Exams, Day 2, Y6 & Y8

This is for my own personal record keeping but you’re welcome to read on. Year 6 isn’t recorded today. Year 8 is typed as it was written, no corrections made.

I won’t record anything from Y6 today because much of it *must* be revisited (the work). Effort was not applied.

Y8:
Citizenship/Morals/Government/Economics:
1. Show how the Body is equipped with Servants, and how each has its perils, and how each of these may be met. *this was taken from AO’s exams
- The Body is equipped with Servants, such as Appetite (hunger) and the Desire to Excel. Each Servant has its perils, where they try  to rule the Body instead of serving. Appetite can take over in the way that you are either constantly eating or want to eat, or you are extremely picky. You must learn to balance the control of your Servants.

2. Tell of an “unsolved problem” and in your own words a way to remedy the problem. OR describe the whole point of “I, Pencil.” *no pun intended wink
- I will describe the point of “I, Pencil”. The essay talks about how no one knows how to make a pencil; many, many people and steps are required to make a pencil. In a ‘governmental’ sense, the point is that many people have to work together to achieve a single goal; no one can really do anything on their own.

3. Write what you know of the United States branches of federal government.
- The branches of the U. S. government that I know of/can remember are the judicial, legislative, and executive. The judicial branch are the judges, the carriers-out of the law. The legislative branch makes the laws and the executive branch either approves the laws or takes care of the money. (???)

Grammar:
1. When should “Who” be used and when “Which”? Give examples. *this was taken from AO’s exams
-“Who” is most often used for people, and sometimes animals, whereas “Which” is often used for inanimate objects, plants, and animals. Examples: Who broke the vase? <- “Who” is used because a person most likely broke the vase, not a plant or another vase. Which car do I want? <- “Which” is used because a car is an inanimate object.

Literature:
1. Give an account of Everyman.
- Everyman is a moral play about not relying on the wrong things to get you into Heaven. Everyman is told that he will die soon, and he goes about trying to find who will support him when he goes to be judged. He first tries worldly things, such as Wealth, but they all desert him. Eventually, only Knowledge and two others (?) go.

2. Write your thoughts about the following poem:
Earth’s crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God;
But only he who sees takes off his shoes…
The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries,
And daub their natural faces unaware.
    -Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- I think it talks about how God is everywhere, in everything, but not everybody sees it. Believers respect everything, because everything is from God, while unbelievers view everything as common and nothing special.

3. Write a scene from one of the short stories you have read this year (EIL).
- The scene I chose is from an unfinished story (I want to say it’s the Faery Queen, but I don’t think so). The evil witch’s plan to get good from Robin Hood was found out, and she slunk back to her hideout. There, she summons her goblin henchmen, and the two plot and plan, with much evil cackling.

She did math also but I’ll not record it here.