QUESTIONS ON GRAMMAR. [In writing the synopses of verbs, and in giving the principal parts, arrange in perpendicular columns. In parsing, write out in full, and give the rule. Ten, questions; value, ten tredits each.] 1. Give a synopsis of the verb "write," in the indicative mode, passive voice, declarative form, third person, singular number; and a synopsis of the verb "run," in the indicative and potential modes, interrogative form, first person, singular number. 2. Give the principal parts of the following verbs: dive, strive, weave, build, lie, lay, hew, burst, set, sit, swim, eat, drink. 3. Write the possessive plural of child, woman, it, who, thou, ox. 4. Write a sentence containing the word "that," used as a relative, as an adjective, and as a conjunction; and state when the relative "that" is used in preference to "who" or "which." 5. Parse each word in the following sentence: “Teach me what is right." 6. Analyze the following sentence: "Education is the only interest worthy the deep controlling anxiety of a truly thoughtful man." 7. Mention the principal rules for the use of the comma in punctuation. 8. Correct the following: "Your brother came right straight into the room and said to my sister and I whom were setting there I am tired and must lay down to rest me and when he was laying down we tryed to lie a veil over his face to cover it up out of sight." 9. What is an elementary sound? a letter? a word? a phrase? a clause? a simple sentence? a compound sentence? a paragraph? 10. Construct sentences in which a word, a phrase, and a clause, shall be used as the subject of a verb. QUESTIONS IN ALGEBRA. [Write out the operations in full, and write the answers both after the operation and on the printed questions opposite the number of each question. First ten questions, five credits each; remaining five, ten credits each.] 1. Multiply 10am-n+1, by 6x2m+5—6. 2. Factor a2+20a +75. 3. Raise (a+b) to the 10th power by the Binomial Formula. 4. Divide the number 100 into two such parts that their product may be equal to the difference of their squares. 6. What fraction is that which, if 1 be added to the numerator, the value will be, and if 1 be added to the denominator, the value will be ? 8. What is the cube root of 8+12a+6a2+a3? 9. What is the square root of 1-4b+4b2+2y-4by+y2? 10. Divide (a3b2) † by až. 11. Reduce (5ła m3) to its simplest form. 12. Find two numbers whose difference is 6, and whose pro 15. What two numbers are there whose difference is 3, and the difference of their cubes 189? QUESTIONS ON GEOGRAPHY. [Errors in spelling will detract from credits. Ten questions; value, ten credits each.] 1. Give the latitude and longitude of the City of Washington; of San Francisco; of London. 2. Define Zodiac, Ecliptic, Meridian, and Isothermal Line. 3. Mention some of the principal currents of the ocean, and explain the generally adopted theory of the cause of oceanic currents. 4. Give the area, boundaries, and population of the United States. 5. Through what waters would a vessel pass in sailing from New York to San Francisco, thence to Hong Kong, thence to London via Cape of Good Hope? and what winds and currents would be encountered on the passage? 6. Bound Nevada Territory, name its principal towns, and for what it is remarkable. 7. How do California and the Island of Great Britain compare in size? France and New York? Australia and the United States? 8. Name the principal plateaus of Asia and North America, and the principal plains and deserts of the world. 9. Describe the Mississippi River, name its tributaries, the cities and towns situated upon its banks, and state briefly its commercial and military importance. 10. State the principal points of resemblance, and of difference, between the Eastern and Western Continents. QUESTIONS ON NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. [Ten questions; value, five credits each.] 1. What is the law of attraction of gravitation? 2. Define specific gravity; and give the law for finding the specific gravity of a solid. 3. What is the generally received theory of light? What are the sources of light? What is the solar spectrum? 4. What are the laws which govern the reflection and the refraction of light? What is the telescope? is the microscope? 5. What is the barometer, and who invented it? How is it used to ascertain the height of mountains? 6. Mention the principal laws of motion. 7. What is the principle upon which Morse's electro-magnetic telegraph is founded? 8. How is the polarity of the magnetic needle explained? 9. Who invented the steam engine; and what distinguished men have been connected with its improvement and application? 10. What are the laws discovered by Kepler, governing the motions and distances of the planets? GENERAL QUESTIONS, AND METHODS OF TEACHING. [This paper will be credited as a whole; highest number of credits not exceeding 100.] 1. State your name, age, nativity, and Post Office address. 2. At what Schools educated, and how long in attendance? 3. At what places, and in what kind of Schools, engaged in teaching? 4. Length of time engaged in teaching. 5. What certificates received from Boards of Examination? 6. What letters of reference, or of introduction? 7. Can you teach vocal or instrumental music? 8. Can you teach elementary drawing? 9. Have you had any practice in teaching School Calisthenics or Gymnastics? 10. Have you had any practice in giving "Object Lessons?" 11. What class of faculties are called into exercise in the System of "Primary Instruction by Object Lessons?" 12. What works on Teaching, or on Object Teaching, have you ever read? 13. What Educational Journal have you ever taken? 14. What do you conceive to be the relative advantages of Public and Private Schools? 15. What is the natural order of developing the intellectual faculties of a child, and what studies call into exercise the different faculties? 16. What do you conceive to be the use of the study of Arithmetic, and what relative place would you give it in. School studies? 17. What general exercises would you introduce into an unclassified School? 18. What system of reward and punishment would you adopt in School? 19. Write an outline of questions in a primary object lesson, on "Glass." 20. Outline of a brief moral lesson, on "Lying." [C] PROSPECTUS OF THE CALIFORNIA TEACHER: A MONTHLY EDUCATIONAL JOURNAL, UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE Terms-ONE DOLLAR PER ANNUM, INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. This journal will be published punctually on the first day of each month, commencing July first, eighteen hundred and sixtythree. Each number will contain at least twenty pages, octavo, in handsome style, besides advertisements. The general appearance of the page will resemble that of the "Massachusetts Teacher." Sufficient funds were collected at the Institute to render its publication for one year a certainty; and it is hoped such a response to its first number will be received as to justify the Resident Editors in increasing the size of each month's issue. Still, no debt will be incurred for the Teachers of the State to meet at the year's end. The enlargement depends entirely upon the Teachers themselves. The price was fixed by the Institute Committee at one dollar per year. The Resident Editors have not time to spend in. |