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

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 E

Esmé Raji Codell
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 165 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III: Pages 135 through 149.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do Codell and Mr. Turner fail to secure any donations, according to the July 28th entry?
(a) Mr. Turner is rude to potential donors.
(b) They are working off of an incorrect list of potential donors.
(c) Most of the businesses approached are poor, small, and highly unlikely donors.
(d) They mistakenly try to approach businesses on a holiday when most are closed.

2. Why does B. B. sleep over at Codell's apartment one night?
(a) B. B.'s mother threw him out, and he is homeless for one night before becoming a ward of the state.
(b) Codell is rewarding B. B. for winning a game show contest in class.
(c) B. B.'s mother fears violence from her abusive boyfriend.
(d) B. B. celebrates his birthday with a half dozen other kids who also stay the night.

3. How does Codell eventually ensure her students do not steal books that they borrow?
(a) She develops an ID card system similar to a public library.
(b) She collects $10 from students for each book they borrow, as collateral.
(c) She informs a child's parent when the child borrows a book.
(d) She makes students leave one of their shoes to ensure they return books.

4. What is Codell's general attitude toward Ms. Federman?
(a) She respects her persistence in teaching for so long.
(b) She cannot agree with almost all of Ms. Federman's radical teaching methods.
(c) She thinks Ms. Federman is a dinosaur from a long-gone era.
(d) Codell is angry with Ms. Federman, because she promises to help Codell but never does.

5. Why does Mr. Turner object to the winner of the Addy doll during the November 5th assembly?
(a) Mr. Turner believes the winner cheated in order to win the raffle.
(b) The winner is Hispanic, and Mr. Turner believes that, since Addy is black, a black person should win.
(c) The winner is a boy, and Mr. Turner doesn't believe boys should play with dolls.
(d) Mr. Turner does not believe the doll is appropriate in a school setting.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the student Codell makes teacher for the day start the morning?

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

3. Where does Codell take her students on January 20?

4. According to Codell, what is "education's best-kept secret"?

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

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