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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What subject does the student Codell makes teacher for a day choose to make a lesson from?

2. What is JoEllen's Native American name, as given to her in a naming ceremony?

3. What gift does Codell buy for Melanie for her birthday?

4. How do older teachers react to the great effort Codell takes with preparing her classroom for the first day of school?

5. Which is NOT one of the ways in which Codell's class learns about Native Americans?

Short Essay Questions

1. What steps does Codell take to prepare her classroom for the first day of school?

2. What does Codell think of the numerous speeches at the graduation?

3. Describe the circumstances surrounding Melanie's birthday on January 8?

4. Describe how Zykrecia resolves a conflict with Kyle on March 28.

5. What is Codell's opinion of the teaching education she received?

6. Describe some things Codell's class does for Halloween.

7. Explain the story of Ozzie becoming ill at school.

8. How does Codell deal with Melanie's problem with stealing?

9. What dictates what songs Codell hears in her mind throughout the day according to the April 11 entry?

10. How does Codell build up suspense in her class for the introduction of the "time machine"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

At a meeting early in the year, a teacher named Lillia mispronounces "conspicuous" and is corrected by Ms. Coil to the embarrassment and anger of Codell.

1)What does this incident reveal about Ms. Coil's character? About Codell's character?

2)What might this incident reveal about a larger problem with the educational bureaucracy?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the tone of EDUCATING ESME. What does Codell wish for readers to take away from her journal? How is any discussion of tone complicated by the fact that, presumably, Codell was writing a private journal and did not expect her entries to be read by anyone else?

Essay Topic 3

A fellow teacher at Codell's school states that the modern teacher must not only be a teacher, but oftentimes a mother, a counselor, and more. State Codell's own attitude in regards to a teacher's enlarging role in a child's life. What might be the advantages to a child when a teacher is more than a teacher? What might be the advantages to a child when a teacher stays strictly to teaching?

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