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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Codell come to realize about the teaching education she received?

2. What activity did Codell have the class do to learn about Asia?

3. What does Codell secretly dream about being, rather than a teacher?

4. Why is Latoya consistently late to school in the second week of April?

5. Which is NOT one of the reasons, according to Jim Trelease, that Educating Esme is "terribly relevant"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Is Codell emotionally involved with her students? Is "love" an appropriate term for Codell's relationship with her students? What might Codell say about the value (or danger) of a teacher's emotional attachment with his or her students? How might this attachment affect the learning process?

Essay Topic 2

A fellow teacher at Codell's school states that the modern teacher must not only be a teacher, but oftentimes a mother, a counselor, and more. State Codell's own attitude in regards to a teacher's enlarging role in a child's life. What might be the advantages to a child when a teacher is more than a teacher? What might be the advantages to a child when a teacher stays strictly to teaching?

Essay Topic 3

Codell must frequently deal with misbehaving students.

1)What is Codell's attitude about bad behavior? Should a teacher consider the student's home situation when disciplining the child?

2)What is a principal's role in addressing and correcting bad behavior?

3)Why does Codell disagree with the corrective behavior administered by the parents of B. B. and Twanette, for two examples?

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