Exam Key for Year 4
Year 4 Term 1
Bible
1. "And Jonathan loved him as his own soul." Of whom was this said? Tell a story of Jonathan's love. OR, Tell one story about David. (1 Samuel 18:1, or 1 Samuel 16-2 Samuel)
2. Tell about John the Baptist and about how he baptized Jesus. (Mark 1)
3. Tell about the first miracle Jesus did. (Wedding of Cana, John 2:1-12)
Writing/Penmanship
Write 2-4 lines of a poem that you memorized this term.
Dictation (unprepared)
Behold me, for I cannot sleep,
And like a guilty thing I creep
At earliest morning to the door.
He is not here; but far away
The noise of life begins again
And ghastly through the drizzling rain
On the bald street breaks the blank day.
(from In Memoriam, Tennyson)
Composition
1. Describe your favorite scene or character from the Shakespeare play you read this term.
2. Narrate one of these stories: Apollo and Daphne, Pyramus and Thisbe, Cephalus and Procris, or Diana and Actaeon. (Age of Fable)
English Grammar
1. Underline the Subjects (noun phrase) and circle the Predicates (verb phrase) in the following:
a. Ben didn't like the letter at all. (Poor Richard, pg 36)
b. Poor Richard walked into the heart of the American people and stayed there. (pg 61)
c. Three hundred friends in a cavalcade of affection rode down to Chester to see him off. (pg 89)
d. An ocean voyage was an exciting adventure with a grandfather like that. (pg 123)
2. Write sentences to show that the following words are sometimes nouns and sometimes verbs: walk, look, run, talk, shake, hand.
3. Fix the punctuation and capitalization in the following sentence: Here they built a little fort which they called New Amsterdam.
U.S. History
1. What do you know about King Philip's War? (TCOO ch 32)
2. "In spite of Franklin's popularity in Paris, the war news from America was making the French foreign minister wary of an American treaty." Tell the whole story. (Poor Richard, pg 129)
3. Tell about the witches of Salem, or how New Amsterdam became New York. (TCOO ch 34 or 36)
4. What do you know about Lord Baltimore or William Penn? (TCOO ch 35 or 40)
Geography
1. What do you know about Lake Itasca? (Minn of the Mississippi ch 3) Or, What do you know about The Falls of St. Anthony's? Locate it on a map and tell what's around it. (Minn of the Mississippi ch 7)
2. "The river is a museum." Explain. (Minn of the Mississippi ch 6)
3. Describe the earth's surface. (water and land forms) (from this term's casual geography talks)
Natural History and General Science
1. What are earthquakes? What causes them? (Madam How and Lady Why, "Earthquakes")
2. Talk about silk, and about Epeira's Bridge. (Story Book of Science, ch 23 and 26)
3. Choose one question matched to your term's Nature Study theme from here
Citizenship/Government (Plutarch)
Use the Year 4-6 Question for this term's Plutarch from this page.
Arithmetic/Geometry (Questions from your math program may be substituted.)
1. 63 divided by __ = 7 (9)
2. Dan bought 8 cases of soda for a party with 24 cans in each case, how many cans of soda is that altogether? (192)
3. Fred mows lawns for five dollars per lawn. If he mows eight lawns, how much does he earn? ($40)
Foreign Language
1. Make sentences using the third person singular, present tense ("he sits...")
2. Describe a picture in your language book, using your foreign language.
Picture Study
1. Describe a picture from this term's picture study.
Year 4 Term 2
Bible
1. Tell how David spared Saul's life, OR Tell about Abigail and Nabal. (1 Samuel 24 or 25)
2. Tell about moving the ark to Jerusalem. (2 Samuel 6)
3. Tell the story of Jesus and the man at the pool of Bethesda. (John 5:1-15)
Writing/Penmanship
1. Write two lines of poetry from memory.
Dictation (unprepared)
All day the breeze held in the same point, and rather freshened than died down; and towards afternoon, a swell began to set in from round the outer Hebrides. Our course, to go round about the inner isles, was to the west of south, so that at first we had this swell upon our beam, and were much rolled about. (from Kidnapped, chapter 12)
Composition
1. Tell a story about one of the following: The House of Shaws, Phaeton, or Midas. (Age of Fable)
2. Describe a scene from Robinson Crusoe.
English Grammar
1. Underline the Subjects (noun phrase) and circle the Predicates (verb phrase) in the following:
a. Members of Parson Smith's congregation were always welcome. (Abigail Adams, pg 5)
b. Many children died in the first year or two of life. (pg 33)
c. Her imagination began to run wild. (pg 52)
d. Her husband had been elected commissioner to France. (pg 88)
2. Tell whether each of the bolded words in the phrases is a noun or a verb:
The steeples swam in amethyst, (noun, verb)
The news like squirrels ran.(noun, verb) poem is by Emily Dickinson.
3. "I am not ashamed of my name," said I. "They call me David Balfour."
U.S. History
1. Tell about two of these: Benjamin Franklin, James Oglethorpe, la Salle, King William's War, or Chief Pontiac. (TCOO ch 41, 44, 45, 46, 50)
2. Tell about the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party. (TCOO, ch 51)
3. "Do you wonder that a boy of seven who witnessed this scene should be a patriot?" Tell the story. Or, tell about John Adams' appointment as commissioner to France. (Abigail Adams, ch 8, pg 59 or ch 12, pg 88)
World History
1. Tell about the French and Indian War or the Seven Years War. (George Washington's World pg 75, or 81 and 99)
2. What do you know about Marie Antoinette? (George Washington's World pg 133)
3. Tell about Voltaire, Olaudah, or Fray Junipero. (George Washington's World pg 108, 158 or 161)
Geography
1. Tell what you know about Lake Pepin. (Minn ch 9) Or, Locate the "Middle Mississippi" on a map. Tell something you know about it. (Minn ch 13 - it's the part between the Missouri and Ohio Rivers.)
2. What do you know about the Mound Builders? (Minn ch 10)
3. Describe the cycle of water, or the cycle of a drop of water. (clouds, rain, river, sea, vapor) (from this term's casual geography talks)
Natural History and General Science
1. Describe the links of the endless chain of change that transform a grain of soil. (Madame How ch 4)
2. Tell how steam can make machines move. (Storybook of Science ch 48, The Boiling Pot)
3. Choose one question matched to your term's Nature Study theme from here.
Citizenship/Government (Plutarch)
Use the Year 4-6 Question for this term's Plutarch from this page.
Arithmetic/Geometry (Questions from your math program may be substituted.)
1. How much would you spend if you bought a movie ticket for $5.25, a soda for $2.50, and a box of popcorn for $3.75? ($11.50)
2. If four dozen cookies on a platter are to be shared equally among 9 children, how many whole cookies will each child eat? (5)
3. Write .30 as a fraction. (3/10)
Foreign Language
1. Make sentences using the first person singular, present tense ("I eat...")
2. Describe a picture in your language book, using your foreign language.
Picture Study
1. Describe a picture from this term's picture study.
Year 4 Term 3
Bible
1. Tell about David's kindness to Mephibosheth. (2 Samuel 9)
2. Write about a parable Jesus told.
3. Tell the story of Jesus walking on the water. (Matthew 14)
Writing/Penmanship
1. Write two lines of poetry from memory.
Dictation (unprepared)
Now the dogs were thrown completely on their own resources. The Labrador did his best and tried to initiate the other into the art of frog and field mouse hunting, but the terrier's eyesight was too poor for him to have much success. (from The Incredible Journey, ch 7)
Composition
1. Tell the story of Cupid and Psyche, or Echo and Narcissus, or Niobe. (Age of Fable)
2. Describe a scene from The Incredible Journey.
English Grammar
1. Underline the Subjects (noun phrase) and circle the Predicates (verb phrase) in the following:
a. Sunday quickly became her favorite day of the week. (Abigail Adams, pg 139)
b. She and Abigail were always good friends. (pg 173)
c. The people must have access to the truth. (pg 188)
d. Abigail's trip to Washington was not a happy one. (pg 198)
2. Tell whether each bolded word is a noun or a verb:
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; (verb, noun, noun, verb)
Our meddling intellect (noun)
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:-- (verb, noun)
We murder to dissect. (verb; Tennyson)
3. Fix the punctuation and capitalization in the following sentence: what are we to do now I asked --"What are we to do now?" I asked.
U.S. History
1. What do you know about Paul Revere's Ride, the Battle of Bunker Hill, or Valley Forge? (This Country of Ours ch 52, 53 or 59)
2. Tell about the Declaration of Independence. (This Country of Ours ch 55)
3. "I haven't begun to fight yet." Tell the whole story. Or, discuss the relationship between Thomas Jefferson, and John and Abigail Adams. (This Country of Ours ch 60, or Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution)
World History
1. Tell about the fall of the Bastille. (George Washington's World pg 296)
2. What do you know about Frederick the Great, Catherine the Great, or Dr. Jenner? (George Washington's World pg 272, 273/333, or 327)
3. Tell about the Reign of Terror or Napoleon in Egypt. (George Washington's World pg 330 or 339)
Geography
1. "The Upper Mississippi made the Lower." Explain this. (Minn ch 14) Or, Discuss some boats that changed the Mississippi River. (Minn ch 15)
2. What is the difference between a fast flood and a slow one? (Minn ch 17)
3. Describe a river from where it begins to where it ends. (mouth, tributaries, sea) (from this term's casual geography talks)
Natural History and General Science
1. Explain how Madame How's great ice-plough has helped make the ground on which we live. (Madam How, ch 5, The Ice-Plough)
2. Tell what you know about pollen, and why plants need insects. (Storybook of Science, ch 59-62 The Blossom, Fruit, Pollen, The Bumble-Bee)
3. Choose one question matched to your term's Nature Study theme from here.
Citizenship/Government (Plutarch)
Use the Year 4-6 Question for this term's Plutarch from this page.
Arithmetic/Geometry (Questions from your math program may be substituted.)
1. If a toy car and a toy truck on a scale weighed 1 pound together, and the truck weighs 10 ounces, how much does the car weigh? (6 ounces)
2. At breakfast the temperature outside was 66 degrees F. At lunchtime it had gone up 8 degrees F, and then by dinnertime it had gone down 6 degrees F. What was the temperature at dinnertime? (68 degrees)
3. If 3 + n = 20, what is n? (17)
Foreign Language
1. Make sentences using the second person singular, present tense ("you hear...")
2. Describe a picture in your language book, using your foreign language.
Picture Study
1. Describe a picture from this term's picture study.