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Anonymous ID: f69835 Aug. 28, 2018, 10:10 p.m. No.2779834   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9897 >>0522

INTENTIONALLY DUMBED-DOWN

Ask yourself WHY

Can you pass this 8th grade test from 1895?

(part 5)

 

ORTHOGRAPHY

(Time, one hour)

  1. What is meant by the following: Alphabet, phonetic orthogaphy, 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 ãuä.

  5. Give two rules for spelling words with final ãeä. 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, super.

  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.

 

Buy a history book published 20 years ago.

Buy a history book published 10 years ago.

Buy a history book published this year.

Compare.

Focus on WWI/WWII

Something ALARMING will be discovered.

Q

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2015/10/16/heres-the-famous-1895-eighth-grade-test-from-kansas-see-how-you-would-do/?utm_term=.16bca8e835d9

Anonymous ID: f69835 Aug. 28, 2018, 10:27 p.m. No.2780017   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>2779897

Go for it, Anon!

I'm old-school, so I already know what I learned in 'skool' is not what kids today are learning.

 

VICTOR writes the HIStory.

We haven't won- yet.

 

I'm still trying to wrap my head around 1895 Othography!