Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher's First Year Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

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 | Four Week Quiz B

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 165 through 185.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Codell find is particularly effective when it comes to teaching about Nazism?
(a) She compares Nazis to Ku Klux Klan members, giving the children a group they are more familiar with.
(b) She decides to skip the teaching of Nazis; her class is simply too young.
(c) She chooses to show a brief film clip of Hitler delivering a speech.
(d) She chooses a well-respected history book on the subject to read aloud with the class.

2. What does Codell secretly dream about being, rather than a teacher?
(a) Television personality.
(b) Opera singer.
(c) Professional softball player.
(d) Climatologist.

3. What conflict resolution does Kyle agree to with Zykrecia?
(a) Kyle agrees to never speak to Zykrecia again.
(b) Kyle agrees to bake her a cupcake for her upcoming birthday.
(c) Kyle will bring her lunch for a week.
(d) Kyle agrees to return the pencil he stole.

4. What does Codell come to realize about the teaching education she received?
(a) It was invaluable, and surprisingly effective at preparing her for all sorts of emergencies.
(b) It did little to prepare her for the realities of teaching children.
(c) It was entirely too expensive considering its true value.
(d) It was the best time of her young life.

5. What is the ethnic makeup of Codell's class?
(a) Mostly hispanic.
(b) About half and half, black and white.
(c) Mostly white.
(d) Mostly black.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why doesn't Codell take Ms. Coil's suggestion that she should place student papers on her wall higher up?

2. Why doesn't Codell alert administration when one of her students brings a baby brother to school?

3. Why do Ozzie's grades plummet?

4. What animal does Melanie do her vertebrate report on?

5. When interviewed for her first teaching job, how does Codell characterize her discipline style?

(see the answer key)

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