Exam Key for Year 10
Year 10 Term 1
Bible and Spiritual Formation
1. What is the difference between cheap grace, and costly grace? OR "There is only one way of following Jesus and of worshipping God, and that is to be reconciled with our brethren." Explain this. (Cost of Discipleship ch 1 or ch 9)
2. Describe the events regarding Joash being crowned king, OR Tell about the threat from Sennacherib and Israel's deliverance. (2 Kings 11 or 2 Kings 18-19)
3. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." Comment on this, OR Explain the water that "will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." (John 1:1-5 or John 4:13-14)
Writing/Penmanship
Write 8-10 lines of poetry from memory.
Dictation (unprepared)
This is a delicious evening, when the whole body is one sense, and imbibes delight through every pore. I go and come with a strange liberty in Nature, a part of herself. As I walk along the stony shore of the pond in my shirt-sleeves, though it is cool as well as cloudy and windy, and I see nothing special to attract me, all the elements are unusually congenial to me. The bullfrogs trump to usher in the night, and the note of the whip-poor-will is borne on the rippling wind from over the water. Sympathy with the fluttering alder and poplar leaves almost takes away my breath; yet, like the lake, my serenity is rippled but not ruffled. (from Walden, "Solitude")
Composition/Literature
1. Write a sketch of Uncle Tom or Eva. (Uncle Tom's Cabin)
2. Describe the scene between Valjean, the Bishop, and the brigadier involving the silver. (Les Miserables)
3. What were some of the sounds heard at Walden Pond? (Walden, "Sounds")
English Grammar
1. Write sentences showing correct use of "whose" and "who's."
2. Is the italicized word an adverb or adjective?
She dances gracefully. (adv)
This is an easy test. (adj)
3. Give words in which the following suffixes occur - able, ful, ion, ive, ive, ious.
4. What is a preposition? Give four examples of a prepositional phrase.
5. Parse the sentence, identifying: 1) the part of speech for each word; 2) for nouns and pronouns, the number (singular, plural) and case (nominative, objective/accusative, dative, possessive/genitive, vocative); 3) for verbs, the tense (past, present, future), voice (active, passive), and--if applicable--person (first, second, third). (Teacher: you may ask the student to provide more or less information, as appropriate.)
In landscapes the painter should give the suggestion of a fairer creation than we know. (Emerson's Essay on Art) ANSWER - in: preposition; landscapes: noun, plural, dative; the: article (or adjective); painter: noun, singular, nominative; should: verb (or verbal auxiliary), present, active, third person; give: verb (or infinitive), present, active; the: article (or adjective); suggestion: noun, singular, objective (or accusative); of: preposition; a: article (or adjective); fairer: adjective; creation: noun, singular, dative; than: conjunction; we: pronoun, plural, nominative; know: verb, present, active, first person
World History
1. What do you know about Duke Wellington? (Great Democracies ch 2 and 3)
2. What events led to the Crimean War? (Great Democracies ch 4)
3. Tell something about the migration of Europeans to either Canada, South Africa, Australia or New Zealand. (Great Democracies, ch 6 and 7)
4. Give an account of the Indian mutiny. (Great Democracies ch 5)
5. What were the arguments for and against slavery in pre-Civil War America? (Arguing About Slavery)
6. Describe Booker T. Washington's rise from a life of slavery. (Up From Slavery)
Geography
1. What did Kinglake see in Galilee? (Eothen ch 11)
2. Tell about pilgrims journeying to the Holy City. (Eothen, ch 16)
3. Describe the plague in Cairo. (Eothen, ch 18)
Natural History and General Science
1. "Everything that animals do, atoms do." Explain, with details. (Six Easy Pieces "Atoms in Motion")
2. Explain Pasteur's process for preventing wine from going bad. (Microbe Hunters, ch 3)
3. Choose a question matched to your term's science subject from here or from your science program.
4. Choose a second question matched to your term's science subject from here or from your science program.
Citizenship
1. Use the Year 7-10 Questions for this term's Plutarch from this page.
2. How many races are there? Why does our stance on racism matter? (One Race One Blood)
3. "Well said Carlyle that, whether you or I be in a state of well-being or not 'is not the central fact of the Universe.'" What is the principle underlying temperance/moderaton? (Ourselves pg 19)
4. What is "lawful plunder?" Give some examples. (Bastiat's The Law)
Arithmetic/Geometry (Questions from your math program may be substituted.)
1. If a point (7, 4) is reflected across the y axis, where is that reflected point? (-7, 4)
2. Is it cheaper to buy a 16-ounce bag of chips for $5.99, or a 22-ounce bag of chips for $6.25? (22 ounce)
3. What is the slope of this line: y=2x+9? (2)
4. How many milliliters are in 0.0428? (42.8 mL)
5. If a juice is diluted with 20 percent juice and the rest water, what is the ratio of juice to water? (1:4)
Foreign Language
1. Tell, in your foreign language, what five things you would take to a desert island, and why.
2. Describe a picture in your language book, using your foreign language.
Picture Study
1. Describe a picture from this term's picture study.
Recitation
Father should choose a poem, two Bible verses and/or a scene from Shakespeare learned this term for student to recite.
Music (such as playing an instrument)
Parent or instructor should assess child's progress.
Music Appreciation
1. Tell about your favorite piece of music from this term.
2. Question to be taken from this term's Composer Study here
Singing
Sing your favorite folksong and hymn from this term.
Handicrafts
Show some work in handicrafts from this term to someone outside your family.
Year 10 Term 2
Bible and Spiritual Formation
1. How does love conquer the enemy? OR Explain the Christian's relationship with unbelievers. (Cost of Discipleship ch 13 or 18)
2. "I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy sons; and I will establish his kingdom." Summarize David's response to this promise. OR Describe David's preparations for the new temple. (1 Chronicles 17:11 or 1 Chronicles 22)
3. "I have come into the world as light, so that whoever believes in Me may not remain in darkness." Comment on this. (John 12:46)
Writing/Penmanship
Write 8-10 lines of poetry from memory.
Dictation (unprepared)
I resolved in my future conduct to redeem the past; and I can say with honesty that my resolve was fruitful of some good. You know yourself how earnestly in the last months of last year, I laboured to relieve suffering; you know that much was done for others, and that the days passed quietly, almost happily for myself. Nor can I truly say that I wearied of this beneficent and innocent life; I think instead that I daily enjoyed it more completely; but I was still cursed with my duality of purpose; and as the first edge of my penitence wore off, the lower side of me, so long indulged, so recently chained down, began to growl for licence. (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)
Composition
1. Tell about John Keats, Charles Dickens, or Alfred Tennyson. (History of English Literature ch 81-85)
2. Narrate an episode from Les Miserables.
3. Summarize a poem you read this term by Robert or Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
English Grammar
1. Identify whether the italicized word is a direct object, or indirect object.
Gregory sent Jill a text containing all the relevant information. (indirect)
Craig carefully pounded nails into the board in a straight line. (direct)
2. Write sentences showing correct use of "they're," "there" and "their."
3. Choose "his" or "their." Everyone should have __ own writing implement. (his)
4. Parse the sentence, identifying: 1) the part of speech for each word; 2) for nouns and pronouns, the number (singular, plural) and case (nominative, objective/accusative, dative, possessive/genitive, vocative); 3) for verbs, the tense (past, present, future), voice (active, passive), and--if applicable--person (first, second, third). (Teacher: you may ask the student to provide more or less information, as appropriate.)
My hand was already on the lock of the door before I recollected myself. (Frankenstein ch 5) ANSWER - my: adjective; hand: noun, singular, nominative; was: verb, past, active, third person; already: adverb; on: preposition; the: article (or adjective); lock: noun, singular, dative; of: preposition; the: article (or adjective); door: noun, singular, dative; before: adverb; I: pronoun, singular, nominative; recollected: verb, past, active, first person; myself: pronoun, singular, objective (or accusative)
History
1. Tell what you know of the Missouri Compromise. Or, tell what you know about the Dred Scott case. (Churchill's Great Democracies ch 9 or Johnson's History of the American People pg 397, 432)
2. "The Confederates lost their best chance of victory when they failed to use the autumn and winter of 1861." Explain; or, tell what you know of Robert E. Lee. Or explain, "the South saw itself as the slave of a Union dominated by Northern capital." (Churchill's Great Democracies ch 11/12 or Johnson's History of the American People pg 434-435)
3. Tell what you know about the Battle of Gettysburg or George B. McClellan, or Jefferson Davis. (Churchill's Great Democracies ch 11/12 or 13 or Johnson's History of the American People pg 479-484 or 450-460)
4. Explain: "With [Lincoln] vanished the only protector of the prostrate South." Or, Lincoln "intended to bind wounds." (Churchill's Great Democracies ch 14 or Johnson's History of the American People pg 496-497)
5. Give an account of John Quincy Adams' opinions of slavery, or the role of Uncle Tom's Cabin in the American slavery debate. (Arguing About Slavery ch 25-29)
6. Explain three traits that made Lincoln an admirable leader. (biography of Lincoln)
Geography
1. Describe Damascus. (Eothen ch 27)
2. Decribe the "great American desert," the prairie. (Oregon Trail, ch 4)
3. Detail some "scenes from Fort Laramie," or at the camp. (Oregon Trail ch 9 or 11)
Natural History and General Science
1. "It is not possible to predict exactly what will happen in any circumstance." Explain. Or, summarize "the horrible condition of our physics today." (Six Easy Pieces, pg 35 or 44)
2. Choose a question matched to your term's science subject from here or from your science program.
3. Choose a second question matched to your term's science subject from here or from your science program.
Citizenship/Government/Worldview (Plutarch)
1. Use the Year 7-10 Questions for this term's Plutarch from this page.
2. What is fortitude? Give some examples. (Ourselves Book II, pg 41-48)
3. Explain social Darwinism. Or, explain Julius Wellhausen's impact on textual criticism. (Seven Men Who Rule, ch 3 or 6)
4. How does entertainment change the nature of news, elections, and education? OR Discuss this: "No medium is excessively dangerous if its users understand what its dangers are." (Amusing Ourselves to Death ch 7, 9, 10, or ch 11, pg 161)
Arithmetic/Geometry (Questions from your math program may be substituted.)
1. Solve for x if 7x + 5 = -x + 41. (x is 4.5)
2. A rectangle field has an area of 300 square meters and a perimeter of 80 meters. What are the length and width of the field? (30m long, 10m wide)
3. A real estate agent received a 6 percent commission on the selling price of a house. If his commission was $8,880, what was the selling price of the house? ($148,000)
4. Are two lines with the same slope perpendicular? (No)
5. A right triangle has a hypotenuse of length 30 and a leg of length 10. To the nearest tenth,
what is the length of the other leg? (14.3)
Foreign Language
1. In your foreign language, summarize a situation/issue happening in current events.
2. Describe a picture in your language book, using your foreign language.
Picture Study
1. Describe a picture from this term's picture study.
Recitation
Father should choose a poem, two Bible verses and/or a scene from Shakespeare learned this term for student to recite.
Music (such as playing an instrument)
Parent or instructor should assess child's progress.
Music Appreciation
1. Tell about your favorite piece of music from this term.
2. Question to be taken from this term's Composer Study here
Singing
Sing your favorite folksong and hymn from this term.
Handicrafts
Show some work in handicrafts from this term to someone outside your family.
Year 10 Term 3
Bible and Spiritual Formation
1. Write about the visible community, or the saints. (Cost of Discipleship ch 30 or 31)
2. "Ask what I shall give thee." What did Solomon ask of God? What do we know about Solomon's knowledge and power? OR, "To your tents, o Israel!" Describe the cause and the course of the Great Rebellion. (2 Chronicles 1:7 or 2 Chronicles 10:16)
3. Give some account of the coming of the Lord, and how we should live until then. OR "The greatest of these is charity (love)." What does Paul say about charity/love? (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 or 1 Corinthians 13)
Writing/Penmanship
Write 8-10 lines of poetry from memory.
Dictation (unprepared)
He thought he had been too long standing at the door and looking out. Turning towards the hearth, where the two logs had fallen apart, and sent forth only a red uncertain glimmer, he seated himself on his fireside chair, and was stooping to push his logs together, when, to his blurred vision, it seemed as if there were gold on the floor in front of the hearth. Gold!--his own gold--brought back to him as mysteriously as it had been taken away! He felt his heart begin to beat violently, and for a few moments he was unable to stretch out his hand and grasp the restored treasure. (from Silas Marner)
Composition
1. Describe your favorite character from Silas Marner.
2. Narrate an episode from Les Miserables.
3. What is right with the world? (Chesterton's essay)
English Grammar
1. Identify whether the italicized word is a direct object, or indirect object.
After the game, Michael bought his brothers some pizza and ice cream. (indirect)
Now fed and bathed, Angela read a book to her young charges before putting them to bed. (direct)
2. Choose "its" or "their." Each of the books had __ own handmade bookmark. (its)
3. Use good and well correctly in sentences. (good is an adj, well is an adv)
4. Parse the sentence, identifying: 1) the part of speech for each word; 2) for nouns and pronouns, the number (singular, plural) and case (nominative, objective/accusative, dative, possessive/genitive, vocative); 3) for verbs, the tense (past, present, future), voice (active, passive), and--if applicable--person (first, second, third). (Teacher: you may ask the student to provide more or less information, as appropriate.)
Nancy was capable of keeping her word to herself under very trying conditions. (Silas Marner ch 11) ANSWER - Nancy: noun, singular, nominative; was: verb, past, active, third person; capable: adjective; of: preposition; keeping: noun, dative (or verb, present, active--this is a tricky one, because the word is actually a gerund, a type of verbal noun); her: adjective; word: noun, singular, objective (or accusative); to: preposition; herself: pronoun, singular, dative; under: adverb; very: adverb; trying: adjective; conditions: noun, plural, dative
History
1. Tell about the rise of Germany. Or, discuss the significance of the American frontier. (Churchill's Great Democracies ch 15 or Johnson's History of the American People pg 524-531)
2. What do you know about Benjamin Disraeli or Gladstone? Or, tell how the railroads transformed America. (Churchill's Great Democracies ch 16 or Johnson's History of the American People pg 531-537)
3. Give an account of post-Civil War American reconstruction. Or, tell what you know about Andrew Carnegie. (Churchill's Great Democracies ch 17 or Johnson's History of the American People pg 550-555)
4. Discuss silver and the Battle of Standards, or J.P. Morgan. (Churchill's Great Democracies ch 18:monometallism/bimetallism or Johnson's History of the American People pg 553-559)
5. What do you know about the South African (Boer) War? Or, discuss the rise of labor and muckraking. (Churchill's Great Democracies ch 21 or Johnson's History of the American People pg 597-603)
6. Tell what you know of Queen Victoria. (biography of Victoria)
Geography
1. Describe the Ogallalla Village, an Indian hunting camp, or a buffalo chase. (Oregon Trail ch 14 or 15 or 24)
2. Desribe the Black Hills, the pueblo, or settlements along the Oregon trail. (Oregon Trail ch 17 or 21 or 27)
3. What were some of the specific dangers faced along the trail? (Oregon Trail)
Natural History and General Science
1. Give an account of Pasteur, Roux, Behring, Metchnikoff or Smith. (Microbe Hunters)
2. Tell about the relation of physics to chemistry, biology, astronomy, geology or psychology. (Six Easy Pieces ch 3)
3. Choose a question matched to your term's science subject from here or from your science program.
4. Choose a second question matched to your term's science subject from here or from your science program.
Citizenship/Government/Worldview (Plutarch)
1. Use the Year 7-10 Questions for this term's Plutarch from this page.
2. How do we show prudence in our choice of friends? (Ourselves Book II pg 49-)
3. Are we free to think whatever we like? Explain. (Ourselves pg 56-)
4. Explain the "tyranny of the majority." What are the three liberties we ought to enjoy? (On Liberty: conscience/thought, planning one's life, uniting with others of like mind)
5. What is Keynesian Economics? (Seven Men Who Rule the World From the Grave, "Keynes")
Arithmetic/Geometry (Questions from your math program may be substituted.)
1. Four children have some marbles. The first child has 1/10 of the marbles, the second child has 12 more marbles than the first, the third child has one more marble than what the first child has and the fourth child has double what the third child has. How many marbles are there? (30)
2. Solve for x: 7x + 5 = -x + 41 (x is 4.5)
3. What is the surface area of cylinder with radius of 2 cm and height 8 cm? (125.6)
4. A youth group wants to raise $500 to attend a concert. They have raised $100 through donations. If they wash cars for $5.00 each, how many cars will they need to wash in order to earn what they still need for the concert? (80)
5. Baileytown is 924 miles from Portsville. Wood City is three-fourths of the distance from Baileytown to Portsville. How many miles is it from Baileytown to Wood City? (693 miles)
Foreign Language
1. Write a paragraph in your foreign language about an act of bravery you read about this term.
2. Describe a picture in your language book, using your foreign language.
Picture Study
1. Describe a picture from this term's picture study.
Recitation
Father should choose a poem, two Bible verses and/or a scene from Shakespeare learned this term for student to recite.
Music (such as playing an instrument)
Parent or instructor should assess child's progress.
Music Appreciation
1. Tell about your favorite piece of music from this term.
2. Question to be taken from this term's Composer Study here
Singing
Sing your favorite folksong and hymn from this term.
Handicrafts
Show some work in handicrafts from this term to someone outside your family.