Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher's First Year Quiz | One Week Quiz A

Esmé Raji Codell
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 165 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher's First Year Quiz | One Week Quiz A

Esmé Raji Codell
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 165 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III: Pages 149 through 165.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who persuades Codell to remain a teacher after she is ready to quit on February 15th?
(a) Ms. Federman.
(b) Miss Clark.
(c) Serena.
(d) Ms. Coil.

2. Why doesn't Codell take Ms. Coil's suggestion that she should place student papers on her wall higher up?
(a) Codell believes the papers should be hung at the children's eye-level, so they can enjoy them.
(b) Placing them higher would mean disassembling and reassembling the entire board.
(c) Placing them too high would be a distraction during class.
(d) Codell simply wants to spite Ms. Coil and annoy her.

3. Why doesn't Codell alert administration when one of her students brings a baby brother to school?
(a) She loves babies, and is happy to tend to the child for the day.
(b) She is afraid Mr. Turner might turn the baby over to Child Protective Services.
(c) She is afraid of the potential consequences for the student in question.
(d) She figures having a baby in the class will be a valuable teaching moment.

4. What is Codell's response when Rowisha tells her about B. B.'s horrible home life?
(a) Codell is so moved by the tragic story that she gives Rowisha two hundred dollars.
(b) Codell and Rowisha cry together, and later they become friends.
(c) Codell mocks Rowisha, making matters worse.
(d) Codell believes that even bad home circumstances are no excuse for bad behavior at school.

5. Whose mother complains about Codell insisting on buying dictionaries for the children?
(a) Shira.
(b) Vanessa.
(c) Twanette.
(d) Asha.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the student Codell makes teacher for the day start the morning?

2. What is Codell's general attitude toward Ms. Federman?

3. At the end of the day in which Codell makes a student teacher for the day, what does Codell have her children do?

4. What is the result of Codell's conference with Rowisha, B. B.'s mother?

5. Where does Codell take her students on January 20?

(see the answer key)

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