Ambleside Online Exam Key Year 5
Year 5 Term 1
Bible
Questions and answers will vary since families are doing their own selections.
Writing
Write 2-4 lines of a poem that you memorized this term.
Dictation
When the spring came I set about his serious education. After much pains on my behalf and many pains on his, he learned to go at the word in quest of our old yellow cow, that pastured at will on the unfenced prairie. (from Wild Animals I Have Known)
Composition Age of Fable or Pyle's King Arthur
1. Tell about your favorite scene or character from this term's Shakespeare play.
2. Describe the scene where young Arthur wins a sword (King Arthur) OR tell the story of Hercules (Age of Fable ch 19)
English Grammar
Underline the subjects and circle the predicates in the following quote:
Love and Death once ceased their strife
At the Tavern of Man's Life.
Called for wine, and threw -- alas! --
Each his quiver on the grass.
When the bout was o'er they found
Mingled arrows strewed the ground.
Hastily they gathered then
Each the loves and lives of men.
U.S. History
1. What do you know about John Adams and Thomas Jefferson? (TCOO ch 65 and 66)
2. Tell what you know about the Monroe Doctrine (TCOO ch 71)
3. Tell of some of the dangers or hardships that Lewis and Clark faced on the expedition and how they overcame these issues OR Tell of Sacajawea's character and give a supporting example from your reading. (Of Courage Undaunted)
World History
1. Give an account of Napoleon as "the Emperor of France" (Abe Lincoln's World pg. 5) and tell of: his family (pg. 9) OR some of his military campaigns/plans (pg. 15, 44, 49) OR his defeat (pg. 49 & 60-64).
2. 1.Tell of the events and some results of the rebellions (France or Belgium) that changed the Congress of Vienna monarchies (Abe Lincoln's World pg. 129) OR Tell what you know of the "Drama of Greece" (Greek war for independence) (pg. 120) OR Tell of the patriots in Italy (pg. 131) OR Tell of the Reform Bill and the "Bloodless Revolution" in England (pg. 135).
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If you substituted and used A Child's History of the World, use these questions:
1. Tell how Napoleon became the Emperor of France. (ch 77)
2. Tell of some of Central American, South American or Caribbean heroes and their deeds OR Tell of the peoples of these lands. (ch 78)
Geography
If you used Hillyer's Child's Geography of the World:
1. What's inside the world (ch 3) OR What do you know about the country that borders the northern US? (ch 17)
2. What do you know about New York, the Empire State (ch 8) OR California "the 'est Best"? (ch 15)
If you used Halliburton's The Book of Marvels/The Occident:
1. What do you know about the Grand Canyon (ch 4) OR the Panama Canal (ch 13)?
2. Describe a place you read about this term that you'd like to visit.
If you used Explore the Holy Land, Israel up to ch 3
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Natural History and General Science - possible questions:
1. Describe, with drawings, how the eye works and how it's protected.
2. What is the sun like? What useful things does it do for us?
3. What are some practical tools based on a lever? OR What do you know about partridges?
1. Describe the journey of a drop of water. (Fairyland of Science Lecture IV)
2. Tell what happens to food before it goes into the stomach (Chr. Liberty Nature Reader pg. 13-14) OR Describe how the heart works (pg. 21-24).
3. What do you know of how the brain sends and receives messages (Chr. Liberty Nature Reader pg. 30-33).
Citizenship/Government (Plutarch)
Arithmetic/Geometry Questions are based on this scope and sequence; you may substitute questions based on your own math program.
1. If I buy a table for $59.99 and four chairs at $14.75 each, how much will I have to spend? ($118.99)
2. How much carpet would be needed for a room 12 1/2' by 13'? (162 1/2')
3. What is half of 24? What is one sixth of 24? (12; 4)
Foreign Language
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Picture Study
1. This term's picture study.
Year 5 Term 2
Bible
Questions and answers will vary since families are doing their own selections.
Writing
Write 2-4 lines of a poem that you memorized this term.
Dictation (from Oliver Twist, ch 30)
The boy was very ill, he said, and weak from the loss of blood; but his mind was so troubled with anxiety to disclose something, that he deemed it better to give him the opportunity, than to insist upon his remaining quiet until next morning: which he should otherwise have done.
Composition
1. 1. Tell about your favorite scene or character from this term's Shakespeare play.
2. Name any of Oliver Twist’s "friends" and tell how their actions effect Oliver’s situation for good or bad. OR tell the story of Antigone or Aristaeus the Bee-keeper (Age of Fable ch 23 or 24
English Grammar (Longfellow)
Underline the subjects and circle the predicates in the following quote:
I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.
I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong,
That it can follow the flight of song?
U.S. History
1. What do you know about the Underground Railroad? TCOO ch 79
2. Describe the taking of New Orleans OR the Battle of Gettysburg TCOO ch 85 and 88
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World History
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If you substituted and used A Child's History of the World, use these questions:
1. Tell about the legends and history of music OR Tell something about one of the music masters: Handel, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, or Wagner. (ch 79)
2. What can you tell about the time when Napoleon III was a ruler in France OR What can you tell of the three new countries of New French Republic, United Germany, and United Italy. (ch 81)
Geography
If you used Hillyer's Child's Geography of the World:
1. What do you know about England, "The land of the Angles" (ch 25/26) OR Spain (ch 32) OR France (ch 28/29)?
2. "The Gates of Paradise and Dome of Heaven" refer to what? (ch 35) OR What is meant by the Iron Curtain countries? (ch 45)
If you used Halliburton's The Book of Marvels:
1. Tell what you know about "No Woman's Land" (The Occident, ch 28) OR one of the wonders of the Ancient World (beginning chapters of The Orient)
2. Describe a place you read about this term that you'd like to visit.
If you used Explore the Holy Land, Israel up to ch 3
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Natural History and General Science
1. What kind of nourishment/food do plants need? How do they take it in? (Fairyland of Science Lecture VII)
2. Describe or draw the parts of the eye (Chr. Liberty Nature Reader pg. 35-46)
3. Tell of some of the bones in your body (Chr. Liberty Nature Reader pg. 59-66) OR tell what you know of how the muscles in the body work (Chr. Liberty Nature Reader pg. 67-76).
Citizenship/Government (Plutarch)
Arithmetic/Geometry Questions are based on this scope and sequence; you may substitute questions based on your own math program.
If I buy two boxes of cereal at $3.24 each, a gallon of milk at $4.24, and two loaves of bread at $1.81 each, how much will I spend? ($12.53)
2. Multiply 18 x 42 x 73. (55,188) Divide 3744 by 16. (234)
3. What is 1/4 + 2/3 + 5/6? (1 9/12)
Foreign Language
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Picture Study
1. This term's picture study.
Year 5 Term 3
Bible
Questions and answers will vary since families are doing their own selections.
Writing
Write 2-4 lines of a poem that you memorized this term.
Dictation
They climbed all over their papa, while he hugged and kissed them, laughing as hard as they did when they tickled his ears, and tried to poke their fingers up his nose. (from Abraham Lincoln's World, "At Home in Springfield," pg 229)
Composition
1. Tell about your favorite scene or character from this term's Shakespeare play.
2. Tell the story of Arion, Acis and Galatea or Menelaus and Helen. (Age of Fable, ch 25-28) OR Tell of an event in Kim where he learns something from his "holy man" OR describe a scene where Kim escapes danger.
English Grammar (Dunbar)
Underline the subjects and circle the predicates in the following quote:
I know what the caged bird feels, alas!
When the sun is bright on the upland slopes;
When the wind stirs soft through the springing grass
And the river flows like a stream of glass
When the first bird sings and the first bud opes,
And the faint perfume from its chalice steals--
I know what the caged bird feels!
U.S. History
1. Tell what you know about Alaska, and how Hawaii became a state TCOO ch 92 and 96
2. What event did the Chicago World's fair commemmorate, and what could you see there? TCOO ch 95
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World History
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If you substituted and used A Child's History of the World, use these questions:
1. Tell about some of the progress during the "Age of Miracles" and the Industrial Revolution. (ch 82/83)
2. Tell what you know of the World War that started between Serbia and Austria. (ch 84)
Geography
If you used Hillyer's Child's Geography of the World:
1. What is the "ship of the desert"? and what are some of its uses? (ch 48)
2. What do you know about India (ch 55/56) OR China, "Dragon Land" (ch 59/60) OR Japan? (ch 62/63)
If you used Halliburton's The Book of Marvels/The Orient:
1. What do you about the Taj Majal (ch 22) OR The Himalayas, "The Top of the World"? (ch 24)
2. Describe a place you read about this term that you'd like to visit.
If you used Explore the Holy Land, Israel up to ch 3
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Natural History and General Science
1. What is a colony of bees like? What would you expect to find in a hive, and what would would be going on? (Fairyland of Science Lecture IX)
2. Tell something of animals tools (Chr. Liberty Nature Reader pg. 92-111) OR Describe the structure of a feather (Chr. Liberty Nature Reader pg. 115) OR Describe the covering of an animal or man (Chr. Liberty Nature Reader pg. 117-127).
3. Tell of the fundamental difference between man and animals AND Tell about the great responsibility God has given man concerning the earth (Chr. Liberty Nature Reader pg. 133-139).
Citizenship/Government (Plutarch)
Arithmetic/Geometry Questions are based on this scope and sequence; you may substitute questions based on your own math program.
1. TJ has $15.45. Sean has a third of that, and Jake has a fifth of what Sean has. How much do they have altogether? (15.45 + 5.15 + 1.03 = 21.63)
2. What is 6 x (137 - 48) - 12? (522)
3. How many men will it take to do a job in 5 days that takes 3 men in 10 days? (twice as many to cut the job in half: 6 men)
Foreign Language
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Picture Study
1. This term's picture study.
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