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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 did classroom management require as Mrs. Zajac practiced it?

2. What were the two things the city of Holyoke was known for?

3. What was Mrs. Zajac's husband's name?

4. What did students in Mrs. Zajac's class know by the end of the first day in social studies?

5. Where had Mrs. Zajac done her student teaching?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are "cume" folders? Why do teachers have them? What goes into them? How does Mrs. Zajac use the cumes and why?

2. What were the demographics of Kelly School? Were they in line with the demographics of the community? What else do we know about the families attending Kelly School?

3. What did Mrs. Zajac realize were the similarities and difference between Alice and Judith?

4. What were Mrs. Zajac's concerns about Pedro? What was his behavior like in class? What plan did she come up with learn more about Pedro?

5. What is the subject of Kidder's story? Is it fiction or non-fiction? How does he go about learning about his subject?

6. What were the work conditions for female teachers of the late 19th and 20th centuries?

7. What kind of parent participation did Mrs. Zajac receive from her students' families? How did she respond to this situation?

8. What subject did Mrs. Zajac's students have on Wednesday afternoons? How was the behavior in the classroom different from other times as the students prepared their Halloween project?

9. What is the concept of "dual captivity"?

10. Why did Clarence immediately catch Mrs. Zajac's eye? What were some of his behaviors in the classroom? What did she and her student teacher Miss Hunt notice about Clarence?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There are many differences in teaching in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and teaching today. There are also many things in teaching that have remained relatively the same for over a hundred years. Discuss the changes and the constants between teaching in the past and teaching today.

Essay Topic 2

Choose three of the children in Mrs. Zajac's fifth grade. How are the children similar? How are they different? Include social skills, cultural differences, levels of intelligence, family backgrounds.

Essay Topic 3

Mrs. Zajac took her fifth grade class on a field trip to Old Sturbridge Village and had two different agendas for the field trip. What were those two agendas, and how did she work to accomplish both? Why was this trip important to Mrs. Zajac?

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