English Classes Taught The Same Test Items Of The Last Century

Though many English classes have taught the same test items for the last century, what is taught and why it is taught this way is another story. Nowadays in most English classes, they do not teach eighth graders about interrogative and declarative sentences. Instead, they teach about, from my own experience, introduction and conclusion sentences. They still teach about complex and compound sentence, but interrogative and declarative sentences are not really taught. This may be that the name for these sentences went from declarative to conclusion sentences in order to make it easier on modern day students. As you can see, the names have changed in order to make it easier on students. Another change in the last century is the degree of comparison of adjectives.

This is the same idea of ‘degree of comparison’, but is not the same name. One final example of a change in history is the item of changing the voice of the verb. Students in my former eighth grade English class were not taught the ‘voice’ of the verb, but instead how the verb sounds in a sentence. Again, same item, but a different name for what was taught. This shows how the names of test items and certain necessities of English literature have changed in the last century: the items may be the same, but what they are called has changed, most likely to make it easier for students at that level to remember them more. Why this has happened, I do not know the answer to that. All I can say is that this idea of changing the names is making it easier for young eighth graders to remember the same items. This is both a good idea and harmful to the students growing up in the adult world that they will eventually become a part