Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher's First Year Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

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 | Eight Week Quiz D

Esmé Raji Codell
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Pages 89 through 112.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Codell's immediate supervisor at her work in Part I?
(a) Lillia.
(b) Mr. Turner.
(c) Ismene.
(d) Ms. Federman.

2. What subject does the student Codell makes teacher for a day choose to make a lesson from?
(a) Density.
(b) Paper airplanes.
(c) The Holocaust.
(d) Monster movies.

3. Where does Codell take her students on January 20?
(a) Sulzer Regional Library.
(b) The university science fair.
(c) The history museum.
(d) Immmediately outside the school, to examine different types of trees.

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

5. What organization is established to evaluate Codell's Fairy Tale Festival proposal?
(a) Association of Public Librarians.
(b) Committee for Extracurricular Activities.
(c) The Fairy Tale Team.
(d) The Friends of the School Library Committee.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Codell dissatisfied with the funeral service held for Ismene?

2. What does Codell tell her students about their "alphabet museum" in order to avoid potential embarrassment?

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

4. Part I begins with a letter to potential fifth-graders written by whom?

5. According to a November 2nd entry, what does Codell do to help teach about inventors?

(see the answer key)

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