Civil War.
4. What do you know of the rise of Germany OR the struggle for home rule in Ireland?
5. Why was Victoria so beloved by her people? (Queen Victoria by Sarah Tytler) OR Describe Frederick Douglass's "escape from slavery." (Essays)

Government
6. What is the role of government in a free state? (On Liberty by John Stuart Mill)

Geography
7. Describe the terrain of Scotland (In Search of Scotland by H.V. Morton)

Citizenship (Plutarch's Lives or Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin)
8. Contrast the leadership of Theseus and Romulus. OR explain "all literature and all education are only useful so far as they tend to confirm this calm, beneficent, and THEREFORE kingly, power--first, over ourselves, and, through ourselves, over
all around us."

Science
9. Tell about "winter animals" (Walden by Henry David Thoreau) OR How does physics relate to biology, astronomy, geology, or psychology? (Six Easy Pieces by Richard Feynman)

Literature (Silas Marner by George Eliot)
10. Describe the character of your favorite person in Silas Marner OR compare the characters of brothers Godfrey and Dunstan.

Exam Questions

We're doing AO exams this week. I'm no expert, and when I see the exam questions that Charlotte Mason's students were given in her books, I feel very inadequate. But, for what it's worth, here's what we're doing. I wrote out ten questions for each student while looking over their list of books they read this year. They'll do just two questions a day. I'm taking dictation with the younger two, and Tim is typing in his own into the computer.

These are the questions:

AO Year 3
1. Tell about Queen Elizabeth's reign
2. What is the Union Jack, and how did it come about?
3. Why was Pocahontas friendly with the settlers?
4. Trace Minn's journey on a map.
5. Tell about how otters live.
6. What invention do you think most changed the world? What can you tell about how it came about?
7. Tell about a tall tale
8. How did Jason get the Golden Fleece?
9. Tell about what life was like for a woodsman during the exile of Charles II.
10. Tell why Timoleon was heroic, OR tell why Othello wasn't.

AO Year 5
1. Was Victoria a good queen? Give some examples.
2. Why was the Civil War fought?
3. Tell about one event in modern history (from the 20th Century book)
4. Trace Lewis and Clark's route on a map.
5. What attributes made Teddy Roosevelt heroic?
6. Complete Book of Marvels - tell about your favorite place he visited.
7. How did Lobo the wolf die?
8. How can water and ice sculpt in nature?
9. Tell a little bit about the caste system of India's society OR child labor in Dickens' London
10. What led Othello to kill his own wife? OR What made Timoleon a successful leader?

AO Year 9
1. What were the Americans primarily fighting for in the Revolution?
2. What was important to the Founding Fathers in setting up their own government?
3. Tell about the doctrine of predestination.
4. What were some of Gearge Washington's strengths?
5. Briefly trace the events of Ben Franklin's OR Napoleon's life
6. Trace Richard Halliburton's travels in Europe
7. What are the four loves?
8. What is a liberal? What is a conservative? What is a libertarian?
9. What were some of the similarities and differences between the French and American Revolutions?
10. How did Othello end up killing his own wife?

I'll add some answers later. I don't know that I'll post all of them. But I'll post something.