Form 3 Examination 1 1

Form 3 Examination 1 1 Form 3 Examination 2 Child s Name Age: years, months Directions : There is to be no review of material before exams. Give the student one prompt at a time and allow him/her to complete it before giving the next question. All responses should be written or typed by the child into a Word document, unless otherwise indicated. Hand-written responses should be scanned into a single PDF when the child is finished with the exam. Do not interrupt the child or ask prompting questions as a general rule. If the parent must encourage a child who is having difficulty answering, please include what is said by the parent in brackets in the response. For responses that do not lend themselves to being written, the parent may take observational notes or insert a picture, audio file, or video link instead (if you are so inclined and tech-savvy--images and videos are not required). Parents should assess their own students work using the descriptors provided before sending the exam to administrator@charlottemasoninstitute.com. In the subject line, please type Form 3 Exam 2, [Child s Name] Bible Lessons (Genesis and Acts) 1. Give an account of the character of Jacob, using specific examples to illustrate your points. 2. To what occasions do the following refer? Describe 2 of them: a) And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck and kissed him: and they wept b) With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him not live. c) Bring me venison, and make me savory food, that I may eat, and bless thee before the Lord before my death. 3. And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. Describe this scene and its significance. 4. Tell about the experiences of early Christians who had to choose between Jesus and the laws of their society. Writing 5. Write 10 lines of poetry from memory using your best penmanship. Dictation 6. Beowulf: Student studies lines 1903-2009. Parent calls out the passage when the student feels ready. Composition 7. Write in a journalistic style about one news story you read this term. 8. Write a poem (using both rhyme and meter) about one of the following: a) beauty; b) Mary Tudor; c) Publicola; d) birds

Form 3 Examination 1 2 English Grammar 9. Diagram the following sentences: A belief in your ability as a mathematician gives you a better chance at success. Ability in math is seen as the triumph of cool, impersonal logic. Literature ( A Short History of English and American Literature, Beowulf, and A Winter s Tale ) 10. Compare the voices of two of the following during the tumultuous times of England in the 13th century: Sir John Mandeville, William Langland, John Wyclif, and Geoffrey Chaucer. 11. Choose a scene to describe: a) Hermione s trial in A Winter s Tale, or b) Beuwulf s underwater battle. American and British History ( The Story of Liberty ) 12. Describe the relationship between Catholics and Protestants during the reign of Mary Tudor. 13. Tell the story of Mary, Queen of Scots. 14. Tell what you know of the first European settlements in the New World. Ancient History 15. Tell about the Fall of Ur. 16. Describe the rule of Hammurabi and its significance. Citizenship 17. Tell some of the positive and negative aspects of unions, or, Explain what would likely happen if the government stopped inflating money. Do you think it is a good idea? Why or why not? 18. Plutarch says that victory in battle was usually attributed to the gods. Why was Publicola s last battle attributed to the conduct of one captain? 19. Explain how to recognize good literature. Geography 20. Draw and label (cities, landforms, bodies of water, etc.) a map of one of the following from memory: a) Italy; b) The Holy Land; c) The Arabian Peninsula. 21. Explain why Mendoza and Coronado parted ways, or, Explain what the King s Fifth is. Natural History ( Look at the Sky and Tell the Weather, Men, Microscopes, and Living Things, special studies) 22. Draw and tell what you know about two of your special studies (birds, trees, or other). 23. Explain how clouds form and describe how each of the following conditions affects cloud formation: humidity, temperature, air pressure, and nucleation.

Form 3 Examination 1 3 24. Describe, with drawings, the instruments that comprise your home weather station and the patterns you noticed as you tracked the weather this term. 25. Describe, with drawings, the classification system we use today for all living creatures. 26. Explain how natural selection and environmental changes cause the populations of organisms to change. Art Appreciation 27. Choose one of Durer s pieces to sketch and describe without looking at it. (Parents record the name of the piece.) Math 28. Complete a recent test or review page from your math program(s). Latin 1 29. Translate the following sentences into English. Then, without looking back here, translate them back into Latin: Gladius fractus est. Stilī optimī sunt. 30. Write the six endings for the verb labōrō you have learned that show who is doing the action. Translate each. Latin 2 29. If the word is in its nominative case, give the accusative. If it is in the accusative, give the nominative. Translate each word. pictor mercātōrem amīcus senem ancilla 30. Translate the first paragraph of pictor on p. 37 into English (cover the vocabulary words at the bottom of the page). Then close your book and translate your English story back into Latin. Modern Languages Spanish 1 : 31. Say something in Spanish about the pictures on p. 14-15 of El Suelo. This may include naming insects. 32. Recite Tortillas para mama or Almendras y turron from Pio Peep! French 1 : 31. Say something in French about the pictures on p. 22-23 of La Terre. This may include naming objects. 32. Recite A, B, C or Le Lapin from Un, Deux, Trois. Spanish 2 :

Form 3 Examination 1 4 31. Narrate the story of Epaminondas, using as many Spanish words as possible and substituting English words where necessary. 32. Perform the last Series you studied in English and then in Spanish. Use proper Spanish pronunciation. French 2 : 31. Narrate the story of Le loup et le chien, using as many French words as possible and substituting English words where necessary. 32. Perform the last Series you studied in English and then in French. Use proper French pronunciation. Brushdrawing 33. An illustration (with a name) from A Winter s Tale, captioned with beautiful lettering 34. A study of children playing sports (from memory) Music Appreciation 35. Choose one of the movements of Vivaldi s The Four Seasons (Spring, Summer, Autumn, or Winter) to listen to again, and describe how the music sounds like that season. If you like, you can include any mind pictures that you see as you listen. 36. Choose one piece to write a few lines about. Recitations (Note which ones are recited from memory and which ones are read aloud.) Choose: 37. One hymn 38. One poem or scene from Shakespeare 39. Two passages from the Bible lessons Reading 40. Parent to choose a poem and a leading article from a newspaper. Applied Music 41. Sing the following solfege pattern using the hand signs (parents see lesson 10): m r d d r m m m r m r d 42. Clap or vocalize (do-de) the rhythm: 42 for Advanced: Sight-sing exercise 18 from 303 Reading Exercises.

Form 3 Examination 1 5 43. Tap the beat as you sing one English song from this term: Hot Cross Buns, The Boatman, Hop Old Squirrel, or The Closet Key. 44. Sing one song in Spanish ( El barquito or Al Tambor ) or French ( Sur le pont d avingnon or Allouette ) that you learned this term. P.E. and Dance 45. Perform (to the best of your ability if you are short of partners) one dance you learned this term ( Patty-Cake Polka or Sicilian Circle ). Work and Handicrafts [Sloyd (opt.), polymer clay, cooking, gardening, life skills, and others] 46. List all of the handicrafts you completed this term. Have an adult friend examine your work.