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6th Grade Social Studies Class**
 * Monday January 26th

The week prior, the students learned about Egypt and the Egyptians. They had to read an assignment over the weekend that continued with their studies. The teacher that I observed disliked when students did not do their homework. In a book she keeps track of who does not do their homework. In this booklet the students have to sign that they did not complete the assigned task and explain why they did not do their homework. Sometimes the teacher gives the students a pop quiz to see what they have learned from the previous week.

The pop quiz helps the teacher see what the students learned in the class. The pop quiz caught the students off guard, but the students should be doing the assigned work.The quiz was given in the beginning of class.All of the questions were short answer, but she said she usually adds true and false questions in the test too. The short answers will help the teacher see what the students remember and if they know how to spell specific words.She gave the students extra credit too to see who remembers an answer that was not gone over in class,but it was in the reading.

The students were to take out their own piece of white paper. The teacher asked the students to use pencil and to put their notebooks in the center. By pushing the notebooks in the center it helped give the students room and prevent the students from cheating. The test was given orally and the question was repeated twice. She asked the students if she needed any extra time or another question read.

Students did well on the pop quiz because they did their homework. However, while I helped grade the quizzes I noticed that some students did not know the answers. I wasn’t sure if it was because they did not do the assigned reading or they did not pay attention in class. There were only five questions on the test. If one is wrong the students receive a B- and if two answers were wrong it would be a D-. Most of the students received A’s or B’s, but there were a few students who received a lower grade.

Pop quizzes were used to help the teacher see who did and who did not do the reading. It also showed who listened and remembered to the lesson last week. It was interesting to see how the students reacted to the quiz. They didn’t looked surprised, so I think they usually had pop quizzes whenever they are done with a unit. These quizzes influences students to do their homework. The structure was set up well because it was an informal quiz with five different questions. The students learned these facts before the previous week. The answers were no surprise, so it gave them an opportunity to achieve a good grade.

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