Wish to Teach Questions for Elementary Teachers Exam
Prepared under directions of the state commissioner of public schools the list of questions submitted at the county examination for teachers last week in January. Ten questions to answer. Topics cover country school classification rural grading, memory and imagination, individualized instruction, arithmetic versus grammar, handling various pupil types, teachers rights on suspension and expulsion, improving classroom conditions, tobacco education and attendance laws, knowing home conditions, general exercises, and schoolroom ventilation.
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State Commissioner of Public Schools
Homonyms and syllable splits and language notes
Three homonyms of write are right, rite, and wright each defined as to compose or inscribe a record, a ceremony, and a craftsman or builder. Two homonyms of sight are site and cite defined as location a place to visit and to quote or mention.
Reading fragment hints at mind's power over clouds
A fragment describes a boy gazing at the sky while clouds drift by, pondering the nature of mind and perception. The verse centers on a quiet meadow scene and a child’s contemplative moment about thought.
Reading voice and punctuation in oral reading
The passage asks how to modulate voice when reading aloud, including handling quotation marks, and to mark inflections for specific lines. It also requests explanation of how body position, breathing, articulation, and voice culture relate to good oral reading and speaking skills.
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Stanley
Geography quiz questions on earth shape and regions
A transcription of geography study prompts covering earth shape and measurements, earth’s motions and outcomes, land forms with examples, climate determinants and forest health, the Turkish Empire with capitals and biblical sites, dependencies by territory, and Iowa’s parallels, borders, races, origins, and major cities.
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Atoll
Sinai
Mecca
Tripoli
Java
Ceylon
Hawaii
Cape Colony
Iowa
United States History study questions and topics
A list of history prompts covering periods from 1620 to 1898, exploring events, explorers, settlements, wars, and territorial acquisitions. Includes Jamestown and Plymouth comparisons, key Revolutionary War figures and dates, 1812, Mexican War, secession, territorial purchases, and the Sherman Anti-Trust Act with two landmark cases plus core slogans and their historical meanings.
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Jamestown
Plymouth
United States
Mexico
Alaska
Hawaii
Porto Rico
Philippines
Panama Strip
United States Supreme Court
Maine
Civil township and county government questions
A civics review covering distinctions between government and civil townships, township officers and duties, county public affairs and official duties, Iowa state officials and General Assembly structure, how laws are made and repealed, US constitutional amendments, the Tariff Board, inter state commerce, extradition, primary elections, and federal court jurisdictions for petty theft bootlegging murder mail robbery treason and last reports in US Courts.
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Tariff Board
United States
Five physics problems from a school exam
A student presents five short physics questions covering definitions of energy work and power, energy transfer when winding a watch, wheel and axle mechanical advantage with given diameters, weight variation with location on Earth, a body’s ten second free fall from rest and final velocity, and the construction and operation of a mercurial thermometer.
Penmanship Questions For Teaching Writing
Five questions cover material needs timing drills body position and board use for penmanship. It asks for sample handwriting of Emerson lines and guidance on sustaining pupil interest until correct form and ready execution are achieved.
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Emerson
Economics study questions and key topics list
Defines economics and its principal parts with author name. Explores diminishing returns law and counteracting factors. Examines Malthusian doctrine famine pestilence and casualties, value and price determinants, wages versus profits, and fixed ratios. Differentiates corporation and trust, monopolistic competition, taxes tariffs and trade. Also includes Fahrenheit vs Celsius, vector parallelogram, and density problems using buoyancy.
Arithmetic problems from an old school workbook
A set of arithmetic exercises includes computing cabbage income on half an acre with 8 rod width and 3 feet spacing at 5 cents each, evaluating Capitol dimensions, valuing land at various acre rates, solving mixed money and percent problems, and a farmer's cattle shipment with commission on sale. The fragment shows unit conversions, proportions, percent math, and basic economics contexts.
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Capitol
Washington
Iowa
Chicago
Math word problems and promissory note exercise items
A set of arithmetic word problems requests calculations on corn purchases after commission, ladder reach problems, notes and discount schedules, and a grocer’s dishonest measure practice. Problems include bushel math, ladder base distance, promissory note growth, note discount, and percentage losses from mismeasured goods.
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John Doe
Richard Roe
Digestive Pathway From Mouth to Colon and Body’s Organs
Tracing food through digestion. outlining the roles of the mouth to colon, including stomach enzymes, absorption, and elimination. Identifies major organs and functions with emphasis on system integration and health implications.
Algebraic puzzles and word problems mixed in a school sheet
Mixed algebra questions include factoring expressions, finding a value, squares difference of consecutive numbers, division by sum of digits, simplification problems, and rate problems from two stations. Also asks for solving for a variable, multiplying, and extracting a square root with several incomplete fragments.
Music Questions Drill for Students in 1900s Curriculum
A prompt asking to name four note types and four rests plus a tie and a slur, draw soprano staff sections in keys with signatures, explain time signatures and beat, name three familiar songs, define musical terms and abbreviations, and write scales in B flat and C. It seeks practical notation and theory basics for a music class.
Grammar terms and pronoun case exercise
Define etymology syntax defension gender tense. Write all personal pronouns usable by you instead of name and explain why each capital word in the sentences given uses its case: Knew it to be HIM. They said of HIS being there. I knew it was HE. WE.
Complete the sentences with proper I-y and on the lounge
The exercise asks to fill missing forms with I y and on the lounge, showing how to complete each sentence and explain the subjunctive mood. It includes diagramming the sentence about economizing time and constructing sentences with various clauses and phrases.
Help for Farmers in Iowa Trials New Seed Types
The Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station has arranged a major farm crop project in cooperation with Iowa farmers. Professor John Buchanan of Ontario arrives to lead field tests of new seed types suited to Iowa. Seed will be distributed to cooperative farmers, who will sow plots and report results for evaluation and wider distribution if outcomes are positive. The Ontario model, started by Prof Zavitz, has grown to thousands of farmer members and strong agricultural gains.
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Iowa
Ontario
C. A. Zavitz
Ontario Agricultural College
Ontario Experimental Union
Buchanan
Zavitz
First exclusive college ice cream lab opens at Iowa State
The world’s first exclusive college ice cream laboratory opens at Iowa State College for daily short course students. Prof M Mortensen, leading ice cream expert, planned the lab months ago but items completed only then.
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Iowa State College
M. Mortensen
Butems
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