Print
Word
PDF
|
| Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What are "cumes"?
2. How many minutes did Mrs. Zajac give students to read whatever they want to?
3. What was one thing Mrs. Zajac expected from her students?
4. Who gave Miss Hunt the longest and most elaborate farewell card?
5. Who came to the school to help the teachers learn how to teach the new math?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are some of the frustrations teachers teaching today face?
2. Where was Mrs. Zajac born, and where did she grow up? What did her father do for a living? What was a unique quality about the town in which she was born?
3. What were some of the tips Mrs. Zajac gives Pam Hunt before her three days teaching in the classroom alone?
4. What did Mrs. Zajac realize were the similarities and difference between Alice and Judith?
5. What is the concept of "dual captivity"?
6. What are "cume" folders? Why do teachers have them? What goes into them? How does Mrs. Zajac use the cumes and why?
7. What was Mrs. Zajac's favorite saying, or mantra, to her students? What does she want her students to understand about learning?
8. What kind of parent participation did Mrs. Zajac receive from her students' families? How did she respond to this situation?
9. How did Mrs. Zajac begin her school day? What did she teach in the mornings? Why was this a challenge?
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
Compare and contrast the Puerto Rican and white cultures as evidenced in church, in school, and in the city of Holyoke.
Essay Topic 2
Who were some of the leading people in the history of the philosophy of education? What did each of them believe public education should be in America? Have any of their visions come true? Discuss.
Essay Topic 3
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.
|
This section contains 1,173 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) |
|
