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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. In Part One: January, what does Jessica tell Jeffrey that stays with him?
2. What is the next class math project in Part One: November?
3. In Part One: November, what is the name of the Collaborative Classroom teacher?
4. In Part One: October, what does Jessica tell Daniella?
5. In Chapter One: September, what does Daniella's Grandmother pray with her?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Part One: November, why does Jessica ask Jefferey what his secret is? What does she first say is her secret?
2. In Part One: November, what does Peter do to Lexie in the soccer field? What does Luke say about this incident?
3. In Part One: October, what does Jeffrey overhear when the class is forced to vacate because of the smoke? What does he think about what he overhears?
4. In Part One: November, what does Anna ask of Danielle and Jessica? Why does this worry Danielle?
5. In Part One: January, where do Jessica and her Mother go? What does Jessica's mother do when they are there?
6. In Part One: November, what does Jessica's Mother say about Anna's Mother to Jessica? How does Jessica relate this idea to her mom's relationship to her father?
7. In Part One: November, what is the new math project that Mr. Terupt assigns? How do the class go about this project?
8. What is Danielle's relationship with Alexie in Part One: September? Why does Danielle struggle to make friends at school?
9. In Part One: January, why does what Jessica says to Jeffrey about Michael stick in Jeffrey's mind? How does Jeffrey describe his parents and their house?
10. In Part One: November, what does Lexie say Mr. Terupt says to her? Which part of this message does Lexie focus on and how does she feel about this?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In earlier lessons, we discussed archetypes, or stereotypes for each student. How do students change from their archetype or stereotype from the beginning of the novel to the end? What sparks this change? Choose three students to discuss how they start out, and how they end up by the end of the novel. Then think, why does the novel show this progression? Think about the earlier conversation about why the novel uses archetypes to consider why they show these changing.
Essay Topic 2
Luke blames Mr. Terupt, says in the beginning of the novel that he should have disciplined them differently, it would have gone differently. Jessica's mom agrees. Do you? Write a four argument why or why not Mr. Terupt is right or wrong how he disciplined the kids. Include at least four textual examples.
Essay Topic 3
The title of the book is Because of Mr. Terupt. Think about what title means for the novel. What happens because of Mr. Terupt? What does the novel show about the impact of a good teacher?
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