Year 8, Term 3 Exam: Homeschool Exams and Test for Eigth Grade

Year 8, Term 3 Exam

Literature, poetry, and additional reading: View point with creative expression
(handicraft, recycled material project, diorama, cooking, land art, or art media: collage, paint, mold, chalk, pencil)

Detail an event from The Betrothed using a creative expression idea. Try to capture how the characters are feeling as well as the event.

SS: Government, citizenship, history, geography: Background with oral expression
(presentation: Defend, Persuade, judge, compare/contrast, inform, narration)

Compose an informative speech on any of these things: a day at sea on the Kon Tiki, Easter Island, a Polynesian Island, plague, or the Great Fire of 1666. Be sure to describe what it meant to live then or there, how people dressed, what a day in their lives look like, the homes or shelter people had, and the relationships people there or in that time had to their surroundings and one another.

SS: government, citizenship, history, geography; Science: experiments, nature study; Art: artist, technique: Characterization with written expression
(narration, proposal, biography, persuade, problem/solution, instructions, list, poetry, composition)

Choose from this list of people and give some account of them as a person and their lives: Leeuwenhook, Whistler, William III Prince of Orange, the "Lord Protector,” George Herbert, or John Milton. Consider answering these questions: What did he act? How did he react or act in certain situations or with other people? How did he influence the people around him? What of his character? What were his relationship with others like? How did his choices impact the people around him?

Science: experiments, nature study: Action (Drama, Movement, Change) with visual expression
(diagrams, blow-outs, maps, graphic organizers, chart, poster, pamphlet)

Create a detailed diagram or blow-out of how plants form fruit, the life cycle of a frog, freons, or the 2,6,10 rule. In your visual be sure to show the physical changes that take place naturally.

Bible & Service: readings, hymn: The Greater Meaning with movement
(play, puppet show, music, dance, video (still, animated, silent, movie)

Choose from one of these topics and create some form of movement expression: 1) Explain what pursuing pleasure means opposed to doing things for the glory of God. 2) Give an account of the greatest commandment and provide examples of the impact it should have on our lives. 3) Tell about the sheep and the goats and what conclusions you can draw from the story. 4) Describe the visit of the Queen of Sheba and the magnificence of Solomon. What can you draw from the relationship?

Music: composer, folk song, hymn, instrument; SS: government, citizenship, history, geography; Literature, poetry, and additional reading: Mood with analytical expression
(game, puzzle, crossword, word search, code)

Find a way to summarize, discuss, or explain any of the following topics and include the feeling that goes along with them: 1) one of Milton's poems, 2) "Moreover he (Martius) said 'they nourished against themselves the naughty seed and cockle of insolency and sedition." Give some account of this rebellion of the people. How did Martius behave? 3) the obligation of showing loyalty, or 4) a piece by Carl Ditters Von Dittersdorf.

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Year 1, Term 2 Exam: Homeschool Exams and Tests for First Grade

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Year 1, Term 2 Exam

Bible & Service: readings, hymn: Mood with creative expression

(handicraft, recycled material project, diorama, cooking, land art, or art media: collage, paint, mold, chalk, pencil)

Jesus’ life was full of miracles and exciting events. Create a project that shows something Jesus did and what happened with the people that were there. Choose from any of the creative ideas.

Music: composer, folk song, hymn, instrument & Art: artist, technique: Action (Drama, Movement, Change) with movement (play, puppet show, music, dance, video (still, animated, silent, movie)

Create your own play, puppet show, music, or dance to show the relationship between the music or the art that we’ve studied and how it makes you feel. We’ve studied medieval music, Giotto, and Windy Old Weather.

Science: experiments, nature study: View point with oral expression

(presentation: Defend, Persuade, judge, compare/contrast, inform, narration)

Nature study allows us to look at things in nature closely that we may otherwise miss. We’ve been studying the pond, your tree, insects, and birds this term. Choose one of those things and describe for me what you have noticed about it.

Literature, poetry, and additional reading: The Greater Meaning with written expression

(narration, proposal, biography, persuade, problem/solution, instructions, list, poetry, composition)

Pick one of the stories we have read this term and write about what conclusions we can draw from it or what we can learn from it. Choose from Shakespeare: As you Like it and The Winter’s Tale, Prince Hyacinth, Aesop’s Fables, Just So Stories, about the naughty wind and how he tricked the flowers in Training and Restraining, or the crickets in Waiting.

SS: Government, Citizenship, History, Geography: Background with visual expression

(diagrams, blow-outs, maps, graphic organizers, chart, poster, pamphlet)

Paddle has had many adventures on his way to the sea. Think about the places where Paddle has traveled. What was a day for him? Create a map that shows some of what Paddle has done and where he has gone. 

SS: Government, Citizenship, History, Geography: Characterization with analytical expression (game, puzzle, crossword, word search, code) 

Create a game or puzzle to tell about what is unique about someone you’ve learned about this term. Consider George Washington, Athenius, Ambrose, Augustine, Bruce of Scots, Black Douglas, Whittington, King Arthur, and Alfred.

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Year 1, Term 1 Exam: Homeschool Exams and Tests for First Grade

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Year 1, Term 1 Exam

Bible & Service: readings, hymn & SS: Government, Citizenship, History, Geography: Characterization with oral expression (presentation: Defend, Persuade, judge, compare/contrast, inform, narration)

Choose someone that you have studied this term and tell me about some of their fine human qualities. Choose from Paul, Benjamin Franklin, Cornelia, King Alfred, or William Tell. Consider telling me about what they think and feel, how they act, how they influence the people around them, and what is unique about the individual.

Music: composer, folk song, hymn: View point with movement (play, puppet show, music, dance, video (still, animated, silent, movie)

Choose one of the music pieces you listened to this term and create a dance to show how it makes you feel: Let us Sing Together, Nothing but the Blood, Jesus, Lover of my Soul, Grace Tis a Changing Sound, or music by Dvorak.

Science: experiments, nature study & Art: artist, technique: Background with creative expression (handicraft, recycled material project, diorama, cooking, land art, or art media: collage, paint, mold, chalk, pencil)

We studied moss and things at the pond this term. Picking one of those things, create a project that shows what is necessary for that thing to survive, the things that would be in their home or habitat. You can make a recycled material project, a diorama, a cooking project, land art, or another art project.

Literature, poetry, and additional reading & Science: experiments, nature study: Mood with analytical expression (game, puzzle, crossword, word search, code)

Make a game or a puzzle that you can play to teach about what you know about birds from our Burgess Bird Book readings.

Literature, poetry, and additional reading & SS: Government, Citizenship, History, geography: Action (Drama, Movement, Change) with visual expression (diagrams, blow-outs, maps, graphic organizers, chart, poster, pamphlet)

Create a map to go along with one of the stories you’ve read or one of your poems: Paddle to the Sea, Midsummer’s Night Dream, The Tempest, Moses the Kitten, Gyp and Sweep, Only One Woof, Beauty and the Beast, Felicia and the Pots of Pink, Aesop’s Fables, How the whale got his throat, How the camel got his hump, How the rhinoceros got his skin, and How the Leopard got his spots.

Science: experiments, nature study: The Greater Meaning with written expression (narration, proposal, biography, persuade, problem/solution, instructions, list, poetry, composition)


Choose one of the experiments we did from your science box and list the directions for completing it and the conclusion.

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Year 7, Term 2 Exam: Homeschool Exams and Tests for Seventh Grade

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Year  7, Term 2 Exam

SS: Government, Citizenship, History, geography: Background with creative expression (handicraft, recycled material project, diorama, cooking, land art, or art media: collage, paint, mold, chalk, pencil)

When the crew of the Brendan set off, they would learn lots and lots of things that the Irish monks on their original voyages would have known, seen, and felt to some extent. Not only did the crew prove that this type of travel to America from Ireland could be done, but that many of the stories related about Saint Brendan could very well have been true when stripped of their embellishments from the wrtiers.

Consider some of the things they discovered from places (like Greenland and Newfoundland) to things (like floes and the lava flows) to animals (like the whales and birds).

Answer the question…What have you learned from reading the book that you would like someone else to know? Reflect on why that is important. Then create something to show your learning.

Music: composer, folk song, hymn, instrument and Bible & Service: readings, hymn: The Greater Meaning with oral expression (presentation: Defend, Persuade, judge, compare/contrast, inform, narration)

Look at the three quotes listed below that have come from some of your studies this term…

"the blessedness of possessing nothing." ~A.W. Tozer

“Why does God endow us with compassion?” ~Franz Schubert

"And who is my neighbor?" ~Luke 10:29

Create a presentation based on one of these quotes. In your presentation include:

• Your interpretation of the quote
• How this relates to your own experience
• How does this impact your life
• What does it mean for your relationships

Literature, poetry, and additional reading and SS: Government, Citizenship, History, geography: Viewpoint with written expression (narration, proposal, biography, persuade, problem/solution, instructions, list, poetry, creative writing, composition)

Considering some of the stories that you’ve read this term, I want you to reflect on another side’s perspective. Choose from any of these stories, but any character you want except the one telling the story. The Once and Future King (ant, badger, Merlin, Pellinore, etc.), In Freedom’s Cause (King Edward, Archie’s mother, a Scottish maid), Joan of Arc (Joan, Catherine, Paladin), The Age of Chivalry (Guinevere, Owain, the Countess of the Fountain, the lady married to the knight Geriant beat).

Your job will be too write your own creative story (made up) from the person’s point of view that you choose. Try to answer these questions as you write your story.

~Is the character reliable, can they be trusted?

~What motives might they have?

~How do they feel about what is happening?

~Why should we or shouldn’t we see and feel things the same way?

~How have events influenced the character’s actions?

SS: Government, Citizenship, History, geography and Bible & Service: readings, hymn: Mood with visual expression (diagrams, blow-outs, maps, graphic organizers, chart, poster, pamphlet)

This term you’ve read Ourselves, Fearfully and Wonderfully Made, and The Pursuit of God. Contemplate how these readings have influenced you. Which one stands out to you the most?

Choose a visual to organize your thoughts about what you’ve learned about God through these readings.

Science: experiments, nature study: Action (Drama, Movement, Change) with movement

(play, puppet show, music, dance, video (still, animated, silent, movie)

This term you’ve studied chemistry. It is very much about change. But chemists aren’t the only ones that study change. Spiders, cardinals, rocks, weeds, and even the herb fairy garden have changes. Create a play, puppet show, music, dance, or video that shows how one of these things is involved in change.

What happens to change the thing?

What changes take place?

Do the changes take place over time or is it sudden?

What are/were the consequences of the change?

Art: artist, technique and SS: Government, Citizenship, History, geography: Characterization with analytical expression (game, puzzle, crossword, word search, code) 

We have studied a lot of interesting people this term. Interesting people that have been involved in some very interesting times and events. Interesting times and events that caused the people to make choices and act certain ways. This is called cause and effect.  

Choose someone from this list that you could teach someone about with a game, puzzle, crossword, word search, or code. Your artist (Jacque Louis David), King Stephen, Henry II, Thomas A Becket, Richard Coeur de Lion, Edward I, Joan of Arc, William Wallace, and Robert Bruce.

Use these questions to help you come up with some ideas for your project:  What do they think? How do they feel? How do they react or act in certain situations or with other characters? How do they influence the people around them? Can you explain their relationships? What were the consequences of their actions? What is unique about the individual?

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Year 8, Term 2 Exam: Homeschool Exams and Tests for Eighth Grade

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Year 8, Term 2 Exam

Literature, poetry, and additional reading: Mood with creative expression

(handicraft, recycled material project, diorama, cooking, land art, or art media: collage, paint, mold, chalk, pencil)

Choose a scene from Shakespeare, your poet, or The Betrothed to illustrate. Consider how the scene makes you feel, how the characters are affected, how the characters influence what is happening, and what you would like someone looking at your work to understand.

Music: composer, folk song, hymn, instrument & Art: artist, technique: Action (Drama, Movement, Change) with movement (play, puppet show, music, dance, video (still, animated, silent, movie)

Pick a piece of music or art from your studies this term. Decide how the piece changes or shows change, how one part of the piece influences the other, the relationship between parts, and where is the most important part. Create something to demonstrate your knowledge.

Bible & Service: readings, hymn: Background with oral expression

(presentation: Defend, Persuade, judge, compare/contrast, inform, narration)

Present three logical reasons showing the validity of Christianity. Think about influences, relationships, and consequences.

SS: government, citizenship, history, geography: Characterization with written expression (narration, proposal, biography, persuade, problem/solution, instructions, list, poetry, composition)

Write a biography on the life of Sir Walter Raleigh, King Charles, Cromwell, or Kepler or write about the people that went on the Mayflower that settled at Plymouth plantation. Be sure to include information about them: What do they think? How do they feel? How do they react or act in certain situations or with others? How do they influence the people around them? How did they influence others? What is unique about the individual?

Science: experiments, nature study: The Greater Meaning with visual expression (diagrams, blow-outs, maps, graphic organizers, chart, poster, pamphlet)

Using some type of visual from the above list use your all of your science studies from this term (Microscopic studies, astronomy, plants, pond, insects) to answer the following questions: what is necessary to support the subject, what influence does the subject have on things around it, what does the subject support, what do observations of it teach you, how do we rely on it, and what would the consequences be if it suddenly became extinct?

SS: government, citizenship, history, geography: Viewpoint with analytical expression

(game, puzzle, crossword, word search, code) 

We have been reading Whatever Happened to Justice and Utopia. Both authors (Richard Maybury and Sir Thomas More) have very strong opinions on democracy, liberty, and government. Not everyone would necessarily agree with their thoughts, although some of them seem to be rather common sense, others may seem more farfetched. It is good to consider who is telling a story when you are reading it. Find a way to demonstrate if they are reliable, can they be trusted, what may they be holding back, and why should we or shouldn’t we see and feel things the same way.

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Year 8, Term 1 Exam: Homeschool Exams and Tests for Eighth Grade

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Year 8, Term 1 Exam

Science: Natural History, Experiments, Nature Study: Action (Drama, Movement, Change) with creative expression (handicraft, recycled material project, diorama, cooking, land art, or art media: collage, paint, mold, chalk, pencil)

Considering what you’ve studied for nature study and science, create a series of pieces that demonstrate your understanding of the changes that occur throughout your subject using one of the above creative ideas. Something to consider is the type of change that occurs (physical, geographic) and some questions to guide you are: What part does the subject have in the changes? Is the subject doing the changing or is the change or event happening to the subject? How does your subject influence things around it? Can you explain the relationship between your subject and other things?

Some of the subjects that you have studied include: constellations, moon phases, autumn, candles, microscopic elements, leeches, mussels, water striders, moss, naiads, willow trees, and blue gill.

Bible & Service: readings, hymn: The Greater Meaning with oral expression (presentation: Defend, Persuade, judge, compare/contrast, inform, narration)

It is important that your beliefs are your own. You need to understand your relationship with God and the impact of Christ on your life. Write a presentation, giving three logical arguments to defend your faith.

Think about how your faith impacts your life, what the real meaning of the story is, how your faith effects your human condition, what the relationship between you and God means, and what influence your faith has on your life.

Music: composer, folk song, hymn, instrument & SS: Government, Citizenship, History, geography: Mood with movement (play, puppet show, music, dance, video (still, animated, silent, movie)

There are times in history that I really wouldn’t have wanted to see and others that I would have been glad to witness.

Chose from any of the following: Martin Luther's career and the Diet at Worms, the disagreement between King Henry VIII and Sir Thomas More, the reign of Queen Mary, the Spanish Armada, and the compositions of Dvorak.

Create something from the list above that describes the events or people and the mood, how people felt during the time, how it would have made you feel to be there.

Art: artist, technique & Literature, poetry, and additional reading & SS: Government, Citizenship, History, geography: View point with written expression (narration, proposal, biography, persuade, problem/solution, instructions, list, poetry, composition)

Create a composition that addresses a piece that you have studied this term. Choose to answer one or more of the following: How does someone else in the story feel about the events? Why should we or shouldn’t we see and feel things the same way they are being portrayed? How did one’s actions influence the story? What are/were the consequences? Can you explain what must have happened when certain events occurred? What were some of the motives behind a character’s choice?

You can choose from the "Moralities" in Everyman, a scene from Westward Ho!, Una and the Red Cross Knight, Utopia, or Van Gogh and how one of his pieces reflects his life.

SS: Government, Citizenship, History, geography: Background with visual expression (diagrams, blow-outs, maps, graphic organizers, chart, poster, pamphlet)

New horizons were opened up for Europe with exploration. Columbus’ discovery not only opened up a whole new world literally, but in terms of an age of discovery as well. Create an advertising campaign for any of these: being recruited for Drake’s crew or to fight the Spanish Armada, navigation by sea, map making, Great Britain, or the new world using one of the visuals above.

SS: Government, Citizenship, History, geography: Characterization with analytical expression (game, puzzle, crossword, word search, code)

Queen Elizabeth lived in a time where there were remarkable people. They thought, wrote, and did amazing things. Coming up with seven famous men or women of the days of "Great Elizabeth" develop something from the list above that provides us with information about their lives.

You can include facts about what they wrote, what they did, what influence they had on those around them, what relationships they built, what were the consequences of their choices, and what is unique about them.

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Year 4, Term 2 Exam: Homeschool Exams and Tests for Fourth Grade

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Year  4 ,Term 2 Exam

Literature, poetry, and additional reading: Mood with creative expression

(handicraft, recycled material project, diorama, cooking, land art, or art media: collage, paint, mold, chalk, pencil)

In each of these stories, there is a struggle Midas, Proserpine, Dryope, Venus and Adonis, Kidnapped (both with Davie’s uncle, the men on ship, and between England and Scotland) and Othello, Moor of Venice.

Choose a scene from the story that really is at the heart of the matter so to speak and create something that shows how the character feel.

SS: Government, Citizenship, History, Geography & Bible & Service, Bible & Service: readings, hymn, and Literature, poetry, and additional reading: The Greater Meaning (presentation: Defend, Persuade, judge, compare/contrast, inform, narration)

Throughout history there have been conflicts. Some of them are in recent history like the Indian war lead by Pontiac or the Boston Massacre. Some of them were in ancient history like the cycle that repeats in the book of Judges, Barak and Sisera, and Jesus and the rich young ruler. Several pieces of literature that you’ve read this term includes conflict as well…think about Kidnapped and Robinson Crusoe.

Create a presentation that explains what the conflict is, how it impacts the people, how the conflict influences future events, and how does the conflict impact our lives.

SS: Government, Citizenship, History, Geography & Bible & Service: readings, hymn: View Point with movement

(play, puppet show, music, dance, video (still, animated, silent, movie)

Choose someone that you have studied that has been an example of security or strength at the point in history that they lived. You can choose from George Washington, Abigail Adams, John Adams, Daniel Boon, Benjamin Franklin, Voltaire, John Wesley, George Whitefield, Jonathon Edwards, Philopoeman, and Joshua. Create a play, puppet show, music, dance, or a video that tells about their life.

Consider how the person influenced those around him/her, what were the consequences of their choices, what life was like for him/her, what were his/her concerns and what did he/she do about them, and how were things changed?

Music: composer, folk song, hymn, instrument and Art: artist, technique: Characterization with written expression

(narration, proposal, biography, persuade, problem/solution, instructions, list, poetry, composition)

Artists and Composers influence the people around them. Considering our artist’s (Jacque Louis David) pieces and our composer’s (Franz Shubert) works, we can develop an idea of what they think about certain things and about what they would have us to think too.

Choose one of the pieces from this term and explain what it is about, what the relationship is to the creator of it, what you feel when viewing or listening to it, and why you think the creator made it.

Science: experiments, nature study: Action (Drama, Movement, change) with visual expression

(diagrams, blow-outs, maps, graphic organizers, chart, poster, pamphlet)

You’ve been learning about lots of different science topics this year like the rainforest, soil, rocks, weeds, cardinals, plants in the herb fairy garden, and even steam engines.

All of these things go through a process or a rather chain of events to transform into something else. Some of them continue in a cycle over and over again.

Choose one of your science topics and decide what happens to change it, what the steps are, and how does the change influence the things around it. Create a visual to explain what you’ve learned.

SS: Government, Citizenship, History, Geography: Background with analytical expression

(game, puzzle, crossword, word search, code) 

The Mississippi River has an interesting history and culture. Think about everything you’ve learned from traveling the Mississippi with Minn. What does it look like, how do different people live that are close to it, what was a day like in the life of someone that lived on the Mississippi, what do the homes around it look like, what is some of the history of the river, and how has the river influenced the people and history of our country?

Create a game, puzzle, crossword, word search, or code to help someone else learn about the Mississippi too.

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Year 6, Term 3 Exams: Homeschool Exams and Tests for Sixth Grade

Year 6, Term 3 Exam

Literature: Mood with creative expression

(handicraft, recycled material project, diorama, cooking, land art, or art media: collage, paint, mold, chalk, pencil)

Describe a scene from one of our pieces of literature this term. Choose from the Iliad or stories from the Age of Fable (Iona, Druids, Baldur, Thor, Prester John, Vishnu, and Zoroaster). Consider how the story makes you feel, how you’d feel being there with them, and the consequences of the scene.

Science: Background with oral expression

(presentation: Defend, Persuade, judge, compare/contrast, inform, narration)

We’ve been studying about different yard herbs like dandelion, chickweed, violet, and plantain. Each of these different herbs can be eaten in different ways, are found in different places, and look different from one another. What can you tell me about herbs?

Social Studies: The Greater Meaning with movement

(play, puppet show, music, dance)

The Romans were interested in some different amusements then we are now. What are some of the amusements the Romans were involved in? What does it say about their human condition? How did those amusements influence their lives?

Bible: View point with written expression

(narration, proposal, biography, persuade, problem/solution, instructions, list, poetry, composition)

When we read stories from the Old Testament, we see that special rules were set aside for the priests. What are some of these rules? Why were they in place? What would the consequences be if the rule were not followed? How did these rules influence their lives?

Social Studies: Action (Drama, Movement, Change) with visual expression

(diagrams, blow-outs, maps, graphic organizers, chart, pamphlet)

Throughout history people’s occupations have changed according to the needs of society, the area of the world that they live in, and how technology changes. You have studied people living in different cultures and in different ages: Ancient Romans, Israelites, and Egyptians.

Tell me about three different occupations. Be sure to include information about the jobs: where in the world the worker is, what time in history it is, who the person is that is doing the job, and what could have happened or did happen to change the job.

Social Studies, Science, Music, and Art: Characterization with analytical expression

(game, puzzle, crossword, word search, code) 

Some people have a character worth remembering. Some don’t have a good character, but they are worth remembering just for that reason. Some people have art made of them (like the columns or busts of Roman senators) or they have songs written about them or for them.

What is something history should remember about someone you learned about this term? Choose from your character from Plutarch, Galileo, Herod, Augustus, Akhenaton, Philo, Strabo, Tiberius, Hermann, or one of the scientists you’ve studied.

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