Eighth Grade Education circa - 1895 - - (long)

[Carol]

Steve wrote:
>
> <snip> This is an actual 8th grade final exam taken from the
historical archives in Kansas.
> 
> I thought Orthography was particularly interesting in that I've
never heard of Orthography before, and if I had to have guessed, I
would have said it was the study of birds.
>
Carol responds:

Um, er, I don't know about kids these days, but I'm pretty sure that
most of us on this list studied it in school. "Orth-" relates to
correctness and "graph[y]" to writing. Orthography is the use of the
correct letters to represent words--in other words, spelling. 

You're thinking of ornithology, which, to my knowledge, has never been
a standard subject for eighth-grade students.

Carol, who hasn't taken the exam yet because she was sidetracked by
this detail