Lives on the Boundary: A Moving Account of the Struggles and Achievements of America's Educationally Unprepared Test | Final Test - Medium

Mike Rose (educator)
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 100 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Lives on the Boundary: A Moving Account of the Struggles and Achievements of America's Educationally Unprepared Test | Final Test - Medium

Mike Rose (educator)
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 100 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Mike's increased work in the Tutorial Center force him to participate in?
(a) Policy making.
(b) Leadership.
(c) Public speaking.
(d) Teaching.

2. Who wrote "Remedial Cases in Reading"?
(a) James Gray.
(b) William S. Gray.
(c) John Gray.
(d) Steve Gray.

3. Who said that they wouldn't understand the logic of error?
(a) Mina Shaughnessy.
(b) Suzanne Shaughnessy.
(c) Joan Shaughnessy.
(d) Sara Shaughnessy.

4. Why wouldn't Millie identify the word imagined?
(a) She found it too difficult.
(b) She didn't want too.
(c) She was scared of it.
(d) She couldn't understand it.

5. According to Mike, what was the focus of twentieth century writing curriculum?
(a) Usage, grammar, and mechanics.
(b) Mechanics.
(c) Grammar.
(d) Usage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mike discover about the men after spending two months with them?

2. Who cautioned against psychological labeling?

3. Who wrote that "Teaching bears a resemblance to the practice of medicine"?

4. Who did Mike say was a special kind of student?

5. What was Robert Cole looking for in his investigations of childhood morality?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Mike feel the educators of his time viewed helping the poor?

2. What types of exercises did the students do in Basic English?

3. What did Mike say was the base of twentieth century English education?

4. How did Mike use poems and songs to teach language to the veterans?

5. What struck Mike most about people struggling to learn?

6. What did Arthur do when he went mad?

7. How did students react when they were assigned to take the English as a Second Language class?

8. What did Mike learn about developing curriculum from his time spent in El Monte?

9. What did Mike struggle with when writing the procedures he used in his dissertation?

10. Why did Harold feel alone?

(see the answer keys)

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