Sometimes we need to look
back to know where we need to
go.
FOR
THOSE BORN 1920-1979
TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930's, 40's,
50's, 60's and 70's!!
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank
while they were pregnant.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing,
tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that
trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright
colored lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles,
doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention,
the risks we took hitchhiking.
As infants and children, we would ride in
cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags.
Riding in the
back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank
water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
We shared one soft
drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from
this.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank Kool-aid
made with sugar, but we weren't overweight because, WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE
PLAYING!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as
we were back when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us
all day.And we were O.K.
We would spend hours building our
go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot
the brakes After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the
problem.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video
games at all, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no
surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computer! s, no Internet or
chat rooms.......
WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found
them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were
no lawsuits from these accidents.
We ate worms and mud pies made from
dirt, and the worms did not l ive in us forever.
We were given BB guns
for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although
we were told it would happen, we did not poke out very many eyes.
We rode
bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or
just walked in and talked to them!
Little League had tryouts and not
everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with
disappointment. Imagine that!!
The idea of a parent
bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the
law!
These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers,
problem solvers and inventors ever!
The past 50 years have been an explosion
of innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and
responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL,
that was before the lawyers and the government began regulating so
much of our lives, for our own good
.
Kind of makes you want to run
through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!
If YOU are one of them,
CONGRATULATIONS!
(Author
Unknown)
8th Grade Final Exam:
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.
Arithmetic
(Time,1 hour 15 minutes)
1. Name and define the Fundamental
Rules of Arithmetic.
2. A wagon box is 2 ft. Deep, 10
feet long, and 3 ft. Wide. How many
bushels of wheat will it hold?
3. If a load of wheat weighs 3,942
lbs., what is it worth at 50cts/bushel, deducting 1,050 lbs. for
tare?
4. District No 33 has a valuation of
$35,000. What is the necessary levy
to carry on a school seven months at $50 per month, and have $104 for
incidentals?
5. Find the cost of 6,720 lbs. of
coal at $6.00 per ton.
6. Find the interest of $512.60 for
8 months and 18 days at 7 percent.
7. What is the cost of 40 boards 12
inches wide and 16 ft. Long at $20 per meter?
8. Find bank discount on $300 for 90
days (no grace) at 10 percent.
9. What is the cost of a square farm
at $15 per acre, the distance of which is 640
rods?
10. Write a Bank Check, a Promissory
Note, and a Receipt.
1. Give the epochs into which
2. Give an account of the discovery
of
3. Relate the causes and results of
the Revolutionary War.
4. Show the territorial growth of
the
5. Tell what you can of the history
of
6. Describe three of the most
prominent b attles of the Rebellion.
7. Who were the following: Morse,
Whitney, Fulton , Bell , Lincoln , Penn, and Howe?
8. Name event s connected with the
following dates: 1607, 1620, 1800, 1849, 1865.
Orthography
(Time, one hour)
[Do we even
know what this is??]
1. What is meant by the following:
alphabet, phonetic, orthography, etymology,
syllabication
2. What are elementary sounds? How
classified?
3. What are the following, and give
examples of each: trigraph, subvocals, diphthong, cognate letters,
linguals
4. Give four substitutes for caret
'u.' (HUH?)
5. Give two rules for spelling words
with final 'e.' Name two exceptions
under each rule.
6. Give two uses of silent letters
in spelling. Illustrate
each.
7. Define the following prefixes and
use in connection with a word: bi, dis-mis, pre, semi, post, non, inter, mono,
sup.
8. Mark diacritically and divide
into syllables the following, and name the sign that indicates the sound: card,
ball, mercy, sir, odd, cell, rise, blood, fare,
last.
9. Use the following correctly in
sentences: cite, site, sight, fane, fain, feign, vane, vain, vein, raze, raise,
rays.
10. Write 10 words frequently
mispronounced and indicate pronunciation by use of diacritical marks and by
syllabication.
Geography
(Time, one hour)
1 What is climate? Upon what does
climate depend?
2. How do you account for the
extremes of climate in
3. Of what use are rivers? Of what use is the
ocean?
4. Describe the mountains of
5. Name and describe the following:
Monrovia , Odessa , Denver , Manitoba , Hecla , Yukon , St. Helena, Juan
Fernandez, Aspinwall and
6. Name and locate the principal
trade centers of the
7. Name all the republics of
8. Why is the
9. Describe the process by which the
water of the ocean returns to the sources of
rivers.
10. Describe the movements of the
earth. Give the inclination of the
earth.
Notice that the exam took FIVE HOURS
to complete. Gives the saying, '
he only had
an 8th grade education' a whole new meaning, doesn't
it?!
Also shows you how poor our
education system has become!
and, NO! I don't have the
answers!
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